Comment Spamming Do Follow Blogs 101
Posted on | July 15, 2008 | 210 Comments
Where are some of you learning how to comment spam?
Today I spent an hour deleting comments. The entire time it drove me nuts. Your skills at getting links to stick to a Do Follow Blog are terrible. Very few of you even have a clue!
Well today is the day you learn how to get your comments to stick to a Do Follow Blog.
Items you need for this assignment are:
- A money site you drive the traffic to
- A few profiles on social media sites
- A collection of "Do Follow" blogs
- The common sense "not" to spam a Do Follow Blog
Quality traffic is your goal, but to get there you need to study "Do Follow Psychology."
I know I am going to get a lot of heat from the anti-spam community because they never read what they complain about. This post really is not about spamming comment forms. It is how to become a valuable contributor to someone’s blog. This in turn will make it easy for all of your comments to stick and the bloggers will actively request your participation. I know the title is totally misleading. If you are truly looking to spam a Do Follow Blog, good luck, it just is not worth the time.
Something you need to know about a Do Follow Blog, the bloggers that manage them are fanatical about commenting. This is a good thing. They read every comment and if you are even close to spammy they will delete your comment without hesitation. The closest thing I can relate to a Do Follow Blogger would be the relationship an organic gardener has to their garden. Think about how much time an organic gardener puts into their garden. Would you like to be the rabbit that sneaks into their plot of green leafy goodness, or the friendly delivery guy that brings fresh steaming loads of fertilizer? The spam button can have the same effect as Mr. McGregor’s shotgun! They can kill your site by reporting you to every anti-spam forum they frequent just as easily as they can accept your comment.
I 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? Do you think that the Gardener lets just any delivery guy into his garden? No! The Gardener will only allow someone that they trust to get past their white picket fence.
If I were a delivery guy with a wheelbarrow full of fresh steaming fertilizer, I would do everything I could to become friends with every local gardener in my area. Let’s relate that to every Do Follow Blogger in your niche. 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 and the Do Follow Blogger gets to know you, add a comment to one of their posts. But before you do that, I hope you have created an about page on your money site that you want to link to. On this page add plenty of information about yourself and link out to your social media profiles.
Do Follow Blogs are not the place to use a keyword anchor text link. Trust me, if you do add one, it will be deleted before the fertilizer cools. Only a few of us keep some of the comments that have keyword anchor text links. Use your name that you use on your profiles, and link out to your about page, and only add links in the form the fields provided. Do not add links into the body of your comments. If you have written your about page well, it will link out to many of your money pages. If you have written a truly good comment and if you are one of the first to comment on that post, the Do Follow Blogger will keep your link and you will see traffic directly from that comment for a long time to come.
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July 15th, 2008 @ 2:17 pm
Thanks for the info!!
That was a nice little breakdown for the newbs like me!!
July 15th, 2008 @ 2:34 pm
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
July 15th, 2008 @ 2:42 pm
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.
July 15th, 2008 @ 4:51 pm
Nice post Mark, some of us actually do read before we complain ..
July 15th, 2008 @ 7:28 pm
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/
July 16th, 2008 @ 7:31 am
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.
July 16th, 2008 @ 10:55 am
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/
July 16th, 2008 @ 2:38 pm
Total agreement about attempts to place keywords in a no-follow blog. I liked the gardening metaphor.
July 16th, 2008 @ 7:39 pm
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..^^
July 17th, 2008 @ 2:31 am
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).
July 18th, 2008 @ 12:17 am
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 …
July 18th, 2008 @ 5:38 am
i have ado follow blog.so you know it ,what happens to me.thanks for the informative post.
July 18th, 2008 @ 7:05 am
i agree about to place keywords in a no-follow blog As google really doesn’t follow “nofollow” links.
July 18th, 2008 @ 7:07 am
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.
July 18th, 2008 @ 9:01 am
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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July 19th, 2008 @ 5:59 am
well guys i need dofollow blog lists which is not fake plz reply
July 20th, 2008 @ 1:24 am
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!
July 23rd, 2008 @ 7:00 am
Umm .. Gud Info !!
July 23rd, 2008 @ 7:12 am
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.
July 24th, 2008 @ 2:45 pm
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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July 25th, 2008 @ 3:45 pm
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.
July 25th, 2008 @ 9:17 pm
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)
July 26th, 2008 @ 1:08 am
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.
