Comments on: Removing Nofollow on blog links and meta – and invisible comments

By: atommedia

atommedia — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:42:21 +0000

I wouldn’tt get to hung up on it, people will still get involved if your content is good, even if the link carries no weight

By: Video Guitar Lessons

Video Guitar Lessons — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:23:39 +0000

thanks – this is starting to help the fog clear…

By: Paul Bradshaw

Paul Bradshaw — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:40:26 +0000

Thanks Jon – I will try that. It also annoys me that I have to log in every day to rate and make comments!

By: malcolmcols

malcolmcols — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:07:01 +0000

Although there still seem to be some glitches in the non-javascript version, as I point out here … http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/seo-intensedeb…” target=”_blank”>http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/seo-i…” target=”_blank”>http://www.malcolmcoles.co.uk/blog/seo-intensedeb…

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:00:13 +0000

Hope you don't mind me jumping in here, but I'm one of the devs for IntenseDebate. We've recently released a new version of the WP plugin that syncs the comments between ID and WP and then outputs the normal WP comment section in a noscript tag. This means all the comments are fully search engine indexable as well as allowing users with Javascript disabled to comment too (and have it all end up in IntenseDebate for consistency). For existing users you can just upgrade your plugin. This is available from the re-install menu on the blog tools page on IntenseDebate.com. For new users we're currently in invite-only mode, so you'll need an invite for now, but will be available to all as soon we drop the invite system again (or when you get an invite from us).

By: hubs

hubs — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:40:41 +0000

I use the linklove plugin: Where a commenter has commented at least 10 times (configurable) the nofollow reference is removed. For all newer commenters, the nofollow remains.

By: Anne Helmond

Anne Helmond — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:47:08 +0000

This is the main reason why I don't use external commenting systems such as Intense Debate. Although I can see a lot of advantages for using such a system it doesn't weigh up to the fact that these systems are separating my blog content (post versus comments) while they in fact belong together and should be indexed as such.

By: TheWorstofPerth

TheWorstofPerth — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:41:39 +0000

Perhaps why wordpress grouphosted (wp.com) hasn't implemented yet after automattic bought iID. WordPress .com doesn't allow any java, so they must have been sure a non java was on the way or have insisted on non java version. WP very proud of the google visibility of their blogs. Also, it is just so damn useful to have comment keywords come up in google.

By: Indonesia Matters

Indonesia Matters — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:19:02 +0000

Well I just wouldn't use Intense Debate, but you might just like it… One other thing, if you look at the code of this page and look down at the feed links on the right side you'll see that each link has a "title" attribute with often HUNDREDS of words in it – it's just bizarre, I'd do something about that…