Join the yesfollow Project!
If you agree that the nofollow tag is hurting bloggers and not fighting spam then join our project - it’s easy.
- Disable the
nofollowattribute on your blog. Get instructions here. - (Optional) Leave a comment / pingback / trackback here.
- (Optional) Grab a chiclet on your way out.
Spread the Word
Because the nofollow issue is somewhat technical and hidden in the source code of a blog, most bloggers are oblivious to it. Once you explain it to them, they understand the issue easily and want to get rid of the nofollows on their pages. Help us spread the word by blogging about the issue.
List of Supporters
These bloggers banished the nofollow from their blog, and they get full credit for this link 
March 29th, 2006 at 4:17 pm
Ummm… As the author of this site, you probably guessed my blog subscribes to The
yesfollowProject all the way!March 30th, 2006 at 3:42 pm
I just activated the dofollow plugin on my site ErikVossman.com. I think this site will become of great use to the blogosphere. Too often I feel that smaller blogs are passed over by people who would otherwise leave comments because people feel there is no use on a low traffic blog.
This yesfollow ideal now offers everyone an incentive to leave comments on everyone’s blog, not just high traffic ones.
Great idea and I’ll gladly send on the love to other blogs with the hopes that they see the usefulness of this plugin and activate on their blogs.
March 30th, 2006 at 6:00 pm
Wai hallo thar!
It’s nice to see people trying to further improve the “blogosphere”. I’ve enabled the plugin on my own site, The Homework Never Ends.
I don’t get much spam, anyway, so this “nofollow” thing was never necessary for me. Thanks for the tip and the plugin.
April 2nd, 2006 at 4:57 am
Interesting idea, and a very good point. I agree that commentors should receive credit for the contributions they make to our sites’ content, so I’ve implemented the DoFollow plugin for commentor’s homepages. I’m still a little wary though (it’s the cynic in me), so I’ve set it to make the change after three days, which will give me chance to review commentor’s sites before the change. It’s either that or set all comments to be held in moderation and I’d rather not do that.
I’m also not prepared to make the change for links within the body of comments, so I’ve left my wpNoFollow plugin activated, I just have to see if there’s any conflict between the two - my feeling is that links from my site are an endorsement by me, and while I’m happy for contributers to receive the benefit I’m not happy to endorse 3rd party sites by proxy at this time.
April 2nd, 2006 at 4:58 am
Good work Caesar, I didn’t even know the nofollow tag was included by default! I’ve disabled it on my blog now
April 7th, 2006 at 9:40 am
Think this is an excellent idea. As long as everyone makes sure they moderate their comments to avoid spam, this is a good way of making sure bloggers get the credit they deserve.
One suggestion - providing the code to be added to your blog (sidebar) files would be useful - some people might be unsure about uploading the image file/adding the new code.
Tom
April 10th, 2006 at 8:05 pm
I think it is good that they start off with them, that way all the blogs that get abandoned can fill up with all the spam they want.
April 15th, 2006 at 7:43 am
I’ve blasted the nofollows into oblivion!
April 15th, 2006 at 8:51 am
Count me in!
April 17th, 2006 at 11:47 am
I’d like to thank you guys for all your support so far. I haven’t had much time to spread the word about this project, but the support base has been growing steadily
April 17th, 2006 at 5:38 pm
Installed DoFollow. I block bad traffic using .htaccess (saves a lot of bandwidth
) so never get much comment spam 
June 3rd, 2006 at 8:55 am
I’m so glad to see this movement against NoFollow starting… I personally believe that adopting NoFollow actually puts MORE power in the hands of spammers, by allowing them to dictate how we link-out from our own blogs.
I’m not playing that anymore!
I’ve installed DoFollow at Church of the iPod, and I’ll be adding it to my other blogs as well.
I’ll also make sure to spread the word
Cheers!
August 2nd, 2006 at 10:10 am
We have added this to our blog. We’ll get round to adding the Yesfollow logo to our blog too.
October 30th, 2006 at 11:25 am
Moderation and maintenance should be watchwords. Automatic nofollows are just plain lazy and an abdication of your responsibilities as a blog editor.
November 1st, 2006 at 2:51 pm
I was not aware that nofollow was set up as default in the comments - till I read this post. It is really good initiative for rewarding legitimate comments.
November 15th, 2006 at 9:17 am
Thanks for spreading the word! I’ve been using the dofollow on my main blog, but never updated my older blogs with it until today! Thanks a lot, Cesar. Keep up the great work.
December 18th, 2006 at 4:04 am
Thanks for letting me know about this, Cesar. I’ve written a post about this and included a link to this site. And, of course, I installed the dofollow plugin!
February 12th, 2007 at 9:05 am
i am now a proud member of the
yesfollowproject.February 14th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
Sign me up! nofollow is a thing of the past on my site. I’m hoping that this really catches on and people realize that “nofollow” has been a miserable failure.
February 14th, 2007 at 10:12 pm
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February 24th, 2007 at 5:13 pm
I could not agree more with this movement. Although I have been using the attribute rel=”nofollow” on my site I am definitely going to remove it.
Reasons against the rel=”nofollow”:
harms the connections between web sites
it’s is not useful for humans, just for search engines using PageRank
prevents the Web from being a web
eliminates the dissemination of free speech
I am a supporter of the yesfollow project
February 26th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
It is a very thoughtful idea! Hopefully, there would be more instructions on how to disable “nofollow” tags in other blog platforms in the future!
April 12th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
I haven’t removed the no follow command from my blogs but have always thought that it was useless. I will remove my promptly in order to show support for the project.
April 27th, 2007 at 3:54 am
One of the very first things I did when I started my blog was to remove the atrocious and evil “nofollow” tagging, and blogged about it.
May 9th, 2007 at 12:44 am
I’ve had nofollow disabled for some time in my blog, but never thought to publicise the fact to encourage commentators. I’ll write a post pointing back here immediately!
May 11th, 2007 at 11:23 am
I’m still a little wary though (it’s the cynic in me), so I’ve set it to make the change after three days, which will give me chance to review commentor’s sites before the change. It’s either that or set all comments to be held in moderation and I’d rather not do that.
May 12th, 2007 at 7:34 pm
@Sonja - Glad to hear it!
@Gaz - Good luck upping your comment count.
@Emoticons - Hey, a little skepticism is healthy.
July 19th, 2007 at 10:25 am
I’m with you, people!
September 17th, 2007 at 4:17 am
I’m curious how those of you who have gone dofollow feel your traffic and comments increased after doing so. Is it worth the extra time spent moderating?
September 20th, 2007 at 9:47 am
@mlankton: You know, I think the (relatively small number of) people who understand dofollow feel like commenting on your site is more fruitful, as in they get rewarded for it.
But I don’t attribute any increase in traffic, comments, OR spam to implementing dofollow. Except maybe on this site.
And wonderful Askimet takes care of all the spam.
October 22nd, 2007 at 12:21 am
I have disabled the “nofollow” a long time ago, and even wrote an article about “nofollow” a while ago.
I’m a proud supporter of “Yes Follow” movement.