July 26th, 2008 @ 1:16 am
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.
July 29th, 2008 @ 3:27 am
true thought about comment spamming. these days people are trying out everythin and get a link instead of builing relationship etc.
July 29th, 2008 @ 1:39 pm
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.
July 29th, 2008 @ 6:53 pm
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.
July 30th, 2008 @ 7:40 pm
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.
July 31st, 2008 @ 2:24 am
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.
July 31st, 2008 @ 6:33 pm
Excellent Analogy , thx for sharing
August 4th, 2008 @ 10:57 am
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
August 4th, 2008 @ 4:07 pm
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.
August 4th, 2008 @ 11:04 pm
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?
August 5th, 2008 @ 5:27 am
Thanks Mark. All this makes a lot of sense now.
August 6th, 2008 @ 8:25 am
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.
August 7th, 2008 @ 12:56 am
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.
August 7th, 2008 @ 1:13 am
thanks good blog great tip the keywords are words we want your website to be found under it will also boost search volume
August 8th, 2008 @ 1:42 pm
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August 8th, 2008 @ 3:11 pm
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!
August 9th, 2008 @ 1:18 am
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
August 9th, 2008 @ 8:44 am
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
August 12th, 2008 @ 4:29 am
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.
August 12th, 2008 @ 12:35 pm
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.
August 14th, 2008 @ 2:20 am
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.
August 14th, 2008 @ 6:23 am
To me, the comment of James seems to be the best one – “let the animals run around poop on it.” Excellent work there.
August 14th, 2008 @ 9:23 am
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!
August 18th, 2008 @ 3:55 pm
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.
August 23rd, 2008 @ 4:44 am
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.
August 25th, 2008 @ 5:52 am
>> 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…
You are suggesting wannabe commenters build a social media profile/presence before leaving a comment on your blog? I cannot disagree more.
This suggests anyone without a general, broad, visible presence within the spaces the blog owner regards as important and relevant to them (that’ll be me in this comment’s case, by the way), should not have the right to have their comment approved, regardless of its contribution to the conversation.
Once blog comment threads become exclusive in this way, they also become dull and rapidly deteriorate into sychophantic, one-line affirmations, with the bloggers’ entourage applying ego massage.
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.
August 25th, 2008 @ 11:38 pm
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!
August 28th, 2008 @ 4:42 am
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.
August 28th, 2008 @ 6:24 am
Great Post. This article helped me a lot about know what do follow really means. Thanks for the tips.
August 28th, 2008 @ 10:59 am
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.
August 28th, 2008 @ 5:16 pm
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!
August 28th, 2008 @ 5:37 pm
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
August 29th, 2008 @ 1:35 pm
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.
August 30th, 2008 @ 2:55 am
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.
September 1st, 2008 @ 4:00 am
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.
September 1st, 2008 @ 8:44 am
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.
September 2nd, 2008 @ 4:37 pm
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
September 2nd, 2008 @ 4:42 pm
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.
September 3rd, 2008 @ 3:38 am
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!
September 4th, 2008 @ 7:14 pm
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.
September 5th, 2008 @ 9:13 am
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.
September 5th, 2008 @ 2:50 pm
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.
September 6th, 2008 @ 4:42 am
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.
September 6th, 2008 @ 11:45 am
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.
September 6th, 2008 @ 11:48 am
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.
September 7th, 2008 @ 2:26 pm
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.
September 8th, 2008 @ 10:36 am
This is a really nice write up especially the way you narrated this with the relationship of an organic gardener. Nice example.
September 9th, 2008 @ 11:55 am
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 !!
September 15th, 2008 @ 8:17 pm
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.
September 18th, 2008 @ 5:53 am
I used to get a lot of spam on my blog but then after akismet I was able to control it a lot..
September 18th, 2008 @ 9:19 am
Nice post, one thing I’ve always wondered it why bloggers frown upon commentators using a desired anchor text.
September 18th, 2008 @ 11:54 pm
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..
September 22nd, 2008 @ 6:19 pm
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.
September 22nd, 2008 @ 9:27 pm
Great post, Mark. Love your garden analogy
September 26th, 2008 @ 2:26 am
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.
September 29th, 2008 @ 8:52 am
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
September 29th, 2008 @ 3:22 pm
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.
September 30th, 2008 @ 5:38 am
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..
