Why Chris Garrett is all wrong about nofollow and dofollow
Posted in Search Marketing by jspirko on July 10th, 2007 
Chris Garrett just did a post on his blog about comment spam and how it may "ruin the do-follow community", you can read the article here, Comment Spammers the End of Do-Follow Movement? Personaly I probally should have nofollowed that link just to poke Chris for making the comments he did about returning nofollow to his blog's comments section.
Basicly what Chris is saying is that there are services that provide link building for clients that amount to nothing but comment spamming blogs that participate in the do-follow community such as the one Andy Beal runs over at Bumpzee.
What Chris is missing is the entire point in the first place, that rel="nofollow" does nothing to prevent spamming in the first place. Spammers spam and besides there are major question about how effective the command is with search engines in the first place. I commented on Chris blog about this, you may want to do the same.
Now to be fair I am kind of teasing Chris here, he is entitled of course to do what ever he wants with his blog! In fact I am pretty sure posts like mine were one of his goals in doing it in the first place. That said I figure it this way, if you comment to my blog and provide good and on topic content then link to what ever you please with in the bounds of my comments policy.
So what if all you want is a link! All I want is my readers and visitors providing me with good content, feed back and discussions. If it takes giving you a link to get it, well take as many as you like. What do you think about this?
To me what Chris is saying is that, comment spam gave birth to rel="nofollow", people realized it did nothing to solve the problem and screwed over posters. So the do-follow movement occurred which has led to people comment spamming, which means we might as well use nofollow again, which did not work in the first place.
Sound like a circle of insanity? There's a reason, it is!
~ Jack
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Monkey SEO said,
July 10, 2007 @ 3:37 pm
like the dofollow community tagline says: “fight SPAM, not blogs”.
Linden man said,
September 13, 2007 @ 3:31 am
you just hit the spot. Whatever we do, nofollow or dofollow, spammers will always be there. They are paid to spam even they dont care if you are in nofollow or dofollow
mlankton said,
September 17, 2007 @ 8:45 am
Spammers don’t have any idea if you’re dofollow or not. The only detriment to dofollow is people trying to get their link for free and not taking the time to leave a relevant comment. How bad a problem has this been for you since you went dofollow?