{"id":215,"date":"2007-02-01T23:41:12","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T22:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cornwallseo.com\/search\/index.php\/2007\/02\/01\/is-your-blog-link-lite\/"},"modified":"2016-11-11T10:47:49","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T10:47:49","slug":"is-your-blog-link-lite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cornwallseo.com\/search\/is-your-blog-link-lite\/","title":{"rendered":"Is your Blog &quot;Link Lite&quot;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yackyack.co.uk\/2007\/01\/31\/nofollow-and-wordpress-why-im-removing-the-rewrite\/\">Rob Watts<\/a> has taken the decision to remove the &#8220;no-follow&#8221; tag from his blog. After reading about what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketingpilgrim.com\/2007\/01\/campaign-to-reduce-wikipedias-pagerank-to-zero.html\">Andy Beal<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/andybeard.eu\/2007\/01\/wikipedia-nofollow-plugin-wikidigg.html\">Andy Beard<\/a> were up to.<\/p>\n<p>Brilliant idea.<\/p>\n<p>What is the point of the &#8220;no-follow&#8221;? It does not stop comment spam so lets get rid of it and reward people who make comments.<\/p>\n<p>I manage my comments, so I don&#8217;t need a disincentive. I want people to comment and I want them to be rewarded with a proper like instead of this &#8220;link lite&#8221; crap.<\/p>\n<p>I will be removing the no follow, so in future you will get a nice, meaty link back to your blog. 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