It is becoming pretty apparent that the DoFollow movement is alive and well (see poll). While I am part of the movement, I wanted to take the time to make it official with a post. For those of you who do not know what the the DoFollow movement is about, here is an excerpt from the designer of the badge you see here.

Almost all blog platforms by default are set up so that a “dead end” piece of code is inserted wherever there is a link in a comment, so that search engines will not “count” the link as they are crawling the internet. This was originally designed to help stop comment spam, but it doesn’t work. What it does is remove some of the incentive for your readers contribute to your site by commenting on your posts.

What can you do about it? Turn off “nofollow”. Show your commenters that you appreciate them. Spread the link love. (Source)

What this means is if you are a blogger, by leaving a comment on any posts here on TheLocoMono Website, the nofollow tag has been removed so that the search engine can follow the link back to your website. This helps you with extra links to your website. This is made possible with the popular DoFollow WordPress Plugin developed by Semiologic. For example, if you were to leave 10 comments here, you would have 10 links back to your website for search engine results.

In addition to the DoFollow WordPress Plugin, if you are a blogger, I also have the CommentLuv Plugin installed which displays your latest post on your blog providing an additional link to your post. Not the website itself, but the post so you can get an additional “vote” in your post’s favor in the search engine results. You can read more about this here.

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