Comments on: Comments Policy – DOfollow-NoFollow

By: Case Stevens

Case Stevens — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 13:03:03 +0000

@ Rahul
Right!
And that’s why you come here and comment on an old post with a PR4.

@Sahil
Great question. All the comments you see on this blog are about 25% of the total comments received.
Real spammers are easy to delete, using SK2.
The problem are those that post lousy comments or are only here to get link juice.
Takes time, but I still do it.

By: Bollywood Songs

Bollywood Songs — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:37:28 +0000

Personally, I am not a big fan of dofollow thing. I tried this on one of my blog and unfortunately, I started getting 10s of spams every day. I believe spammers run some scripts to find dofollowing blogs and they found mine. It was so irritating so heaps of worthless comments every other hour.

Regards,
Rahul Bhakeja

By: TechnoDiary.com

TechnoDiary.com — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 12:17:38 +0000

I am interested in knowing the trend in quality and quantity of comments after you made the links dofollow. It’s good you have maintained good standards regarding your comment policy.

~Sahil

By: Laurie Lacey

Laurie Lacey — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:14:44 +0000

Hi,

I personally will comment regardless of whether “No Follow” or “Do Follow” tags are used on a blog. However, I admit that it is always very nice to have that “Link” out there promoting my site.

For me, the main thing is the “content” of the blog post. If it’s something that catches my interest, I’ll likely leave a comment.

All the best,
Laurie

By: HR Blog

HR Blog — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:23:36 +0000

Hi Case,

I actually have had great success with defeating spammy comments by using TPAS (typepad antispam). I used to use Akismet and several others out there that have been mentioned here that do it in different ways. I just got tired of how much “chaining” the antispam plugins slowed down blogs that I switched entirely to TPAS. I believe it’s still in beta, but then again.. so is gmail.

By: IBS

IBS — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:39:40 +0000

hello,

this is a nice thing you`v got going here..
the no-follow tag is making it hard to do any linking from blogs nowdays.

but at the other end, the spammers take the fun out of blogging all together. i used to have some blogs as dofollow, and i was moderating comments all day long. it just wasn`t funny anymore.

anyway thanx for your efferd to help other people, and i surely wil come back to this blog to read up some more, you`ve got some nice post posted here.

greets roger

By: Chiropractic Websites

Chiropractic Websites — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 23:09:02 +0000

I see the pros and cons of doing the no follow thing. I am just about to start a blog and am considering whether to use “no follow” or “do follow”. I seem to be siding with DoFollow for the reason that if somebody takes the time out of their day to make a comment on your blog at least they should be rewarded for it. Just as long as it is not abused I think its ok for people to post as long as it is relevant to their business/activities. I wouldn’t dream of posting on blogs that have no relevance to myself and my business no matter what sort of “link juice” I may generate.

By: Web Templaten

Web Templaten — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 06:15:41 +0000

Lol, I like the way you put it. We need to find better ways of filtering spammers instead of using the nofollow tag on everything. Thanks for allowing us to have our links on your blog!

By: Rajaie AlKorani

Rajaie AlKorani — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 11:46:11 +0000

Some people prefer comments that add value, others might only want comments. Whatever the reason, it’s up to the blogger in the end.

Your policy is not very hard to follow which makes everyone a winner.

By: College Graduation Gifts

College Graduation Gifts — Sat, 31 May 2008 17:57:10 +0000

My hats off to you for making your blog a dofollow. Such is a manifestation of unselfishness and the willingness to lend a helping hand to those who might need it.

As a newbie, my early understanding of nofollow tags was that they were put into place primarily as a deterrence against comment spamming. However, I came to observe and realize that nofollow tags did not really prevent it at all. Instead, they just discourage legit readers from leaving comments which could have been useful for the blogs and its other readers as well.

Comment spamming is unethical. It may be easy to spot a comment spam by the looks of its anatomy. However, there must be some other ways to really hammer the root cause of it.