About rel="nofollow" | Don't follow

Every blogging platform has a field for your website in the comments section and I believe in rewarding people who comment on my blog, but that is just me. Again when someone says they are nofollow because they don’t want to pass page rank, how does that make them sound? Kinda self serving don’t you think? Not saying this is the only reason bloggers choose not to follow, I am sure we will hear from the nofollow perspective and why they prefer nofollow.

I would much rather share page rank in exchange for building quality relationships with like minded bloggers and are willing to give back something in return for commenting.Yes I do know it is possible to build relationships with nofollow blogs as well but it is my preference to focus on dofollow bloggers #justsayin sorry thought we were on Twitter for a second.

I know some people will say well I don’t want to reward crappy comments, my response to that would be hit that little delete button. If you are going to approve a comment then odds are you felt it added some sort of value to your blog, why would you not want to reward their efforts?

If you feel someone only commenting because they want to be rewarded with a backlink so what? As long they are leaving something worthwhile be appreciate of it don’t look down or question their motives. Who cares how they got there just be happy they got there. Also there is a difference between commentators who actually add value and spammers I am sure you can figure out the difference.

When to Use a No Follow Tag
Using no follow tags on your website should always be done with caution because a no follow can often times provoke further investigation from the search engines. Keeping that in mind, you better make sure everything else on your website is 100% squeaky clean. If you are not sure how to manipulate PageRank throughout your website by the clever use of no follow tags don’t worry about it but there are some important instances you should use a no follow to either be safe or simply not waste your link power in areas it where it is clearly not needed.

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