Best Blogroll Free Plugin – DoFollow Done Right
Best Blogroll is a WordPress plugin designed to share link juice to your blogroll partners more efficiently. I'm not a professional SEO, but most SEO's agree that Google provides less value to site wide links than to a single do follow link. So I came up with an idea for a WordPress plugin to help remedy this issue and I'm releasing it for free here.
Best Blogroll Explained:
The default plugin setting is how the WordPress blogroll currently works. Every link is followed and most SEO's agree these links are discounted by Google. The recommended option is to use Best Blogroll so that the rel="nofollow" tag is on blogroll links for every page of the blog except the home page. This allows you to pass link juice from only the home page like I've shown below (recommended). There is another option that allows you to set the no follow tag to apply to all blogroll links on every page so that you don't pass out any link juice via your blogroll links (greedy).
FYI: Using the no follow tag in a link means Google doesn't pass any value "link juice" for the link
Free Download:
This plugin is available for free here simply right click and save as: Best Blogroll Plugin Download
Install Instructions:
1. Download the plugin file and upload it to your plugins directory within WordPress
2. Activate the plugin
3. Adjust the settings via the Links > NoFollow Settings section within your WordPress admin panel
Update 7/28/2010: Yes this does work with WordPress 3.0
Support:
I mentioned above that I came up with the idea of this plugin, but I am not a coder so I commissioned my good friends over at Website Design to create this for me. They've also graciously offered to provide a support forum should you find any bugs. I've already personally tested this on several of my own blogs without issue so I doubt you'll have any problems.
Free WordPress Themes:
I'd also like to take this time to mention the 3 free WordPress themes you can download as well. These are available for free as a bonus for signing up for my newsletter:
Wrap Up:
I suggest you install this on your blog and share it with other bloggers that already link to you from a blogroll - that way you offer higher value links from your blog and receive higher value links from the blogs already linking to you! In any case, what do you think of "my" first WordPress plugin? If you found this plugin helpful feel free to retweet this article or link to this post on your blog. Enjoy!
Tagged: Best Blogroll, SEO, Wordpress Plugins
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Thanks Chris! This plugin looks great. Always appreciate new free tools to help us make money online.
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This is really a great plugin, it helps get rid of those annoying wordpress.com links.
Thanks a lot for sharing,
-Onibalusi
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Thank sfor shring this.
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Very interesting plug-in, will probably write about it for tomorrow.
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
June 18th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
Thanks Justin – yah my hope is that people that link to me would use it so I get a more powerful link and if everyone else starts to use it hopefully it will spread.
I can confirm it does work with WordPress 3.0 as well.
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I’ll give the plug-in a try though I’m quite skeptical as to it’s safety as it’s not in the wordpress repository.
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
June 21st, 2010 at 9:26 am
I’m going to add it later, I just wanted to get feedback etc. by releasing it here first.
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So I’ve installed it and it’s working just fine though I would have liked the option to dofollow some links and nofollow others.
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
June 21st, 2010 at 9:27 am
I thought of that, but if you really want to no follow someone on your blog roll and not others I think you should just remove the person that you want to no follow anyway. I think it would have required too much coding to bother doing this.
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Udegbunam Chukwudi Reply:
June 22nd, 2010 at 8:53 am
I guess you’re right. Why add a link to a blogroll if you’ll only end up nofollowing it? Thanks again
P.S: Do please install the subscribe to comments plugin. Gracias
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
June 22nd, 2010 at 11:29 am
Which one do you recommend?
Nice Chris. Good info about no follow.
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Thanks Chris, this is really what i am looking for. I am gonna try it ASAP!
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Till date msot bloggers use : http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/subscribe-to-comments/
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
June 23rd, 2010 at 12:02 pm
Ok thanks for the link!
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
June 23rd, 2010 at 4:25 pm
Also perhaps you might want to try it out?
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Thanks, this is awesome! I like using DoFollow and this will be a great addition. I was wanting to do a better blogroll
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I see you’ve finally installed it. I just subscribed to this post. Let’s see if email notifications of followup comments land in my inbox.
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
June 24th, 2010 at 3:10 pm
Testing a response to see if you get the email
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Udegbunam Chukwudi | Make Money Online Reply:
June 24th, 2010 at 3:22 pm
It works just fine. One more important thing Chris.
You need to uncheck the Join my newsletter to get a free eBook, 3 WordPress themes and exclusive tips by default.
Right now, by default, it’s checked and whenever I forget to uncheck it when commenting, it leads to my getting emails from you asking me to confirm my subscription.
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Chris Guthrie Reply:
June 25th, 2010 at 12:55 am
Fixed it. Good call
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