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Active Dofollow & Comments Policy
3 Aug
I activated dofollow for comments and trackbacks.
That means that if you leave comments or link to one of my posts, the link to your site will be seen as a “vote” from my site to your by search engines, giving you some help for better ranking in SERPs. (If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you should read this introduction and a brief explanation on how pagerank works)
I want to encourage comments and trackbacks and to reward the readers that with their contribute helps the discussion to grow, and since I added the math question antispam plugin, I feel confident I’ll be able to handle comment spam.
The Top Commentators plugin remains active, to give an additional reward to the most active users that receive a link from each page of this blog.
Comment Policy
A comment will be deleted if:
- Contains links to splogs or MFA (Made For Adsense) sites
- Contains racists statements and stuff like that
- Adds no value to the discussion
Keep in mind that I accept and am happy to receive constructive critics… so don’t be afraid to criticize me, and I love to have fun, so jokes (in small quantities 
) are welcome… just use your brain when posting a comment!
Moderation
Comments containing more than one link in the comment body are moderated.
I check comments quite often, so you should be able to see it in a few hours, but sometimes I have to sleep, too.
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34 Responses for "Active Dofollow & Comments Policy"
Great! Welcome to the dofollow community.
I should add the spam protection to my blog as well. Ever since I add the dofollow, I got huge spam comments.
Can you tell me where do you get the spam protection plugin?
Thanks!
duh … sorry. I was blind … Did not click on the link to the plugin.
[…] The new comment spam protection is a small wordpress plugin, which will add a little human touch. You have to provide a answer to a math question to add your comment. I found the solution from one of my favorite blog “Blogging tips & www social trends” at http://www.mapelli.info/. I am happy that I read his post about “Active Dofollow & Comments Policy.” […]
Terence,
The fear of comments spam is what stopped me from joining the dofollow community until now…
I still have some concerns on the possible drop of comments quality… as you mentioned in your post there’s the concrete risk of having to fight a lot of useless comments…
my hope is that the usless ones will be a small percentage of the useful ones … let’s see what happens!
I think it’s a risky move…
many of your readers will leave messages that actually don;t have a real message and will only be stupid comments.
and if you will delete one of their comments they’ll say that you don’t let your readers to comment on your posts :))
anyway - congratulations and… good luck
Cristian,
that’s a good point.
I don’t think that users that want to leave messages only for having a backlink really care for what happens to their comment.
If someone adds a couple of comments just to get in the top commentators and then leave the site, I can easily delete the spammy commments and he’ll never know it, because probably he’ll never come back.
If a vistors leave a useless comment, but does it not just to spam the site, I’ll be happy to explain him why his comment has been deleted.
I think a new rule you should add must be the comment length…
something like minimum 5 words and not ONLY stupid comments like “great site”, “great find”, and so on.
it’s true - sometimes you really have only this to say, but… it’s one thing to post 1-2 comments this way, and it’s a different thing to only post that kind of comments
I just took the nofollow tags of of my blog too. It’s a good move I think.
Obviously, I agree
and it seems to me that it’s working, since in this few days I’ve discovered some new readers that never left comments before… maybe that this plugin helps the readers not to be shy?
the thing is that if you leave an interesting comment you may win beside a link-back, a new reader…
why is that? because the person who has the blog on which you leave the comment may enter on yours, read your articles and subscribe to your feed
am I right? :p
Nice change and yes we all suffer from spam comments at some point of time, but having a good spam protection and no nonsense attitude does help in keeping away people with bad intentions.
Keep writing.
-Stella Roy
there always the akismet, spam protection and those limitations to comment to prevent non-sensical comments especially spam
Its ironic that many blogs talk about this but then actually use no follow.
So you spend some extra time deleting junk comments that get by akismet. Aside from that, for you was the increase in traffic and comments substantial enough that you feel it was a good move?
hey thanks for this it helps the little guys like me out.
I’m afraid on our sites we spam fight every day, and are often attacked by group of hacked machine bots, often 20-30 at at time, usually home users compromised broadband PC’s. Its a real issue, and we have had to employ a vast number of techniques (ranging from blocking whole countries) through to screening contact forms with custom (perl) regular expressions. As well as some little known tricks (using css). Even now some attackers filter through and we resort to manually screening submissions in many instances rather than relaying spam to our customers and clients. Its a challenge on time especially when I have to also code enhancements, security etc. Talking about Security we get ssh brute attacks… ftp attacks.. you name it, The web is a real zoo.
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.
Spam comments are evolving beyond what we’d normally consider them to be. I know of one programmer who with the help of a linguistics student is currently working on a so-called automatic SEO tool to tailor make hard-to-detect spam comments for blogs by subject.
Soon, no more “Nice Blog” or “Just found this site today” kind of messages, but rather spam that will actually be related to the page content.
I’m not sure if it will work, but if one person’s working on it, so there must be others doing the same thing.
you can download the Akisment plugin to wordpress. it stops spam
This is indeed a true appreciation, and yes, you must watch out for real comments and not actual backlink greed. So as long as someone posts properly, a backlink should be a sign of appreciation. Sure, I’m adding links as well, but I enjoy showing interest and making the comments on the article and/or blog worthy. Fully agree with your policies. And don’t worry, I’ll criticize if I really have to
francesco, this is very good of you to do. I’ve been getting hammered by google this year and your site and others have taught me a lot about the ins and outs of google. I pull my hair out seeing sites like boxxet scrape my feed and get in the main index with my news items, while I’m stuck in supplemental.
How does the Top Commentators plugin work? It seems to be showing people who have only commented once, and that can’t be right surely?
Lol, forget my previous comment, I see now. It’s showing people with only one comment, because that’s all there has been in terms of repeat comments! Amazingly, I’m on there with 2.
Nice plug in though, I’m going to have to look at that for my blog at at http://www.ColinMcNulty.com . I wish there was a way of seeing all the plug-ins that a blog had installed.
I have to agree with your dofollow policy. I don’t understand webmasters who do not want visitors to benefit from contributing to their site as long as the visitor’s contribution is reasonable and within the tos.
How does the math antispam pluggin work? Where can we download that one>
A google search will find it. I am quite sure it has some affect on the volume. But lets face it, you are battling against individuals with pretty good resources. They will eventually find a way to counter any such protection.
Its good to see someone trying to fit it. But it is pretty hard to combat I guess!
The combined Askimet amd the math plug in have go my “bad” comments down to a reasonable level and I feel I have the option back to go dofollow again. I tried the plugin and got in a bit of a mess but I think I just need to update my WORDPRESS and I should be fine. Thanks for the freedom!
Thank you dude
there is somewhere a list with the blogs that have “dofollow”?
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I have read your terms and conditions. And its all ammenable.
Nofollow still workd, just does not give you PR love
@backlink research seo:
Yes it does.
More high PR links You have - the bigger your PR will be on next PR update
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