Comments on: Links Exchange – Don’t Give a Link for Free

By: Administrator

Administrator — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 07:36:12 +0000

Thank you for comments, jorge, i’ll do my best to provide more useful information.

You are running a nice blog also ;)

By: jorge

jorge — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 03:24:52 +0000

what you meant is a simple redirect script (usually javascript and some php headers) where you click the link on one of these dir/shocase sites and instead of linking directly to you, they load a page and redirect it to your URI, which means you don’t get any pagerank plusses.

good of you to point that out, i think this blog is really helpful :)

By: Administrator

Administrator — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 12:52:31 +0000

Hello Wyatt,

You are right. After your message i was interested how to remove “nofollow” tag for links (because WordPress adds these tags automatically) and i’ve found a way to solve it.

All you need is to do this:

Open file \wp-includes\comment-functions.php
Look at line 173.

Remove rel='external nofollow' part and save your file.

Upload a file to server. Didn’t test it myself, but i think it should work fine.

By: Wyatt

Wyatt — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 12:37:08 +0000

However the way you have this site setup, if I were to say, make some kind of comment and put my website in, google would pick it right up. This is, like you said, because you dont have your site setup to use php?id=xxx. However WordPress automatically put in the rel=nofollow into my link witch makes it so that I still am not getting anything. But I’m pretty sure that Google is that only search engine that uses this method so I would still be getting credit in say yahoo or msn or anything else.

I wonder if there is a way to take out the rel=nofollow out of commenter’s links, maybe as a way to draw more traffic. If there isn’t I’m sure someone has a plugin that will do this.

And the cheaters method is to put your link inside of the comment because, I’m pretty sure WordPress doesn’t add the rel=nofollow to links inside of the actual comment.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 20:49:21 +0000

Interesting way of thinking, Mindaugas…

I saw lots of websites which contain links directories (or so called links modules) and use these “bad” links. So what does it mean? All of them are “cheaters”???

Don’t agree with you!