You Comment ~ I Follow
Ever seen those little doodads in people’s sidebars and wondered what the heck they were about? I used to think they were something to do with entrecard or something similar.
Turns out, it’s a new~ish blogging movement to make comment links count towards your search engine rankings.
Okay, it’s like this. A few years ago, Google got fed up with giving out GoogleLove to every Tom Dick & Harry with a comment~spamming~robot and came up with a new html attribute (read: tricky code), “no-follow”.
The search engines and blogging platforms clambered onboard in hopes that this would spell the end of comment spam forevermore.
As we all know, it didn’t work. And it also adversely affected those commenters who were genuinely taking part in the blogging community.
So bloggers taking part in the “You Comment ~ I Follow” movement remove the “no-follow” from their comments on their blogs and put up this cute little doohicky device to let others know about it.
There’s a number of ways to rid your blog of “no-comment” blues:
- Wordpress bloggers can use the Semiologic No_Follow plugin,
- Blogger users can alter their template code,
- Moveable Typers can disable No-Follow, too.
I’ve joined up because I think that one of the main points of comments is to build community and by spreading the linklove, we’re doing exactly that. If you need help making the changes, just give me a holler.
You can get a No-Follow badge and become a follower here.