More Comments or Leaking Pagerank?


This is an antique debate on using the do-follow plugin on your blogs. Are you looking for more comments on your blog or are you concerned about having a blog that “leaks” pageranks? I had some thoughts on this since I started blogging about a year back. But when JohnChow decided to sell do-follow on the comments on his blog, I decided to take some steps to make commenting more prominent on my blog too.

TheAnand's SEO Blog has link love for commentators

If you are a blogger, you will surely understand how sad it is to see “0 Comments” on your posts. I have a all passion link love plugin installed on my blog which gives link love to all the comments above 5. Which means you need only 5 comments to get some google juice and all my regular readers get “love” ๐Ÿ™‚

What kinda follow is it on your blog? Follow, no-follow or do-follow? Let your comments flow!

My friend Nomar recently made a really useful post about how to run a forum from ground up and marketing it later on.. He has a lot of experience in this forum thing running 9MB Web Marketing Forums. This a great article which needs to be read by every wannabe forum administrator.


Comments

4 responses to “More Comments or Leaking Pagerank?”

  1. Keep in mind only a few search engines even care about the nofollow tag. As for leaking page rank, most of the pages that are just created (new blog post) will not have page rank anyway.

    Michael

  2. Thats true, but there are posts that get pagerank sometime in the future. also you get a free technorati authority for commenting on those blogs.

    No-follow is still cared by yahoo and msn. and we dont know about googles algos. anyways. Personally, I will love to get more comments on a post than have a PR7. It will give you food for thought and ideas for new posts too ๐Ÿ™‚

  3. Does Google take the nofollow tag into account?

  4. Mine is a do-follow blog. And I am lovin’ it ๐Ÿ˜›

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