You’re talking about several different unrelated things in this thread, so we really need to know just what you’re talking about before we can answer appropriately. Try and explain what you know, slowly.
I need to use links in my blog entries. The links I put in seem to be working fine to me, but I’m being told again and again that they are “no follow tags”.
Who is telling you this? Why are they telling you this? What is the significance of “nofollow” as you understand it?
The short of it is that if you’re just listening to what other random people say, then they probably don’t know what they’re talking about either. It’s the problem of the blind leading the blind.
In fact, “nofollow” has several different meanings, depending on what, exactly, you’re talking about. So we need to understand the context you’re using before we can give you sound advice and help you to understand.
However, to help, I’ll give you a bit of a factual point in the right direction:
a) The privacy settings page does enable/disable a nofollow setting, however it’s a different one than your first post was describing (“nofollow” as it relates to links).
b) Yes, all links put in comments are generally “nofollow” type links. This prevents search engines from following those links and giving page rank due to them. WordPress does NOT make your blog links into “nofollow” links by default. Only comments links. This discourages (but does not prevent) spam.
c) When it comes to links, “nofollow” has zero meaning other than to search engines. If you’re not a search engine, you’d never ever notice any difference.
WordPress uses nofollow links correctly. There is no real reason that you would want to change this, unless you really understand what it means from a search engine optimization perspective. Modifying the default nofollow behavior might hurt your own page rankings, so it’s not a thing to do lightly and without understanding.
