LAST EDITED ON Feb-26-11 AT 02:05 PM (PST)
 
>If that's the way comment spamming software works seems like
>it's a very valid idea. Would this work for links in the
>sidebar to high authority sites? Worth a try.

Hey Sandra....

It's really the only way for a program to check for nofollow, since there isn't a "follow" tag.

In theory, the program could try to isolate the nofollow to just comment tags, but I doubt 99% of them are than sophisticated.

What I'd do is put at least one nofollow link in the footer of each page. Since it's a good idea to use nofollow for TOS and privacy pages, this could kill two birds with one stone.