Thanks for the info!!

That was a nice little breakdown for the newbs like me!!

Right on the money Mark. I have a do follow blog. At first, I didn’t have a problem with people using anchor text as opposed to their names, but I soon grew tired of it. I want to KNOW people and interact with them as real human beings, not some farce that uses me to get a link. At least con me a little. haha

Thanks for the great post. I have a do follow blog and you are right we are re fanatical about commenting, and yes this is a good thing.

Nice post Mark, some of us actually do read before we complain ..

As a dofollow blog owner, I’ve found Dave Naylors referrer plugin ( a google search for [dave naylor referrer plugin] should find it) a big help. Helps you spot those people that are searching for nofollow blogs manually.

http://tools.davidnaylor.co.uk/

Excellent garden analogy, Mark. Running a dofollow blog takes an investment of time and effort - something that spammers don’t want to do.

Props to John for alerting me to the referrer plugin, too. I hadn’t seen that one.

Well said Mark! I’ve found that the ozh - Absolute Comments plugin for 2.5+ is GREAT for a do-follow blog. I can keep the posts and simply edit out any spam / link drops. Although simply reading the posts and leaving a thoughtful post would be best.

You can check out the plugin here http://planetozh.com/blog/my-projects/absolute-comments-manager-instant-reply/

Total agreement about attempts to place keywords in a no-follow blog. I liked the gardening metaphor.

I agree with you Mark..it is very important that you comment and give your opinions on the story that was posted..^^ I will really keep in mind all the tips you’ve said especially the placing of link on the body of the comment..^^

By the way, it’s my first time here in your blog and I have to admit I like what I’ve read..^^ so I decide to subscribe on your feeds..^^

I wrote a WordPress plugin called KeywordLuv, which allows you to leave your both name and your keywords in the name field. It then separates the name from the keywords, so that only your keywords appear in the anchor text. This gives you the best of both worlds: the commentator can leave their name and you can give them keyword rich anchor text.

However, I’ve found that I get too much borderline spam, so now I’m writing a DoFollow plugin that will only reward the top commentators (it goes some way beyond Lucia’s LinkyLove plugin).

Mark

This is great news … So are you saying that all I have to do is pretend like I give a damned about what your posts are about, show you a little respect and courtesy … and you might allow me to get some link juice?

Imagine that …

i have ado follow blog.so you know it ,what happens to me.thanks for the informative post.

i agree about to place keywords in a no-follow blog As google really doesn’t follow “nofollow” links.

Now a days its hard to find blogs without nofollow tags, and this will really helpful for blog owners to add quality links to their blogs.

Great bloggery; I will be sharing this on our forum as a guide on proper commenting for bloggers.

Thanks for this,
Rob

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well guys i need dofollow blog lists which is not fake plz reply

hi! I have some blogs also. And all of them are do follow! Before confirming any comments i need to moderate and some of the comments are really stupid i can tell you!

Umm .. Gud Info !!

Thanks for the post.
If the contents of the comments are valuable, then I think all must moderate it including keyword as anchor text. May be this situation will become for you.

What I find interesting is that some of them can’t even string a proper sentence together, like Ravikant above, who is obviously a spammer. If you are going to comment on English speaking blogs, leave your comment in proper English instead of using Babelfish to roughly translate a bunch of crap.

The name is a big deal as well, I think you touched on it above. If you leave a very thoughtful comment but put “online casino” in the name field, it’s gone.

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Great Post. I like how you recommend offering value to the blog owner by leaving an insightful comment. This is just like building relationships with other bloggers. The key is offering them value first and then they will offer to help you on their own, usually by linking or referencing your blog in their posts.

I suppose its the price you pay for being an organic Gardner. I really don’t see why all blogs are not do follow, its quite surprising it ever took off to keep blogs no follow.

Besides, i found your site browsing for do follow information, and now i’ve found a little gem that will have a place in my bookmarks)

Thanks for the recommendations. Actually, the last paragraph describes how _any_ person should comment in _any_ blog, no matter if it’s do-follow blog or not.

Wow … hats off to you the way you are spreading your message is awesome. I also want to be a delivery boy with friendly nature. I am saving your blog in my bookmark but I do not think that I will get the time but however at this moment I am really impressed by your eloquent style of writing.

true thought about comment spamming. these days people are trying out everythin and get a link instead of builing relationship etc.

I like the article, and didn’t have an about page. Im working on one right now.

