As I am not sure how it works, I am just being chickened here, doing the most drastic things trying to save my PR.

I agree the interlinking part in your comment, but that is not about dofollow or nofollow, what I agree is about the ‘socializing’ part. Commenting on sites should not be affected by whether leaving a comment would bring you link-juice or not.

More often dofollow sites receive a lot of junk comments, almost like spams, which I did experience during the period this site was dofollow.

Nofollow is the standard way in WP, so I’m just going back to the default setting, don’t think I’ve done anything wrong. Anyway, there is really no absolute right or wrong in this, just personal preference.

Thanks a lot for your comment. This is a very constructive comment, unlike many spammies.

Cheers!

I am curious about one thing however. How did you determine that it was the links in comments that was zapping your PR?

Looking at the links on this page alone, 60 of them are internal to your site and 40 of them are to external sites. Of those 40 external links, only 3 are for your commentors. It doesn’t seem logical that a few comments would hurt your PR at all — there must be some other weighing factor going on.

It seems kind of funny that you would single out comment author links as the sole culprit, while still using MyBlogLog avatars which are DoFollow back to a page at MyBlogLog. Not to mention all of the links on your side panels to useless Blog and Stat Counter sites (most of these are pointless, unrelated and a waste of valuable space).

The ‘true’ power of blogs is not in a percieved PR, but in their interlinking, especially when it comes to Trackbacks. You reference an article on another blog, and a link appears there. They reference one of yours, and they get a link here. You comment on theirs, they comment on yours.

NoFollow has demolished the interlinking of blogs in one fell stroke. No longer are they interlinked with each other, supporting each other. They are now divided and falling.

Just my two-cents.