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I Follow - A movement against nofollow!

A while back I wrote a post arguing the case against nofollow, and why it has no place in the comments of a blog, just because everyone has the possibility to contribute and have their own links listed. I wasn’t the first to raise my voice against it, and now it turns out I certainly wasn’t the last either. Andy Beard was the one that showed me the solution to this, and also one of the first to argue the case, and since other prominent bloggers like Dawud Miracle and Randa Clay have joined in on the discussion.

I Follow!

Randa even got the great idea of creating a badge that proud bloggers against the nofollow on comments can use to show their stance in the matter. I thought this was a nice idea, and worth a mention. Just as a small favour to all of the people who have jumped on the I Follow train already, I am going to share some link-love with them all!

Do you want to join the movement of bloggers that appreciate and reward people that comment on their blogs? Be smart, remove the nofollow tag!

22 responses to this article :

Thanks for the link love. This is an important topic to me because I’m all about conversation. And I want those that read and comment on my blog to have as much back as I can give them as a thank you for reading and joining the conversation.

My opinion, all bloggers should be paying link love to their commenters. So, pass the word - everyone - remove nofollow.

by Dawud Miracle / on April 12th, 2007, 4:11 pm / permalink


Thanks for the link-love and spreading the news! I agree wholeheartedly with Dawud…honestly, I didn’t even know that blogs/bloggers were not sharing link backs… :-)
Peace!

by Ponn Sabra / on April 12th, 2007, 5:22 pm / permalink


I’m with Dawud and Ponn on this one.

Thanks again Lars-Christian. Good work.

by David Airey :: Creative Design :: / on April 12th, 2007, 5:40 pm / permalink


Nice to see the list being thrown around this way. I’ll sneak the list of your site and throw it on my blog as well this afternoon and place your link on as well. Sound good?

Keep it moving and all that.

by Kirk M / on April 13th, 2007, 12:44 pm / permalink


Great to see all of you stopping by and saying hello and sharing your views! And I think that’s just fine Kirk, I lifted the list off of Ronda’s blog ;) I’m sure she doesn’t mind us sharing the love as well.

by Lars-Christian / on April 13th, 2007, 12:47 pm / permalink


I strongly agree with this campaign against stupid nofollow.

Nofollow is the opposite of the “spirit” of the web.

by Runa / on April 13th, 2007, 3:13 pm / permalink


Lars-Christian, you’re helping us take the blogosphere back from the spammers one blog at a time! Welcome to the NoMore NoFollow Party!

by Chris Cree / on April 13th, 2007, 3:14 pm / permalink


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by Just Thinkin’ » Blog Archive » IFollow Movement Gains Momentum / on April 13th, 2007, 10:43 pm / permalink


Glad to see this movement is gaining momentum!

by Mark Robinson / on April 13th, 2007, 11:49 pm / permalink


Lars you’re TAGGED!

Sorry man but your it :)

by Matthew Sherborne / on April 14th, 2007, 12:25 am / permalink


Nice Matthew - I’ll write a reply to that soon ;)

by Lars-Christian / on April 14th, 2007, 5:29 pm / permalink


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by Casual Keystrokes » And The 100th Linker Is / on April 16th, 2007, 12:15 pm / permalink


I use doFollow too. It’s such a nice way to reward your commenters. :)

by Jenny / on April 16th, 2007, 9:17 pm / permalink


Finally!

The best thing to happen to blogs since….blogs!

Nice blog, keep up the good work my friend:)

by Ryan / on April 18th, 2007, 3:06 am / permalink


Actually I noticed it when some tech blogs I was linking some articles to did not register as linkbacks, even though people clicked from that blog (Google Analytics). I checked the source, and there it was. The dreaded NOFOLLOW.

Fortunately, few days later I found the DOFOLLOW movement =)
Well thanks again for the link!

by 2Perfect / on April 23rd, 2007, 5:35 pm / permalink


I found your blog through a dofollow list. I also host one at my blog which is just a month old and it has helped a lot. I am growing my links and learning a lot from the dofollow blogs I surf, read and comment on.

by Manila Mom / on April 27th, 2007, 5:23 pm / permalink


Although I see the value of rewarding your users, you still need something to combat the live humans who scrape web sites without ‘nofollow’. This just ads more work for us….

by Barry / on May 19th, 2007, 10:00 pm / permalink


I didn’t realize how many people were in favor of scrapping no-follow links. Totally feeling the love!

by Sam / on May 21st, 2007, 5:43 pm / permalink


Count me in too. If people take the time to post on my blog I will certainly take the time to remove the nofollow. I feel like a cheat if I have nofollow on my comments anyway.

by Mark Kempton / on June 17th, 2007, 5:10 pm / permalink


Count me in. I’m for nofollow in paid links, but against it in comments.

by Alex Choo / on August 22nd, 2007, 8:56 am / permalink


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.

by IDoFollow / on October 4th, 2007, 3:42 am / permalink


This will always be a hot topic. Especially because everyone can see both sides. We know the importance of showing a little respect to yoru users by giving them some link love AND the need to make it not so appealing to spammers.

Maybe there needs to be a plugin that … hmmm, I have an idea I am going to save here. See open discussion is cool because it inspires! It might already exist so I will have to go now to do some research.

Ooops, almost forgot my free link to my Cool Websites ;)

by IT Liberty / on April 29th, 2008, 3:35 am / permalink


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