I like analogies of fertilizer/vs bunny.

I also added you as a digg friend. Thanks Man.

Do follow are use very often by spammers to build backlink. However, if those spammers give nice and good comment about my website, I’m gladly accept their comment.

well that was very necessary article especially for comment spammers looking build links for their site.

The best and the simplest idea is to read the complete post and leave a meaningful comment.

Also, one should never leave weird keywords in the name field like if you are a dairy company then please don’t leave the keyword MILK in the name field.

Hello, i think you’re right but how long can you avoid these spammers? You know why? There are millions of blogs accepting comments without strict moderation. But in my case, i always do a brief moderation and accept only related comments for my blog.

Excellent Analogy , thx for sharing

As a do follow blog owner I must say that SPAM will always be present on blogs but on the other hands DoFollow plugin gives you better traffic

I was just involved in this discussion on another blog. I gave a bit of my history there but will spare all of you the boredom. The bottom line is that I’ve really come to enjoy the blogs on which I post regularly and the other commenters as well. I realize that we all ended up on the blog for various reasons, but regardless of what those reasons are (yes, my reasons are work-related), I still have come to immensely enjoy my regular blogs.

I am known as UptakeInOH everywhere, but the other blog I mentioned changes my name from my nick to my name in my email. So I am not sure how to post here. I think I’ll go with my real name as well, just to be safe. but I am the same ol’ Uptake that has posted here in the past.

would much rather be the delivery guy that brings a fresh load of fertilizer. The question is how do you get your fertilizer into the garden?

Thanks Mark. All this makes a lot of sense now.

Large praise for this well written and easily understandable contribution. I take up this blog to my favorites and times will soon again by-look.

i have a question. sir, how can i now if that site is a do-follow or a no-follow site and what are the best way to find a do-follow blog.

thanks good blog great tip the keywords are words we want your website to be found under it will also boost search volume

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What a great post. I was about to use a keyword link for my name, but decided against it after reading this article. Hey, I even put in my about page as the link.

But one thing… dad can I use my money phrase next time?

Have a great day!

Thanks - I am interest in getting backlinks, but at the same time I think I’m going abot it a reasonable manor - reading the post, reading existing comments, and only adding something if I have something worth saying (or if I just want to thank the author). I had been wondering how to go about creating a backlink - should I include a link in the comment itself, or just use the Url field provided. This post clears that up for me.

Thank you,
Tom

Hey Mark,

Good post. I think the most efficent way of getting your fertilizer in the garden is let the animals run around poop on it.

….but that wouldn’t really work in realtion to blog commenting

That would a great article. Do Follow Blogger in relationship to organic gardener would be a great idea. For me organic gardener puts so many effort on planting and growing a plants while seo needs a hardwork and patience so as to be successful in the search engine.

I personally hate comment spam thank god there are plug-ins that block that stuff. I think keywords on anchors are just fine as long as their comments are worth the 2 cents.

I am interest in getting backlinks, but at the same time I think I’m going abot it a reasonable manor - reading the post, reading existing comments, and only adding something.The bottom line is that I’ve really come to enjoy the blogs on which I post regularly and the other commenters as well.That would a great article. Do Follow Blogger in relationship to organic gardener would be a great idea.

To me, the comment of James seems to be the best one - “let the animals run around poop on it.” Excellent work there.

I agree with what “Lotus Notes Workflow” has added. I think that bloggers don’t mind giving a link as long as the comments the linkers are adding contribute to the blog itself. I’ve spent way too much time on my own blog deleting irrelevant comments that didn’t even have to do with what I posted about. Good try, spammers! Great, and sadly necessary post!

If you study Social Media Marketing and SEO in-depth, this article is correct. Blogging is in itself a social event. Your readers are your social network, close them out of commenting and being able to back link, ping etc… is not going to win you any readers long term, because part of what makes the blog community’s growth and rich experience is the interaction of the readers, otherwise it is just a website. I have asked the top SEO in the industry about this, whether giving out comment or links to referenced articles out as track backs bleeds your page, and the answer is NO, as LONG as you are providing rich content with value, value being the key here. part of value is the community nod of passing along link love.

Most of the information you get by comments/emails these days are spam or some unwanted stuff.
A dofollow blog/forum will attaract a lot of comments and most of them are spam because people don’t care and they hope they will “promote” their website over night.
The whole idea is to read the post you comment in, and comment in such a way like you would comment on your own website.
Maybe people will understand this someday.