October 1st, 2008 @ 2:13 am
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.
October 1st, 2008 @ 6:06 am
Nice Post. Thanks for sharing this information. Can u give more information for dofollow and nofollow?
October 1st, 2008 @ 6:47 am
Yes it is spamming and we have to avaoid it
October 13th, 2008 @ 4:00 am
Great post and love the garden analogy. I get about 20 to 30 spam comments a day on my blog. Most of them don’t even make any sense and are crammed full of links to… mmm well I best not say! Do these people honestly think I am going to approve them? It’s such a waste of time having to delete them all – grrr. I feel sorry for the commentator above who gets 1k of spam comments – oh lord. But I agree with their comment – I too am sure they come from some sort of script or software.
October 16th, 2008 @ 7:41 am
Very Nice post, Mark. Love your garden concept
October 17th, 2008 @ 4:42 am
It’s funny how people are trying to show that they actually spent the time reading your comment at all , as the comments i see here , are just as same as those spam comments saying “Thanks great post” and other blablas , by using this method i realised how annoying can we be ….
I’m not excluding myself from these people , i mean me too like anyone else likes to get the backlink , but hey at least try to be on topic , and make a quality post not from 2-3 words saying thanks , to just keep going further and spam somebody’s else blog too…
October 17th, 2008 @ 5:18 am
Nice Post. Thanks for sharing this information with us.
October 19th, 2008 @ 12:35 pm
I would say that the garden analogy is quite memorable for the majority of readers, and that they won’t forget it. It is also nice that you bolded the keywords that are important to this message.
October 21st, 2008 @ 10:41 am
‘Do Follow Blogs are not the place to use a keyword anchor text link. Trust me, if you do add one, it will be deleted before the fertilizer cools. Only a few of us keep some of the comments that have keyword anchor text links’
My advice to this is look at the names that have come before your comment.
If you see obvious use of keywords in people’s links, then it is an indication that that particular blogger is okay about it… otherwise use your profile name… it’s courtesy more than anything else…
October 21st, 2008 @ 11:16 pm
Excellent garden analogy, Mark. Running a dofollow blog takes an investment of time and effort – something that spammers don’t want to do.
October 22nd, 2008 @ 5:45 am
I like the garden thing, love the article, this has explained this for me
October 22nd, 2008 @ 5:52 am
Ya that’s true. It happen some times with me also. Spammers are bullshit on my blog.
October 24th, 2008 @ 2:39 pm
Mark, thanks again for posting what should have been common sense for most people but … alas, there is no such thing.
I had to set my own blog to limit the dofollow tag after I found spammers would leave stunningly generic comments (obviously pasted) to try to get a link back. CommentLuv is my friend now, and I’m happy to help fellow bloggers but … spam bots must die.
October 27th, 2008 @ 7:15 am
I think its good to give a general comment and then to ask a question as this gives the chance for others to answer and it doesnt look like spam and it shows interest.
October 27th, 2008 @ 10:05 am
Yeah spamming is a problem at the moment. I have seen a lot of Blogs use the Google thing to reply, has anyone signed up for this, is it any good?
October 27th, 2008 @ 3:19 pm
Very interesting points in your blog it sure cleared many questions that i may have had. I loved it because i did learn a lot from it because of it.
http://www.spreadingyourcashflow.com
October 28th, 2008 @ 2:25 am
I was highly impressed by this post, its good to find a shared ground between bloggers and commenters who are seeking do follow blogs, I think there is a need to new technique that make benefit for both sides without abuse.
October 28th, 2008 @ 5:05 am
Well I have no clue about gardening but this do follow blogging I do! So how can you be sure that the blog is a do follow becuase some say they are but then they are not?
October 28th, 2008 @ 6:03 am
It’s a shame that there is no good answer between nofollow and dofollow. With nofollow, a blog gets much less comment content without incentive of a link, and therefore a worse “customer” experience. With dofollow blogs, it just takes comment moderation to a whole new level. One hour going through comments is a long time, and it is things like that that make blogs go back to nofollow. So . . . thank you for your time!
October 31st, 2008 @ 6:04 pm
So true about the need to post insightful, constructive comments to dofollow blogs as opposed to spam. It’s quite surprising how many new internet marketers are creating a bad reputation for themselves and cutting off a large source of their potential traffic just by needlessly spamming.
