Lucia’s Linky Love WordPress plug-in<\/a> takes care of this problem. You install the plugin and then configure how many times a user needs to comment to have Linky Love turn on a dofollow tag in the comments and enable dofollow in any links they post.<\/p>\nThis is an excellent tool to encourage regular visitors to comment and for them to get something back in return for commenting as well as removing spam comments and posters.<\/p>\n
I have enabled Lucia’s Linky Love on my blog, so I invite you to be a regular participant and receive link love as a reward!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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