Why I dofollow – say no to rel = no follow
I like links. I like to recieve links and being a generous so and so I’m happy to give them.
Links form the chain that holds the web together.
If someone goes to the trouble of including a link – within an article, a blog post, forum message or reply comment I expect it’s because they felt someone reading the piece might be interested. Maybe there’s an element of promotion to the link but that figures – adding a relevant link IS a vote of confidence. An irrelevant anchor text rich link will be ignored by most folk with half an ounze of gumption.
Why then is the insistance of rel=no follow become default on many “of the shelf” blogs?
To reduce spam – How so that be? The no follow relationship is invisible to viewers so they’re none the wiser as to if the link will be of value or not.
So the Pasty Muncher is please to announce that it welcomes comments from far and wide and they can be assured a dofollow link should they be included.
I first tried http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nofollow-free but it requires manual editing to remove the no follow – poor show.
Instead Rob – he of Brightscape tipped me off with sem-dofollow which adequately removes nofollow from wordpress blog comments. Simple and effective.
Welcome to the “Do Follow” movement.
Thanks for dropping by my blog.
Glad I could be of service Sir! You’ve added a fair bit of content since i pooped by last.
Thats a step in the right direction i think. I also made my blog dofollow. I see no reason not to since i recieve good comments then i want to share some love.
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Johan
I think that was a pretty good post. I couldn’t do it
. Keep up the good work.
Thanks! I’ve removed the rel=no follow in my blog. However, when I look at the page source it still show no follow I wonder why !
I really wish I could remove it off hosted WP blogs. I do have some self-hosted blogs and have the do follow plugin but I don’t actually actively seek out comments. I just believe in karma that’s all.
Really nice post. Good Site! Thanks you!
I love to blog and I also love to reward my readers for leaving comments in my blog too. That is why I also remove “nofollow” for my comments section too.
However, adversely, I receive too many spams such that at times I felt like turning it off.
How come people out there cannot properly read a blog post and leave his/her most honest opinions? Is it really that tough?
I think every blog should be do follow as standard. I swapped all of mine over because i think if people are willing to contribute then i dont mind giving them a link back. There are a lot of people who try to spam but i just spend a little time moderating the comments.
“Links hold the web together” – That’s a great point, I never thought about it that way. In my experience as long as you have akismet installed there is no need to worry about getting spam because it catches most of it. You can then sift through any of the comments it doesn’t catch and if the comment isn’t good just delete it.
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If people make nice, polite and worthy coments, then there is no reason why they shouldnt be appproved.
its good to give followable attribute to the readers link for our own site, makes them to visit again and post comments(regular visitors)
I agree 100% I have written a number of posts about NoFollow, which is a principle I basically have a problem with. It tells the search engines that you are too lazy to moderate your own comments. When the search engines rank the blogs to serve to their searchers, surely NoFollow is one way for search engines to know which blogs NOT to rank highly.
Thanks! I’ve removed the rel=no follow in my blog. However, when I look at the page source it still show no follow I wonder why !
pasty muncher checks the http://www.watchmovietrailers.tv site – maybe you’ve not done it properly?
Thanks! I’ve removed the rel=no follow in my blog. However, when I look at the page source it still show no follow I wonder why !
pasty muncher checks the http://www.watchmovietrailers.tv site – maybe you’ve not done it properly?
Do follow in comments is the best thing ever. I am getting more visitors in my other blog and I am about to install a plugin in my new blog. I just want to make sure every comment is do follow.
nice writing on the dofollow. nice touch on the math verification cheers. DC
You know why the nofollow movement started?
1) Google thinks blogs are dirty junk and wanted a way not to have to crawl them as much.
2) The big blog companies (blogger, etc…) decided they wanted to keep the pagerank that all those millions of users so generously gave them during the happy dofollow times.
What shocks me the most is that people are fine with it. All those people who helped those blog sites become what they are today, just to have those sites give them nothing in return because of greed.
If you look at the most successful forums and blogs out there they are usually Dofollow. When people catch on that they have recently applied nofollow they will go elsewhere (they’d be silly to stay when someone else is offering a better service).
The good news is that as more people add nofollow, those who have dofollow increase their link value and there are oportunities for dofollow blogs and forums to thrive over the rest.
Rock the dofollow vote.
Hi,
I just wanted to let you know that we have a huge comprehensive Do Follow Blog and Forums lists that are broken down by categories for easy use however all comments left on the following page are nofollow
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no follow blog comments
Thanks
Can’t say I’m drowning in traffic at the moment to make spammers a problem on my blog but I always think it’s nice to give people a dofollow link if they’ve taken the time to write something on your blog.
Then I let all the spam protection and the dirty great big ‘mark all as spam’ button take care of the rest.
That’s good news!
Its kind of funny that dofollow and nofollow links seem to be heading in opposite directions in terms of those who support them and those that don’t. I support dofollow and believe it to be a great way to interact with your visitors and believe it to be an honest approach to building relationships and visitors. Sites that invoke nofollow seem to be thinking about themselves. Its harsh but I feel that is the case. Just my 2 cents.
