What I mean with the title is that after Wordpress 2.3.2 most Do follow plugins on Wordpress have stopped working. That means if you advertise that your blog follows comments and someone sees in fact that they are not they might get a bad impression from your blog. How exactly and what exactly happens when you upgrade I have no idea but the fact is you should double check if you have a do follow blog. I installed some plugins on Firefox that shows where no follow is and I was really surprised to see on most Dofollow blogs actually have nofollow.
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January 12th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
So how do I tell if my do follow plugin is working?
January 12th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
The same from me. How do I know if my no follow plugin is working? If I look at the markup the no follow tag is not there.
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January 12th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Hey sorry, real slow connection today.
You just select the comment and view source in firefox. Then you can see if its says nofollow. Just not everyone checks and most follow blogs are nofollow because they dont realise after wordpress 2.3 it dont work anymore.
January 12th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
ok, which wordpress plugin do you use for ‘do follow’ ?
thanks,jb
January 13th, 2008 at 12:02 am
Currently I dont have do follow on my blog but there are some great plugins you can use, you must just make sure that they really make the blog do follow.
January 13th, 2008 at 4:01 am
I use the search status plugin in firefox - and you can choose to highlight nofollow links - but it doesn’t always work. So i check the code if I want to be sure.
My dofollow is still working (sem-dofollow). But otherwise you could always just do it by hand in comments.php i think.
January 13th, 2008 at 9:40 am
Good to know, I currently do not have any blogs with dofollow, but if I did editing the comments.php file would fix this I assume. @ people above, you can just edit out the nofollow and everything will become dofollow.
January 13th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Thanks for sharing. I guess it might be easier to just edit the comment.php than installing a plugin.
January 13th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
Urgg, I changed to sem-dofollow and it I still seem to be nofollow….I wonder if a different plugin I have is forcing the nofollow.
If anyone has a minute to take a look, it would be much preciated
http://www.savagenomads.net
I have a link to the list of the plug ins I use on my site.
I really don’t want to edit core files.
Thanks,jb
January 13th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
it seems to be working when i check. did you fix it?
January 13th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Here a post with 3 comments,
http://www.savagenomads.net/2008/01/02/a_few_site_updates-2/
when I view the source I see a bunch of rel=”nofollow”
or am I missing something?
thanks,jb
January 29th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
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February 10th, 2008 at 7:22 pm
I have posted on sites that have u comment I follow and so far I have not seen anyone follow.