Get rewarded for comments with do-follow

April 22nd, 2007 | Category: blog, wordpress

I just read David Airey’s post about eliminating “no-follow” tags from comment links and I’ve decided to give it a try. To explain further, a “no-follow” link means that when you leave your web address on a blog comment, it does not reward your site with a reciprocal link back. Search engines such as Google do not give credit to “no-follow” links when tabulating page rank for search results. Links into your site are a very valuable and the more you have, the easier it will be for people to find you in a search engine. For more information, check out 13 Reasons Why NoFollow Tags Suck.

Here’s the bottom line, I will reward comments buy giving a full, bona fide link to anyone who desires to comment here. I encourage and welcome all comments (that aren’t spam) since they add such a rich dimension to the discussion. So comment to your heart’s content and express your opinion!

If you would like to try the do-follow plugin for WordPress right click this link, and save as a file to your desktop. Upload it to your plugins directory and activate the plugin. It’s that easy.

Enjoy your valuable links you’ll receive in return for commenting and thanks again to David!

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frankp 2 years ago 1 point
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Won't you wonder if people are just self promoting rather than joining in discussion with you?

I'm not so sure about the push to dofollow just yet...

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David Airey :: Creative Design 2 years ago 1 point
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You're very welcome, James.

I can see where Frank is coming from with his reluctance, but in my view the benefits far outweigh whatever negatives there might be.

It's great that you've joined the no nofollow community. I hope that you too find an increase in constructive comments.

http://www.davidairey.com/

James Britton 2 years ago 1 point
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Frank,

I see your point as well, especially regarding the "great post" style comments. Perhaps I will have some kind of filter to prevent "lame" comments, but until it becomes a problem, I think "the benefits far outweigh whatever negatives there might be" as David put it.

The do-follow plugin seems to be working great so far considering I've had 2 comments on this post, it's Sunday, and North America isn't even out of bed yet. We'll see how it goes. :)

Thank you both for your feedback.

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Deborah 2 years ago 1 point
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I saw your post on David Airy's site that you've joined the Do Follow movement, and I see that you're using it.

I recently wrote a post on the DO Follow movement in attempt to encourage others to follow suit.

I’ve added your blog to the list of Bloggers using DO Follow with link to your home page here:

http://www.fastlanetransport.ca/blog/i-will-fol...

The post for this is also on my blogroll so it doesn’t get buried in the archives.

Cheers!

http://www.fastlanetransport.ca/blog/

James Britton 2 years ago 1 point
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Thanks a million for linking to me!

I haven't seen a huge increase in comments since adding the DO follow plugin but it definitely has helped. I also haven't had a problem with comment spam, Akismet is taking care of 99% of that for me.

Hope to see you around again soon...

James

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Keiron 2 years ago 1 point
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I had the same concern about "great post" type comments. Either way I think only 3 people read my blog (me at home, me at work, me on my mobile phone! lol), so it probably won't be a problem!

I have however used the wordpress plugin to only make then "followable" (is that a word?) after 24 hours, allowing me to cut out any dross that gets added! Fortunately Akismet does a reasonable job of that!

http://www.skillett.com

Cade @ Write To Right 2 years ago 1 point
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I think that this is an amazing concept. I have seen so many benefits. Since you have started Do-Follow what have you felt about it so far? Have you seen many beneifts? I know some people are concerned about how many links they give out, but I have seen that if you spent enough time out in the blog world communicating then it won't matter.

http://writetoright.com

James Britton 2 years ago 1 point
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I haven't seen major benefits and my spam filters are still doing a great job. At this point, I can't see any reason to reinstate no-follow links.

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Keiron 2 years ago 1 point
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I'd agree - I think Akismet has only missed one item of spam and got now false positives and to date it has caught 400+ spam comments!

http://www.skillett.com

Guitar Hero 3 Preview 1 year ago 1 point
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I like the do follow plugin. It allows people to get easy links and you get more comments. Its a win win for everyone. On my blog I always make sure they give a little effort for the link. Whether the perosn is commenting for a link or not comments like "great post" are taken care of. If you want a link I make you type a little for it.

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Idetrorce 1 year ago 1 point
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very interesting, but I don't agree with you
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