The Ethics of Blogging
Did I miss something? Now I know what you’re going to say. A lot of you probably think it’s unethical to write blog posts and get paid for it. Well, since that’s not the only posts on this site, you don’t have to read those if you don’t want to. But how about charging someone just to get the “no follow” tag removed from your link in the comments? That is the topic of this post. There is actually someone out there who is willing to charge you $10 to have the “no follow” tag removed from your link in your comment on his blog. I removed the “no follow” tag using a plugin about a week ago. Now I was unaware that the “no follow” tag was even in use, so as soon as I found out about it and the plugin, I immediately put it up. There was no way I wasn’t going to allow my readers who take the time to comment on this blog to NOT get a link back to their sites! Everyone who comments on a blog deserves to have their sites known by Google, etc, which is what the “no follow” tag prevents. If there is a “no follow” tag on a link, Google won’t count that link because it doesn’t see it. (At least that is my understanding of the situation, please, correct me if I’m wrong.) There are other search engines that also do not “see” a link that has a “no follow” tag.
So, knowing that the way to have a popular site is to network, make your site seen by commenting on other blogs, AND to get Google and other search engines to index it and count the links back to your site, do you agree that it’s wrong to charge for “no follow” removal? Or do you think it’s perfectly fine and plan on trying it yourself?
