Among the two popular commenting system Intense Debate was there, with millions of users. Intense Debate comments basically looks good with cool features and plugins. However, there is a little drawback in the commenting system and that is lack of nofollow option. Since spammers take advantage of dofollow comments blog for a link back, why do we need to give a backlink for a spammer? Literally you shouldn’t allow that. So, here is a little tweak to make both the avatar link and the link that comes inside the comment box nofollow.
To disable nofollow links, I am using the script made by Thaya Kareeson using his jQuery code to add nofollow to external links. Download this javascript and upload this on your own server. If you dont have your own server, you can use my link.
<script src='https://sites.google.com/site/bloggermint/nofollow.js' type='text/javascript'/>
For WordPress – Go to footer.php and paste the code before </body> and save it
For Blogger – Go to Edit Html and paste the code before </body> at the end of the template and save it.
If you have any question, drop in your comments
I think this is Good Script for Intense Debate users!! i was using ID long time back but now using default comment system!
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Intense debate is good for blogger users, since the default comment system isn’t that good.
Nice tip to use nofollow on the comment links. Now, what’s the other popular comment system other than Intense Debate?
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i’ve just done everything you said but it doesn’t work
Can I have the your URL?
Thanks for the trick. I was using another addon for this, but this one is better. My blog also has Commentluv enable.
i try and it’s work…thanks….
Nice tip to use nofollow on the comment links
I have installed this and it does not seem to work. I should be able to see the “rel=”nofollow” appearing on the links of the intense debate commenter’s profiles, right?
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hey, I have an issue hope you can help
I am using a custom template for wordpress and thus do not have any commenting system already existing. I installed intense debate and the action was successful but I cannot see the commenting box below my posts. Can you please help me with this?
Would appreciate a quick turnaround.
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Hi Franklin. I used the code and it does not seem to be working. I’m using a comment form by Intense Debate for my blog on Blogspot. I’ve enabled Comment Luv and my site has been leaking page rank to all those who left comments. I hope you can help. Thanks!
Hey Franklin its not working done every thing correctly
not working too
Thanks for the trick. I was using another addon for this, but this one is better. My blog also has Commentluv enable……
Yup not working please help how to overcome this problem.
For what? Since the entire comment system is loaded in js, makes no difference the rel in links… =P