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Re: Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments?

Eric — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 12:08:28 -0000

I think that the do follow tag can only help your blog due to the massive amount of traffic it attracts. People do want people to read their blogs right?

Re: Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments?

Beverly Hills - Dave — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:49:29 -0000

I can sure understand people not wanting to put comments in when there is not contribution to the conversation .
What I don't understand is people who call whatever you have to say "spam" when you have taken the time and effort to write relevant content to your comments.
I happen to like to read a lot of blogs (esp. real estate blogs) since I am in real estate.
I also like to read anything I can find on writing a blog as I think this would be a very interesting way to make a living. from what I see there are more interesting comments , that are way more contributive, in the do follow blogs. although I have seen some comments with a line or two of random words that make no sense, that is where I would also draw the line as spamming.
I think I'll make my blog a "do follow" or "No No follow" (I don't know if there is a difference yet)
because it should attract good comments.

Re: Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments?

Beverly Hills - Dave — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:49:29 -0000

Re: Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments?

Shaun Rosenberg — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:45:50 -0000

I do not see why blogs use make links nonfollow. As long as the people leave good messages that are not just spam there is nothing wrong with letting them put their link. At least that is my opinion.

http://www.stocks-simplifie...

Re: Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments?

Shaun Rosenberg — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:45:50 -0000

I do not see why blogs use make links nonfollow. As long as the people leave good messages that are not just spam there is nothing wrong with letting them put their link. At least that is my opinion.

http://www.stocks-simplifie...

Re: Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments?

James-DigitalKeyToInfo — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:54:11 -0000

Actually, I have linked or Stumbled posts because of comments occasionally. While generally, it is the content of the post that draws links, sometimes the post is continued well into the comments.
Andy is one of those bloggers that read and comment the comments. Many bloggers rarely respond to comments and not to the extent that Andy does. Andy (and a few others) carry the post content on into the comment section.
Yes, people do link because of comments.

Re: Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments?

James-DigitalKeyToInfo — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:54:11 -0000

Re: Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments?

malcolm coles — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:20:36 -0000

Loads of those blogs at the bumpzee community no longer seem to be nofollow. Lots of them internet marketing related. Perhaps they're just after the links from the community site?!?

Re: Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments?

malcolm coles — Fri, 30 May 2008 15:20:36 -0000

Loads of those blogs at the bumpzee community no longer seem to be nofollow. Lots of them internet marketing related. Perhaps they're just after the links from the community site?!?

Re: Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments?

Top Rated — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:05:47 -0000

All right, you talked me into it. I'm off to install Lucia's plugin now. I don't get many real comments at the moment, but Aksimet seems to catch all the crap. So, it can't hurt to give it a try.

Re: Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments?

Top Rated — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:05:47 -0000

All right, you talked me into it. I'm off to install Lucia's plugin now. I don't get many real comments at the moment, but Aksimet seems to catch all the crap. So, it can't hurt to give it a try.

Re: Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments?

Riccardo — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:52:27 -0000

I'm not an expert blogger, but i dont think that telling to the people that u won't care about whether they comment or not (cause not answering u are going to convey them this message)
is the best way to manage a blog!!!

Re: Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments?

Riccardo — Tue, 27 May 2008 20:52:27 -0000

Re: Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments?

Bluesand — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:50:41 -0000

When you use nofollow tags you are telling google that the site is not important, in my opinion -if you want to use the no follow rule, then you should do away with the url box period.

Re: Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments?

Bluesand — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:50:41 -0000

When you use nofollow tags you are telling google that the site is not important, in my opinion -if you want to use the no follow rule, then you should do away with the url box period.

Re: Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments?

andrew goulding — Sun, 25 May 2008 02:26:33 -0000

Yes, I discovered Lucia Link Love over at Alex Sysoef's http://www.howtospoter.com/ where he recommends:

"...Enter YourName@YourKeywords and KeywordLuv will use YourKeywords as the anchor text. After 3 approved comments - all your links become DoFollow links (controlled by LuciaLinkyLove..."

Duh! I haven't transferred over to Wordpress yet but when I do, that seems the way to go for me.

ADG

Re: Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments?

andrew goulding — Sun, 25 May 2008 02:26:33 -0000

Yes, I discovered Lucia Link Love over at Alex Sysoef's http://www.howtospoter.com/ where he recommends:

"...Enter YourName@YourKeywords and KeywordLuv will use YourKeywords as the anchor text. After 3 approved comments - all your links become DoFollow links (controlled by LuciaLinkyLove..."

Duh! I haven't transferred over to Wordpress yet but when I do, that seems the way to go for me.

ADG

Re: Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments?

Zath — Sat, 24 May 2008 15:03:20 -0000

I removed DoFollow from my site about 9 months ago after reading several articles about Google's policies and how it could be interpreted - then of course the penalties for paid links came in, which made up my mind at the time.

Having now seen no action by Google (yet) on dofollow commetn blogs, I'm very tempted to re-instate dofollow as both a reward for my regular commenters and also as means of helping to bring more interaction with my readers.

When people talk about good linking strategies on their blogs, are they talking about nofollows to certain internal links, nofollow affiliate and ad links?

Re: Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments?

Zath — Sat, 24 May 2008 15:03:20 -0000

When people talk about good linking strategies on their blogs, are they talking about nofollows to certain internal links, nofollow affiliate and ad links?

Re: Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments?

Mike D. — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:59:55 -0000

If I "dofollow", how can I prevent the link juice from leaking while enjoying the benefits?

Re: Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments?

Mike D. — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:59:55 -0000

If I "dofollow", how can I prevent the link juice from leaking while enjoying the benefits?

Re: Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments?

Mike at Pacebutler Recycling — Fri, 23 May 2008 05:58:31 -0000

Hi Andy, I've just started a new blog in our site and we were recently discussing whether to implement do-follow in our comments. We decided to make it do follow at this early stage, and your article here convinced me we're on the right track. It may sound a bit self-serving appearing in the comments section, but I think that even if the object of the commenter includes gaining link juice it doesn't matter as long as his or her comments are relevant to the topic, and contributes significantly to the discussion. Thanks. :)

Re: Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments?

Mike at Pacebutler Recycling — Fri, 23 May 2008 05:58:31 -0000

Re: Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments?

DanielB — Fri, 23 May 2008 04:08:32 -0000

Andy hats off to you for adopting a "do follow" approach. Someone needs to come up with some kind of "decaying" no follow tag that erodes over time based on continuity of posting with some kind of natural language filter. That would prevent the majority of comment spam whilst rewarding legitimate readers/users with a little link love for participating.

And no this isn't comment spam :)

Re: Why You Should Nofollow Your Blog Comments?

DanielB — Fri, 23 May 2008 04:08:32 -0000

And no this isn't comment spam :)