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Anyone Else Here On D-List?

Posted by karenlim • 6/11/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: backlinks, blogging, comments, d-list, nofollow, pr rank, technorati, technorati authority, traffic

Hey Folks,

I just tuned my blog to disable "nofollow" and was wondering who blog here also have made this change

Hugs,
Karen

secretofunlimitedprosperity.com/60/annoucements-we-are-d-list-complaint/

User Comments

6/12/07

jphillips

smartwealthyrich.com/rewarding-bloggers-dofollow/

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6/12/07

gabotron

Yeah, I joined a couple of days ago.

Project Afterlight supports the No Nofollow, I Follow, DoFollow movement.
afterlight.110mb.com/

Fight Spam. Not Blogs

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1. 6/12/07
  
  karenlim
  
  Wow Gab, I didn't know you spent so much time perfecting your project! You are really awesome keep it up. If you need a dose of encouragement, remember my blog
2. 6/12/07
  
  gabotron
  
  Thanks for your kind words Karen.
  
  I will visit your blog regularly. I just read a useful article there yesterday.
6/12/07

karenlim

Wow, this is exciting

Anyone else?

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6/12/07

mrsnesbitt

Can you explain karen? Above my head chuck.
D

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1. 6/12/07
  
  karenlim
  
  heh heh no problem. Detail explanations can be found on jphilips link above.
  
  In my simple words, basically we did something to our wordpress self published blogs which disables some codes. It allows us to credit a backlink to readers who leave a comment with an address to their blog/site. It helps them in their technorati authority, PR ranking, etc.
  
  But I'm not sure if you can do it on blogspot
2. 6/12/07
  
  dharmagypsy7
  
  You can I think Andy Beards has a blog post about it. He was really helpful when I was trying to join his community on Bumpzee..
6/12/07

anujseth

I have disabled nofollow on my blog --> OnlinePresence.BlogSailor.com/

Err...there is a community on BumpZee on just this. It has over 200 blogs registered --> www.bumpzee.com/no-nofollow/

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6/12/07

karenlim

Hey anujseth,

Thanks for the heads up, heading over to take a look

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6/12/07

jerrydrussell

All of my blogs use dofollow, It means wathcing the blog spam a lot more carefully, but it rewards people who take the time to comment, so I'm all for it

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6/12/07

karenlim

Hey Jerry,

Glad to know you Yap, put in place 2 spam filters. So far so good for me .

Cheers
Karen

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6/12/07

iluvmonkeys2

yep, all four of mine now support dofollow and i just joined the community at bumpzee!

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1. 6/12/07
  
  dharmagypsy7
  
  Welcome Lisa!
6/12/07

Jaya

Oh, yes, my blog has also switched to DOfollow.

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6/12/07

BlogCompetition

wampago.com/2007/05/02/i-follow-do-follow-not-nofollow/

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6/12/07

Lainey

I made the change in the April. No increase in spam either.

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6/12/07

WengOnline

I have turned follow on for about 2 months now.

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6/12/07

cymrusteve

I'm on D-List too (even though I had no idea what D-List until I just read this thread!):

www.cymru66.com/wordpress/rewarding-readers-with-the-wordpress-dofollow-plu...

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6/12/07

shawnplep

Yep my blog diydollars.com is on the ol' D-List.

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6/12/07

karenlim

Yeah, more in the family. Do you guys get an increase in reader comments after you join D-list?

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6/12/07

dharmagypsy7

Jolly Green Girl is (I think; it might have gotten screwed up when I changed my template) and will be (got the plugin for wordpress) when I move to my new host.

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6/12/07

Enlight

I just turned off the no follow on my blogs.
clearlyenlight.net
clearlyenlight.com

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6/13/07

absolutelytrue

I turned off "donotfollow" last night.

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6/13/07

karenlim

Wow, our family of D-listers are getting bigger. Welcome absolutelytrue. I also only joined yesterday!

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6/13/07

blm03

I'm on the D-list or at least on one of the several going around.

