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Steve Renner Introduces Do Follow Comments

Posted by Steve Renner as iNetGlobal

I have decided to share the link love and allow “Do Follow” links on my Blog Comments. There has been a lot of controversy on “No Follow vs Do Follow” links, and I think it time we clarify this.

NoFollow (rel=”nofollow”) was originally introduced by Google in 2005 as a means of preventing Comment Spam from Blogs.

Do Follow puts No Restrictions on the Search Engine Robots from following links on your page, either to other internal pages on your site, or to other web sites.

From: Search Engine Roundtable

Matt Cutts an SEO Expert from Google defines it this way: The nofollow attribute is just a mechanism that gives webmasters the ability to modify PageRank flow at link-level granularity. Plenty of other mechanisms would also work (e.g. a link through a page that is robot.txt’ed out), but nofollow on individual links is simpler for some folks to use. There’s no stigma to using nofollow, even on your own internal links; for Google, nofollow’ed links are dropped out of our link graph; we don’t even use such links for discovery. By the way, the nofollow meta tag does that same thing, but at a page level.

A good rule to follow is: “If the Googlebot can’t access the page, don’t try to pass PageRank to pages. A “sign in” link is a good example of what you should “nofollow”.

He goes on to say: What are some appropriate ways to use the nofollow tag? One good example is the home page of expedia.com. If you visit that page, you’ll see that the “Sign in” link is nofollow’ed. That’s a great use of the tag: Googlebot isn’t going to know how to sign into expedia.com, so why waste that PageRank on a page that wouldn’t benefit users or convert any new visitors?

OK So What About Blog Comments?

In a post on his Blog Matt States: The rel=”nofollow” attribute is an easy way for a website to tell search engines that the website can’t or doesn’t want to vouch for a link. The best-known use for nofollow is blog comment spam, but the mechanism is completely general. Nofollow is recommended anywhere that links can’t be vouched for. If your logs analysis program shows referrers as hyperlinks, I’d recommend using nofollow on those links. If you have a wiki that anyone on the web can edit, I’d recommend nofollow on those links until you can find a way to trust those links. In general, if you have an application that allows others to add links, web spammers will eventually find your pages and start annoying you.

OK so that’s what the Super SEO Experts say, but what does this mean for us Mere Mortals? Basically in everyday normal terms bloggers can understand, here’s the deal..

By default WordPress puts nofollow on most all the links on your blog, including the Comments and Trackbacks. Therefore people will not be receiving a Link Back from your Blog by posting a comment. Most people really don’t know this so they will comment anyway. Or else if your blog gets a lot of traffic, it could be good to comment on to get exposure and possible traffic.

The alternative is give links to Commenters on your blog, to attract more potential visitors. To eliminate the spam problem you will want to Moderate your comments and manually approve them. In order to do this you will need a good DoFollow Plugin.

SemiLogic’s DoFollow - One of the original DoFollow Plugins - Basic design, no frills, it just works. Nofollows will be removed from your Comments and Trackbacks.
Kimmo Suominen DoFollow - This is an interesting one that offers you the option to set a time limit for adding the NoFollow attributes, or have them removed differently from comments left by registered users and other visitors.
All Passions Link Love - This is a Cool Plugin that removes the NoFollow attribute from comments where the commenter has commented 10 (configurable) or more times. This means that you can share the link love with those commenters who are genuinely part of the community and contributing to your blog.
Lucia’s Linky Love - Here’s a cool plugin that, similar to Link Love gives you the option to reware commenters with a DoFollow Link Back after a certain number of comments, but also has other cool features to Thwart Comment Spammers

But What About My Internal Links?

In a post on his blog, Andy Beard offers an interesting option with the “No Follow Dupes” plugin. It’s an SEO plugin for advanced WordPress Search Engine Optimization techniques. Essentially:

Rather than blocking duplicate content pages, they can be used to your advantage, but as customized landing pages and a method of channelling “Google Juice” away from pages that are receiving the majority of links, to pages that you wish to rank well, and also to your homepage to enhance monetization.

