Dofollow and contact
I have read earlier about the “i-follow” idea and planned to implement it on my blogs. Unfortunately, other things came up and I completely forgot about it. If you wonder what the I follow movement might be, here is a short history: With the increasing number of spam comments almost all of the blogging tools (including WordPress) include a code snippet in their files that tells search engines not to follow the links to the commenters sites. It seemed a good idea to punish the spammers seeking some SE “juice” - but in the same time it was disadvantageousfor legitimate commenters. If they take the time to stop at your blog and post a comment… why should they be “punished” by cutting the backlink to their own blog/site?
The other day I have visited my fellow moderator, HandySolo’s blog and read about his implementation of the dofollow plugin. Actually, I went to read that post because I noticed the “You comment - I follow” logo in the sidebar. You can see a similar one on the right under ETCETERA. It is from Randa Clay’s blog.
Later I will install the plugin on my other blogs, too.
About Contact. Unfortunately, I put a wrong email address in the contact form when I set it up in a hurry. Which means, if you tried to send me a message before yesterday, that never arrived. Please, re-send your message, the form now works (has been tested). If yoou have any questions or suggestions regarding the book, and you don’t want to comment here, don’t hesitate to contact me personally through the form.
And now back to keyboard…
Tags: dofollow plugins wordpress
(On Sep 8th, 2007 at 3:05 am)
hi,
Sorry to disturb you…
Just for any information. May I know which WordPress theme presently you use or where i get it? I want to use this theme. Is this possible?
thanks
(On Sep 27th, 2007 at 10:14 pm)
Its ironic that many bloggers talk about this but then they actually use no follow.
(On Nov 14th, 2007 at 12:13 am)
Hi,
Its interesting.Yes i had noticed in many blogs they are providing no follow or external no follow tags.Its the good way to punish the spammers but at the same time it is the bad one for really a good commentators.I had gone through that dofollow plugin link which you had mentioned in your post.Thats good!
(On Dec 4th, 2008 at 2:14 am)
Keep up the great work ;)
(On Mar 4th, 2009 at 4:59 pm)
Cool, I’m going to use this on my blog, thanks indeed :D
(On Mar 9th, 2009 at 12:16 pm)
There is any solution to change comment relationship in my wordpress blog: http://paulusdwitunggal.wordpress.com
thanks
(On Mar 9th, 2009 at 12:37 pm)
No, you cannot do anything about it on a wp.com blog…
(On Mar 19th, 2009 at 8:31 pm)
I’m new to blogging and basically just have my one blog about home automation so my question is rather nooby. Why do you consider it ‘punishment’ to let your commenters have a no follow link? Who cares if it’s no follow or do follow. If someone wants to leave a comment they wont care about the link anyway right? What am I missing here?
Ron
(On Mar 19th, 2009 at 9:20 pm)
It is not really about blogging per se… it is more about ranking and positioning in search engines, in general.
As you may know, links to your website from high rank authority sites/blogs could improve your position in the search engines. So, if you leave a valuable comment here but the link to your website is not followed by the search engines because of the “no-follow” attribute - you have been punished. Because through your comment, insight, question you contributed something to my blog but in return I am telling the search engine ‘disregard that link to his site, don’t count it as link pointing to his site’.
I just considered that my readers deserve to have a live, followed link to their site. Does this explanation help?