Comments on: The DoFollow Community: Link Love At Its Best

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:27:19 +0000

Hi. Just to let you know that I have taken out the do not follow on my blog as a thank you for my commenter’s. I found that I got a number of comments like nice blog which is not adding to the conversation. So I just don’t advertise it and I do moderate and delete obvious link grabbers. How do you handle them?

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:43:13 +0000

Hi Peter,
When I get comments like the ones you mentioned I usually delete them.

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:18:15 +0000

Yeah, I delete those and the usual trackbacks I get from reddit and the like.

But as for the do-follow crowd, am I understanding that the image you use (and something I’ve seen on other blogs) is the standard?

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:28:29 +0000

@Mark:
I think it is. I had a much better answer but after my daughter threw her used diaper at me I kind of forgot heh.
Great, now I’m spamming on my own blog

By: Mark Robinson

Mark Robinson — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:16:39 +0000

Long live the list!

By: Joel

Joel — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 05:37:06 +0000

Yeah, comments should be well moderated

By: Zath

Zath — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:55:09 +0000

I have the DoFollow plugin on my site, I assumed most people had this set up - is this not the case?

Should I be placing the logo on my site, so other people are aware I have it?

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:13:51 +0000

I think having the logo is a good idea. At the very least it should make people aware that you have DoFollow enabled.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:33:19 +0000

Okay, stupid question: so why would it concern me if I know if someone’s blog will follow me or not? Would that make a person think twice about entering a comment? I mean, sure it would be nice to have follow on, but it never crosses my mind when I post a comment.

By: Brown Thoughts » Blog Archive » Tagged By The DoFollow Train

Brown Thoughts » Blog Archive » Tagged By The DoFollow Train — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 03:53:14 +0000

[…] is rapidly growing and that’s a good thing. Since I already listed some DoFollow blogs in my post about the community, my new additions to the train won’t be that […]

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 04:24:03 +0000

@Mark:
When people know that you have dofollow enabled they feel more inclined to keep commenting because they know that every comment gives a link back to them.

By: Zath

Zath — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 06:29:24 +0000

Thanks for the advice Brown Baron, I’ll look at putting the logo on my site this weekend.

By: I Do Follow When You Comment! | Zath

I Do Follow When You Comment! | Zath — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:31:35 +0000

[…] You may have noticed the recent ‘U Comment, I Follow’ logo addition to the sidebar of the site, I decided to add this after reading about the ‘Do Follow’ plugin over at Brown Thoughts. […]

By: Posicionamiento Web

Posicionamiento Web — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 19:25:12 +0000

This is maybe one of the best things that bloggers can do to raise their comments and the participation of the webmasters, now people can get a link while share they opinions

By: Karl Erfurt

Karl Erfurt — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:53:03 +0000

Thank you for compiling this list of DoFollow blogs. About one month ago, I created a separate bookmark folder called “Blogs Without Nofollow” so that I could keep track of these kinds of sites and comment on them later. After I gather a sufficient number of blogs that have joined the movement, I will publish a list similar to yours so that we can get the “link love” going.

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 16:56:33 +0000

@Karl:
I’m sure the list is at least 5 times bigger now hehe. Let me know when you publish your list.
I hope you come back to visit

By: Karl Erfurt

Karl Erfurt — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 17:42:09 +0000

@Brown Baron:

Yes, you’re certainly right about that! Before I found this site I only had about three of them bookmarked. Because there are so many blogs out there with nofollow on them, I have found that it is actually quite difficult to find one that is not unless I specifically search under “nonofollow” types of keywords.

I will take some time to go through the sites in your list and figure out which ones match my interests, my site’s content, etc., but once I get my own “NoNofollow favorites” collection together, I will be sure to include this blog in the final list.

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 18:14:05 +0000

@Karl:
Thanks!
Here’s a link to the DoFollow community on Bumpzee:
http://www.bumpzee.com/no-nofollow/people/

By: Karl Erfurt

Karl Erfurt — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 20:10:05 +0000

@Brown Baron:

Thank you for the link. I have seen buttons for the Bumpzee site before but never got around to registering or having a serious look at it. I have now signed up with them and joined the dofollow community there. It looks like I’m number 370.

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 20:13:26 +0000

Welcome to the community Karl

By: AskaX

AskaX — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:50:36 +0000

Hi Brown Baron,

Can I steal the logo of “u comment I follow”?
I just Install the plugin into my blog

Cheers

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:53:30 +0000

@AskaX:
Go ahead buddy

By: AskaX

AskaX — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:47:50 +0000

@ Baron:
Wow thats was fast reply…
which plugin do you use for recent comment? I tried Recent-comment1.3.1-lyceum plugin, but it give me an error.

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 15:53:54 +0000

@AskaX:
I use the Simple Recent Comments plugin:
http://www.g-loaded.eu/2006/01/15/simple-recent-comments-wordpress-plugin/

By: AskaX

AskaX — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:12:06 +0000

Thank youuuu I’ll add it tom, its 2 am already in here :p
cheers

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:40:54 +0000

@AskaX:
You’re welcome

By: Zath

Zath — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 22:05:29 +0000

I might try that comments plugin myself, thanks Baron!

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 05:55:31 +0000

@Zath:
Hey buddy! You’re welcome

By: Sal

Sal — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 13:44:58 +0000

If one of the major points of nofollow was to reduce spam then it certainly doesn’t work as I’m still getting hundreds of spam comments a week. I’ll be following your lead and adding the dofollow plugin to my blog.

