As
I earlier mentioned that Panda update by Google is a new strict policy
which looks for content farmers. Content farmers are people flooding the
internet with useless content or republished content. Most of their
blog posts are either duplicate copies or infringed material. This year
Google penalized many such sites along with some reputed blogs like
labnol.org. The reasons most of them shared were to keep a consisting
post frequency, keep quality in mind while writing and you must nofollow
category links and you should also find and delete 404 error pages. So
today again we will be adding nofollow to comment count links and the
comments posted by visitors. What is the nofollow tag?
It
is a simple HTML tag called rel="nofollow" which tells the search
robots that the link is a nofollow one which means that the robot should
investigate about the link and should not worry about where the link is
pointing. When you link other websites you are sharing your PageRank
juice with them and when you outgoing links surpass your incoming links
then your PageRank drops. So you must know when to link external websites as nofollow to save PR.
Why should you Nofollow Comment Links?
There are two simple reasons,
- To avoid spammers who just comment in order to steal your PageRank
- To avoid your blog from Panda Effect which can decrease your blog traffic by 50%-70% Because comment links are harmful to blog content as it distracts the spiders from your main keywords. As a result your post will rank lower.
Let nofollow the comment links everywhere
- Go To Blogger > Design > Edit HTML
- Backup your template
- Click "Expand Widget Templates" box
- Search for this,
<a class='comment-link'
Replace it with this,
<a class='comment-link' rel="nofollow"
5. Now search for ,
<a expr:href='data:comment.authorUrl'>
and replace it with this,
<a expr:href='data:comment.authorUrl' rel='nofollow'>
6. Now finally save your template and you are done!
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