Luving the Comments
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This blog didn’t used to get very many comments. I have been using dofollow for a while but never got around to putting a banner up that stating that fact. This puts me in good company. Why not give back to people who comment on your blog by giving them a good link back to their site instead of basically slapping them in their face for their comment. "Thanks for the comment, but I am going to treat you like a spammer and link back to your site with a nofollow tag." The point of nofollow was to prevent spammers from gaining links from blogs.
Even worse, there are bloggers out there who fly the dofollow flag and are on the dofollow lists, but if you look at their source code, they are using nofollow. They are dofollow liars.
I go back to Andy Beard for a list of do-follow plugins for Wordpress.
This next one is relatively new and adds a new twist. Not only does the commenter get a link back to their site but also to their last post. Talk about link love. It’s link love with anchor text. I am all for ranking #1 in Google for my name. But ranking for other terms help also.
A few dofollow lists that you can submit your blog to once you install the plugin.
This first one is highly recommended. Nickoo also has a variety of badges to choose from so you can tell your readers you appreciate their comments.
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Lin said
January 7 2008 @ 11:03 am
Hi Stephan,
I’ve read many posts of late discussing the pro’s and con’s of using dofollow vs. nofollow. Some of the so-called A-list bloggers such as Darren Rowse have gone back to using nofollow due to the large numbers of spammers just leaving comments for the sake of link juice.
I think that’s appalling to say the least, so I completely understand why some people had to go that route. Personally, I think it’s very good Karma to give people who comment regularly a bit of linky love in return for taking the time to read the post and comment. I use the plugin that allows for linky love after three comments, and even though I’ve had some people try to get around it by leaving spam like comments on three different posts, I moderate my comments and delete them without hesitation.
You might be interested in checking out a post on this very topic on “Random Jabber” that got a lot of attention and comments, even from Darren giving his opinions on the matter of Dofollow vs. Nofollow.
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Stephan Miller said
January 7 2008 @ 11:52 am
I guess I don’t get that much traffic yet, but askimet does a good job of handling my spam. But who knows what they get with their traffic.
I have received a lot of hits just from the nofollow comments on John Chow and Problogger.
And I do watch people try to just into my top commenters with short quick comments.
And to conserve link juice when using dofollow, just add more links to pages on your own site on every page: top post, categories, tags, featured posts, etc. That way more juice is going back into your site.
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mcangeli said
January 7 2008 @ 2:53 pm
CommentLuv is by far the best plugin around. I’ve used it for a while and have gained several regular commentors based solely on this plugin. It rocks.
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soundtrackgeek said
January 7 2008 @ 7:21 pm
Great stuff! Added it on my site too. I hope everyone does as this can only be a good thing.
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John Hunter said
January 7 2008 @ 7:27 pm
Nice post, I am intrigued by the CommentLuv Plugin but have not started using it yet.
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BlogEntrepreneur said
January 7 2008 @ 9:33 pm
Funny…I just wrote an article tonight about this…..I didn’t realize how common this was.
It irks me that some claim they are following when they are bold faced lying about it.
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ShadowKnight said
January 8 2008 @ 2:26 am
I just happened to blog about this last night. It is a great revolution and should be embraced by all bloggers.
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nicusor said
January 8 2008 @ 4:53 am
Thanks for your help in promoting the Do Follow Movement!
Cheers,
Nick
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Best Laptopz said
January 8 2008 @ 5:13 am
Well, thanks for the campaign. I see there are plenty of bloggers who have no-follow links policy. I think it’s a bit harsh. I mean, you can just moderate all the posts in your blog so all the spammers’ links will be erased easily.
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Nick - road2blogging said
January 8 2008 @ 7:23 am
Think this is something I’m going to try out in the next few days - thanks for the links to the do-follow resources - think I’ll be sharing the luv soon
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phostan said
January 8 2008 @ 7:47 am
thx for sharing. i think you have made a great post.
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Stephan Miller said
January 8 2008 @ 10:41 am
I thought knowledge of this was pretty wide spread, which is why I thought I was rehashing information that already had been written before, but I guess we still need to get the word out on dofollow.
