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One of the plugins I installed after the whole Wordpress import/export is one that removes all NoFollow tags on all comments made. Which basically means that anyone leaving comments on my blog will be able to benefit from an active one-way inbound PR4 link to theirs.

Why am I doing that? Well, the only point in using NoFollow is to cut down on the amount of spam that blogs receive - however, recent research shows that removing Nofollow does not seem to increase the number of spammers (and the spammers that I already get on this blog I filter out manually, anyway). Since their post entries never make anyway, the only side that actually suffers from NoFollow are the people whose comments I actually approve - in other words, all the valued bloggers and users whose feedback I appreciate and encourage.

If you have Google Toolbar installed, then you know that e-commerceblog.com has PR4, which isn’t too shabby. At the end of the day, what little success this blog has had would have been impossible without its readers and its community. Therefore, free one-way inbound PR4 links are one way for me to give back to people who take time and effort to leave constructive and valuable comments on my blog.

I will be monitoring the situation to see if I start receiving more spammers in the future - however, I am pretty confident that the situation won’t change as drastically as many NoFollow proponents would have us believe.