As I wrote earlier, almost all blogging software or platforms automatically adds the “nofollow” attribute to all user generated links. It is done to discourage Comment Spam in blogs. But is not friendly for all! And I know that many of us want to remove it, to show our love to the community. Today, let us talk about the Blogger blogging platform. You can easily remove the “nofollow” from your Blogger blogs (blogspot blogs), by a simple modification of your existing template. Read on to know more!
User generated links means links in comments and backlinks or trackbacks. Remove and handle your blog links responsibly. Never give spammers a chance to use your blog for spamming. Mind it, “nofollow” is for spammers and “dofollow” or “no-nofollow” is for bloggers!
How to remove nofollow from Blogger Blogs?
- First, backup your Blogger template. You can do it from the Template>Edit HTML section of your dashboard.
- After completion of your backup, check the “Expand Widgets” box in your “Edit Template” area. It will expand your template.
- Now do a search for “nofollow” in your template. Use Ctrl+F, type “nofollow” in the “Find Box” and hit enter. It will highlight the term in your template code.
- This search will show you two results – one for Backlinks and another for Comments. Look below! The results should be something like this.
rel=’nofollow’><data:backlink.title/></a> (for backlinks)
rel=’nofollow’><data:comment.author/></a> (for comments)
- Decide which you want to remove. I would recommend that you must not remove it from the backlinks. Because you don’t have control over your backlinks and they may came from spam blogs!
- To remove nofollow from blog comments, go to the highlighted section of your template code (rel=’nofollow’><data:comment.author/></a>) and simply delete the rel=’nofollow’ portion.
- Press “Save Template” button to save your blog template.
Using or not using “nofollow” depends on you. Mind it, this simple attribute helps in reducing comment spam. If you have removed “nofollow” from your blog, please moderate all your blog comments. And try not to remove “nofollow” from your backlinks.
Feel free to give your comments and suggestions on this post.
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Hey, great article.
Ive also against the nofollow crap. Infact Ive also written a post about it on my blog too.
Cheers
That’s the Great Idea And good Concept of providing backlink for the serious and good blogger I am also going to do the same Under The companion of ‘U Comment I Follow’
Thanks
Dear sir,
I read carefully your post because i am searching for this idea for a longtime. But i heared that the google won’t allow to change the any code in template and it is against to their TOS! Is it correct or not ? And google did’t show my backlinks! Why?
@samso,
This is not true. You can change the template, otherwise they should have forced you to use the default Blogger templates! Google normally don’t show backlinks unless you have or had at least PR3.
I too have recently removed the nofollow tags from my blog.
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http://companiesactingbadly.blogspot.com/2009/01/you-comment-i-follow.html
This is good information, thank you very much