Discussions

Do You Follow Comment with DoFollow?

Posted by AldianP • 6/19/07 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: comment spam, dofollow, nofollow, spam bot

I just installed DoFollow plugin yesterday because from my experiment, even with the default NoFollow, I still got a lot of comment spam from bots.

Here's my opinion aldianprakoso.com/2007/06/19/bright-beginning-is-now-dofollow-compliant-fre...

Are you DoFollowers?

User Comments

6/19/07

Tobsy

bloggersjourney.com/i-do-follow-how-about-you/ - Hmm, the second question I answered with a link today. Are the questions today especially matching my posts, or is it just me being lazy? *g*

[reply]
6/19/07

terencechang

Yes. I do follow ... so you are welcome to leave comments and I reply comments as well.

[reply]
6/19/07

AldianP

Great ones! Not everyone is brave enough to use DoFollow

[reply]
1. 6/19/07
  
  AldianP
  
  Oh yeah, I also join Bumpzee No-NoFollow community.
6/19/07

BrownBaron

I've been using DoFollow ever since I read Andy Beard's post about it. Welcome to the DoFollow community!

[reply]
1. 6/19/07
  
  terencechang
  
  Me too ... I was even got a comment from him saying that I should "Do Follow" ... so I joined ...
  
  www.bumpzee.com/no-nofollow/
6/19/07

clioandme

If you want to know how to do this with Blogger, here is a good tutorial: webstractions.blogspot.com/2007/05/removing-nofollow-from-blogger-styled.ht...

I still haven't taken the leap myself though. I could see where it would be a good thing. On the other hand, doesn't it just encourage commenting for the sake of getting backlinks? I moderate comments, so I could control that. Still, I can imagine scenarios where I would be happy to let a comment stand but would be less than thrilled about having my own blog pop up as something supporting a site that I do not want to openly associate myself with. And don't blogrolls take care of this sort of thing? I'm just asking. I haven't formed an opinion about this phenomenon one way or another. It probably depends very much on the individual blogger and the kind of traffic he or she gets.

[reply]
1. 8/06/07
  
  legbamel
  
  I figure I can delete irrelevant and spammy comments but that the Do-Follow idea is too valuable to worry about them ahead of time. My traffic is small enough that I haven't gotten much in the way of spam and only one questionable comment (today) that I let stand because I know that he's a big producer for another site at which I write.
  
  If I start getting spam I will turn on comment moderation and perhaps find a spam blocker for them. Until then, I'm content to treat them as they come. I think it's a reasonable reward for folks who bother reading my posts and responding to them.
6/19/07

gabotron

Here's an additional list of DOFOLLOW supporters from the blog catalog community. We had a similar discussion started by karenlim a week ago.

Anyone Else Here On D-List?
www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/anyone-else-here-on-d-list

[reply]
1. 6/19/07
  
  AldianP
  
  Thanks for the info Gabotron
6/19/07

Morriconei

I just removed the 'no follow' tag from blogger. How do I know it worked?

[reply]
1. 7/28/07
  
  michaelmartine
  
  You can view the source code of your blogger web page in a browser and you won't see rel="nofollow" in your link tags. Other than that, it would be pretty difficult to gauge the real effect, other than maybe your top commentators and linkers see increases in their PageRank (provided you have a higher PageRank than they do already).
7/28/07

michaelmartine

I didn't see this discussion existed and started a similar one. If anyone wants more of this topic, here it is: www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/are-you-going-to-implement-dofollow. Sorry about the duplicate topic, but it's up there and I can't take it back.

[reply]
7/28/07

cymrusteve

Thanks for the post. Correct URL is www.blogcatalog.com/discuss/entry/are-you-going-to-implement-dofollow (without the period)

Going to check out your other post now...

--Steve

[reply]
7/28/07

natkritta

i do follow

[reply]
7/28/07

mrfred8

i follow savingmoney.iblogger.org

[reply]
7/28/07

Elixir

Same here. I threw up a post :-) www.naturallybeautiful.info/2007/07/25/you-comment-and-ill-follow/

[reply]
8/05/07

marenda

I Do Follow here's a do follow blogroll for those interested
marenda.biz/?page_id=60
(the list is atthe bottom of the post fyi)

[reply]
8/05/07

Fartmachine

No I am not.

[reply]
8/06/07

aprilkerr

I follow too....

www.naturalhealthremedies.org/

[reply]
8/06/07

opio1

I dofollow but with terms, see here:
www.thebeefjerkyblog.com/no-no-follow-attribute-added/

[reply]
8/06/07

ghostytwofish

My experience, best protection against spam bots is CAPTCHA. After I started using it, spam dropped to almost never.

[reply]
9/13/09

janggleng

comment removed by the community.

[reply]