The yesfollow Project

After featuring The yesfollow Project as my link of the past week, I finally had time to activate the plugin myself. As a result, from now on, all of those who decide to comment on this blog will get credit for it.

Why have I decided to ditch nofollow?
I’ve always been the kind of person who believes there’s more to life than immediate personal gain. I do believe in helping others. Not that this blog is at the stage where is of significant help when it comes to PageRank. However, every single bit of PageRank my commenters could get from me, I would be more than happy to give it away. Just to show my appreciation for them taking a couple of minutes of their time to participate on this blog. So, don’t hesitate to participate. You shall be rewarded.

How long will I keep it on?
I certainly don’t plan on deactivating it any time soon. There’s one situation I can think of that might make me change my mind about this: getting a lot of comments of the “nice post; visit my site” nature. I don’t plan on deleting or not approving any comments (except for those that are clearly spam and Akismet won’t catch them). As a result, as the blog pickups in terms of traffic and readership, I expect such comments to come my way. Depending on how frequent they become, I might have to reconsider my decision of disabling the nofollow attribute. Don’t worry though, it will be a good while before this would be the case.

I love the idea. How can I be part of this?
It’s very simple. Just go over to The yesfollow Project. As you will see, if you use Movable Type, all you have to do is disable the nofollow plugin. If you use WordPress (1.5+) you will need to download the DoFollow plugin (just follow the links). I wanted to get here to give you a piece of advice. I personally don’t have many plugins. But, so far, every single one I installed I actually had to download (many came in a .zip format), unzip and then upload the files to my plugins directory. The DoFollow plugin (although there’s a link that says “Download”) is actually a text file. What you need to do is copy it to your computer in a text editor (N.B. no Microsoft Word; preferable Note Pad) and save it as a .php file then upload it to your plugin directory. From there you know your way.

“No good deed goes unpunished”
As a recognition for your support of The yesfollow Project you can leave a comment on their web site (even on this blog) and let the world know you joined the cause. Needless to say you’ll get a search engine valid link back to your blog (in both cases).

Just go ahead, join the cause and let’s make the world a friendlier place.

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