The history begins when blogging activity become more famous. Spammers not only targeting emails but also blogs as well. They spam comments with links to promote products and services mostly pornographic and gambling materials.

Uncle Google was one of the first internet stakeholders who implement no follow tag to combat spamming. WordPress also adopted this policy in their commenting scripts, trying to block malicious URLs.

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However, no follow policy also means URLs in the comment area are ignored by search engines. Google is not indexing those commentators’ links and also not affecting blog pagerank. This policy expected to decrease the spammer’s comments and made blogosphere a better world.

The next question, is this working? Unfortunately, NOT. The numbers of spam comments continue to grow. Spammers doesn’t give a damned whether a blog is a do follow or a not follow.

And here we go. Now there is a growing movement to kill remove the “no follow” tag from the comments. Many bloggers from around the world begin to turn of their no follow policy. By advertising your blog as a “DO follow” blog, you are also at the same time encouraging others to comment.

The movement continues to grow; bloggers is getting aware of the benefit of this new wave. How about you? Yes, YOU!

Do Follow Comments to make a better world! :)

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More about the movement here and here