As repeated request had been made to disqus people to fix this no follow issue. This issue has been inviting spammers of all kind to the websites installed with disqus commenting system.
I finally took the things to my hand and prepared a mod for the popular Wordpress DISQUS Comment System Plugin. I just added a rel=”nofollow” attribute to all the links I could find within the plugin files so that no link juice can escape.
With SEO getting tougher and tougher as more people learn about it, It is not good for your Google Standing aka. page rank to spill all your link juice through comments.
I am forced to launch the mod due to non-responsiveness of the disqus team. It seems like disqus is more interested in getting the link juice from the sites that have installed the plugin and it is not concerned about spam and related issues.
I have submitted the request to include this Modified plugin to wordpress.org here untile it get approved from wordpress you can do following
- Open the Plugin files with your favorite editor like notepad or wordpad or what have you…
- Find the string “href”
- add “rel=nofollow” before that or after that in the <a …. > tag before the > character
- repeat untill all links are no follow
- Do this with all the files in DISQUS folder
To save you the trouble, I have saved a copy of disqus-nofollow plugin used by me on this blog. click here to download it.
I normally use DO NO FOLLOW FireFox Extension to check the do follow or no follow nature of links on a page. it is very convenient and quick way to check any web page.
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Hey there. First, thanks for the hard work you've put into this.
I'd like to address a couple things though. We're not very interested in any SEO benefits from the plugin. We don't get any, anyway. Where the no-follow is applicable is in the links within the comment text.
No-follow has been added to our newest plugin and we're still working on releasing that soon. Thanks for the push though.
Best,
Daniel
I actually went and did that myself too (so I'm running my own hacked version of the DISQUS plugin). Question for you though. I also use another solution of just using jQuery to go and modify all DISQUS links to be nofollow on the client side. Do you know if search engines like Google run javascript prior to indexing the page?
IMHO google executes jsQuery and then indexes the page.
Here is an interesting debate related to you question
http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/new-reality-google-fo...
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