Very low blog post­ing in the last few weeks. Sev­eral rea­sons, no excuse.nofollow

Any­way in the recent past I have notice a few blogs and forums link­ing here because I decided a long time ago to remove the “nofol­low” attribute in .Dust comments.

At the time I was think­ing it was a very good reward for those peo­ple who spent time on here leav­ing good com­ments and putting energy in the con­ver­sa­tion. Unfor­tu­nately it turned out to be a bad idea bring­ing in a con­sid­er­able amount of spam.

I am try­ing to make up my mind on this. Spend a lit­tle bit more time mod­er­at­ing link seek­ers com­ment or enable the nofol­low attribute?

I think I would go for the first choice and I can advise that one line com­ments from peo­ple I do not per­son­ally know will be deleted.

Thanks

I am look­ing for­ward­ing to see­ing you again on this when I will start my reg­u­lar post­ing activ­ity. Soon, very soon!

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A Quick Note To “dofollow” Blog Seekers

9 Comments

  • 1 James wrote:

    Other than the fact that you get a lot of spam­mers, has the dofol­low plu­gin helped you in anyway?

    September 3, 2008 at 6:18 pm Permalink
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    2 AG wrote:

    The main idea was to reward vis­i­tors leav­ing a com­ment with a link to their blog/​web site.

    Actu­ally that did not prove to increase com­ments or par­tic­i­pa­tion to the dis­cus­sion. The main result was to be listed in black SEO web­sites that listed blogs with the dofol­low option on in comments.

    Regard to this I would say that it may be also some­thing that penal­ized my rank in Google, even if I will have to wait the next page rank update.

    I would not sug­gest to enable dofol­low in com­ments if you do not have a very loyal read­ers base.

    Just my cent.

    September 4, 2008 at 7:55 am Permalink

  • 3 Auto Glass Repair wrote:

    When­ever such a sit­u­a­tion occurs, the first thing that arises in our mind is which option we should choose — repair or replace­ment. If we go for repair rather than the replace­ment then cer­tainly we can save some money. Mod­ern wind­shields have been designed to be repairable. Nowa­days spe­cial injec­tions are com­ing into the auto­mo­bile glass mar­ket that con­tain a spe­cial resin which is injected into the dam­aged area using unique tools that attach directly to the glass.

    Some chips or cracks may react suc­cess­fully to the repair whereas some may not. Wind­shield repair is like first aid. If you leave a crack and do not fix it, then it may cause more severe dam­age and the con­di­tion of the wind­shield can get much worse.
    Wind­shield Replacement

    February 12, 2009 at 6:45 pm Permalink

  • 4 Cazare in Bucuresti wrote:

    The prob­lem with do-​follow is peo­ple will spam. If a blog is good enough then the blog owner won’t need to have do-​follow because peo­ple will com­ment to put their point of view accross, not to gain a back link.

    The BBC is a per­fect exam­ple of this. There are no links in the forums and blogs, yet they have many users.

    How­ever, when a blog is start­ing and it wants to get a upper hand, their is no harm in attract­ing peo­ple who want do-​follow links, because some will become hooked, so even if you change to no-​follow, peo­ple will still comment.

    March 23, 2009 at 12:14 am Permalink

  • 5 Regim Hotelier wrote:

    Well, in either case, you can still call it spam. Whether the vis­i­tor IS inter­ested in your blog/​post and com­ments with inter­est or not and just wants a link. In other words, it depends on the blog owner himself/​herself whether (s)he is will­ing to appre­ci­ate the com­ments and accept­ing the links in exchange or just as a sign of appre­ci­a­tion, sim­ple as that. If not, then by all means, remov­ing the ‘URL’ field takes 2 sec­onds! Google that out. Don’t leave the URL and then judg­ing peo­ple for spam­ming, most are not spam­ming, they post with inter­est and once they see the option of leav­ing their web­site URL, why not?
    I’m all for DOFOL­LOW or just remove the URL field! Don’t leave it with nofol­low, that’s more a trick in mak­ing some peo­ple com­ment with­out inter­est. So any­way, all for dofol­low,
    Cheers!

    March 29, 2009 at 11:27 am Permalink

  • 6 Work At Home wrote:

    Main­tain­ing a dofol­low blog is not easy. Per­son­ally, my blog is a PR4 web­mas­ter seo related dofol­low blog which allows key­word­luv type of names. Akismet plu­gin is help­ful but not to the level yet.

    April 6, 2009 at 10:13 am Permalink

  • 7 JackHallaran wrote:

    What if you are a small time blog­ger like myself? Would it be benif­i­cal to fight the spam­mers and go “dofol­low”?
    Thanks Jack H

    April 17, 2009 at 3:32 am Permalink

  • 8 West Coast Vinyl wrote:

    I totally under­stand nofol­low or dofol­low. Still there is a cer­tain % that I see my links are still being acknowl­edge by Google. How­ever, the love juice isn’t as high, but still counts as a link. Depend­ing on what level of the link­ing game for your web­site. For us lower num­bered links, we’ll take it!

    June 10, 2009 at 1:36 am Permalink

  • 9 Bob Duncan@Piano Lessons wrote:

    Using the Key­word­Luv plu­gin should help curb spam.
    I per­son­ally com­ment on blogs because I like read­ing what peo­ple have to say about many top­ics.
    But I also care about self pro­mo­tion, there­fore I seek out blogs that use Key­word­Luv so I am not wast­ing my time.

    July 15, 2009 at 12:35 pm Permalink

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