Nofollow attribute are some sort of code in our template that prevents the backlinks of posts and links in comments on our blogs to be indexed by search engine. It was created to stop comment spam, but still many bloggers prefer to remove this attribute. There are reasons for that, firstly, this discourages commentators as they know that there comments will not be considered by search engines so they don’t comment at all. The second reason is that it also prevents backlinks on your posts. So I decided to remove nofollow from my blog.[…]

One more reason that we should remove nofollow is that there is no need to put it on your blog if you have comment moderation enabled. That is if you want to stop comment spamming you can do this manually and easily.

I will tell you how to remove nofollow component. First download your template to your computer in case any error occurs.
Now, how can you remove nofollow from comments:

1. Find a line similar to this one in your blog template(Don’t forget to Expand Widget Template) :
   <a expr:href=’data:backlink.url’ rel=’nofollow’><data:backlink.title/></a>
2. In this line remove the rel=’nofollow’ section.

To remove nofollow from backlinks do this:

• Find a line similar to this line in your template:
  <a href=’data:comment.authorUrl’ rel=’nofollow’><data:comment.author/></a>
• In this line also just remove rel=’nofollow’ section.

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