{"id":629,"date":"2008-03-01T08:53:33","date_gmt":"2008-03-01T15:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/seo\/selective-use-of-dofollow-on-wordpress-comments\/"},"modified":"2014-12-04T13:37:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T20:37:19","slug":"selective-use-of-dofollow-on-wordpress-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/seo\/selective-use-of-dofollow-on-wordpress-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Selective Use of DoFollow on WordPress Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was commenting on a blog this morning when I saw that there were a number of comment author links that were NoFollowed, and a number that were not.\u00a0 The blog owner was singling out comments for approval to allow the passing of link juice.<\/p>\n<p>That reminded me to check a few of my recent comments for validity, and make sure nobody was guilty of blatant link juicing \ud83d\ude09 and I noticed that something in my DoFollow plugin was broken.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gregboser.com\/dofollow-plugin\/\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Boser and Dax&#8217;s modified DoFollow plugin<\/a>, which used to work great, but now with the new WordPress version, it seems to be broken for individual comment choices, ith this option being gone&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pdxtc.com\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/boser-nofollow.jpg\" alt=\"boser-nofollow.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The plugin does still seem to work for nofollowing an entire post, (a clever way to harness and redirect some of your own link juice on old posts) but I&#8217;d like comment level control back. Greg, are you going to fix it?\u00a0 Someone suggested a specific line fix on your blog, but it didn&#8217;t work for me.<\/p>\n<p>A little Google research brought me to <a href=\"http:\/\/perishablepress.com\/press\/2007\/09\/17\/wordpress-plugins-featuring-nofollow-blacklist-functionality\/\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a> which I think is very well written, explains the\u00a0 reason behind the need, as well as a rundown of many DoFollow options that I never even knew existed.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s well worth a read, if you&#8217;re interested in the subject, or have been hunting for options for your own blog. 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