All blogger templates are designed to add nofollow attributes to all links used in comments section. Adding a Nofollow tag will prevent search engine spiders from following those links. Initially this Nofollow attributes was implemented to prevent spammers from spamming your comments section. But if you want to get more comments on your blogger blog and encourage your readers to participate in your on going discussions, you must make your blogger blog’s comment section Dofollow. Know that by making your blog’s comment section Dofollow, you are authorizing spiders to follow all links from the comments section. This will work as a linkback to those links from your blog, but you will get more and more commentators to comment on your blog posts. Having many comments on a blogs shows it’s activeness and also encourage new readers to add their valuable comments.
How to Make Blogger Comments Section DoFollow :
We have to edit blog template to make your blog Dofollow. But before proceeding, I would suggest you to make a backup of your blogger blog. You may need that later, if anything goes wrong!
- Login to Blogger Dashboard.
- Navigate to Layout >> Edit HTML >> Expand Widgets Template
- Search for the following code in your template.
- You can see a code in red and bold font there. It’s rel=’nofollow’ and this piece of code adds Nofollow attributes to your blog. Delete this code from your template.
- Click on Save to save the changes.
- You are done.
<dl id=’comments-block’>
<b:loop values=’data:post.comments’var=’comment’>
<dt class=’comment-author’expr:id=’”comment-” + data:comment.id’>
<a expr:name=’”comment-” +data:comment.id’/>
<b:if cond=’data:comment.authorUrl’>
<a expr:href=’data:comment.authorUrl’ rel=’nofollow’><data:comment.author/></a>
<b:else/>
<data:comment.author/>
</b:if>
<data:commentPostedByMsg/>
</dt>
Now you have made your blogger blog’s comment section Dofollow and it’s time to let the whole word know about it. Follow the below steps to mention about this on your blog’s sidebar.
- Login to your Blogger Dashboard.
- Navigate to Layout >> Page Elements >> Add a Gadget >> HTML/JavaScript
- Write the following lines in that widget box.
- Now Save changes to that widget and place in the bottom of your sidebar.
- You are Done.
All Comments on this blog are DoFollow.
All Comments are Moderated.
Spamming won’t be Tolerated.
That’s it. Now you have successfully removed Nofollow tag from blogger blog and made it Dofollow. Many people think that making a blog’s comment section Dofollow will harm their PR and SERP issues, but there are DoFollow blogs with a PR more than 6 and stands well as far as SERP is concerned. So, this is a wise idea to gather more comments on your blogger blog by making it DoFollow.
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Can u also come with a wordpress similar tutorial ?
Thanks for this one too !
Cheers !
@ S.Pradeep : I will post about making wordpress comments section DoFollow shortly
thanks for advise..
very good tutorial ; nice post ; and all of your blog posts is so nice and informative . thanx for a nice blog
Hi can you say how i can delete all comments of blog post in blogger with just one click instead of deleting the comment one by one by clicking the trash icon
Have you tried to do that lately on blogger? I did it 8/15/2009 and my comment links all come out nofollow. Even after following your directions.
Please update us.
I think there’s a wordpress plugin, dofollow plugin which automatically makes it dofollow
I am sure Bapun will come up with that as well soon. Thanks a ton for this trick, it worked out perfectly 
@ Shakil : Yes, there are few WordPress plugins to make DoFollow links. I will post about them soon
Thanks for the tutorial But instead just find all NoFollow tags and remove them if someone is having trouble finding the above code
Thx bro.. Just implement it
now my blog is DoFollow 
Thanks. It really helps.
Nice article, I have done this in my blog.
May I ask, is there any way to change allowed tags in comments box?
(In wordpress I know there is, so I ask for blogger).
Some wordpress blogs allow: object, embed, and img tags in comment box so you can embed a youtube video as a comment!
What about blogger?
Thanks.
Greekbox, There may be a way to change allowed tags in comment box but probably not. However, Blogger is constantly working on adding new features, in part because of the competition with WordPress. So keep watching google/blogger.
In response to my other question above about nofollow on Blogger (poster Matt), I found that it is currently possible to set the Name in the comment to dofollow, but it is currently not possible to set links inside of a comment to dofollow in blogger. See exactly how: How to Set Blogger to Dofollow
thanks your input was really helpful
Hey you have answered my query really well thank
This is called comment luv in WordPress you can Also use it in Blogger.I would Close your comments on this Post if I were you
Thanks for the guide pal..
Funny how your comments on here aren’t follow, but thank you for the advice anyhow, I was just posting to find out how to do this.
Much appreciated
I tried this and it worked, but i prefer adding intense debate comment form.
Hi you all and dear this blog author,
I suggest you all my friend to don’t turn you blog to Do Follow blog. If you are asking why? ok. here is the answer:
http://hacktutors.blogspot.com/2009/11/warning-do-not-turn-your-blog-to.html
Thank you!
Currently, I am beginning a company blog. Do you think there is any special considerations for a company blog that does not relate to personal blogs? I really want to dofollow, but I am not sure. I can always test and see how it goes.
@ Sean : If you are developing a company blog, you may like to implement DoFollow links. Since you are not building a tech or similar blog with an aim to compete in search engine ranking points (SERP), making it DoFollow will add more value to it.
Sean, With your company blog, the consideration is the same as for the personal blogs. If you are willing and able to moderate comments and make sure that all links out are to solid “neighborhoods” as per google (no poker, pron, link farms), you will be fine allowing outgoing links to be dofollow.
Trust me, you will get a lot more interest in commenting in your blog, and hopefully more readers too
If however, you are unable to moderate your comments, you would be best advised to go with the nofollow links. This simply tells google that you can not vouch for the quality of your outgoing links.
You will not be penalized for any kind of link by google in this case and your search ranking in google will not suffer no matter what links you have if they are all nofollow.
Its really great attribute. I will apply it on my blog. Thanks for sharing.
thanks….I didn’t understand previously what actually is no follow.
Now I got it.