{"id":2465,"date":"2017-08-17T02:36:34","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T02:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sh056.global.temp.domains\/~riturajb\/technicalfundas\/?p=2465"},"modified":"2018-09-11T02:42:21","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T02:42:21","slug":"add-nofollow-to-word-press-comments-to-prevent-panda-effect-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technicalfundas.com\/add-nofollow-to-word-press-comments-to-prevent-panda-effect-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"Add Nofollow to Word Press Comments To Prevent Panda Effect & Spam"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Panda<\/h3>\n

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) plays an important role in blogging and a blog without SEO cannot get to the top position in major search engines. Also, it gets organic traffic coming via search engines.<\/h3>\n

As search system followed by Google also keeps a check on every link that comes to your website, you may get outbound links mostly coming via comment form. All these facts raise questions like should you keep your blog comments as dofollow or no follow? Also, what are the ways to no follow the external links in blogger automatically?<\/h3>\n

Eliminate Nofollow from the word press comments<\/strong><\/h3>\n

When you look at professional bloggers they used to carry out a search like- what is no follow used for? How to turn a link to no follow? What can be done so that I utilize \u2013 rel = \u201cnofollow\u201d especially for external links? How no index and no follow useful for blog comments and many more questions.<\/h3>\n

These type of comments are the crucial sections of your blog as every comment gives you an idea on how the readers\/audience receive a specific post on which they will comment or ask for more information. Either they will have a question or whether they loved reading your content posted on blog post or they didn\u2019t like it.<\/h3>\n

Every bloggers loves to receive comments for his\/her published article. It is one of the perfect tips for the bloggers for on-page SEO to enhance the ranking of the page by utilizing SEO based comment structure.<\/h3>\n

What is Nofollow?<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Nofollow is an asset that you can attach to the links to postpone \u2013 Comment Spam. Enabling the links follow can increase the count of comments but will also rotate the increased comment spam. As you know commenting comes with a lot of benefits because it offers a backlink via dofollow activated site.<\/h3>\n

On the other hand Nofollow offers a chance for all the web developers to let the search engines recognize it as \u201cDon\u2019t follow that link\u201d. When major search engines such as Google finds the attribute \u2013 \u201crel = nofollow\u201d attached with any of the hyperlinks you post, those links are not included during indexing web pages that is in SERP.<\/h3>\n

Mostly people insert the link right in comments which are not at all related to their article \u2013 spam. According to the search mechanism of Google such links can affect the SEO site ranking by bringing down the PR that is Google page rank. The latest Panda update is a new algorithm launched by Google search engine which is basically a strict rule that searches spam links and content.<\/h3>\n

It checks for spam especially in comment section. Not to consider comments as backlinks by the search engines.<\/h3>\n

Add the tag- Nofollow on links to help your comments stay as nofollow<\/strong><\/h3>\n

As a blogger you can adopt an easy way out to set the tag for all external links. Almost all web developers make use of this tag to make their comments system SEO friendly. Here is how you can add the tag of Nofollow to every link in blogger\/word press comment system.<\/h3>\n