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Re: Guru Internet Marketing Mentorship Programs Abusing Dofollow Blogs

Hunter Jackson Columbia SC Rea — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:32:29 -0000

I see no problem with commenting, as Im sure you feel the same way, If you have something to say. Even if just trying to get link juice, say something that contributes to the topic.

As far as the Guru program, I feel that is truly comment spam. They aren't even building the sites for themselves. geeze

Re: Guru Internet Marketing Mentorship Programs Abusing Dofollow Blogs

Hunter Jackson Columbia SC Rea — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:32:29 -0000

I see no problem with commenting, as Im sure you feel the same way, If you have something to say. Even if just trying to get link juice, say something that contributes to the topic.

As far as the Guru program, I feel that is truly comment spam. They aren't even building the sites for themselves. geeze

Re: Guru Internet Marketing Mentorship Programs Abusing Dofollow Blogs

Internet Marketing - Sean Mize — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:44:24 -0000

Hi...thanks for exposing this abuse...I think there really has to be a balance between the opportunity to post like this, and the content quality.

Sean
http://www.secrets-of-inter...

Re: Guru Internet Marketing Mentorship Programs Abusing Dofollow Blogs

Internet Marketing - Sean Mize — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:44:24 -0000

Hi...thanks for exposing this abuse...I think there really has to be a balance between the opportunity to post like this, and the content quality.

Sean
http://www.secrets-of-inter...

Re: Guru Internet Marketing Mentorship Programs Abusing Dofollow Blogs

Internet Marketing - Nigel Cop — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:00:11 -0000

the main options with Typolight are a captcha to stop automated posts and in general moderating comments before they go live. Other than that there are no other options.

i supose the main thing I would be interested in is whether or not I should allow links to be followed. Currently I've set it to nofollow

Re: Guru Internet Marketing Mentorship Programs Abusing Dofollow Blogs

Internet Marketing - Nigel Cop — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:00:11 -0000

the main options with Typolight are a captcha to stop automated posts and in general moderating comments before they go live. Other than that there are no other options.

i supose the main thing I would be interested in is whether or not I should allow links to be followed. Currently I've set it to nofollow

Re: Guru Internet Marketing Mentorship Programs Abusing Dofollow Blogs

AndyBeard — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:33:09 -0000

Nigel you need to be using some kind of real spam filter - I haven't used Typolight before, so I am not sure of all your options.

Re: Guru Internet Marketing Mentorship Programs Abusing Dofollow Blogs

AndyBeard — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:33:09 -0000

Nigel you need to be using some kind of real spam filter - I haven't used Typolight before, so I am not sure of all your options.

Re: Guru Internet Marketing Mentorship Programs Abusing Dofollow Blogs

Internet Marketing - Nigel Cop — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:02:20 -0000

Hi Andy,

I've been reading up on dofollow and nofollow and can't actually decide what to do with our own comment facility. We're and SEO and Internet Marketing agency and recently relaunched our site with an independent news resource.

I've turned bb code off so that no links can be posted in the comment area and added nofollow tags to the uri, however, we still get spam posts even though we have nofollow on.

I can only imagine what would happen if we allowed bbcode and switched from the tag from no to do.

What would you suggest.

Regards

Nigel

Re: Guru Internet Marketing Mentorship Programs Abusing Dofollow Blogs

Internet Marketing - Nigel Cop — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 07:02:20 -0000

Hi Andy,

I've turned bb code off so that no links can be posted in the comment area and added nofollow tags to the uri, however, we still get spam posts even though we have nofollow on.

I can only imagine what would happen if we allowed bbcode and switched from the tag from no to do.

What would you suggest.

Regards

Nigel

Re: Guru Internet Marketing Mentorship Programs Abusing Dofollow Blogs

John - OnlyRollTopDesks.com — Wed, 28 May 2008 04:21:53 -0000

It may be considered as some kind of spam but you can not accuse them too much. Everybody is fighting for back links these days. DoFollow movement is a new lead, so why not exploit it, right? Don't you make use of it? Don't you comment on other people blogs and be happy with the links back to you?

I think everybody does his job the best way he can. I agree that spamming blogs is not good but if the person comment is a value to the post itself but uses keywords in name, for ex, then it is OK, in my opinion. However, I hate those "Yeah, I know what you mean" type of comments.