>> What do you think would make a niche Do Follow Blogger want to be friends with you? Maybe start with a few submissions to the popular social media sites? As time grows…

It is not difficult to weed out the spammers from the genuine comments even without extensive research into each contributor. But what is most important about the concept of blog commenting is to open the conversation as broadly as possible and get input and ideas from outside one’s established network.

Hi, Just found this article through Sphinn and found that what you are saying is correct. If comments are relevan, then you can obtain some quality links. Plus, most of the sites that people tend to follow, they tend to be regular contributors (or at least from my experience).

I regularly promote sites that offer DoFollow comments on my site and have said this very same thing … comments should be relevant to the topic!

Thanks for Sharing This!

Do follow are use very often by spammers to build backlink. However, if those spammers give nice and good comment about my website, I’m gladly accept their comment.

Great Post. This article helped me a lot about know what do follow really means. Thanks for the tips.

I enjoyed the garden comparison. Alot of people use the no follow comments and way to improve seo for their site. I can understand that if people make good comments and become part of the conversation it is a win/win situation for both the blogger and the person getting the link. Thanks for sharing your feelings honestly with us.

good one, and good parallels also. i could only imagine how much effort you put in weeding out well… ‘weeds’, what i understand is that one of the goals of the do follow bloggers is to foster a helping yet healthy community… and the least that commenters could do is to respect the blog owner’s unwritten (and sometimes written) guidelines and essentially follow your suggestions right here… commenters, better bring your ’steamiest’ fertilizers to make mr. mcgregor accept you with open arms!

You can’t say I don’t take care of my readers. I’ve installed a plugin today – DoFollow – that removes the “nofollow” property from commenter links. So, provided everything is working alright, those of you who comment here should start seeing some more lovin’ from the search engines.

DoFollow: it was a noble experiment. But it brought me a lot of thin or spam comments that benefited no one. I spent a fair amount of time either deleting these or agonizing about whether they had a shred of content and should be spared.Unfortunately the people who understand this benefit — or maybe who understand it dimly enough to exaggerate its value — are often not the same as the people who share the real interests of the blog. To see the sort of folks DoFollow attracts, check out this community — it is mostly made of of people hoping to make money writing blogs about how people can make money writing blogs.)

-Lance V.D Woodsen

Excellent work. It is really instructive on Comment spam. thanks for informing us about that. I really appreciate with your post. waiting for your next post.

Pretty interesting stuff. I feel do follow attribute motivates the commentors to comment but yes spamming must not be tolerated in this context for sure. I too appreciate this excellent post.

Thanks for reminding blog commenter’s about blog etiquette. I know a lot of people do not actually know what they are doing and unconsciously spam a blog. But with this post, maybe they will be enlightened.

I think it’s wise to start off your site with “do follow” up until you acquire enough traffic. You can then later change to “no follow” once you have acquired a satisfying amount of traffic. I guess it’s “no follow” vs traffic.

I’m sure that comment spam is a pain in the neck, I know for a fact that people go to great lengths to stop it. It gets really tough on people who’s parents thought of how "cute" it would be to name you something unusual that people would remember (Rose Red, Jack frost,Beverly Hills, Snow White , all actual people) , to make a comment and have it accepted. I like to comment , and read the comments from others on the social blogs, or on subjects I understand , I don’t understand some blogs so I cannot express any intelligence in things not known to me, so I don’t comment on those. I always try to give a relevant comment in a clear , to the point manner. I think do follow is a good thing but like all good things is open to abuse. I think the absolute worst is the robot spamming that uses words that don’t come out meaning anything. Beverly

I am happy to post on no follow and follow sites if the sites offer information that is what I am looking for then I dont really mind posting anywere. If we are going to post then post on subjects that are on value. As far as having to spend time deleting spam well I dont have a blog but I have email and it bugs me with the amount of rubbish that I have to deal with every morning. I mean I did not ask to receive junk.

I have a good read, thanks for the information and insights you have so provided here. I will certainly bookmark your blog for future reads. Thanks!

