Comments on: DoFollow: is it really worth it?

By: Free ecommerce website templates

Free ecommerce website templates — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 08:15:35 +0000

I guess it is worth to. Even if you lose as bit in your PR, it gives you the real feeling that people comment on your site. Isn’t this the final proof your blog works?

By: Linden man

Linden man — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:17:17 +0000

there are people paid to do a dofollow hunt and comment on those blogs? @___@

that is sooooo low.

By: Jake

Jake — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 21:19:52 +0000

@Aaron: Well true you have to worry about those paid comments, but I really don’t care. As long as they contribute to the discussion and don’t link to an extremely spammy site, I let the comments stay.

By: David Airey :: Graphic Designer

David Airey :: Graphic Designer — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:11:29 +0000

Suits you sir.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 20:07:19 +0000

Justin – Some good ideas there. You’d need some kind of universal blog ID with universal buy-in… which is a dream… but a nice one

David – Trendy pink, eh? I know your type…

By: David Airey :: Graphic Designer

David Airey :: Graphic Designer — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 15:11:20 +0000

I don’t publicise it, but keep dofollow on my comments. With the search status extension installed on Firefox it’s very easy to see whether a link is followed or not. If it’s not followed the hyperlink is highlighted in a trendy shade of pink.

Like Jake, I’m not sure if it matters all that much if you follow or not. I get a ton of spam in Akismet and, like Randa, I’m fairly ruthless at deleting dubious comments.

By: Justin Kistner

Justin Kistner — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:11:27 +0000

I feel like the only real long term solution for this kind of problem is identity verification. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could control who comments on our blogs in a similar fashion to Facebook? Then we could adjust settings like only approved friends could comment or only approved friends could receive the do follow love. I know we can make people register in order to leave comments, but I feel like that is a much less likely scenario than clicking a friend request button. Perhaps people could have credit scores like the way buyers have ratings on eBay. We could automatically approve comments from people with high scores and reserve only low scores for moderation. Just dreaming for now.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 19:47:05 +0000

Randa – My moderating is by no means out of control, my levels of spam are fairly insignificant. So for now a few minutes moderating is no hassle at all.

Jake – Sure, spam is spam and it affects us all. It’s just DoFollow seems to encourage this paid-for manually entered comment spam which is tricky to spot as it is seemingly relevant to the post. The service Darren Rowse mentions explicitly targets sites which have nofollow removed.

Tara – There always will be a minority who ruin it for the rest of us. It’s doubly annoying when that minority profit from spoiling it for us.

Emalyse – When spam is entered manually it is normally relevant to the post topic so it’s so tricky to spot with normal filters. You’re right though – it’s a sign my site is doing well enough to be of value to spammers, and I guess that’s worth smiling about.

By: Emalyse

Emalyse — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:22:58 +0000

I have certain key words, domains and phrases in a moderation filter now. It’s hard to catch them all but spam is the downside of getting your blog higher up the search engine list.

By: Tara

Tara — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:45:45 +0000

It really winds me up, why is it with everything the majority of people play fair, but you always get the minority of idiots who ruin it for everyone else? We end up having to make websites less accessible for the people who want to use it, passwords, approval systems, spam filters for these people.