November 1st, 2008 @ 6:50 pm
Thank you for an interesting article – food for thought (ok, veggie food, if I should stick with your garden analogy…) On my first commercial website I used a SEO company, and I must admit that what they did worked. But on my latest two sites I have tried to do it myself. It takes hours and hours, but is also interisting. And always a challenge to find out, which methods are considered to be correct. This article tught me something new
November 2nd, 2008 @ 10:51 pm
Just use Akisment, which will deal with 90% of the spam.
November 3rd, 2008 @ 12:17 am
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.
November 3rd, 2008 @ 10:27 am
Great article, hits the nail squarely on the head. I think we all leave the odd comment here and there for an anchor text link. If I do, I at least read the post and try to add something of value in my comment.
I’ve closed the comments on my own blog, due to the number of Poker and porn links I was generating for other people!
November 4th, 2008 @ 2:23 am
Very informative post indeed. I, myself am always looking out for ‘Dofollow’ blogs, and make sure I leave an informative comment. Not only will my comment be published, but I will probably be getting traffic as well.
November 8th, 2008 @ 2:57 am
Thanks, very useful information, but how it’s possible to find out if it’s a dofollow blog
November 10th, 2008 @ 5:24 am
some people are really abusive in terms of posting their comments on do-follow blogs.. most of them are taking the advantage that is why they are spamming their comments in able to acquire several backlinks..
November 13th, 2008 @ 2:42 pm
Well, I’m not spamming you, even though you are this highly attractive, do follow blog.
I do think that visiting here will give me a heads up and some pertinent info on the various ins and outs of blogging. This “no follow” and “do follow” is something I’ve never really paid too much attention to before, but now I am.
I found your article extremely eye opening and useful!
November 14th, 2008 @ 3:36 pm
[...] gerade auf einen sehr interessanten (englischen) Artikel zum Thema “Dofollow-Blogger” [...]
November 14th, 2008 @ 3:46 pm
Hi, I hope you’re not sad about the comment-spammer who postet directly after THAT post! I like your article and I think: you’re SOOO right!
November 15th, 2008 @ 11:49 am
Thanks for the informative post. I especially liked your garden analogy. I still wonder why the do-follow blog owners are so concerned about the anchor text in the comments? Getting backlinks with names as anchor text is good only for Internet marketeres or SEO Gurus who want to use their names as a brand.
November 17th, 2008 @ 7:05 am
Another benefit of not using no follow is that tyou can get quite a few good backlinks to your blog. There are a lareg number of sites which list do follow blogs so you can get a links to your blog on all of these. They may not be the highest quality links in the world but hey.
I think the problem is that many blogs have no follow as standard so it just gets left on, if a blogger looks at what it is they will find out it is supposed to stop spam, so they are unlikley to remove it.
November 17th, 2008 @ 10:39 pm
There are pros and cons with dofollow and nofollow blogs.
Regardless, having a dofollow blog may have more worthy and useful comments, and more people posting their opinion and value, but you have to moderate the comments for any spam and whatnot.
However, having a nofollow is slighty easier, you don’t have to constantly moderate on whoever post spam and garbage. Still though, you might get less people posting any valuable comments.
It really depends…
November 17th, 2008 @ 11:02 pm
Good interaction with your post, it took me a while of scrolling down to reach the latest blogs
Nice 101 dofollow comment instruction for me I strongly believe that if you show the blogger that you read his post and provide some value in your comment you will have a high chance to get it approved even with a keyword rich anchor text (I saw that many keyword rich anchors made it to your posts, and I think you approved them because you found a real value in them)
November 18th, 2008 @ 4:39 pm
i totally agree with what you are trying to point out… i don’t see anything wrong with it, i think that it is just fair and commenters must respect that..
November 19th, 2008 @ 11:29 am
Congrats on cleaning up your blog. I manage the technology for article sender and webmaster radio. We had such an issue with spam that we don’t even allow people to post comments. I understand the day to day issues you are dealing with, and wish you the best of luck keeping the spammers in check.
November 26th, 2008 @ 5:29 pm
Your post made me actually laugh out loud several times! I love your in-your-face approach and no-nonsense way of speaking to your audience. I also very much appreciate your advice on properly using the Do Follow community. I am relatively new to this, and appreciate the sound advice.
