U Comment, I Follow !
19 November 2007
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The nofollow attribute was supposed to reduce comment spam, but we all know that it didn’t work. All it does do is tell Google bots, and other search engines bots apart from Ask.com, which doesn’t use it, not to follow links in comments. That means, when someone posts a comment, they get no Google Juice. Let’s change that! Let’s share some link love!
Therefore, a few days ago I removed the rel=”nofollow”attribute for comments on this blog by using a plugin by Semiologic called DoFollow, like many other blogs did.
If you still have nofollow on your comments read the 11 reasons against it below and take it off like I did !
- nofollow does not prevent comment spam
- nofollow is confusingly named
- nofollow harms the connections between web sites
- nofollow is not useful for humans, just for search engines using PageRank or a similar technique
- nofollow could be used to shut web sites out
- nofollow discriminates legitimate users as spammers
- nofollow heists commentators’ earned attention
- nofollow could be used to further discriminate weblogs
- nofollow prevents the Web from being a web
- nofollow eliminates the dissemination of free speech
- nofollow was developed in privacy with only search engines companies taking part in the discussion
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I also removed my No Follow code recently. I have to really watch the spammers though. There are a lot of people that just flood the comments with links now, which defeats the whole purpose. If they don’t say anything about the topic, I delete it.
Thanks for your help in promoting the Do Follow Movement!
Regards,
Nick
I got rid of this plugin because it actually did increase the spam I got. I was listed in a ton of “dofollow blog search engines”, which ultimately led to a bunch of real readers, who left comments just for links.
I have disabled nofollow, but give followed links in my top commentators plugin. I hope your luck turns out better.
At the moment I haven’t seen any increase in the spam comments I get, although I expect it. Therefore I moderate the comments, at least the first time somebody leaves a message.
Moreover Akismet seems to be working fine..
Giving followed links in top commentators is a good idea though..
I think this could be dangerous if you don’t see some spam comments and they are published. May Google indentify you as a spammer too for having links to some spam links…
It is dangerous.. therefore as I said before I moderate the comments on this blog. Anyway, Akismet seems to be doing a great job for me…
Thanks for joining the movement.
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True, Using dofollow link attributes in your comment would appriciate readers to leave more comments on your blog.. thus making them stay for a longer time.. who know someone likes something in your blog during commenting and become ur reader.. it help full and should be like this way..
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I would say it would and could increase readers to your blog.
And get them to keep comming back, i have to set up my own blog , every one is doing it these days.
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I have a feeling that people will post nonsensical comments just to get a backlink from blogs.
How do we prevent them from doing so?
very good work done
this is a good step in a very good direction:)
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At the very least we should delete from our blogs comments that are truly spam. For repeat offenders there is probably some form of programming script that could be used to block their comments in the future.
No follow in comments is simply of no use. do follow encourages readers to comment in our blog posts and share what they think on the issue
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Excellent information. I completely agree to what you are saying.
You are absolutely right if everything you are saying here above is meanless. I know NoFollow is hateful, but it is not useful for spammers, so they don’t spam your blog. That’s the reason why a lot bloggers don’t follow the links of their readers.
No follow has really made it hard for new bloggers to get any authority. social bookmarking is fine but even it is flooded with spammers.
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That’ s original, somebody who faces Google headlines. I have enjoyed a lot reading your stuff.
Well done
I personally think Google created a big mess with the nofollow attribute. I personally don’t like the idea of nofollow, but made the choice to keep the nofollow on my blog. I jumped on the dofollow thing for a while, but it resulted in a lot of low quality comments being left on my blog. Most were just useless one lines from people who had never commented before. My regular visitors didn’t seem to change the comment behavior.
So I took it off just to save my self the time of looking through short comments and trying to figure out which were spam. To thank my visitors, I try to link drop in posts from time to time.
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I agree with Justin, Google made a big mistake with the nofollow command.
I too, yes dear. It causes spam. I am also facing the same problem with my blog site. I found this site while searching for an article about online marketing. Good site. keep posting good content
Do you know if you simply search “u comment i follow” in Google image search you can find 1000s of Do follow blogs. Its a little trick I use quite often and works pretty well.
Agree, I am also facing the same.
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I’ve created a dofollow website that searches only dofollow websites. This makes it a little easier for people to find them and this site has been included in the search.
Yes I do believe that link love is good, but there are some people who miss use this do follow thing. These people post links in the comments and want to get traffic to those links.
