There is a whole movement of webmasters and bloggers. People who hate the “nofollow” attribute.

When Google and other search engines encourage using the rel=”nofollow” attribute for preventing spam and Wordpress and other blogging platforms append nofollow attribute to all user-submitted links (comment data, commenter URI, etc).

These bloggers are happy to pass on some of their page rank.

No NoFollow Wiki gives some reasons against the use of nofollow.

1. nofollow does not prevent comment spam
2. nofollow is semantically incorrect
3. nofollow harms the connections between web sites
4. nofollow is not useful for humans, just for search engines using PageRank or a similar technique
5. nofollow could be used to shut web sites out
6. nofollow discriminates legitimate users as spammers
7. nofollow heists commentators’ earned attention
8. nofollow could be used to further discriminate weblogs
9. nofollow prevents the Web from being a web
10. nofollow eliminates the dissemination of free speech
11. nofollow was developed in privacy with only search engines companies taking part in the discussion

I have found many bloggers who don’t use “rel=nofollow” on commenter url’s. Web Entrepreneur Yaro Starak is one of them. Also found this Deutsch List of No-NoFollow blogs.

If you plan to remove nofollow from your wordpress blog. Download this Wordpress plugin or use this wordpress hack.

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