Re: Guru Internet Marketing Mentorship Programs Abusing Dofollow Blogs

John - OnlyRollTopDesks.com — Wed, 28 May 2008 04:21:53 -0000

Re: Guru Internet Marketing Mentorship Programs Abusing Dofollow Blogs

Mike Gates — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:55:14 -0000

Hi Andy,

I have just turned DoFollow on for my blog, so it'll be interesting to see how it goes.

DoFollow seems to make sense to me these days with web 2.0 and fostering reader interaction and community. But, as with everything online, there will be those that abuse it.

I signed up to one of those "mentoring" programs because I was curious. I never started because I found out that I would be working to create traffic to the mentors website, and not as an affiliate.

I guess that makes sense to some - free mentoring in exchange for creating traffic for the mentor. By why not pay the students with affiliate commissions?

Mike

Re: Guru Internet Marketing Mentorship Programs Abusing Dofollow Blogs

Mike Gates — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:55:14 -0000

Hi Andy,

I have just turned DoFollow on for my blog, so it'll be interesting to see how it goes.

DoFollow seems to make sense to me these days with web 2.0 and fostering reader interaction and community. But, as with everything online, there will be those that abuse it.

I signed up to one of those "mentoring" programs because I was curious. I never started because I found out that I would be working to create traffic to the mentors website, and not as an affiliate.

I guess that makes sense to some - free mentoring in exchange for creating traffic for the mentor. By why not pay the students with affiliate commissions?

Mike

Re: Guru Internet Marketing Mentorship Programs Abusing Dofollow Blogs

AndyBeard — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:09:41 -0000

It is one of those things that has lived there for about a year now... whilst the original story has passed, I find it helps keep comments slightly more professional and useful

Re: Guru Internet Marketing Mentorship Programs Abusing Dofollow Blogs

AndyBeard — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:09:41 -0000

It is one of those things that has lived there for about a year now... whilst the original story has passed, I find it helps keep comments slightly more professional and useful

Re: Guru Internet Marketing Mentorship Programs Abusing Dofollow Blogs

Ned Carey — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:46:31 -0000

PS: I clicked the don't be an idiot button. That's funny

Ned

Re: Guru Internet Marketing Mentorship Programs Abusing Dofollow Blogs

Ned Carey — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:46:31 -0000

PS: I clicked the don't be an idiot button. That's funny

Ned

Re: Guru Internet Marketing Mentorship Programs Abusing Dofollow Blogs

Ned Carey — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:41:15 -0000

Every one I have learned from have been saying good content is the key and artificially trying to boost your SEO will probably backfire. I guess I have been lucky in my short bloging career. I keep reading articles from authorities like you about the right way to do things. It seems I have often stumbled into doing just that way.

In reponse to the comment above, Another blog did mention about a potential Google penalty for linking to low quality sites that could come from nofollow comments. It would seem to me that liks out would be a positve thing for a search engine.

Ned Carey

Re: Guru Internet Marketing Mentorship Programs Abusing Dofollow Blogs

Ned Carey — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:41:15 -0000

Ned Carey

Re: Guru Internet Marketing Mentorship Programs Abusing Dofollow Blogs

AndyBeard — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:12:38 -0000

Do you moderate your comments?

Even if you do moderate comments, a link from comments does mean some juice goes to the person commenting and not elsewhere.
However blogs that are a community gathering lots of comments tend to gather more links, and thus they have more juice to spend.

Dofollow blogs tend to get more comments, but they will also receive more junk commments, so it is more work in moderation.

There is no specific penalty from Google (as far as I am aware) for having links from comments or other user generated content followed by the search spiders.

Re: Guru Internet Marketing Mentorship Programs Abusing Dofollow Blogs

AndyBeard — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:12:38 -0000

Do you moderate your comments?

Dofollow blogs tend to get more comments, but they will also receive more junk commments, so it is more work in moderation.

There is no specific penalty from Google (as far as I am aware) for having links from comments or other user generated content followed by the search spiders.

Re: Guru Internet Marketing Mentorship Programs Abusing Dofollow Blogs

Abi — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:04:59 -0000

Andy is it true that removing nofollow tag can harm our blog and penalized by Google?

Re: Guru Internet Marketing Mentorship Programs Abusing Dofollow Blogs

Abi — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:04:59 -0000

Andy is it true that removing nofollow tag can harm our blog and penalized by Google?

Re: Guru Internet Marketing Mentorship Programs Abusing Dofollow Blogs

FW Natalie — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:33:16 -0000

Others are not keen about this. Even in forums. Good to read your thoughts.