Comments on: I Dofollow Comments

By: Deutschland spot

Deutschland spot — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:51:14 +0000

Great article. Nice blog. Keep it coming. Mike

By: Gregor

Gregor — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:15:43 +0000

I dofollow on my blog and I haven’t noticed any appreciable increase in spam, but then my blog isn’t hugely well read.

I think if you end up on one of the dofollow spam lists then it may be too much effort to moderate though.

By: Anthony a.k.a. OldSchoolSEO

Anthony a.k.a. OldSchoolSEO — Fri, 09 May 2008 00:18:21 +0000

Congrats Elizabeth. I guess what I’d like to see is WP changing the protocol for people to have to no-follow intentionally instead of the other way around. Many people are not aware of the follow/no-follow issue until they get much deeper into blogging because they are focused on serving their audience (and rightly so).

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I’m Your (Twitter) Pusher Mom | AbleReach — Thu, 08 May 2008 01:21:55 +0000

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By: Stephan Miller

Stephan Miller — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:56:39 +0000

I guess I am a big contributer to those dofollow spam lists out there. Oops. Don’t really mean to be. I have skated over the black hat, spam line a little in the past, but am against spam. But it figures. If a tool can be used for evil, it will, no matter the good intentions.

I am actually starting to wonder if Google and other’s will start devaluing links from the comment sections of blogs. But according to their own rules, if the comment was moderated then it was a decision of the site owner to add the link and not an automated link submission.

I don’t know. I guess you take the good with the bad. I have two dofollow blogs now. Not much trouble with spam. My biggest problem comes from those comments that just sit on the line. You know someone commented three times in 5 minutes, you know they aren’t very long comments, but you can also tell that someone actually typed them.

Sometimes I don’t what to mark comments like these for spam since I use Akismet and this will cause the person issues at other blogs since the blacklist is central. So I let them through a wait. Only once did I get hit with 20 more comments from the same guy the next day. After which I marked all as spam and sent a much bigger flag to the blacklist.

It’s a battle. I can’t imagine getting as many comments as some of the big bloggers get. Crazy.