Remove Nofollow Attribute from Your Template – Blog Comment Series Part 01
Introduction
Blogger by default automatically adds the “nofollow” attribute to all links from user generated content included comments, linkbacks, and trackbacks. This tag was originally created to prevent search engines from indexing links in order to reduce spam. When you remove the “nofollow” tag, this will then provide “link juice” back to the people who comment on your blog. While this will likely increase spam comments, you should also make sure that the template Comments section of Blogger is setup to prevent people from leaving comments without entering the CAPTCHA.
How to remove the “nofollow” attribute
First, you need to login to your Blogger dashboard. Then navigate to Layout -> Page Elements -> Edit HTML. Press Ctrl+F to find the “nofollow” tag in the template file, and then simply remove it. Please make sure that the checkbox “Expand Widget Templates” is checked. There should be two instances of this tag in total, the first is in the backlinks section and the second is in the comments section.
Here is the position of the first instance of nofollow attribute in backlinks section
And here is the position of the second instance of nofollow attribute in comments section
Let your readers know about it
When the “nofollow” tag is removed, you should post an entry on your blog to let your readers know about it. You can also put the “u comment i follow” badge in your blog sidebar to let readers know that their links will be followed. The best method is combine both of the techniques above 
What should commentators do?
When you post a comment while logged in to your Blogger/Google account, you will generate a link to your author profile, rather than your actual blog URL. Linking to your Profile page on a DoFollow blog is totally worthless.
When commenting at a Blogspot blog, choose the option for Name/URL on the drop down box “Select profile”. This will allow you to enter your Name (or name of your blog) and the Url to the blog itself.
I’m using WordPress, not Blogger
If you’re a WordPress’s user, you’re lucky. There is a plugin called “Nofollow free“, just install this wordpress plugin and it will do the rest for you.
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Good article. I like how you set the good and the bad and how to deal with the bad.
What is odd is the fact that when I run this site using Searchcast. It shows every single comment link here as “nofollow”…hmmm
Seriously dude.. thanx.. I like to remove the intensedebate since the comment system is better now for Blogger. Now with this trick I am sure many people will drop comments in my blog.
great info here.. thanks for the tips
yah, but removing nofollow tag forbidden by google guidelines, n i think your blog nofollow too.
Great article, very helpful to those using the blogger system. Will be including a link in my next post on this. Cheers! It’s nofollow free too.
Thanks for the tip, very useful indeed. It is one of most important things that every blogger should do to reward active visitors on his blog.
Yeah..It ‘s very simple making your blogger blog a dofollow by just editing small part in HTML that’s what nhc have told us in a simple way
Thats a nice tutorial i was looking for.
Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for sharing this article Atniz.
This really proves that commenting is what keeps the blogs alive and the posts in them vibrant. Without comments, it would become so boring for the writers too.
Very important post. I noticed our comments on your blog are not passing link juice.
I will address this in my series posts
Stay tuned!
great info guys….thank for your information
Good tip on adding the captcha once you remove the nofollow attribute. This will definitely increase the comments, but help keep spam down.
@tonyknuckles: I hate being spam! Top Commentators is my choice to rewards commentators.
I will address this issue in my series
I’ve made my blog to dofollow too. My rss readers and traffic increase ever since. There are so many hungry SEO experts are looking for dofollow blogs and if we can get listed our blog in their directory, I’m sure our Akismet plugin will need to work more.
but , this blog is now also nofollow – why ?
Will making our blog ‘dofollow’ will effect our rankings ????
Making a blog ‘dofollow’,does affect your PR a bit,as each page has more links.But,I have seen several sites,having a good PR even after making their blog ‘dofollow’
Hey Really thanks for such a usefull article, it really helped me a lot ,plz keep updating ur blog as im regular visitor of ur site.
Thanks for the tip, very good!
Pretty informative post, you have provided very nice tips to manage the wordpress comments. kindly keep on sharing such informative stuff.
The very best. It’s exactly what I’ve been looking for. I am completely blown away.
I agree, removing the nofollow will definately get you the traffic you want, however the level in quality of each post is sure to go down hill..
A better option would be is to have top commentators widget or comment luv…Can get more quality traffic you wish.
thank you sharing this tips, I already find articles that explain how to remove the nofollow attribute on blogspot and this article very helped me
Thats an excellent article.. I never thought we can ever remove no-follow attribute from blogger. But the above mentioned way is really very simple even for a layman. But I have a question. Does giving link benefit to other people harms the blog owner or not? If its not, why all websites and blogs are not do-follow?
Great information .I’m still newbie in SEO so this post is helpful.Great post.I’ll keep follow this blog .Thanks:)
I like the u comment i follow thing
Making dofollow of blog give a huge number of traffic.
This is a useful tip for basic SEO. But my question is that, is there any shortcut to find “dofollow” sites? Cos, i guess google considers only “dofollow” links as backlinks. Correct me if I am wrong.
Thanks I never Knew this was possible, easy to fix Thanks!
Nice usefull article dude, it really helped me a lot ,plz keep updating ur blog as im regular visitor of ur site.
Thanks In Advance !!
Removing no follow will generate more traffic to your website. Its easy to generate backlinks for deep link URL.