This Plugin Allows Internal Links To Be Followed

This plugin adds rel=”nofollow” to all links within the content that are displayed on your home page and duplicate content pages. Search engine followable links remain on page, single and RSS feeds.

Download it here: Nofollow Those Dupes 1.0

So in conclusion, this is really a long round about way of explaining this simple concept…

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130 Responses to Steve Renner Introduces Do Follow Comments

Daniel McGonagle

July 13th, 2008 at 8:10 pm

Hey Steve,

Dan McGonagle here. Haven\’t seen much of you at Digg lately. Nice post you wrote here, I\’ve been asked to change over to DO follow on my blog (click my name) but I see no reason to do that. PR isn\’t really a big concern of mine as I\’m more focused on time sepnt on site and % adding to favorites.

Then again, from what I\’ve been reading on SEO lately, it\’s good to link outwardly to relevant sites as this makes your site more of a HUB.

One thing I\’ve noticed is that people don\’t leave as many good comments when they realize the site is DO follow because of all those blog finder tools out there delivering results based on DO follow, NO follow attributes.

What\’s your experience with this?

Are you getting a lot of \"nice post, looking to hear more\"

style comments or is the quality of comments unaffected by this recent change from Nofollow to DO follow?

Thanks,

Dan

Steve Renner

July 14th, 2008 at 7:57 am

Hi Don,
Yes I get quite a few Spammy Posts, but I have decided to switch over to Do Follow, to give my loyal readers a Link Back.

I have noticed quite a jump in my traffic, since I started posting on a regular basis. I think this will be a win win for all of us.

I checked out your Blog, and you have a lot of good content there, way to go!

Thanks for the comments,

Steve

July 14th, 2008 at 1:00 pm

Hey Steve, just added you to the the blog roll, FYI.

I also noticed that the DidYouPassMath plugin with WP 2.5 doesn\’t work as well as it used to, for whatever reason, still getting a lot of Spam comments via the blog.

Didn\’t happen before I upgraded WP, go figure.

Can you add the subscribe-to-comments plugin to your blog so I know if/when you respond to comments?

I find it hlepful to keep blog readers coming back and taking part of the conversation

Later,

Elle

July 14th, 2008 at 2:43 pm

I think it’s kind of you to extend this courtesy to other websites; thanks for helping support other websites.

Does it still count, though, if the “Do Follow” comes from a blog post on its own page with a PR-1? I’m a newbie to internet marketing and all that it entails, so I’m working my way through it, but from what I’ve read so far, PR is based on the individual page, not the site as a whole. So even though your home page is PR 3, leaving a comment with a link on a blog post that has a PR-1 shouldn’t make that big of a difference, right? Or does the home page lend some of its PR-3 importance to the PR-1 entry? Or do I have it wrong completely, and blog posts take on the PR of the home page?

July 14th, 2008 at 3:45 pm

I think you are kind to open up your comments to allow link following.

I’m new to internet marketing and have a question about this: what I’ve read says that each page has its own PR and it isn’t the site overall that has a PR. So if a site’s home page has a PR-5 but a blog post page only has a PR-2, then a link from the blog post comments section won’t help as much as a link from the body of the blog post shown on the front page, correct?

July 14th, 2008 at 4:09 pm

Hi Dan,

> Can you add the subscribe-to-comments plugin

Yes I certainly can, great idea. And thanks for adding me to the Blog Roll!

July 14th, 2008 at 6:11 pm

Hi Elle,
The key here is the page rank of the site itself. The better the rank of the site the more it is indexed.

This site gets crawled 100+ times a day, basically we have the search engines trained. The individual page is of less importance.

The key is that the comment will get spidered and indexed.

July 14th, 2008 at 6:19 pm

Hi Elle,
Again, the PR of the site will dictate how the site is crawled and indexed. A Do-Follow link from a PR3 site like this one, which gets crawled all day long, on any page, will get get followed back to your site, and will certainly count as an incoming link.

