WordPress Expire Comment Links Plugin
Expire Comment Links Info
- Latest Version: 0.1.2
- Downloads: 244
- Last Updated: 106 days ago
- Requires WordPress Version: 2.8+
- Tested compatible up to: 2.9.1
- Requires PHP5: Learn more
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Joost de Valk wrote an article called Comment links: an experiment, and the idea was inspiring. It all started when Matt Cutts talked about how Google changed how it handles no follow links in his article on PageRank Sculpting. The simplified summary is that your PageRank “points” used to be divided by the number of “follow” links, and that number of points was sent to each page that was linked without the nofollow tag. So if you had 100 points and 10 links, 5 of which were set to “nofollow”, each of the 5 pages you linked to normally would get 20 points (100/5=20). Now your PageRank “points” are divided by the total number of links, and that number of points gets sent to each page that was linked without the nofollow tag. So if you had 100 points and 10 links, 5 of which were set to “nofollow”, each of the 5 pages you linked to normally would now only get 10 points (100/10=10) instead of the 20 they would have gotten before.
Since your site inevitably links to itself quite often, it would be nice to have less pagerank loss, but how? Joost proposed an experiment where he would remove all links from comments over two months old. Since many of his posts have 50-150 comments and some have nearly 300, and since each comment has at least one link (to the comment author), the theory is that this will lessen the number of links that your PageRank points are divided by.
This WordPress plugin automates the process for you! Simply install the plugin and activate it. By default it will remove links from comments over two months old, but you can adjust that from the settings page.
Requires PHP5.
FAQ
Will this help me rank better in search engines like Google?
Maybe. The truth is, we don't know yet. Joost is an exceptionally tallented Search Engine Optimation expert, but this method is currently an unproven experiment.
Changelog
0.1.2
- Move actions to __construct
- Fix sysinfo error
0.1.1
- Removed the optional anonymous statistics collection. Nothing is ever collected anymore.
0.1.0
- First version released to wordpress.org
- Added mechanism to give additional info on future updates via the plugin page
0.0.3
- Don't run make_clickable on old comments just to undo it later
0.0.2
- Add the setting link to the plugin row
- Optimize the regular expression
0.0.1
- Original Version
