Comments on: Blogger Comment Link Love

By: LGR

LGR — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:54:07 +0000

Yes they do. Now that Blogger is closing down ftp publishing this trick will not be possible for much longer. My advice, move to WordPress ASAP.

By: rr

rr — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:50:44 +0000

Do you know if blogger still does this by default?

By: LGR

LGR — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:03:39 +0000

Yes Blogger still inserts nofollow on all comment links. I can’t see that changing anytime soon since Google owns them.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:00:19 +0000

Do you know if blogger still does this by default? .

By: LGR Webmaster Blog - Google’s Blogger Commenting from Bad to Worse

LGR Webmaster Blog - Google’s Blogger Commenting from Bad to Worse — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:25:07 +0000

[...] as other with a link to your website. This also means that the instruction I had written up in Blogger Comment Link Love no longer works. I guess Google no longer trusts anyone to moderate any comments on their [...]

By: LGR

LGR — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:52:03 +0000

No I mean that Google is taking the nofollow and applying it to more and more things. Google is dictating to webmasters how we should build our sites, or they will declare our websites unfit for their index. That is BS. The recent PageRank reduction on blogs and websites that sell text links is a recent example. Google wants webmasters to fix their algorithm. Google's search results have become tainted and no longer represent the best information because they have taken the position of editor and have decided what sites should and should not be in the index. They have crossed the line from trying to return good search results to actually censoring the web. That is unacceptable. While I might not care for John Chow's blog, it is a great example of Google censoring web search results.

By: WordPress Guru

WordPress Guru — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:43:36 +0000

I did not understand when you say “and Google to some extent,” . Do you mean that Google when crawls blogs automatically discredits the weight of the links coming out from comment section ?

A large number of bloggers are using Do Follow [or something similar] to boost the comments count and traffic on their blogs , and people seem to be getting link juice out of the comment section as well.

I do understand the blogger part however.

By: LGR

LGR — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:59:00 +0000

Thanks for the comment. I looked at the code here on my site and the rel="nofollow" is being removed on the author name. Here is the code from your comment. Tips 4 Blogspot

My code will not remove the nofollow on links in the comment body. I will perhaps tackle that another day.

My first guess if the code from your function is not working would be to check the regular expression. I dislike regular expressions because I tend to mess them up more than get them right. My question would be why use a regular expression, on the author name at least, because Blogger for a change is consistent with using double quotes. I'll come and take a look at your site later when I have more time.

By: Tips 4 Blogspot

Tips 4 Blogspot — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 18:24:00 +0000

I am working on a similar approach for FTP Classic bloggers, except that I am running into a snag. My fix uses a PHP function (thereby negating any Template updates after it is installed)

Your solution and mine are not working. I do not have a clue as to what is causing it. The blog is using other PHP methods, and they are working.

Please see the comments in my Classic FTP Dofollow post to understand what is going on.Ignore the final comment when I ask if his pages are PHP ready. They are.

I am in email contact with the the blog owner and trying to resolve this issue. Your help would be greatly appreciated.

By: Rhett

Rhett — Wed, 30 May 2007 17:50:00 +0000

I would but… I like just being logged in on all the different blogger blogs that I visit. So it’s more about me being lazy than concern for getting linkbacks.