Comments on: Dofollowing links in comments and trackbacks

By: bLuefRogX

bLuefRogX — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:51:08 +0000

Its a nice concept, but it also leads to increased ’spam’ with comments like ‘Good Job’ or ‘Nice blog’ that are not actually relevant to the post, but are just there because the poster saw a ‘DoFollow’ badge on the blog and wanted a backlink.

I suppose you could call this a double edged sword, it’d definitely get your more comments, but also increase your moderation work.

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By: GilbertZ

GilbertZ — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 22:24:50 +0000

Well done. Now we just need to get rid of NoFollow from Wordpress altogether. It was destined to be a poor solution and should be used in a purposeful way rather than app-wide.

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By: Cormac Moylan

Cormac Moylan — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 21:53:40 +0000

Good stuff Donncha, I have added your blog to the list of Irish blogs I have amassed which are dofollowing comments.

By: Ken Guest

Ken Guest — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:40:15 +0000

Cool idea – I wonder when anything like that might happen to blogs.linux.ie

By: Donncha

Donncha — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:06:34 +0000

That’s a good idea, but I have moderation enabled for new users. Spam rarely gets through thankfully.

It’ll be interesting to see if my posts receive more comments in the future. I doubt it’ll make a difference. It certainly doesn’t encourage me to write a comment on a blog post.

By: David Precious

David Precious — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:59:52 +0000

Well done for using DoFollow – I’ve done the same on my blog, to help share a little GoogleJuice

DoFollow has a handy option to only remove the nofollow from links that are over a certain age – so you can set it so that only comments added over, say, 3 days ago get the nofollow removed. That way, if a spam comment slips through, they still don’t get followed by Google for 3 days, which is plenty of time to remove it.