Comments on: Growing Tired Of Anchor Text In Comments – Switching Off Dofollow

By: Integrated

Integrated — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 11:45:31 +0000

Hey if we turn off all the do follow blogs than many people will not comment because mostly all of them need exposure for there websites…And this is the best way by leaving comments..I agree some are using only for spamming but some of them are really worth reading it..

Cheers
Integrated

By: serzkop

serzkop — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:53:11 +0000

well it's not a bad idea to be honest.
But there are people that just come and dont care about your blog so they see the opportunity and spam :)

By: serzkop

serzkop — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:52:23 +0000

well it's not a bad idea to be honest.
But there are people that lust come and dont care about your blog so they see the opportunity and spam :)

By: iPhone

iPhone — Mon, 18 May 2009 13:48:36 +0000

I see Top Commentators has been removed. Shame as it is a nice reward for regular commentors.

By: Buzz : tout ce qui fait frÃ©mir la toile [web 5.0]

Buzz : tout ce qui fait frÃ©mir la toile [web 5.0] — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:13:34 +0000

Concours de rÃ©fÃ©rencement SEOCONTEST2008…

Jusq’au 1er avril, se dÃ©roule un concours de rÃ©fÃ©rencement international appelÃ© “seocontest2008“. Il s’agit d’arriver Ã mettre un site en premiÃ¨re position sur la requÃªte Google “seocontest2008″. Pour ga…

By: Blogging - Following Commentators’ Links | HomeBiz Resource

Blogging - Following Commentators’ Links | HomeBiz Resource — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 13:31:47 +0000

[...] are always obstacles in committing good deeds. Bloggers who implemented do-follow attribute on their comment section grew tired of spams and decided to [...]

By: Top 9 Reasons DoFollow Can Hurt Your Blog | Make Money Blogging

Top 9 Reasons DoFollow Can Hurt Your Blog | Make Money Blogging — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:28:46 +0000

[...] 6.) Fake Comments By providing a reason to comment, a lot of your readers will post fake comments that provide zero extra benefit to the blog posts. For a recent case study of dofollow flooding a popular blog with useless comments, read this article. [...]

By: Matias

Matias — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:02:38 +0000

@bingo
Having links to your site appear one day and disappear suddenly may look a little spammy to google.

By: Everton

Everton — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:51:43 +0000

@Bingo

I think you have a fair point. I think even getting your name their for a week is beneficial as google spiders big sites constantly, so it could improve your own indexing/rankings

By: Bingo Babe

Bingo Babe — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:45:17 +0000

I’ve actually been wondering this for quite awhile, and this seems a good a place as any to ask.

If I come here, become a loyal reader.. earn my spot as top commentator for the duration of the current top commentator period.. and then later, I get busy, or stop coming back, or was just here for the link in the first place..

Will the loss of that link hurt me as much as the link helped me in the first place?

I did when top commentators was first introduced go experiment by commenting on lots and lots of blogs with 4flush.com as my website, that site is a bit bigger and pretty solid as far as ranking goes, so not as temperamental as the one I’m working on right now..

By: Mark from Bloglyne

Mark from Bloglyne — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 15:14:32 +0000

@E – I can only imagine the volume you have to deal with in comments. Recently, I have noticed a rash of “in comment” linking which I have to take time to edit. However, I do not think I will remove DoFollow yet, as I still need to encourage real comments. What widget are you using to generate your footer top commenter box?

@Zath – I wonder if Google starts penalizing for everything what they will end up being left to rank with *grins*

By: Zath

Zath — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:54:00 +0000

I recently turned off my ‘dofollow’ plugin too due to a combination of spam comments and also I’m wondering if Google will start penalising blogs that have dofollow comment links as it can be used to influence search engine rankings.

By: Adam Dempsey

Adam Dempsey — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:41:17 +0000

I think it’s a good idea, not sure if auto-spam bots detect blogs with nofollow and avoid them or what, but as you say it won’t affect the genuine commenters anyway.

By: Everton

Everton — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:54:48 +0000

@Smackall

You were complaining about the frequency of posts previosly smackall, which has now been fixed e.g. 5 posts in the last 24 hours. Is something else still bothering you?

@Micah

It won’t deter some, but at least I don’t have to worry about getting penalised by Google from the ones I miss now.

By: Micah

Micah — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 06:51:44 +0000

Bummer…I’m not so sure the spammers will stop trying to get links though. But, I suppose you won’t have to spend all that time deleting them either.

By: Smackall

Smackall — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:23:03 +0000

huh, nothing to do with my comments. But still feeling with that your posts are now loosing something, that keeps me off from here nowadays…