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1. 6/14/07
  
  karenlim
  
  Hey blm03, which are the other D-list going around. Post them here so all can benefit
6/13/07

karenlim

Welcome to this club then

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6/19/07

AldianP

Me too!
aldianprakoso.com/2007/06/19/bright-beginning-is-now-dofollow-compliant-fre...

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1. 6/20/07
  
  AldianP
  
  Another one is also on D-list: blog.audiogettingrichscience.com
6/20/07

guniwan

I am D-list too:

worldofsolution.blogspot.com/2007/06/i-dofollow-now.html

cheers,

Goonie

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6/20/07

karenlim

Welcome Aldian and guniwan to the D-list family

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6/20/07

incinq

Up to now, I'd mistakenly believed this applied only to Wordpress bloggers.

I found out how to turn off "no follow" on my Blogger at:

webstractions.blogspot.com/2007/05/removing-nofollow-from-blogger-styled.ht...

I had no idea that it was the default.

Thanks for the heads up, everyone!

incinq.blogspot.com

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1. 6/20/07
  
  incinq
  
  I turned off "no follow" for both comments and backlinks... was that right? On that tutorial page I mentioned above:
  
  "Optionally remove Nofollow from backlinks
  
  By doing another search for nofollow in your expanded template, you will find another one for your backlinks. You can choose to delete this as outlined above -- or not.
  
  If you do delete the reference, do at your own risk. Backlinks are outside of your control and cannot be moderated."
  
  Thoughts?
2. 6/20/07
  
  gabotron
  
  I think this is similar to "Trackbacks" in WordPress. Blogger just termed it "Backlinks".
  
  In WordPress, we see our Trackbacks/Linkbacks/Backlinks in the comments section by default. In Blogger, there will be a "Links to this Post" hyperlink (like in Lisa's LES blog 40ssingleness-learnenglish.blogspot.com/). By default, Google doesn't follow the links from "Links to this Post".
  
  I guess you don't have the Backlinks feature enabled on your blog (you only have n Reflected which represents the comments), so there should be no need to remove no-follow on them.
3. 6/20/07
  
  incinq
  
  Thanks, gabotron.
6/20/07

hughhollowell

I did it about a month ago on my Politically Incorrect Business Blog at

www.hughhollowell.net/blog/

Thus far, we have had no real increase in spam, but a much larger than typical response in comments. Overall, it seems one of the best things I have done. (Even a blind hog finds an acorn every now and then!)

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6/20/07

Morriconei

I took nofollow out of my blogger page last night. I'm still not sure whether I did it right or not.

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6/20/07

terrymundo

I had this off a long time ago and also have this set on my work blogs. But after updates, it seems I didn't turn the plugin back on. Duh! So I'm back on the D-List for both www.terrenceculkin.com and technicallyforeign.com/. Its just the right thing to do.

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6/20/07

terencechang

I have this off for a while ...

www.terencechang.com

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6/20/07

legbamel

I am as of today! I had no idea that nofollow was the default setting at Blogger. I also joined Bumpzee and am going to post about it tomorrow. Thanks for the thread.

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6/20/07

francescomapelli

I am a B list

I'm keeping the nofollow for comments...

I don't want too much spammy comments... but I have a Top Commentators box in my sidebar that is dofollowed, to rewards only the real active users, and I dofollow trackback and pingback... (so if you want to link back to one of my posts, you'll have some pr back! )

francesco
mapelli.info

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6/20/07

ichaduma

noobie here.

i just turned it off, using a DoFollow plugin
but i haven't understand how it works

i mean, how do i know that it's properly working?

-> snuggle.here.de

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1. 6/21/07
  
  karenlim
  
  I just checked yours. It's working properly.
  
  If you want to check if a site follows:
  
  1) Go to blogs comment page.
  2) View the source code for that page
  3) Find a name of a commenter, if they follow you will see the tag rel="external". If they do not follow, you will see the tag rel="nofollow" .
6/20/07

42media

I'm moving all of my blogs onto the D-list.

Now I'm just hoping my spammers don't come back in droves...

