Have you ever dreamed to control Dofollow and NoFollow attribute on your Blogroll without having to touch the core of your WordPress blog?
Chris Guthrie actually came up with the right solution for Bloggers who wants to award their friends, sponsors or even advertisers by giving them a powerful DoFollow link from their blog homepages!
Dofollow and nofollow are actually backlinks, both ways are fine, but the difference here is that Google will not pass link juice if you are using rel=”nofollow” which you can not control without a plugins or some hard coding, and not all people like to do that.
Provide more valuable link value to your partners
So, what if you want to provide more valuable link value to your partners or advertisers?!
Away from anything, and generally specking I love to control everything, or at least have the option to control it, now with the best blogroll plugin I simply can set blogroll to dofollow when it’s shown only on the home page of my blog, and at the same time set the plugin to not pass the juice from other articles or pages that has no value or power as the main page has.
Best Blogroll Plugin for WordPress
I have received a copy of the plugin yesterday and made some test for it on one of my new blogs as I don’t like to write about something without giving a personal ride. I like the idea and I am going to use it on that particular blog to pass link juice to some of my other blogs and sites by adding links to it’s blogroll!
As Chris said on his post about the best blogroll plugin, he is not SEO expert, I am not one of those SEOs as well, but we are trying our best to optimize our sites for search engines, and because most SEO experts recommend linking from powerful pages, that was the idea of creating the best blogroll plugin!
Using DoFollow links on your home page will give more control over the value of your blogroll links and more power to blogs or site you are linking to.
Dowload the best blogroll plugin
If you have a blogroll or planning to have one, Dowload the best blogroll plugin, give it a try and tell us what you think about it, it’s actually making a lot of sense to me, but I hope that someone who knows more about SEO could give an opinion about the new plugin! Any thoughts?!
Article by Hesham Zebida
I create websites, and I develop Thesis Skins. I am a social network lover. I am also the night creature who works hard to keep this project up. Owner and founder of FamousBloggers.net.
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This is the plugin is actually really helpful and very useful for webmasters of all, sharing your blog and share our link is worth thousands of gratitude! Keep up the good work! WoW will always be part of the 10 best online game of me!
The plug ins really look effective. looking forward to use this one. thanks for sharing this post.
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June 27, 2010 at 2:56 pm
Great plug-in. Installed it on my site last week and though I was skeptical @ first, I’m now loving the concept of dofollow on home page, nofollow on other pages
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I actually like the idea and the concept of the plugin and how it works, so this is why I am using it on one of my new blogs!
Thanks Udegbunam for your feedback!
I’m all ears, but what plugin are you using for comments? I’ll look at the blogroll plugin you have recommended Hesham.
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mmmm… I hope I can help with that! I am using the “No Follow” plugin, I set it to remove the “nofollow” after 10 comments!
Thank Hesham. I use Lucia’sLinkLove and when upgrading to WP 3.0 I thought I would make sure my plugins were compatible. Lucia’sLinkLove hasn’t had an update in a very long time, so I thought it best to switch to another comment plugin that has the same toggle for number of comments before the nofollow is removed. Thanks for the recommendation.
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June 18, 2010 at 8:44 am
This is easier than activating/deactivating the dofollow plugin. Great! Hope to see more useful plugins later on.
That’s right Nasrul!
Oh! by the way, I got your email, I just didn’t have a chance to reply to you yet, I will do! also feel free buddy, it’s absolutely fine with me! and there is some awesome news on the way I want to share with you!
Email you soon!
Twitter: Ileane
June 17, 2010 at 7:54 pm
Hi Hesham, Do you know if this plugin will still be necessary with if the blogger upgrades to the new WordPress 3.0? I know they have a lot of options coming out that will eliminate the need for some plugins, but I’m not sure about this one.
Thank you!
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I know this was a question for Hesham, but I really did not feel a need for this plugin because you can already do a lot of this in your WordPress admin panel. Go play around with it.
I will talk to Matt and send a request through trac to see if we can add the field to be able to change the widget name when dragging over the widget to whatever sidebar.
I left some directions in another comment on this post on how to use the dofollow using the options WordPress already gives and how you can make multiple instances with by creating categories and selecting the link to show in that list.