Now it may not be as powerfull as a link from the home page of DIGG, but it will cetainly help with your search engine ranking.

Cut and past the title from any of my blog posts into Google and you will see what I mean.

Erica

July 15th, 2008 at 3:56 am

Well,there are many strategies we have to develop the sites,one of the best and easy process is commenting the sites!!! Commenting is nothing but sharing of views……

Ishmael

July 15th, 2008 at 6:49 am

I totally agree with the dofollow approach, and thanks for your outline of the issue here (which I came across whilst searching Google for details about the debate).

I’m in a community of photobloggers, and the knowledge that I am able to boost my own site’s ranking by commenting on other’s photoblogs is a powerful incentive to critique other people’s images. As it is, with Google’s nofollow approach, I know many photobloggers will only comment on images from photoblogs which do not invoke the attribute (i.e. not Blogger-hosted). Thus computer-literate photobloggers will receive more coverage and engagement with the community, even if their images are not as good as those hosted elsewhere.

Surely there’s a less clumsy way for Google to follow comment links, rather than penalising those who are active in their blogging communities but are not purely altruistic in commenting - after all, who is?!

July 15th, 2008 at 9:30 am

Hi Ishmael,
Thanks for the comment. I agree, getting a link back is a great incentive for posting, and can actually stimulate some good discussions on important issues.

Checked out your Photo Blog, it looks cool, your work is very artistic!

Ben

July 23rd, 2008 at 11:22 pm

It is great news you made this blog do follow. I’ve always hated the no follow tag and strongly encourage to spread the ‘link love’!

July 31st, 2008 at 1:19 pm

I just checked back and realized the first post I thought had disappeared actually posted. Sorry for the double post!

Matt

August 8th, 2008 at 1:17 pm

It was a great idea to make your blog comments do follow. I’ll be joining the movement on one of my wordpress blogs soon. Thanks for all the helpful info you provide on your site!

debra

August 27th, 2008 at 12:28 am

If you’ve used any of the dofollow blog lists on the Internet, you may have noticed many of them are actually using the “nofollow” tag. I believe these blogs simply got on the list to get traffic and either added nofollow after getting on the lists or where never dofollow blogs in the first place. I’d say at least 40% of the blogs I found on the various “dofollow” lists did not make the cut, because they actually use the “nofollow” tag, use a script that hides the links, or have comments turned off.
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Christopher Arnell

November 6th, 2008 at 12:52 pm

Thanks for the tips and links to the plugins.

Jerry

November 22nd, 2008 at 1:13 pm

Thanks for the change! Can you tell me if making comments “do follow” dilutes your site’s page rank in any way? I also didn’t realize that page rank affected how often sites are spidered. Interesting.

November 23rd, 2008 at 5:28 pm

Hi Jerry,
My site has moved up to Page Rank 5 - and that’s after I set “Do-Follow” on my comments. So I guess I would have to say it has not effected me so far.

I think there has to be a balance between in-coming and out-going links. You don’t want to bleed all of your “link juice” but like my grandma used to say, all things in Moderation.

Diane

December 3rd, 2008 at 7:18 am

This is quite interesting because do follow blogs can invite more and more visitors and although there will be more seo freaks, there could be genuine visitors who are interested in what you right and at the same time need a quality backlink to their website. I think it is a win win situation for everyone, so happy do follow blogging … cheers

tyas

December 4th, 2008 at 3:56 am

hi Steve..
thanks a lot for sharing the info..
i’ve made my blog do follow, too..
although there’s alot of controversy about that, i still believe that be a do follow will bring a lot advantages for our blog..

December 4th, 2008 at 5:57 am

Yes, It really is a win-win for everyone. We attract more commentors, (is that a word?) and you never know where that will lead.

I see from my ststs that people spend an average of 5 min on my site, so they must be reading my stuff.

Cheers Mate!

December 4th, 2008 at 5:58 am

Hi Tyas,
Checked out your site, looks very cool. You are from Indonesia i see. I was not aware you had a choice on Blogger of setting comments to “Do Follow”.