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1. 6/20/07
  
  AldianP
  
  You can use some captcha plugin to help preventing bot comment spams.
  I use it and it reduce many bot comment spams
  
  See it in action in my blog aldianprakoso.com
  
  Askimet and Spam Karma are also great plugins for spam preventing!
2. 6/20/07
  
  karenlim
  
  I use askimet by default, works great. So far 0 bot spamming or should I say, all caught by it
3. 6/20/07
  
  terrymundo
  
  for one of the blogs at work that I have on my servers, askimet catches about 500+ spams a month. I still have all posts needing approval unless user was previously approved.
6/20/07

crispnet

I'm in the D-list! I'm a support of "U Comment I Follow"

Check out my nice "U Comment I Follow" badge >>

www.crispnetworks.com

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6/21/07

Translator

Just removed No Follow from comments and backlinks! Thanks for the tips!

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1. 6/21/07
  
  AldianP
  
  Remember to have Askimet or Spam Karma installed and activated
2. 6/21/07
  
  crispnet
  
  Yeah...without it your blog will be spam. My Akismet save me from work as it trapped more than 500 spams since i started my blog 2 and a half months ago.
6/21/07

guniwan

How to defeat spam in Blogger that DoFollow like mine?can anyone tell me..

cheers,

goonie
worldofsolution.blogspot.com

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6/21/07

PilotJohn

I joined!

PJ
www.pilotjohn.com

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6/21/07

dharmagypsy7

Ok can someone help me? I have the plugin goodlinks which is suppose to strip away the nofollow but then when I looked at the page source like Karen recommended. I see that it's still on there.. can someone tell me if this is correct and if anyone uses the plugin... is there something else I need to do?

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6/21/07

dharmagypsy7

Ok I figured it out.. thanks JP... followed your article stumbled

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6/21/07

derrich

www.derrich.com/

U Comment, I Follow! =)

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6/21/07

Translator

Anyone have info about Spam-filters for blogger? I removed No follow and I'm afraid I'm going to be drowning in spam.

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1. 6/21/07
  
  dharmagypsy7
  
  Do you have Wordpress? You can install Akismet not sure about other platforms... for blogger you might want to put all the comments into moderation until you approve or if someone has commented before; it will automatically show up then.
6/21/07

ianternet

just switched on the d list

www.ianfernando.com/2007/search-engines-and-i-do-follow/

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6/27/07

bluevirtue

I'm on at last.

Eco friendly stuff
www.ecoshopper.net

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6/27/07

AndyBeard

I should point out I don't accept every blog into the community over on Bumpzee. If I can't find comments that are being followed or some indication that a blog has nofollow removed, I just reject them, and wait for the owner to contact me if they need help in complying.

I get a real feel for the amount of hard work the guys at Blogcatalog go through in evaluating new bloggers.

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7/12/07

ianternet

on the do follow list but I had to remove my badge just incase of buyblogcomments - this movement is very strong in which we need to stop spaming and reward bloggers

but one person disagrees

www.ianfernando.com/2007/buy-blog-comments-a-dark-day-in-the-blogosphere/#c...

he seems to want buyblogcomments.com on blogs - its a big argument on this on this topic on my blog, support by puttin in your input about this and how this buyblogcomments.com will defintely be tolerated in the blogosphere

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7/20/07

cooper

I just did this last week. I never knew I was no follow until recently as I don't know anything about all that stuff, and really don't care but I did install a plugin to follow, and even wrote a post about it last week

wonderlandornot.net/2007/07/14/follow-me-i-am-paying-for-comments/

I have had only minor increase in spam and have had to delete only a couple of comments.

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7/20/07

inspiroi

Yes!

sunlightflavour.net

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7/24/07

marenda

Today I installed the plugin I suppose my next step is writing a post about the update
Marenda.Biz

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1/08/08

Cat

I am now a D-lister. I think. I hope i did it right. what a great concept.

i just found out about this today when i was visiting another blog and it said "u comment, i follow". awesome!

better late than never, right.

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