Thanks for having a nice attitude about links. I think it’s a very useful thing for a blog owner to enable dofollow.
I’m hopefully starting a blog in the next week or so and I will attempt to do it with dofollow.
I agree with what you say about NoFollow. I saw a video tonight that said you should DO nofollow to get links for page rank because they are the only links that help YOU! What’s the sense in it if your just out for yourself? Why bother blogging!
I also like Dofollow links. Nice post
I appreciate you writing this article. I’m hoping to start my own blogging network soon.
I cannot imagine my life without do-follow. I think its great and if you don’t use it, you should!
well thanks
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I think post # 21 is some sort of spam. I’ve been to the site that is linked, and he seems like a nice enough guy. The way his URL is linked to “A TUCS.N Spammer”, and the way his other hotlink says “nofollow blog comments”, when in fact the list points to a free list of dofollow blogs, makes me think that someone is just trying to make bad links for him.
is there a way to remove the nofollow tags on blogger blogs?
lol, I think all the comments on this post will be spam..
Your a good soul to have do follow, selfish people get no where in life, and this is a selfless act I must say. Thanks.
i also have dofollow but first comment is e-mailed to me for acceptance.i have taken to rejecting any general answers.nice post,cool pic etc
Thanks for contributing to the community. I will try to make my comment box do follow once i actually figure out how to add the code:( (The template is different and doesn’t follow the order & etc.) I hope i figure it out soon.
Do follow links are always useful! Thanks!
Thanks for spreading the word!
indeed the nofollow sucks.. its kind and fun to spread the link juice
cheers
Basically, the internet is one giant poll to Google, and each link counts as a vote. There are other factors that intefere, but we’ll keep it as is for simplicity’s sake. The more links you have, the more popular your site is – and that’s exactly what Google wants to find, the most popular/authorative sites on the web.
The NoFollow attribute tells Google, “Don’t count this link as a vote for this website”. Whilst Google might still crawl the website’s content, it definitely does not add any link-weight. Well done, you’ve now penalized both the legitimate commenters as well as the spammers. Makes sense.
I’ve made one of my blogs into a dofollow blog and here are my results (in comparison to a number of other, more popular, nofollow blogs that I own):
1. More comments.
2. Discussion. Because my links were carrying link-juice, and I was only accepting good quality comments, I ended up with proper, meaningful discussion that was pertinent to the article. I’m sure many of you bloggers only get spam and scraper comments
i am starting to understand the benefits of the dofollow coding. I think Google is trying to prtect itself regardless of the bloggers. I’m going try to attempt the plugin for dofollow you listed here on my new mortgage blog. Thanks
Well done, Pasty Muncher! I respect people like you and the more of us are out there the better. No to spam! Do-follow rules!
I’ve recently created a blog myself and I’m going do-follow too.
I am now starting to understand the benefits of dofollow links. I appreciate the info, and hope I can take advantage to create more traffic to my site, thanks.
Having a do follow blog will increase the number of comments you get to your blog, and it will also increase the number of spam comments you get. A program installed like Askimet (sp?) will help with the spam, but your still going to get it with any dofollow blog. To me it seems like a good trade off though – more comments.
It`s better like this , everybody hate spammers but are many other ways to stop spamming..anyway good job , i`m for Do Follow
I’ve added your blog to my dofollow blog search engine.
Do follow is the way to go. There are benefits for the provider and the user. Thanks for the information.
I like links too thanks for make do follow your blog
I think I will make my blog a do follow one too!
Yes, I say this too ” Say no to no follow”
Do follow has its benefits, for the host it means more comments for thier page, for the use a back link to thier page. Its a win-win.
Thats awsome, thanks for the info. I get so irritated when there is a spam on site that seem really interesting. and get very angry at people cause they think its a joke.
Thanks for the post it was super helpful and very informative.
The do-follow is great, thanks for the post.
I’m glad to see more people joining the do follow movement. Pasty you provide good information to those who do not understand the benefits of do follow. keep up the good work.
and I love your blog too
I like your attitude. I wish there were more like you that were willing to spread the wealth. I love the symbolism of the chain links with the necklaces.
Pasty. I like that picture, that girl is hot. Also thanks for the do follow information.
Hi,
Exactly do follow not only encourages the commentator to comment on the blog but also passes the benefit of link juice.When it matters of spam can be stopped by many other means.
I really enjoy your blog. I hope that more and more people can start to going the dofollow community. Thanks for the dofollow. I leave a daft comment.
To be very true, I am more than happy to change attributes of all my blogs because I have genuine traffic now which is difficult to maintain. Interacting with our real time users is a big experience which I want to do again and again. It is just like honoring your guests and I am very sensible in that.
I don’t understand those who make their blogs nofollow types. Readers don’t want to post comments if they know they won’t show on the blog and they can’t get a hit from it. If you want to filter comments, then just add a spam filter instead of making it a nofollow type blog.
Gorgeous one
Dofollow made my blog spamy
The problem with do-follow is people will spam. If a blog is good enough then the blog owner won’t need to have do-follow because people will comment to put their point of view accross, not to gain a back link.