Very Cool!

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December 12th, 2008 at 12:40 am

Thanks for adding Do-follow. Great design features too! Kudos!

Rick

December 19th, 2008 at 8:43 am

You have an amazing grasp of this stuff !

It really is cool to read your posts about the tech end of it.

It’s like you thrive on maximizing out every little thing in spite of a very confusing assortment of available options.

I suppose it makes sense to add more little tenticles to your site to ad relevance and wider acceptibility as a valid resource.

A lot of us operate under the don’t let em get away concept and this may prove why that’s wrong.

Thanks Steve for putting yourself out there everyday and sharing what you know with us so freely.

December 19th, 2008 at 8:53 am

Hi Rick,
Keep with it buddy, and you will be successful!

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December 20th, 2008 at 5:36 pm

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December 24th, 2008 at 3:19 am

Yes.. Its just luck that you get do follow blogs..

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December 26th, 2008 at 3:00 am

Hey thanks a lot for such a wonderful information. I was actually looking for these information for quite a long time and i believe i have landed at the right page. I really liked your ways of expressing thoughts. You write too well. Moreover your article contains some worthy information which i guess will help lot of people. Thanks once again. Keep up the good work. God bless you.

Rob Bish

December 27th, 2008 at 7:29 am

Steve,

When I leave a comment on someone’s blog, like this, is it wrong to put my url after my name. I don’t see it much so maybe it isn’t even allowed.

I am a newbie with a new blog and just trying to figure out how to blog.

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December 27th, 2008 at 10:20 pm

I am still not sure if it is beneficial to allow DO FOLLOW on backlinks, in addition to comments? Which one does Google penalise?

December 29th, 2008 at 6:42 am

Do Follow on Comments naturally encourages more commenting
from your readers, which is a good thing!

December 29th, 2008 at 6:49 am

Hi Rob,
Your URL is automatically added to your Name. I don’t mind that you add it again.
It pays to “Brand” yourself.

Hey Max,
Appreciate it, thanks for stopping by!

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January 2nd, 2009 at 8:50 am

i used do follow attribute on my blog, that’s increase my visitor..

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January 9th, 2009 at 5:10 am

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January 9th, 2009 at 7:34 am

Hi Cargo,
Thanks for dropping by.

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January 20th, 2009 at 1:14 am

Thanks for rewarding your loyal readers by giving them bank link. I find your site very informative. Thanks for sharing what you know you and for helping others.

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January 26th, 2009 at 10:25 am

Yes..rel “do follow” is the appreciation for visitor who was given their comments. l love do follow, so I come here from google with “do follow comment” keyword.

January 29th, 2009 at 6:53 am

Hi Szenovera,
Yes this has been one of my most popular posts. I believe in spreading the “Link Love”.

Checked out your site - it’s cool!

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February 18th, 2009 at 3:39 pm

I am trying to decide if I want to “do follow”… great article for me to chew on!

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February 25th, 2009 at 2:31 pm

I really liked your ways of expressing thoughts. Do follow blogs can invite more and more visitors and although there will be more seo freaks, there could be genuine visitors who are interested in what you right and at the same time need a quality backlink to their website.

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March 20th, 2009 at 8:33 pm

I am not sure I have fully understand the issue. If I don’t include “nofollow” tag in outgoing links, does it automatically suggest “dofollow”? Should I include “dofollow” tag?

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March 29th, 2009 at 6:34 am

Nice post! very interesting topic. keep on posting.

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March 30th, 2009 at 8:01 am

Thanks for the tips

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May 3rd, 2009 at 1:00 am

Hello steve,
Thank you for sharing.I am Miranda from China. I haven’t English blog yet. I start a new online shopping site,and want to get traffic. I found “Do Follow Blog Posts” by the key words “do folow blog commenting” through Google.Am I allowed here? I also get much useful info here from your bolg and other commentors’.

May 6th, 2009 at 5:21 am

Hi Miranda,
Yes of course you are welcome here anytime. Good luck with your online shopping business. Links are a great Traffic Magnet” and of course help with your Search Engine visibility.

