Devil Works

A while back Google announced that in an effort to reduce comment spam on blogs that links with the attribute rel=nofollow wouldn’t get any Google juice*. Other search sites seem to pretty much ignore the nofollow tags, I’m not complaining about that at all.
Wordpress implemented a system where links from commenters would automatically have the no follow attribute added to their links.

Moving on a little bit, Wordpress now has a pretty good anti spam system called Askimet. It works pretty well and has reduced my comment spam down to next to zero.

So the question has been raised “Why do Wordpress publishers still need the nofollow tag?”

I decided that I didn’t and have installed the  Do Follow plugin on this blog.

So now I’m happily sharing my Google juice with any one that takes the time to post a comment.

Please note that comments that appear to be deliberate attempts at getting Google juice will be deleted, all I ask is that you say something interesting and relevant to the post.

*Google juice is a slang term for backlinks. The more backlinks you have, the higher Google ranks your page in the search results.