The BBC is a perfect example of this. There are no links in the forums and blogs, yet they have many users.
However, when a blog is starting and it wants to get a upper hand, their is no harm in attracting people who want do-follow links, because some will become hooked, so even if you change to no-follow, people will still comment.
Thanks for sharing the link love. It’s so much better to make sites the dofollow type. It rewards those that take the time to read and post on your blog.
I like your thinking pasty. Thanks for accepting comments. I feel the same way. If someone takes their time to read your blog and post a comment, why not accept it.
yes intresting but I get alot of spam, but maybe
next month a take off nofollow
i am starting to understand the benefits of the dofollow coding. I think Google is trying to prtect itself regardless of the bloggers. I’m going try to attempt the plugin for dofollow you listed here on my new mortgage blog. Thanks
The problem with do-follow is people will spam. If a blog is good enough then the blog owner won’t need to have do-follow because people will comment to put their point of view accross, not to gain a back link.
The BBC is a perfect example of this. There are no links in the forums and blogs, yet they have many users.
However, when a blog is starting and it wants to get a upper hand, their is no harm in attracting people who want do-follow links, because some will become hooked, so even if you change to no-follow, people will still comment.
Dofollow is a great way to gain readership and user interaction with your blog. Unfortunately there is also the risk of two word replies such as “good work” or “great post” that flood in from time to time.
I guess if you can get more posts that add substance to a discussion then the dofollow is attracting the visitors you seek. Best of luck to you and your site!
~Anne
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Well, in either case, you can still call it spam. Whether the visitor IS interested in your blog/post and comments with interest or not and just wants a link. In other words, it depends on the blog owner himself/herself whether (s)he is willing to appreciate the comments and accepting the links in exchange or just as a sign of appreciation, simple as that. If not, then by all means, removing the ‘URL’ field takes 2 seconds! Google that out. Don’t leave the URL and then judging people for spamming, most are not spamming, they post with interest and once they see the option of leaving their website URL, why not?
I’m all for DOFOLLOW or just remove the URL field! Don’t leave it with nofollow, that’s more a trick in making some people comment without interest. So anyway, all for dofollow,
Cheers!
The dofollow movement is getting bigger and bigger. I manage lots of blogs and they are all dofollow, plus I’m always on the look out for more. Nofollow did not stop spam, it just stopped legit comments. Not only did spam comments stop, most comments stopped. Hopefully more people catch on and figure out that dofollow rocks.
I think the only one drawback here is the garbage comments, according to what my friends said before, his blog went cluttered by garbage comments after the second day that he dofollowed his blog. He received about a hundred garbage comments, although he said that one advantage he Likes is the immediate increased in traffic, pagerank as well as click on his adsense.
I have constant floods of spam, but they are usually caught by our filters. From what I’ve read it seems as if Habari does a better job of catching spam than Wordpress does, so that could be the reason. It’s nice to have the filters because I really like the feedback and discussion but hated having to wade through all the nonsense to get to them.
I agree! No-follow blogs are baaad! The Question for me is, Why not? Spam is not an excuse and youre so right about the web being tied together by links. Very thoughtful munchies
Being generous is not so hard and you will feel happy when you do giving. As a matter of fact, so many bloggers don’t offer dofollow just because they are afraid of spam. So as someone have suggested here that a filter would help a lot. Thanks for your generosity.
Maybe you could give proper links to everyone (eg, no java script and no no follow), but make them pay if they want a better placing.
Put paid links above the fold, for example, or highlight them. or let them include a description as well, instead of just a title. or let them include a thumbnail of the homepage or something.
By the way I am stupid.
For a while many of them were against the do follow movement as they are arguing that they are constantly facing the problem of spam. But whether by making a blog as no follow can they get rid of spam completely, Is this is the only way to get rid of spam , there are many spam filter available in the market which stops the spam in an amazing way.Thus there is no necessity to make the blog as a no follow only and only to stop spam.
Long live o follow! but seriously its people like you that keep the internet fair for all the little guys, thanks !
The DoFollow blog or links are very helpful in optimizing keywords especially in Google search engine. If your blog have a high page rank and have the DoFollow plugin. Expect more people to visit your blog and have comment as their backlink.
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The problem with do-follow is people will spam, but do follow blogs encourages the commentator to comment on the blog. Tough decision for blog owner !
A nice benevolent thinking, afterall we are all here to promote our sites and this only helping out mutually. Kudos.
Do follow are important for the continuity of the web and I have been looking to had mine to the “do follow” generation. Thanks for the tips on how to update my blog. I will go ahead and install the plugin right away.
No-follow was created in an era when spam filtering wasn’t very effective, but now, when every blog has akismet, the idea is just inherited in the system.
People think that without it, we’ll be going back to the era when spam was a serious time waster for the webmasters.
Dofollow is a win-win for poster and blog owner both. It’s like they think that a nofollow blog will not get spammed, it still does! That simply means that nofollow is ineffective as an anti spam measure and should just be abolished totally.
Dofollow is a great idea. It really helps encourage people to participate in discussions.
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