Good for you, I’m seriously thinking about switching to dofollow myself; but then I don’t really have much traffic and comments are not that many to start with so doubt anyone would notice
thanks anyway
I am wondering that why wordpress and Drupal blogs come with “no Follow” attribute by default because it always refrain user’s interest in your blog entries. I can see the boost in my traffic right after disabling “no follow” but we should implement other plugins as well to prevent all possible spam. I like to share some Google link juice with my users but it doesn’t mean that they are free to do anything. We can use Akismet to prevent spam and we can configure to prevent all comments on posts older than a specific time.
Ha Ha. This is very funny. The post is supposed to encourage people to “follow” yet all comments here are not followed. I do agree however that the a lot of top quality bloggers have been affected by this stupid no follow tag. Its not helping anyone and even if it is helping someone, it is only probably helping Google.
You ‘re right.. just before a couple of days I disabled the plugin, until I find a way to discourage people leaving useless comments..
This is great. You made a great move. I agree with many of your points.
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I like this thing. I use the plug-in dofollow. People goes to my site to post a comment and i like it!
Thanks For infomation. It was Really Helpful.
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
Great move switching to dofollow. I have a number of blogs and love the dofollow as readers get something back for making good comments.
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I’ve joined the movement. Thanks for the great article.
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You should really practice what you preach though. It does appear that the links on your site has rel=”external nofollow”. I believe that tell google not to follow.
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I’ve explained in another post..
It’s interesting seeing the different views in regards to no-follow/pro-follow. In one way you can potentially preserve “link juice” but you can harm possible comments to your website that may be legitimate and point towards really good material.
Nofollow takes some freedoms away with website building, and makes it harder to perform for the underdogs. I agree with your post. Thanks for the info
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I Love your blog on google and have read many of your posts. Excellent. Keep up the good work!!!
Looks like I found another great site to add to my feed reader. Mark
I am glad to visit your website and learn about this information. Thank you for this!
I really liked your blog! Thank you, I would come back to read some more
Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
Thank you for taking this step. It would be interesting to know how helpful it has been for you personally. I like the idea of dofollow blogs, but get very irritated when the bulk of the responses are of the kind, “Great post, I enjoyed reading it,” or “Fantastic blog, keep up the good work.”
As a web writing trainer I am sometimes asked to give advice on good blogging practice. Three of my golden rules for people responding to a blog are 1) read the blog, 2) show that you have put some thought into your response, 3) add some value to the blog, maybe with an extra tip or an added insight or even a contrary opinion. Fingers crossed, I haven’t broken any of my rules in this comment!
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nofollow sucks. I agree with you.
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Nofollow was designed to prevent spam and I am sure that in many websites it does. Spammer don’t like this tag and they are not deciding to spamm the website that it has it.
Very nice information. Thanks for sharing.
Your 11 reasons against no follow are wonderful but I am amazed to see that your own blog is also a no follow blog. What it is so? Did you change it after this post or you never changed it to do follow?
Blogger has finally come up with the inline comment form.. nice to see more and more features getting added to blogger..I have also added the old comment form in my blog..
dofollow blog search engines”, which ultimately led to a bunch of real readers, who left comments just for links.
I have disabled nofollow, but give followed links in my top commentators plugin. I hope your luck turns out better.
Thanks for sharing informations.Looking forward to more stuff.
Great informations.Thanks for sharing…I keep reading.
Well most of the spammers don't know about No Follow probably, but they don't just focus for the links, they also want traffic with these links, so if you really don't want any spammers you should remove Website section from your comment form
I like especially number 9 nofollow prevents the Web from being a web and
number 10 nofollow eliminates the dissemination of free speech
What makes the web a good web?
The only issue one faces is with spammers in the nofollow code implementation. I have not been able to resolve that.
I am glad that I learn this nice information, thank you for this blog.
It could be a tedious task for the owner, but manually approving the comments can really help – do not approve the spammy automated comments. We must all maintain netiquette on web world to maintain a good relationship in the community.
I got rid of this plugin because it actually did increase the spam I got. I was listed in a ton of “dofollow blog search engines”, which ultimately led to a bunch of real readers, who left comments just for links.
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The danger to the No Follow is that of the spammers. How does one get around that in factoring the Do Follow?
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Having the Do-Follow does improve the traffic to the blog. Not having it can make the blog a monologue. Spam comments are best controlled manually.
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It's really nice of you to post a do follow blog. I'm sure many of us are grateful, and hopefully most people will post genuine on-topic content as a condition for you approving their posts. Personally I'm a part-time blogger and am always looking for backlinks, but I'll only post geniune content. You have a great blog and your Double Safety program on your sidebar looks like a great way to make hard drive backups.
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