Are you using the "nofollow" tag on your blog?

I was making some changes to my blog template and noticed a line of code about Comment Backlink Control.

As I'm sure you already know, but if you don't then pay close attention, back links are important for your page rank and search engine results. The more the better.

One way to utilize this fact is to comment on other people's blog, providing relevant content and letting the owner of the blog know that you enjoyed their post. The benefit, of course, is that you earn a back link for doing so. The webmaster benefits by getting more traffic and the satisfaction of knowing that someone liked what was posted.

But, a problem ensues when webmasters create a "nofollow" tag, preventing search engine spiders to index outbound links on their webpages. Not only is this dishonest and ruins trust for webmasters that employ this tactic, but it defeats the purpose of others commenting on your blog.

Unfortunately, Blogger appears to be autimatically setup so that spiders do not follow the links on the page.

The good news...

While looking over my template I came across the "nofollow" tag. Realizing this is a disservice for anyone that wants to comment on my blog, I changed the tag to "follow."

Now, anyone who comments my blog will have their back link spidered by the search engines.

Comment Away!