December 1st, 2008 @ 1:58 am
Thanks for the info. I think that most of the time, people do not actually care what they read when they post. I (not sounding holier-than-thou here), try to take the time to read every article I post on. That way I can comment halfway intelligibly on it. Congrats on the deletes. Have a good one.
December 3rd, 2008 @ 11:23 pm
If I didn’t have spam filters on my blog i would go insane. Every hour I seem to get 20 or so spam comments.I’ve checked my stats, and i have bad bots crossing my site constantly. Anybody know any tricks to stop them?
December 5th, 2008 @ 4:03 pm
This is constantly a debate that I have with my fellow bloggers, on whether or not I should make my blogs dofollow or nofollow.
My friends blog who is dofollow is great, except that he spends a little over double the time I do on my blogs. All because he has to monitor, delete, and approve messages because his is do follow.
I’m a little on the fence though because I have about three times the amount of posts (better quality too) but he receives nearly 5x amount of traffic.
I guess the debate is whether or not I want to spend that extra time for traffic, or continue down my current path.
December 7th, 2008 @ 4:30 pm
I agree! I hate comment spam and I get a lot of it! There are a lot of bots that like to spam my sites and try to get their Xrated sites linked on my clean G rated posts! It’s horrible!
December 11th, 2008 @ 8:48 am
It depends, just getting a few links wont hurt, but provided you’re doing it the normal ‘human’ way!
December 13th, 2008 @ 12:14 am
Mostly comments on my blogs annoy me because they are just done for link juice. I changed my policies, applied some cool plugins and i could see the big difference in my traffic and quality of comments.
December 13th, 2008 @ 10:05 pm
Ya its a great effort…I am agree with your points…
Nice tips are there about the blogs…
I will got some tips and useful things in this site…
Thanks a lot….
December 14th, 2008 @ 4:57 am
great post, for all the comments and blogs ive written, im stunned and absolutely beside myself to learn they were no-follow, all that time wasted, thatnk heavens for those who out the light on this. good job to all bloggers chatting about it.
William
December 16th, 2008 @ 3:46 am
One benefit of not using no follow is that you can get good backlinks to your blog or whatever site.
December 24th, 2008 @ 10:51 pm
I do agree because the point here is being sensible when you post comments pertaining to the topic, and not just come out of nowhere, saying that the blog is great and such stuff.
anyways, thanks for the ‘do follow’ tips..
Have a nice holidays everyone
December 27th, 2008 @ 1:30 pm
understanding one’s post is a must if you want to comment on it. but also take note of those other comments by people that as long as it is on topic it should be good to go.
January 1st, 2009 @ 9:37 am
do follow blogs are great for sites but visitors must be courteous enough to comment based on the write up or topic.
January 4th, 2009 @ 2:53 pm
Great article! You don’t see many blogs talking about this issue, so it’s nice that someone has finally written up a good post about it. There’s nothing worse than spammers, but a good comment can be beneficial to both parties if done right.
January 5th, 2009 @ 5:59 am
One way to ensure that your readers never have to see a spam message is that you personally approve comments before they are posted.
January 5th, 2009 @ 12:19 pm
I appreciate the dofollow bloggers out there. They are constantly bombared with spammers. Honestly, I did not get this at first. I thought, “Why would anyone make their blog no-follow? Why not just dole out the follow?” Uhhh it makes sense to me now! I used to blog but it was (unbeknownst to me) no-follow — and I never got spam.
One thing I am reading is that bloggers appreciate it when you build a relationship with them – makes good sense, but this is not always possible (just due to the time constraints of life). Thanks to Google News and Twitter, I often find myself at a blog I’ve never visited before. All of this talk of “Add value, add value!” gets you all nervous about making a comment! Sometimes I’ll have something to say about a particular subject, even if it’s my first visit to the blog. I certainly don’t want that to be considered a spammy comment, just ’cause you don’t know me as a poster.
January 5th, 2009 @ 5:10 pm
I think you are wrong about most blog owners. I my self own a dofollow blog (one of 3 is dofollow as an experiment). I get about 5-10 comments a day. I can’t say I have time to read them all. If they are too short I do read them. Basically I only reject those that are blatant spam (usually keyword spam) or say “nice post”. Many other blogger friends do the exact same thing.
January 6th, 2009 @ 6:27 pm
Nice article – that’s a good way to see it. I’m ruthless on my blog – I won’t hesitate to nuke a comment, even though I’m dying to gain readership involvement.
