My current bugbear is going to sites (web 2.0 sites especially) and registering, or adding a link or doing something else that gives that site more content then seeing that the link back to my site has had a nofollow tag put on it.
If you want someone to take time to use your site and help you out then you should be prepared to give them a link back. Yes, I know that the spammers would zero in on the site and pound it, but if you put in other ways to keep them at bay then your real users would be in with a chance of getting something back from you.
So for this reason I’m removing the nofollow attribute from this install of WordPress.
I thought this would be a simple task of flicking a switch somewhere in the WordPress control panel, but no, it’s never that simple in WordPress.
First off I found some code to remove the nofollow tag here.
Then it was going on about putting it in the my-hacks.php file which I couldn’t find in my install of WordPress. No worries though, this wiki has all the info on switching on and adding a my-hacks.php file.
I decided the time was right for this as I can moderate all the comments that come in anyway. Akismet is installed to take out the blatant spam, and I want to give something back to anyone who takes the time to write a comment.
So please go ahead and leave comments now and know that you’re getting some link-love back.
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Sad and lame – I’m testing my own code here.