You Comment and I Follow you

Almost all blog platforms by default
are set up so that a “dead end” piece of code is inserted wherever there is a
link in a comment, so that search engines will not “count” the link as they are
crawling the internet. This was originally designed to help stop comment spam,
but it doesn’t work. What it does is remove some of the incentive for your
readers contribute to your site by commenting on your posts.

What can you do about it? Turn off “nofollow”. Show your commenters that you
appreciate them. Spread the link love.

How? Depending on the blog platform you’re on, you can install a plugin (like this
one for WordPress), or disable it (see this
post if you’re a Moveable Type user), or modify your template (check this
site for Blogger tips).

Turning off the “nofollow” on blog comments has become a sort of “movement”.
Well, if we’re going to have a movement, we should have something to show our
readers that we’re part of it, don’t you think? I’ve created some little “I
Follow” logos that would work well for a side bar, and if you’ve written a post
letting your readers know that you’ve turned off nofollow in your comments, you
could link the logo to that post. I’ve also set up some quick CSS if you’d
rather:

If you’d rather use just CSS - click
here to open a separate page and
then view the source to copy the CSS from. You can easily change the colors to
fit in with your site.

source :


http://randaclay.com/blog/i-follow/