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DoFollow plugin - sharing the love

March 25, 2007 – 8:17 am | by Miriam Schwab

I recently posted a comment on a blog, and was surprised to get a trackback link as a result from their blog. Suddenly I understood what all the excitement is over turning off the NoFollow links from commenters. Why not make those links real? So I’ve installed DoFollow here on WordPressGarage.com, and we’ll see how it goes.

I chose to install the Semiologic plugin because it is the most simple - it just turns on all comment links. The reason I felt that this was sufficient is that I have this blog set up so that I have to approve comments the first time they are posted from a reader, and then after that they appear automatically. So I’m not worried that comments that appear are spam, since I’ve approved them.

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  1. 8 Responses to “DoFollow plugin - sharing the love”

  2. By Andy Beard on Mar 29, 2007 | Reply

    You don’t normally get pinged, but they can show up in Technorati. Some blogs actually showed up in Technorati even with nofollow, I am not sure why.

    It is also good to add a comments policy to discourage manual spam.

  3. By Miriam on Mar 29, 2007 | Reply

    Hi Andy,
    That’s interesting about links showing up in Technorati. What kind of comments policy do you mean that would discourage manual spam?

  4. By Andy Beard on Mar 30, 2007 | Reply

    I will link to my comments policy as an example, feel free to use whatever you like from it. It might be more lenient than most people’s.

    I also used the one on Teli’s blog as inspiration

    http://www.optiniche.com/blog/comment-policy/

  5. By Miriam on Mar 30, 2007 | Reply

    Andy: Cookies. Interesting and yet seemingly complicated.

    On another topic - I like your RSS feed icon and its nifty drop-down menu! Plugin?

  6. By Andy Beard on Mar 30, 2007 | Reply

    Thanks for spotting that - I used to disable the comments form if people hadn’t read the policy. It worked for 98% of people, but I got rid of it for the 2%

    I forgot to remove the cookie code from the policy.

    The drop down needs some work, there is 2 versions, the better of them is on toprankblog.com it seems, though their version is generated, and I heard they disabled it.

    The other version is from http://www.ifeedreaders.com/news/5/

    They have both a plugin and a generator, though the generated version is better.

    One task I have is to modify it tomorrow so that the list is in 3 columns, and I am having some problems with the long list and other divs.

  7. By Marcus on May 14, 2007 | Reply

    Dofollow plugin encourages visitors to comment, it benefits blog owner. And nofollow doesn’t stop spam, plugins like Akismet do.

  8. By Hobo on May 26, 2007 | Reply

    We’ve done the same with our blog - the only difference is the number of commentators increased and most of the conversation has been relevant and interesting. No bad thing DoFollow!

  9. By Bape on Sep 28, 2007 | Reply

    Its ironic that many bloggers talk about this but then they actually use no follow.

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