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Are you trying to get more commentors on your blog? Sick of seeing all those other blogs with multiple comments on every post? You’re in luck. Cesar over a fleethecube.com has started a new site trying to promote the disabling of the nofollow tag.

The site is called yesfollow.org and explains how you can help the blogosphere and your own search engine ranking by disabling the nofollow tag associated with your comments. In both movabletype and wordpress blogs the default is to put a rel=”nofollow” tag on every comment. What this tells the search engine spiders is to not follow the links associated with the tag.

The blogosphere knows this and looks at comments on less established blogs as too much work for no reward. They would rather leave comments on blogs with a lot of traffic in the hopes that people would click-through. Now I’m not saying this is always the case, sure people leave comments to be helpful and to promote open discussion on a topic that may be dear to them. But a lot of comments are meant to attract people to click through to your blog.

In comes the dofollow plugin promoted by the yesfollow.org campaign. The idea is to make the standard in the blogosphere be dofollow and incentivise everyone to leave comments on others blogs, newbies and oldies alike. Bloggers will of course have to watch closely for spam but if you have control of your spam (and there are plugins that do this) you should want to use the dofollow plugin and help your fellow bloggers out.

So go join Cesar over at and download the plugin, activate it, and leave your feedback. It took me all of 5 minutes to do the whole thing, including leaving some length feedback at yesfollow.

Don’t forget to spread the word, it’ll help you SEO process.

Happy Commenting!