[GT]

Hey, team:

PIPS member and Warrior Forum contributor Alan Mater is "The Man" in my books! Check out Alan's web and blog pages for great info and helpful resources.

Like many of you, I am a busy, busy person with too many things on the go and not enough time to focus on certain aspects of my online PIPS business.

One area that has been really nagging me is the issue surrounding "no-follow" and "do-follow" tags in blogs. I have a Blogger blog, hosted on my domain, and for months I've been trying to figure out how to make sure it was a "do-follow" blog (someone once suggested to me that it might not be.)

I have gone through my blog source code with a fine-tooth comb and have been unable to find any reference to either no-follow or do-follow.

I've done a bit of research on the Net, but came up with more questions than answers. I've been directed to "helpful instructions" that amounted to technical manuals beyond what I understood and far beyond anything I needed to know about the issue.

Finally ... finally ... finally one day, I clicked on Alan's blog and read some helpful details and watched some informative instructional videos that Alan put together. Info in those videos began to open a window of understanding for me, so I decided to Private Message Alan with a few questions about do-follow and no-follow.

In a very short time, Alan came back with some clear answers and some additional Web links for more information!

Here is one resource: Blogger Buster: Remove "nofollow" tags from your template to spread some link love

The bottom line, according to the research turned up by Alan: if you don't have the "no-follow" tag, then all links will be followed.

Since I do not have any references anywhere in my blog source code to no-follow, my blog is good to go and anyone who posts a comment will get a backlink! That was my biggest concern, and now I can relax again.

Thank you, Alan Mater. I appreciate the extra mile you went on my behalf and I encourage other forum members to check out your Web and blog sites.

GT

[Alan Mater]

Hi GT,

No problem at all. Glad to help a fellow PIPS member out. I was curious about the subject myself, so it was helpful for me as well to dig deep to find the information.

As it turns out, it is sometimes beneficial to use the "nofollow" tag. For instance, say you have links pointing to a contact page or privacy policy. You don't want to waste your link juice on those pages, so just put in the "nofollow" reference and Google won't bother with it, your PR not being passed onto those pages.

Webmasters who sell links on their site often do this as well. Something to be aware of. Of course, many bloggers use it so as to not pass on their PR to your links in the comments.

The subject is very interesting to say the least. A lof of information to take in.

Take care,

Alan