The Blogging world got struck with a backhander from Google a few weeks back when they announced that they had changed the way the dealt with the ‘nofollow’ attribute especially with the way pageRank flows through a site. I’m not getting into any debate here, as Google announced that their change was implemented over a year ago and no-one noticed, so coughing up some lame ‘right-back-atcha’ Google response ain’t going to hold anything worthwhile, so why even attempt it.
Now, for myself and North South Media is the time to implement some in-house administration where we have more control about who is sucking link juice from our site. I noticed earlier about the way certain Blogs accredited link juice to their users who offer the most in the terms of conversation. Dave Naylor, Blogstorm and Hobo Web have either had something in place or have been uber quick to address the problem. However, it is the readiness of Hobo that have impressed myself, not long after twittering about having the existence of a wordpress plugin have the boys from Hobo listened to our calls and released : Custom Link Love fae Hobo.
So for future readers and ongoing contributors I have set the bar at a generous 3 posts, reach this and you’ll get a link back from this site, complete with anchor text, I’m an easyossy guy, but I do admin this blog very tightly and if you think this is a licence to spam, think again.
Thanks for the link Paul
Glad you find the plugin useful!
Shaun
LOL – I’ve done pretty much exactly the same post over at my blog!
We’re Now a DoFollow Blog
Great minds (Scottish minds!) think alike!
Personally, I put the “web design lancaster” and “seo company uk” posts in the bin by default. I have been thinking about adding some filter that will reject comments for certain words like that. I also go with a mayfollow policy. If the comment is of substance, it gets followed.