You’ve got your brand spankin’ new blog, a great template, and you’ve added loads of great posts. So why isn’t anyone commenting? While not necessarily a gauge of how you are doing, in fact some turn comments off completely, getting people to comment on your posts is a goal of many bloggers.

So now that we’ve determined that many bloggers want people to comment, how is that goal reached? Besides the obvious of writing helpful thought provoking or controversial posts, giving potential commenter’s an incentive is the next best option. With that in mind, I found a plugin for Wordpress does just that.

NoFollow Free allows you to remove the “nofollow” tag that normally accompanies links in user comments which in turn gives those who want to leave comments an incentive to do so, a search engine friendly link or links back to their own site. While this type of plugin is not new, NoFollow Free is a good choice because of the various options it gives you when setting it up with various user selectable situations including but not limited to:

- replacing nofollow on author/text link
- replacing nofollow on registered author/text link
- replacing nofollow only if the visitor or the registered users had X previous comments
- putting back the nofollow if user defined blacklist words are matched

It also comes with an image band that you can place in your header to proclaim to your visitors that your comments are now “NoFollow Free” because what good is this plugin if nobody knows you use it right? Give it a try, I am.

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