Comments on: Turning off DoFollow

By: Photoshopper

Photoshopper — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:49:58 +0000

Yep, totally agreed. Even I experienced that in the past. But it went on not for long. After a while, they stopped it, maybe they got tired…lol! But my blog’s not as good as yours and such uninvited comments on your blog is understood to be of much greated proportions.

By: limeshot

limeshot — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:03:18 +0000

I’ve got Akismet alright, this was not bot spam but the manual kind. People commenting on extremely superficial levels, clearly just for the link juice. I’d rather not have any comments at all, than this kind of comments.

By: Photoshopper

Photoshopper — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:27:23 +0000

I guess, a vast majority of bloggers are not aware of the functionality that plugins offer them and allow them to restrict the evil spammers and keep them at bay.

If you could just install the CAPTCHA plugin for each comment that goes into your blog, probably you won’t have any spammer or automated bot crawling around this beautiful blog.

Akismet is one revolutionary plugin that has been a great anti-spam for a while now.

By: Simon@leadership

Simon@leadership — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:50:33 +0000

In my opinion – askimet is obviously catching all of the automated spam – BUT, and this is a big but – comment spam definately seems to be taking a more human approach, and so now I find my blog plagued with technically unique yet pointless comments from ‘Mortgage financing’ or some other lame keyword. I wouldn’t mind having the comment – but its just those commercial keywords that make my blog look lower quality.
.-= Simon@leadership´s last blog ..Leadership Development =-.

By: limeshot

limeshot — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:20:06 +0000

@Nick and John: honestly, I don’t mind sharing the link juice, what drives me nuts is the sheer amount of random comments. They just leave a very unpleasant taste in my mouth. I’d rather have to manually remove the nofollow on comments that are actually relevant. Anyways, you live you learn I suppose. Thanks for stopping by guys.

By: john@logo design

john@logo design — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:28:07 +0000

Sad to hear, but I completely understand this move. There are actually people out there on forums who sell 'blog commenting' services to get dofollow links. Its sad that the dofollow movement, which had such good intentions, has had to close its doors because of these spammers. Some of the leading dofollow blogger pioneers, Stephen Cronin and RT Cunningham, who between them came up with the "KeywordLuv" plugin, recently also switched off dofollow for exactly the same reasons has you. Long term, I think its a good thing. Yes, your comments will probably reduce but it'll be the genuine readers who stay, and if you can keep up with it I think rewarding worthwhile/interesting comments with a dofollow is a great approach. .-= john@logo design´s last blog ..Box of Logos =-.

By: Nick - freelance designer

Nick - freelance designer — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:40:19 +0000

I can sympathise, I have akismet running on my site, and I would have to say ninety percent or more of the comments are either junk or shameless plugs for someones product. The odd one still gets through, but it is not often.

But I could count on one hand the amount of relevant and constructive comments I get a month. And in all honesty, people will still comment if they have something to say regardless of losing the dofollow.

I know I will!