Right on the money Mark.I have a do follow blog and you are right we are re fanatical about commenting, and yes this is a good thing.I’m sure that comment spam is a pain in the neck, I know for a fact that people go to great lengths to stop it.Thanks for sharing this in your post with us.

most of visitors mistakenly think that they are do follow. This seems to happen most often with blogspot blogs. I certainly get enough people applying stating they are do follow and their sites are not. It takes a lot of my time maintaining this blogroll because sites are not what the bloggers think they are. LOL
. I use a plugin that allows me to set exactly how many comments one must leave before ALL their links will follow whereas others have their sites set to give dofollow links immediately. I get far too many comments from spammers to just give my links away. I became a do follow blogger almost two years ago and I did that for my regular visitors - not for one time commenters.

Yeah thats real pain deleting comments everyday spending hours. Great read btw, very legitimate post. You wrote it very nicely. But I think if a blog is geared to a non-webmaster audience, then I can understand nofollow because the average internet user doesn’t even know what that means or even would care.

I understand your problem.But you know people. By the way really informative post!I just always looking for this type of site.I like your way of writing. Really smart.Thanks for sharing this in your post with us. Waiting for your next post like this.

Thanks for the great post Mark,I like your way of writing. Really smart.Thanks for sharing this in your post with us.Waiting for your next post like this.

Awesome post, I’ve been really annoyed with this too. Looking at do follow blogs to get good backlinks but seeing all the masses and masses of spam. I mean, I try to contribute to the blogs that I comment on (yours now added). I’m bookmarking this to come back.

well .. who likes to face spam??? . Thanks for this awesome post …. i did not know about Do Follow Blog and their works … after reading this amazing post and now i can say that i got little bit idea about do follow blog.

This is a really nice write up especially the way you narrated this with the relationship of an organic gardener. Nice example.

Thanks for posting this review! I love this website and I’ve subscribed to it.

I’m looking forward to see your future posts. Cheers !!

This is a good idea and totally do-able by most bloggers. However some of the big sites out there, like Twitter, Techcrunch and Mashable need to get it together.

I used to get a lot of spam on my blog but then after akismet I was able to control it a lot..

Nice post, one thing I’ve always wondered it why bloggers frown upon commentators using a desired anchor text.

I agree with you Mark..it is very important that you comment and give your opinions on the story that was posted..^^ I will really keep in mind all the tips you’ve said especially the placing of link on the body of the comment..

Spammers don’t seem to be getting any smarter. One of my blogs is dofollow and I get atleast 5-10 spam comments a day and they make it plainly obvious. I guess they feel as if they simply make enough spam comments on as many blogs as possible a few of them will get through so its a numbers game. maybe if they were a little more intelligent and instead chose to make a relevant comment on my blog I would have no problems approving their comment.

Great post, Mark. Love your garden analogy

Up to the mark. I agree with you. Keyword is good to put in blog. I have got lot of information. Especially the tips about placing the link in the body that idea is just superb. I like your effort and post very much.

Thanks a lot for a great post Mark. Leaving good quality comments on peoples blogs contribute with content to the blog. I feel that you at least deserv a back link then and the best would be if people used that comment love plugin so you can use a keyword in the backlink.

BR,
Johan

I, too, love the garden analogy! What a great way to illustrate the point. I recently stepped into the Do Follow Blog realm as illustrated by a post at SEOAly entitled “Why NOFOLLOW My Comments?” Thus far I’ve not seen a measurable increase in SPAM whatsoever. The number of comments, however, have gone up considerably.

Granted, my blog probably doesn’t have a significant following in comparison to some others, but in the event that SPAM becomes an issue, I have no doubt that I will find the time to police the comments myself…though Akismet seems to do a pretty good job of identifying SPAM comments without my intervention.

The fact of the matter is that if a comment, follow link or not, doesn’t contribute something useful to the post, what reason is there to keep it in the first place? It’s been my experience that comment spammers not only contribute useless comments that are often unrelated to the post itself, but that they’re idiotic in their attempts to do so (like leaving the exact same comment verbatim on two separate posts). It’s not too difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff when it comes to comment SPAM.

Hi, I am pretty sure those spammy comments come from some certain script or software spammers use. That is a bad habit example my blog before this receives more than 1K comment each day. And that was a PR0 blog.lol..

I have similar problems on my blog and it really does drive me crazy. In spite of having the nofollow tag countless imbeciles post stupid spammy comments on my blog which I spend hours moderating. I guess people are willing to try anything for backlinks these days, and its unfortunate beacuse its us that have to pay the price.

Nice Post. Thanks for sharing this information. Can u give more information for dofollow and nofollow?

Yes it is spamming and we have to avaoid it