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June 8th, 2009 at 4:52 am

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June 9th, 2009 at 6:24 am

I’ll be adding you to my blogroll when I get a few more pages established

Leo Fogarty

June 20th, 2009 at 5:55 am

I see you no longer do follow your comments. As a blogger who has just opened his blog to do follow comments. Can you tell me your reasons for this? Just so I’m aware of the negatives.

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June 27th, 2009 at 6:36 pm

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July 9th, 2009 at 5:45 am

A nice article. Is my comment DO-FOLLOW?

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July 14th, 2009 at 5:08 am

yea your comment is do follow hope mine is too.

July 16th, 2009 at 9:20 am

Hi Leo,
Yes we transferred the blog to a different server and Do Follow was
disabled temporarily. It should be good to go now!

Ryan v.

July 23rd, 2009 at 6:36 pm

Truth be told DOFOLLOW links benefit both the poster and the blog owner. Blog owners see an increase in traffic and commenting and the posters get backlinks.

Frugalocal

July 27th, 2009 at 6:55 pm

Obviously allowing dofollow links will greatly increase the amount of comments your blog will receive. In that respect it seems like a good way to get traffic to your blog.

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July 29th, 2009 at 1:32 pm

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August 7th, 2009 at 6:44 am

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August 8th, 2009 at 11:31 am

Thanks for changing to do-follow, I agree with Ryan’s view on this, it beneficial to both blog and posters.

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August 8th, 2009 at 1:11 pm

Dofollow links are helpful for poster not as much as for blog owner.

They can help a blog with more visitors, but they won’t be enough targeted.

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August 13th, 2009 at 9:11 am

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August 13th, 2009 at 5:57 pm

Thanks for the information on backlinks and no follow it cleared some thoughts in my head.

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August 13th, 2009 at 10:37 pm

Hello new to Dofollow blogs are they good for increasing traffic to website if I have one on my website.

Vic

August 14th, 2009 at 12:24 am

The fact are that Google sees that even though they are do-follow they are not coming from a trash site so for instance this website which is based on real human edited quality content the fact that it links out does not dilute as much as if all we saw here where keyword after keyword of anchors in the affiliate marketing world.

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August 15th, 2009 at 12:49 pm

Actually I am searching the internet for clearing my confusion about no follow and do follow, I found your this website by search engine Google, and after reading your post my confusion become clear thanks.

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August 16th, 2009 at 1:45 am

Hello. Thanks for sharing information about this controversial topic DoFollow VS NoFollow. And thank you very much for allowing DoFollow comments here.

August 17th, 2009 at 7:12 am

Hi Vic,
Yes you are right, quality is the key!

August 17th, 2009 at 7:13 am

Hey EMR,
Glad it could help!

August 17th, 2009 at 7:14 am

Hi Eljon,
Yes any time, glad you could use it!

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August 18th, 2009 at 2:31 am

Steve,
I am glad that you spend time posting this information about do follow and no follow with us. One more thing, thank you for allowing us to comment.

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August 20th, 2009 at 3:24 am

Am I allowed here? I also get much useful info here from your bolg and other commentors’.

August 21st, 2009 at 2:56 am

Hi Kedai,
Yes you are welcome anytime. Glad to have you here!

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No problem, good luck with your Tap Dance product!

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August 25th, 2009 at 1:31 am

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August 25th, 2009 at 10:58 pm

Thanks to introduces Do Follow Comments in your site and thanks to nice nice tips.

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August 31st, 2009 at 4:49 am

Yes, Its Useful Information About Do Follow VS No Follow

And Thank You For Commenting here

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September 3rd, 2009 at 6:52 am

Very helpful post. Would really like to have more such blog posts.

