When you set an external link in your blog with the href tag , you can do it with DoFollow or NoFollow with the rel attribute, and both influence in search engines in different ways.
What is DoFollow and NoFollow?
NoFollow: nofollow is a non-standard HTML attribute value used to instruct search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target’s ranking in the search engine’s index. This attribute is added automatically to URLs input into comments, so that those URLs don’t get any link from you.
DoFollow: technically is nothing, this attribute doesn’t exist but the people call “dofollow” to disable the rel=”nofollow” attribute added to external links.
Which is better?
Neither dofollow nor nofollow are better, you should analyze what do you want for your blog.
NoFollow attribute is intended to reduce the effectiveness of certain types of search engine spam, thereby improving the quality of search engine results and preventing the index of spam from occurring in the first place and to deter spammers from posting comments to boost their URLs search rankings. But according to the statistics shown at the Akismet’s antispam service, this tag has not stopped the comment spam and has not discouraged spammers.
While all engines that support the attribute exclude links that use nofollow attribute from their ranking calculation, the details about the exact interpretation of the attribute vary from search engine to search engine. The following is a table courtesy of wikipedia about the interpretation by the individual search engines:
By removing nofollow attribute, you won’t get more spam than you get daily, akismet is made to block it anyway. Instead, you will be helping to other bloggers who comment on your posts to grown their community by linking them into search engines. You may also start to see more comments in your blog, which it’s better for you.
How to remove NoFollow attribute?
There is a plugin for wordpress to remove this attribute from your comments. Also I found some tutorials to remove this evil attribute from your Blogspot, TypePad or Moveable Type. In addition, there is a button over the web which you can put in your sidebar to let people know that you’ve setup DoFollow, thank Randa Clay for the pretty button.
What do you use, NoFollow Or DoFollow?
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When Hack n Mod sent me this link with the message, “Your readers will enjoy this: Absolutely incredible!”, I was apprehensive. After all, I get a lot of links in my email and most of them claim to want to show me something amazing. This one, however, was from a site I recognized and have read and promised that you guys and gals, my readers, would enjoy it. I checked it out, and I think you will enjoy it, indeed.
From Hack n Mod:
Dutch artist Theo Jansen demonstrates his amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures, built from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His “Strandbeasts” (Beach Creatures) are built to move and even survive on their own.
ORLY? Just watch the video below and see for yourself (skip ahead a little).
Now what amazes me almost as much as these kinetic energy devices is that they’ve been around for at least a few years and I’m just now seeing them for the first time.
If you’re geeky like me, you already know how to geekily say “I Love You”, but what if you’re not and you want to say “I Love You” in a geeky way to your geeky loved one? Don’t worry. I’m here to help.
1. Send an e-card
Send your loved one an electronic greeting card via Blue Mountain or Hallmark.
2. Buy them something extra geeky
Show your smushy-face huney-buns you know what they like by getting them something from Think Geek. If they’re truly geeky, they’ll love it.
3. Say it in Klingon
I’m not a Trekkie, so don’t ask me, but I’m sure there’s a way to say “I Love You” in Klingon.
5. Do it with Code Grab the code for your geek’s favorite programming language here and just replace “hello world” in the code with “I love my geek” or any other message. Don’t worry. These are usually only 1-3 lines of code, so you should have no problem.
My wife is not an avid gamer, but she likes her House of the Dead III zombie shoot ‘em up. I’m not either, really, but I have an XBox all the same, and when I play, I’d prefer to play on my 52 inch TV rather than the 27 inch. After all, what’s the point of spending the money on a big screen if I’m not going to get the most out of it that I can? When we found out that House of the Dead III was available for XBox, we sought out to buy the game (used on Amazon) and a light gun to shoot with. If my baby wants to shoot some zombies, I’m gonna line ‘em up and hand her the gun. Sometimes, though, the gremlins sneak in and ruin it for us.
The first purchase (boring details)
First, I purchased a used light gun on Amazon, through a third party seller. It never showed up. I wish I had seen the Re Sell It’s horrible feedback rating before I purchased. After waiting almost a month and contacting the seller with no response, I let Amazon know that I wished they didn’t let people with that kind of selling reputation sell there. Or maybe have a red flag pop up before I buy. In any case, I filed my claim and moved on.
The second purchase (boring details)
After wasting my time with that one, my wife suggested that we get TWO light guns. This makes sense. Sometimes I don’t know where my head is. Advice noted, I ordered two new Game Elements light guns. This time, I was careful to choose a reputable seller, Classic Game Source Inc.. I don’t know if they respond to customer queries, but that’s because I didn’t have the need to make one. Shipping wasn’t lightning quick, but I had them in a week, which is quick enough.
Remove the Head. Destroy the Brain
Writing this, I’m reminded of Zombie Girl‘s song, GO ZOMBIE, which I am now listening to as I write. In the lyrics, she sings, “Remove the head. Destroy the brain.” That, my friends, is much easier said than done when you’re in the middle of a pack of zombies and your aim is all over the place, despite calibrating the light guns. My best guess is that my TV is simply not responsive to the light gun as it should be. We moved the whole shabang into the other room and played on the 27 inch, where zombies did, indeed, fall to the incredible aim and natural zombie-killing instincts my wife was throwing around.