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I have emailed Chris because I am not sure if it will work with WP 3.0 or not! I asked him to visit the post hopefully he will have time to do it soon!
I upgraded to Wordpress 3.0 earlier today and all of my plugins work just fine (including this one I had developed) so feel free to use it.
Thanks again for sharing with your readers Hesham
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You are welcome Chris , and thank you for stepping by and the fast respond
Twitter: Ileane
June 18, 2010 at 7:47 am
Thanks for your answers everyone.
Hesham, where does the blogroll appear on this blog? I think I’m missing it.
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I don’t have a blogroll here on FamousBloggers because if I have one then it will be a huge list
and I don’t want to have a a problem with anyone who is not on the list 
I prefer to have the sidebar links to articles not to other blogs! because I promote articles written by bloggers not the blog of the author!
Looks like a great pick and I will take a look at it.
Actually I prefer linking to people who have a little online presence because google can penalize you for linking to bad sites
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I don’t use a blog roll, but it is a handy plugin.
I’m a little confused. The blogroll was inherently do follow from the jump, when did someone change it to no follow?
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It never changed to no follow. What the plugin does is allow your Blogroll links to be do follow on the home page and no follow on every other page.
Every SEO agrees site wide links are less powerful than a single link. So this provides the benefit to the people you’re linking to and is worth asking them to install as well.
Chris Guthrie recently posted..How I got my first 1,000 subscribers
Ah OK, it just manipulates the do follow that’s already there; makes sense.
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I have deleted blogroll from my blog too, maybe it’s time get back ?
I feel this plugin really MUST HAVE. will test it at weekend.
Thank you Hesham
That sounds indeed very useful Plugin to control dofollow and nofollow since i learnt alot about “bad links” and the good useful links. I have just deleted my blog roll that i got from forum link exchange stuff because i realise those links werent relevant to my site
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Hesham,i am confused about one thing.Don’t you think that comluv plugin also pass link juice to other blogs from internal pages which are not so powerful.If you are not using this plugin and passing link juice to 3 to 4 advertisers from internal pages,then how it can be destructive.
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I don’t understand the question. This isn’t to be confused as a replacement for ComLuv. Use this in addition to it as it only applies to your blogroll links.
Chris Guthrie recently posted..How I got my first 1,000 subscribers
CommentLuv links is links in the comment section, as Chris said is has nothing to do with the blogroll plugin!
Nice tips for blogroll links, spaially want to say thanks Chris for sharing best blogroll plugin…great post.
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I received an email about this and had a discussion about it with Chris. WordPress by default allows you to specify with the XFN the rel… where you can put nofollow in with each individual link.
You can also categorize your blogroll links. If you want a different blogroll to appear on another page, you can do so. The links widget in WordPress allows for multiple instances. So you can use either the same set of links on another page template, or a different.
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I wish there was a way to rename that widget, instead of always being “blogroll”.
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I am sure that there is more than one way to do it, but the thing is not all people knows how! so.. some bloggers will find this plugin ideal especially if they don’t have enough time or knowledge!
Thanks you for the awesome addition!
Looks cool. I am not an SEO expert either, so waiting to read some more experienced thoughts..
Nabeel
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Away from anything, and generally specking (speaking) I love to control everything,
Twitter: MurrayLunn
June 16, 2010 at 10:16 pm
I don’t use a blogroll currently but it does look like a great plugin.
That’s a concern I hear from a lot of people, if you’re placing a blogroll in the sidebar that shows up on each page, you could be leaking quite a bit of PR.
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That’s right Murlu, and this plugin will give you control over the leak
Twitter: element321
June 16, 2010 at 11:22 pm
Murlu,
Thats was also my concern, having a large blog roll can also be ugly as well. I thought about setting it up a blog roll as page so the blog roll is only seen when the visitor clicks on the link.
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June 16, 2010 at 8:17 pm
The plugin looks good. I do not have a blog roll yet. But I am about to start one. Over the install and the setup was easy. I will have to test out once I get a blog roll setup.
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The plugin is actually working good, it does exactly what it’s created for! enjoy
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