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Why should I make use of the Nofollow Case by Case SEO Plugin ?

If you work with WordPress you normally have no possibility to decide yourself if a link should be a real link or not. All your comment links and author links are deactivated for search engines by default. But for good reasons you might want to punish only those links that really seem to be spam.

To make it easier for you the plugin comes with follow links by default. So you only have to do anything if a link doesn`t look very well for you.

Why should I use follow links within my blog?

The internet is a network giving you a possibility to vote for everything you like. In my opinion you should do that. But links are only helpful for people if you make use of real links.

On the other hand you should be very careful what you vote for. Voting with a link is a recommendation for search engines for a better rank of the page you linked to within the search engine results. If search engines recognize that you vote for a lot of spam pages you run into the risk to lose your own trust rank. That´s why you should make use of nofollow "case by case".

Do you want other Blogs to link to your website?

If you automatically flag their links like spam it will be very unattractive for other bloggers to send you a (trackback) link. If they find a better ressource they will link to that one instead of yours. So you`re out of the game.

With comment links it is still the same. Do you want to punish all your friends? Instead of that you should better make use of Nofollow Case by Case. ;-)

Why and how should I use nofollow (SEO option of Nofollow Case by Case) ?

If you find comments within your blog that obviously come from a spammer who only wanted to grab a link for better search engine results you might want to do one of the following:

• Delete this comment if it is a bad one (hardcore spam, viagra...).
• Flag it with nofollow if someone added a bad link to a good comment.
• Choose follow (do nothing) if you like the comment as well as the link.

Following these rules you will help yourself, help your friends and help the search engines being able to provide better search engine results for everyone.

Providing good content and sorting out bad links should be the best you can do for your website. Have fun!

Could I also add nofollow to trackback spam?

Oh yes. You can!

If someone links you with nofollow you can modify his trackback link and do the same for him.

Do you provide any other help for search engine optimization?

Yes, I do. I am a consultant and a developer for Marketing and SEO things. In Germany we call the last one Suchmaschinenoptimierung. If you speak a bit German you can find some more information within my own blog. There has also been a little discussion about nofollow.

Do you make use of Nofollow Case by Case yourself?

Everyday and everywhere. ;-)