can my host un”nofollow” me? I’m on .com….

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  kavips · Member · Jan 9, 2009 at 4:30 am

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  Am I stuck with ref= nofollow since I post on WordPress.com? I download the plugin before realizing I was “x’d” out… Is there anyway individual posts can opt out from the “nofollow” tag if they are using your .com service as host?

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 9, 2009 at 4:42 am

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  Nofollow is only set here at wordpress.COM if you choose either the second or third selection under settings > privacy.

  I do believe that wordpress.COM sets “nofollow” on links put into the body of comments if I remember right, but that is actually a good thing from a search engine optimization standpoint as it keeps the search engine on your blog rather than sending it off to the link in the comment.

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 9, 2009 at 4:43 am

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  This is the robots.txt file for the blog linked to your username. There is no “nofollow” in it.

  Sitemap: http://kavips.wordpress.com/sitemap.xml

  User-agent: IRLbot
  Crawl-delay: 3600

  User-agent: *
  Disallow: /next/

  User-agent: *
  Disallow:

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jan 9, 2009 at 4:46 am

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  This is the robots.txt file from one of my test blogs that is set to private.

  User-agent: *
  Disallow: /