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Do you know the reasons why some or almost dofollow transcends to nofollow scheme? Very hard to find or allocate do follow even though I tried searching through internet, only few successful attempts. How could seo be successful in page ranks while in my knowledge a nofollow could only increased traffic?

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This thread is from 2009, and a few posters (, , , ) touched the main motivations — site owners and platforms change link treatment. A concise, up-to-date view and practical checks follow.

Start by diagnosing the page itself. Use your browser’s inspector or view-source and locate the outgoing anchor: check the link’s rel value (it may be nofollow, ugc, sponsored, or absent). Also check the page-level robots meta (a nofollow there affects all links). If you don’t see rel in the HTML, look for JavaScript that rewrites links or a CDN/security layer that injects attributes.

Common causes beyond simple anti-spam policy:

  • CMS/theme defaults or an SEO/comment plugin that adds rel to user links.
  • Editorial policy: webmasters mark unvetted or paid links to avoid endorsing them.
  • Affiliate/sponsored links are often labeled rel="sponsored" or rel="nofollow" for compliance.
  • Redirects or link-shorteners can change how crawlers treat the link if the linking page or intermediate URL adds attributes.

If you control the site and want dofollow links for approved content: enable stronger moderation (registration, manual approval, CAPTCHAs), switch comment link handling to rel="ugc" for user-generated links where appropriate, or change the plugin/theme setting that adds rel. If you don’t control the site, request an editorial link or contribute content that earns an editorial (naturally given) link — editorial links remain the most reliable for SEO.

For official guidance and to avoid link-scheme penalties, see Google’s current docs on qualifying outbound links and link schemes:
Qualify outbound links
Link schemes

Summary: “dofollow” can become “nofollow” for policy, technical, or compliance reasons. Inspect the page source, check CMS/plugins, and prioritize earning editorial links rather than relying on changing attributes.

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Member Avatar for articlemaster9

Its simply because of increased no of spamming and to stop them. Implementing nofollow will drive anyway spammers and keep the site/board clean.

Member Avatar for ejtt7ciia

It is said that many blogs are so tired go being used just as a backlink resource.The no follow attribute was introduced as a standard feature of Blogger and WordPress. This took most of the SEO value out of links posted in user comments of blogs.That’s why many people found their comments were rejected.

Member Avatar for johnvitc

It is said that many blogs are so tired go being used just as a backlink resource.The no follow attribute was introduced as a standard feature of Blogger and WordPress. This took most of the SEO value out of links posted in user comments of blogs.That’s why many people found their comments were rejected.

thumbs up for this one :lol: it just touchs the point
time for u to reconsider your SEO work

Member Avatar for mahgobb

maybe they just tired of beign used as backlinks only

Member Avatar for mackone

I got the wordpress plugin dofollow and am going to install that to get around nofollow. But it doesn’t discourage comment spam, but it does discourage real comments. I think people do comment when they know they’ll get a little link love.

Member Avatar for Angela12

Yea right but we can't do anything if people want to comment to get backlinks...thats what we did when we wanted clicks on site.

Member Avatar for Joe55555

While it actually takes courage to maek your blog from do follow to no follow, as it will directly cause the decrease of traffic for most of the time.I should say so.

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