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I Follow Movement
There has been a recent I Follow Movement with bloggers that are turning off their nofollow in their comments. What this means is that when you comment on one of these blogs, including your blog URL, this link will be followed by search engine spiders. This in turn will give you better scores all across the board including Google Page Rank, and Technorati.
I use the dofollow on all my comments here, so when you comment, you get credit. It’s plain and simple. I love comments, and you love search engine indexing. We all win.
Are you on board with this? Tell the world, by adding the I Follow logo on your site!
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16 Responses to “I Follow Movement”
this is great! I am heading over there now!
Cool!
Right On!
I’m DoFollowing now, too!
Kenneth
Joining the “I Follow” movement
I am proud to announce that Swollen Pickles has now jumped aboard the “I Follow” movement. What is the “I Follow” movement all about? Well, I best let someone better equipped respond to that one:
Almost all blog platforms…
Don’t you think the technorati will figure out a way to compensate? Just seems inevitable.
i think it is good way to promote your own blog,am i right?
Am gonna have to work out how to initiate this in wordpress hosted blogs. Have done all the ones I host myself.
This is maybe one of the best things that bloggers can do to raise their comments and the participation of the webmasters, now people can get a link while share they opinions
I guess no follow tags represent the arrogant bloggers who refuse to give link. Bloggers forget that they too travelled the same route others are travelling. who would read and comment on blog with no follow tags?
I couldn’t understand some parts of this article I Follow Movement, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.
I have changed my blog around for the second time. I have a banner that says I follow as well as a reference to “I follow” when you post comments. What I am not certain of– is how to ascertain that I have successfully changed the template from no follow to do follow. Is there a place that one can “test” this? I think it’s a great idea but don’t want to shortchange anyone by purporting to be “I FOLLOW” and then failing to follow….
It’s not the fault of bloggers who imposed the nofollow tag, that was proposed by Google to take away the motivation for link spamming (as it won’t be indexed), which really didn’t deter them from making virtual graffiti anyway, even as most blogging platform has adhered to the guidelines.
It is the Captchas and Spam filters that are doing the heavy lifting today, so there really isn’t any point in putting the nofollow tag anymore, it’ll only reduce the motivations for other (self interested people) to leave a message on your blog.
Anyhow, thanks for link love by taking off nofollow!
My blog now follows links. At first I thought nofollow was a good idea but I have changed my mind on that. After a long time procrastinating I have seen the importance of “dofollow” and making sure everything stays connected and links don’t get broken. I will follow comments on my blog, http://www.reallyreally.net I hope more people adopt these principals. Regards Bree.
I joined the i-follow movement because i want to reward people for commenting on my blog entries.
The thing itself is really exciting that it finally breaks the prejudice that has divided us for so long, the communications, the link love and so forth.
On the other hand, one is expected to do more to prevent spam comments if ‘dofollow’ is the way, making sure only serious contributions and kind commentators get what they deserve.