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September 4th, 2009 at 6:38 pm

Its definitely a good way to encourage your visitors to comment but recently I’ve encountered a little problem. Some guys started to spam the crap out my blog with bad links,i noticed that askimet is not doing a very good job so i started to look for a plugin to stop that scums.I found WP-SpamFree and i won the battle.
Not a single spammy comment from when i installed this plugin

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September 6th, 2009 at 11:50 pm

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September 8th, 2009 at 3:44 am

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September 8th, 2009 at 11:24 am

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September 9th, 2009 at 6:00 am

I’m a newbie to internet marketing and all that it entails, so I’m working my way through it, but from what I’ve read so far, PR is based on the individual page, not the site as a whole. So even though your home page is PR 3, leaving a comment with a link on a blog post that has a PR-1 shouldn’t make that big of a difference, right? Or does the home page lend some of its PR-3 importance to the PR-1 entry? Or do I have it wrong completely, and blog posts take on the PR of the home page?

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September 9th, 2009 at 4:02 pm

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September 10th, 2009 at 5:57 pm

It is wonderful of you to be so shaing. Thank you for the wonderful info and for allowing us to post here.

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September 11th, 2009 at 7:04 am

I’ve been doing so much searching on this. I am glad that I finally understand it now.

September 17th, 2009 at 5:23 am

Hey Steph,
Cool!

September 17th, 2009 at 5:26 am

Kedai,
The link form an authority site in your niche is more powerful
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September 22nd, 2009 at 11:58 am

Thanks explaining how the do follow and no follow links work. Very informative.

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September 22nd, 2009 at 4:55 pm

Yes do-follow comments are great. I did not know there were special plugins for this. Thanks for the overview.

But I guess that since the posting of this article there are maybe some more Wordpress plugins for Do-follow comment management? Or is there another posting already? I did hear about Comment-Luv plugin. This should be a booster for SEO.

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September 28th, 2009 at 6:04 am

Hi, great post and it is good to hear some feedback about going do follow. I am thinking about it but am not sure the bebfits outway the work involved in checking the posts! Mabye just lazy,

I will try ti on one site after reading the posts and the feeedback,

thanks

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September 29th, 2009 at 3:24 pm

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October 6th, 2009 at 8:43 pm

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October 8th, 2009 at 4:42 pm

This post really cleared up the whole dofollow and nofollow confusion for me. Thanks for your post and clarifying the matter.

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October 14th, 2009 at 4:02 am

dofollow is a good decision, it was quite big hysteria about losing page rank, and even if it’s still a lot of controversy about this, i also think that in fact it can bring advantages and the most important is that it brings more and more quality comments

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October 14th, 2009 at 6:44 am

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October 21st, 2009 at 2:20 pm

Still i have some confusion about rel=”external” term, i saw this in many places where this term is mentioned instead of rel=”nofollow”. I need to ask whether both have same meanings or not. Thanks

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October 22nd, 2009 at 9:37 am

I am still trying to figure out how exactly to set up some internal links as far as do/no follow. This helps though! Thanks…

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October 23rd, 2009 at 2:30 am

My understanding is that if it’s “rel=”external” it just means to open the link in new window and is dofollow. You can easily check the links on a post whether one of the plugins to see if there are dofollow or not. All the ones that show that “external” term are dofollow when I check them.

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Have you seen an abundant change in your visitors with the do-follow and would you do a recommendation and reasons not to do it post in the future?

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November 6th, 2009 at 1:56 pm

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November 8th, 2009 at 6:20 pm

I am just now changing over to do follow for a trial run for the next month. I have noticed on other sites that they post “rules” for posting which basically say if the comment is not thoughtful and related to the content of the post it will be considered spam. I am considering including something like that. I noticed that you did not mention “commentluv” as an option. Wondered what you thought of that plugin.

November 9th, 2009 at 10:04 pm

Hi Cheri,
You will like it. I haven’t seen any adverse effects to my rankings by using Do Follow. In fact I think my traffic has increased.

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November 20th, 2009 at 3:58 am

Apparently my coffee did still not work, i have corrected the worst spelling mistakes, so if you can publish this one in stead it would be great.

Hi Steve,

I have now been reading so much, on various blogs, about the Do follow, so I have decided to implement on one of my blogs (The one in my signature), just to see how it works.