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Jeff_ @ Perishable Press said
January 8 2008 @ 4:43 pm
Great to see you supporting the dofollow movement! Here is a comprehensive list of dofollow plugins — complete with reviews and screenshots — that may help your readers get involved. Thanks for the post!
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mankind said
January 8 2008 @ 5:52 pm
Hi Stephan,
“Even worse, there are bloggers out there who fly the dofollow flag and are on the dofollow lists, but if you look at their source code, they are using nofollow. They are dofollow liars.”
It’s look funny when somebody using that script.They think they do the right way but not.They have been cheated.So terrible.We should be careful about this thing.
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Tom At The Home Business Archive said
January 13 2008 @ 5:20 am
Hey, a stupid question: I have installed the commentlove plugin and activated it.When I look at my blogs source code I see the following code
Does this mean that I have disabled the “no follow”? If not, what do I have to do to disable it?
Tom Lindstrom
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Tom At The Home Business Archive said
January 13 2008 @ 5:22 am
code didn´t show in my above post:
meta name=”robots” content=”follow,all”
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Stephan Miller said
January 13 2008 @ 9:30 pm
The CommetnLuv plugin doesn’t remove the no follow tags. You have to install another plugin to do that. I linked to a list of them on Andy Beard’s site.
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Colin King said
January 17 2008 @ 4:35 pm
Have you had any problems with Comment Luv? I noticed a few comments here didn’t get any. I had it on my blog and it worked okay for a day or two but since then the only one who get’s any Luv is me when I’m not signed in as Admin… So I’ve turned it off for now until I can have a look at it.
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Stephan Miller said
January 17 2008 @ 11:16 pm
It seems to miss a post every now and then on my blog and on blogs that I have commented on. But there is a newer version than mine. I just haven’t gotten around to installing it yet. Might fix it. Who knows.
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Shannon said
February 10 2008 @ 6:52 pm
hey, do they have the comment luv plugin on blogger? I have a blogger and i cant seem to find this comment luv plugin. *sigh*
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Stephan Miller said
February 11 2008 @ 7:12 am
I am not sure about Blogger. You are really limited with free blogging platforms.
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Adam said
March 7 2008 @ 3:54 am
Thanks for sharing that links. Some I know and some I don’t. I had a great website that had much more dofollow blog lists with PR and niche, I bookmarked it but an automatic update of my browser got all my bookmarked site deleted.
Anyways thanks for the links and the lists.
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Stephan Miller said
March 7 2008 @ 11:11 am
I HATE that. It has happened to me twice. And I always mean to do backups of my bookmarks and feeds regularly, but whenever I go to re-import them, the file is about three months old.
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spostareduro said
April 13 2008 @ 8:44 pm
thanks for the resource list..in fact..Barry Welford posted a reference link to Andy Beards Dofollow plugin list and I took his advice and installed the Wordpress version..(just a couple of days ago!)
Im going to check out the other stuff you have listed (directories) thanks.
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Stephan Miller said
April 14 2008 @ 5:23 am
I’m glad the post helped out.:)
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Emirhan said
April 14 2008 @ 6:26 am
Hi Stephan,
If someone takes the time to visit your site, read an article and leave a comment, what reason is there not to give a back link to the reader/commenter? This is a useful article and I am going to try the plugin myself.
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Stephan Miller said
April 14 2008 @ 7:12 am
It has definitely made the amount of comments pick up. Just a look through my archives shows that.
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Phil said
April 23 2008 @ 5:42 am
Hey Thanks Stephan. I just put the CommentLuv on my WixBizOnline Blog. I am getting ready to put the dofollow on next.
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alzbdh said
April 27 2008 @ 12:53 pm
i’m wondering how to use this (no follow)! should i pot “follow” or “dofollow” before links that i want to do follow for it ?
Thanks
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Stephan Miller said
April 28 2008 @ 5:03 am
I would just download one of the plugins to do it for you.
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Mirjam said
April 29 2008 @ 3:11 am
linkbuildingbible.com has just opened their dofollow searchengine, you might want to have a look at it if you are still interested in do-follow blogs
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Stephan Miller said
April 29 2008 @ 4:52 am
Thanks for the heads up Mirjam. I will have to go check that out.
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