Comments on: An Update on DoFollow

By: miracle

miracle — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:30:36 +0000

I have also removed all nofollow tags on my blog. You can find it here: http://www.my-miracle.de
Greets, miracle

By: Heatingsave

Heatingsave — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:32:42 +0000

I just learned of do follow blogs and am currently speculating their relevance in the Google algorithm and what constitutes spam when leaving a comment. Is putting your business name as your name spam. My opinion would be no unless you leave a sales pitch or list of keywords instead of an actual comment. Anyone else’s thoughts?

By: Seedbox Server

Seedbox Server — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:53:16 +0000

Interesting I had never heard of Akismet before, its only really the auto blog commenters that are a problem.

By: George Thom

George Thom — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 02:51:30 +0000

Im using Askimet to block spammers… I was tired of spammers at first. Now its ok

By: Carla Guggino

Carla Guggino — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:57:57 +0000

Lol I laught a lot when I got directed from the list of blogs to your one. Having links this ways should be done in a way it’s useful for both sides… I mean that thanks to this blog you are going to get a good link so at least you could or should submit something with quality not just “hello!” that’s quite silly… i’m sure Google bots must have something to not count links when the following word to it is something like “hello” “nice blog” “good job” or two worded sentences…

Well thank you for the laugh… And answering to Stefan I think that even with nofollow you get lot of comments of people saying just “hi” i think it could be better to do something like adding a counter of words… and not allowing post with repeated words, mispelling, short messages, etc.

Best regards
Carla

By: Zeol Shah

Zeol Shah — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:06:39 +0000

Allowing Dofollow can increase your site visibility and visitors number. The only problem is high chance of spam comments. Using Askimet or any other Spam catching plugins, we can reduce it. Im having Dofollow in my blog and Im using Askimet too..

By: Eric H. Doss

Eric H. Doss — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:18:14 +0000

Ha!,
It is a bit frustrating to me too, but I guess it’s just part of the DoFollow decision. I don’t think it’d be too hard to create a plugin that would catch those comments. I don’t know that much about coding, but I’ll take a look at the details and see if there’s anything I can do.

By: Battlefield 3

Battlefield 3 — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 09:54:52 +0000

Thanks for this great article (JOKING!!!)
I did read your article and it’s good you have pointed this out, i have several blogs which people have included in Do-follow lists and it SH*TS me as i have to now spend hours each week filtering out what is real and what is spam, i think the do-follow thing should be redeveloped by the major search engines to prevent spam.

Anyways thanks for your work, and thanks if you approve my comment, it is muchly appreciated.

PS.. is there any WP-Plugin that actually works ? because all my sites are getting hit with “Thanks for this article friend” would be nice to have a plugin to filter this nonsense out.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:30:05 +0000

I would say you are in one of the most difficult niches when it comes to “nice post”- kind of comments. Personally I have nofollow on my personal blog and still gets a lot of short one worded comments and the question is where you should draw the line. If you are not careful, there will be more and more people trying to stretch it.

By: TryEMC.com - Debt Relief

TryEMC.com - Debt Relief — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:29:04 +0000

“Hey, thanks for this article.” LoL.. I am reading this same exact comment on almost every blog post.. hehe.. Spam filters must now include lines like these.. We all know that dofollow blogs = spam comments .. hehehe…