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:29:30 +0000

@Sal:
Welcome to the community!

By: AskaX

AskaX — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 13:14:29 +0000

@Sal

Try AuthImage wordpress plugin, I never have any spam from spam bot after adding this plugin

By: Domestic Bliss

Domestic Bliss — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:23:19 +0000

Answering Sam, nofollow wasn’t for the benefit of bloggers, it was for the benefit of Google. I doubt Google care about you getting tons of spam, but they do care about the links created by that spam skewing their results.

By: Karl Erfurt

Karl Erfurt — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:28:49 +0000

Okay, I have gone through your list of DoFollow blogs and have bookmarked most of them. However, I found a few that you might want to check on:

1. The last one on your list, “Mark Robinson” resolves to a GoDaddy parked page.

2. Two other blogs, “A Virtual Exit” and “David Airey” appear to be using NoFollow in their comments. It is possible that these blog authors have changed their policies since your original list was published.

At any rate, thank you for providing the DoFollow list. This will be a good resource for comments, traffic, and content ideas.

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 08:46:02 +0000

@Karl:
Thanks for the heads up. I’ll be sure to update this list. There’s actually a DoFollow community on Bumpzee should you wish to find more DoFollow blogs

By: Yang

Yang — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:27:56 +0000

Anyway, I’m still armed with ‘nofollow’ because the spam, might considering getting rid of it, but now, I don’t think so.

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:47:09 +0000

@Yang:
That’s not bad. Thanks for the visit

By: Tee

Tee — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 04:10:36 +0000

Have you noticed any extra spam since removing nofollow? Which spam plugins do you use?

I’ve been reading a bit about the “dofollow” movement and my only concern is spam… otherwise, it is a great way to encourage comments, no doubt.

Tee’s last blog post..Watch the Gluten Intake, Celiacs!

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 23:09:26 +0000

@Tee:
I only use Akismet. I remember the spam increased but Akismet catches most of it. I still check on the comments just to make sure nothing gets through.

By: Jim - 406NotAcceptable

Jim - 406NotAcceptable — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 03:30:48 +0000

@Tee
I’ve never had nofollow at tech-rant.com and with Askimet + BadBehaviour I get a spam or two every few months. So it really is nothing to worry about. If you block posts with more than 1 link in them you’ll probably cut out 99% of the bots.

There’s a good do follow list here:
http://nicusor.com/do-follow-list/

Jim - 406NotAcceptable’s last blog post..The AMC Cinema Scam

By: Tee

Tee — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:40:42 +0000

Thanks for the response. And wow, only 1? You are a brave, brave man!

So far, in addition to Aksimet, I also use the JSSpamblock plugin, which should hinder machine-based spam (it requires an actual browser to be opened, with Javascript active, otherwise it requires a random number to be typed in. Not quite a CAPTCHA, but similar in theory I suppose).

I want to discourage spam while not hindering the usability for my visitors. The plugin I mentioned above is invisible to a user running a Javascript-enabled browser (which should be just about everyone nowadays!).

Speaking of plugins - I *really* like your comment preview plugin, very nice!!

Tee’s last blog post..Don?t Worry, Yogurt Is Still Good for You!

By: yese

yese — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:14:45 +0000

good lucky

yese’s last blog post..设置wordpress博客只在首页显示友情链接

By: Brown Baron

Brown Baron — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:21:49 +0000

@Tee:
I’m using the http://bloggeroftheweb.com/directory

Thanks.

By: nick

nick — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:57:53 +0000

Tbh i dont even understand why people keep the no follow attribute. Its doesnt harm the blog if you get rid of it.

At the end of the day you are always going to get spam and all you have to do is delete it simple!

By: fkraa.com

fkraa.com — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 05:00:47 +0000

Thank you

By: acakadut

acakadut — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:16:45 +0000

please add my blog as well

dofollow, commentluv & top commentator plugins are installed
acakadut’s last blog post..AT Manager 1.7

By: jordan fusion

jordan fusion — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 03:13:02 +0000

DoFollow plugin rocks! I’m installing it on my sites. Thanks again

By: wawunx

wawunx — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 11:24:00 +0000

thanks you brown

wawunx’s last blog post..Helminthiosis

By: Ajith Edassery

Ajith Edassery — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:34:37 +0000

How do I get my link here? I am still PR0 as it’s a new blog…

Cheers,
Ajith

Ajith Edassery’s last blog post..10 High-PR, High-Traffic FREE article submission sites

By: Keyd

Keyd — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:20:05 +0000

I think if you want to fight spam, you may put something like captcha on your comment system.
DoFollow is good for everyone, because bad site with no content won’t be popular even if owner of this site post’s many links through dofollow blogs…

By: Karn Patel

Karn Patel — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:22:47 +0000

Wow man, this is pretty sick. I started seeing the Dofollow pic everywhere. It is an online cult now.

Karn Patel’s last blog post..Answer - Will Commenting Increase my Page Rank?

By: nokia 6133

nokia 6133 — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:03:23 +0000

i dnt fink there a solution to fite against spammers….yet….cn stil try

By: RandyBrown

RandyBrown — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 22:24:32 +0000

Nice Site. I am new here but will be visiting more often as you have done a good job.

Thanks