Rel=nofollow on links in my blogs?

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  ourtop10 · Member · Dec 21, 2008 at 12:40 am

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  I noticed that WordPress automatically puts REL=NOFOLLOW on all the links I put on my newly created blogs.

  How can I get rid of it? I gave up finding it in the WP-Admin.

  Please help!

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  ourtop10 · Member · Dec 21, 2008 at 12:42 am

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  my blog by the way:

  http://ourtop10.wordpress.com/2008/12/21/hotels-in-ghana/

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  vicdigi · Member · Dec 21, 2008 at 12:50 am

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  Hi, I believe you need to go to Settings and then click on Privacy.
  Hope that works.

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  ourtop10 · Member · Dec 21, 2008 at 12:55 am

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  hey, thanks for your comment.

  Im afraid that’s only for your Blog’s visibility, not for outgoing links to other websites. Settings > Privacy is only about getting your site into the index of Google.

  Do you have another idea?

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  timethief · Member · Dec 21, 2008 at 12:59 am

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  @ourtop10
  What is your aim please?
  Are you attempting to create “do-follow” links for those who make comments on your blog posts? If so this can be done with a plugin on self hosted software from wordpress.org. However, we do not have plugins on wordpress.com blogs and we cannot upload any because we are all working on a multi-user blogging platform at wordpress.com http://faq.wordpress.com/2005/10/27/can-i-upload-my-own-plugins/

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  ourtop10 · Member · Dec 21, 2008 at 1:03 am

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  i saw i made a mistake. im so sorry.

  my links that i copied in HTML were nofollow from the source. my bad! i just edited HTML now

  resolved

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  timethief · Member · Dec 21, 2008 at 1:04 am

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  Cool … happy blogging :)

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  vicdigi · Member · Dec 21, 2008 at 1:05 am

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  Tut tut. Well done. We all learn the hard way. These are all good valuable lessons :-)