I Follow - A movement against nofollow!
Posted on April 12th, 2007 in World Wide Web) by Lars-Christian |
Tags : i follow, no-follow
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.
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!
- Wendy Piersall of eMoms at Home
- David Airey of Creative Design
- Ben Yoskovitz of Instigator Blog
- Chris Cree of SuccessCREEations
- Char of Essential Keystroke
- Chris Garrett of chrisg.com
- David Paul Robinson of davidpaulrobinson.com
- Char also of Casual Keystrokes
- Michelle of Scribbit
- Ponn Sabra of Empower Women Now
- Jason of Webomatica
- Robert Hruzek of Middle Zone Musings
- Mario of mariosalexandrou.com
- Lisa Mills of Work at Home Revolution
- Aaron Potts of Today is That Day
- Heather of Home Ec 101
- Laura Spencer of Writing Thoughts
- Kirk of JustThinkin
- Gayla of MomGadget
- Alister Cameron- Blogologist
- Karen of The Pond
- Jonathan Phillips of SmartWealthyRich
- Susan of Life Is Risky
- Vin of Dummies Guide to Blogger
- René of ProBlogger World
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!
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.
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!
I’m with Dawud and Ponn on this one.
Thanks again Lars-Christian. Good work.
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.
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.
I strongly agree with this campaign against stupid nofollow.
Nofollow is the opposite of the “spirit” of the web.
Lars-Christian, you’re helping us take the blogosphere back from the spammers one blog at a time! Welcome to the NoMore NoFollow Party!
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Glad to see this movement is gaining momentum!
Lars you’re TAGGED!
Sorry man but your it
Nice Matthew - I’ll write a reply to that soon
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I use doFollow too. It’s such a nice way to reward your commenters.
Finally!
The best thing to happen to blogs since….blogs!
Nice blog, keep up the good work my friend:)
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!
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.
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….
I didn’t realize how many people were in favor of scrapping no-follow links. Totally feeling the love!
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.
Count me in. I’m for nofollow in paid links, but against it in comments.
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.
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