I although have two question which I am sure you can help me out on.

1. Which of the Plugins you mention above would you recommend for a first time user? - I was thinking to try out the Semilogic one.

2. To avoid to heavy spamming should I set, “all comments to be approved by admin” in the general settings of my blog.

Cheers, Morten

Gustav L.

November 20th, 2009 at 3:05 pm

I was a firm believer in the “nofollow” camp for several years, and lately the more I have read about it led me to change my way of thinking. I write in the medical field, primarily nursing, and was not receiving any worthwhile comments until I changed to “dofollow”. I even went so far as to install keywordluv, and even though I now have to spend more time moderating, it’s well worth it. This old dog learned a new trick literally. Keep up the good work.

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November 28th, 2009 at 10:22 pm

Nice article written here. I got to know a few more things about dofollow. The dofollow search engine is really good.. Thanks

kaos

November 28th, 2009 at 11:08 pm

I wonder how Google will judge comment links in a few years, they’re already clamping down on sites like Squidoo, i believe.

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November 29th, 2009 at 3:47 am

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Paul Aannemer

November 29th, 2009 at 6:49 am

Wel then, i’m a firm NON believer of nofollow. Why would you place a nofollow on pages that add trust to your website, like a contactpage, disclaimer or even a shopping cart.. Spamsites do not have pages like these so let Google know your here to stay. This applies only for internal linking of course.

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November 29th, 2009 at 8:53 am

J’étais à la recherche Google avec le mot clé ‘Do-Suivez les blogues sans modération “et j’ai trouvé votre message et vraiment aimé votre poste. Mais je n’ai jamais su ce pour cela que les modérateurs ne peuvent soutenir un texte d’ancrage à la place du nom. J’espère que vous mettez cela dans votre prochain post. Et je vais également mettre en signet vos postes pour un usage futur.

Merci

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December 9th, 2009 at 8:47 pm

Still, cannot see any advantages then some spam and people searching for more pagerank…

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December 20th, 2009 at 4:06 am

Well I don’t know if this type of linking will work in the future, but we can sure take advantage of them now. With Google you will never know how they will adjust their algo, but I guess we have to adjust to it and work our way through it.

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December 22nd, 2009 at 5:47 am

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December 23rd, 2009 at 7:48 am

Thanks for changing to do follow. The disadvantage is you get more spammy comments so you have to moderate a bit harder. The advantage is you will get more traffic and as the content is good some of it will stick. Your Alexa ranking should fall dramatically as well

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December 23rd, 2009 at 11:34 pm

This is part of this purpose of commenting but i always learn something new from the commentators.

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December 24th, 2009 at 12:07 pm

There is still some value for noffolow links as well but it makes some impact only on link diversification not on your direct ranking.

And no-follow tag means - “no comments”, instead of “no spam”

Adam

December 31st, 2009 at 1:08 am

Hello
Steve..
Thanks a lot for sharing the info..
I’ve made my blog do follow, too..
although there’s alot of controversy about that, i still believe that be a do follow will bring a lot advantages for our blog..

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January 2nd, 2010 at 9:34 pm

I’m new to blogging, but I am already a big fan of getting rid of NoFollow on blogs. However, the one thing I learned from your post that I had not learned as of yet is a good way to use NoFollow. I just assumed there was no good use, but the idea of not wasting PR on a login page definitely makes sense!

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January 15th, 2010 at 4:55 am

does all comments are DO FOLLOW? i mean all? arent there any comments that are no-follow?

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January 19th, 2010 at 8:02 pm

Thank’a a lot…
comment do follow can be help us.

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January 21st, 2010 at 12:22 am

Thanks for switching to a do follow blog. It seems there are less of them everyday. I’ve always felt you get more comments with do follow and the people commenting get a nice backlink. Seems like everyone wins.

February 18th, 2010 at 4:18 pm

do follow comments are well approved by experts. these are widely used by web owners. i am glad you discuss these things here.