Disable Threaded Comment User Hyperlink & Add Reply Button to Blogger

Disable comment thread user hyperlink
You might be noticing that one of your blogger template's threaded comment features is auto enabling Blogger profile URL with each commentator username. It's a solid anchor text which is attributed as nofollow by Blogger default template constructure. This is not a problem according to search engine optimization as they do not pass Page Rank but the problem is that it sends traffic to another pages replacing yours(when users click on that link as anchor texts do not have target="_blank" attribute) so it's a great lose of your blog business as you're losing traffic also it increases bounce rate that Google doesn't like anymore.

So here is a good news for Blogger users that they can easily disable this anchor text by making them as a normal text using a simple css code. By this tutorial we'd show you all how you can do this for your custom blogger template, it will take less than 1 minute to perform entirely.
N.B. The yellow highlighted code disable threaded comment user hyperlink, if you don't want other codes although they play to generate reply button then please avoid using those codes. Also don't add the custom Google font Oswald

How to Disable Threaded Comment User Hyperlink?

1. Go to Blogger > Template
2. Click on Edit HTML
3. Backup Your Template
4. Search for <head>
5. Now copy following code and paste right after <head> tag
<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Oswald' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'/>
6. Again search for </b:skin
7. Now copy following code and paste right before </b:skin tag
.comments .comments-content .user {
pointer-events: none;
}

.comments .continue{
cursor:pointer;
display: inline-block;
}
.comments .continue a {
    font-weight: normal;
    font-family: 'Oswald', sans-serif;
    font-size: 13px;
    color: #FF8053;
    display: block;
    padding: 5px 0px;
}
.comments .continue a:hover {
    text-decoration: underline;
}
8. Finally save your template and you're done!

How to Customize?

The widget requires too little customization only regarding some color changes, font weight, font size etc.

To Change the font family of reply button change 'Oswald', sans-serif;

To Change the font size of reply button change 13px;

To Change the font weight of reply button change normal;

Change the color of reply button #FF8053;

Need Help?

It's too simple tutorial but someone may find it helpful indeed its fixation for disabling threaded comment user hyperlink that is default generated by Blogger xml constructure which is passing traffic to commentators Google plus pages although they're all nofollow hyperlink. Also enable blogger default reply and add comment feature which only works on official blogger template but now it's enabled on your custom template using some simple css code. 

Anyway if you find tutorial helpful don't forget to share it with your preferred social networking button. Don't forget to ask question if you have any suggestion or finding any trouble. Peace and blessings fellows:

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