I use the Akismet plugin with my wordpress blog and it makes screening spam pretty easy.
February 10th, 2009 @ 12:57 pm
The problem with spammers is that they find a do follow blog and comment the crap out of it!! What they don’t realize is either the blogger will be patient and just keep deleting the spam messages or worse they get tired and just end up getting rid of the dofollow attribute.
February 10th, 2009 @ 8:33 pm
Actually spammy people do not even care to read the opening post to see what the heck the topic is all about and already put generic comments like the own the blog. Well, let me tell you this, they aren’t as half as bad ass those ash*ole out there that harvest do follow blogs using spider and use robot to post them. I a matter of a few hours they can spam at least thousands of sites that way. What I usually do with them is that I block their IP from ever reaching my network, any thing that people can put comment on I put an image verification on. Good luck guys, and nice post. SPAMMY comments are just plain annoying.
February 12th, 2009 @ 4:04 pm
I fully agree with you. Spammers can get very annoying after a while. But let me ask you something: Why don’t you convert your “do-follow” blog into a “no-follow” blog? This may be the solution to all your problems!
February 27th, 2009 @ 11:13 am
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.
J.Brett
February 28th, 2009 @ 5:47 am
Thanks for the very useful article. Always a pleasure to read good and informative texts.
February 28th, 2009 @ 6:55 am
for sure spamming is a problem these days. I have noticed a lot of Blogs use the Google thing to reply, has anyone signed up for this, any opinions?
February 28th, 2009 @ 6:56 am
does anyone know of any online dating singles dofollow blogs?
February 28th, 2009 @ 8:58 am
You have a point here. One of my blogs is a dofollow, and one person who left a comment there even had an anchor text sutable for an adult site. That blog is about travel, and it’s rather unsuitable to post comments with that sort of name/anchor text.
March 2nd, 2009 @ 11:47 pm
Hey, this is a nice post. I really learned a lot from this. I’ve always wondered about the possibilities of do follow blogs. Thanks again
March 7th, 2009 @ 7:16 pm
I love this post. Great idea to show people how to comment. I setup a special site/page (my link above) just to pay back comment spammers a little. I will admit your approach is a much better solution. Teaching someone the proper way to comment is far more productive.
I recently had a visitor asking why his comments were being deleted. I showed him our comment policy and explained what he was doing wrong and he’s left several legitimate comments already. Some people just don’t know they are spamming.
March 8th, 2009 @ 4:49 am
I was searching google with keyword ‘Do-follow blogs with no moderation ” and I found your post and really liked your post . But I never knew that why moderators can support anchor text in place of name . I hope you would put this in your next post .And I am also going to bookmark your post for future use .
Thanks
Gagan
March 11th, 2009 @ 6:29 pm
Who knew….I just have an interest in gardening and the outdoors.
March 12th, 2009 @ 7:27 am
Mark, too funny…I have never seen a do-follow post that was so un-spammy. I think you scared away all of the spammers! Keep up the great posts!
March 14th, 2009 @ 10:45 am
I would thank you for this wonderful post and description with some kinda picture.
March 16th, 2009 @ 12:29 pm
Congrats for your blog optimization clean up. I read almost all articles i comment on. Almost all is when i get bored with the contents i skip and just give a few suggestions from what i have read till then
March 17th, 2009 @ 12:50 am
Yes that’s right!
Read first before you complain..
BTW, great job!
March 17th, 2009 @ 11:03 pm
I love your will, Actually we have the same idea. It more can be a search engine friendly..
March 19th, 2009 @ 3:02 am
Very well explained example, that of a relationship that an organic gardener puts into their garden! This can certainly help, of course getting a good list of such blogs is also important.
March 19th, 2009 @ 6:42 pm
This is great advice for people that are spamming blogs or using blogs for SEO purposes.
March 22nd, 2009 @ 8:47 am
Yes i agree to you some bloggers abuse do follow blog comments like spamming to only have a back link.
March 23rd, 2009 @ 5:16 am
This was nice explanation of why not to spam on dofollow blogs. The example was good.
March 23rd, 2009 @ 3:56 pm
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.
hanks, very useful information, but how it’s possible to find out if it’s a dofollow blog
March 26th, 2009 @ 6:57 pm
I like the way you discuss the do follow blogs. Good Luck.
March 27th, 2009 @ 2:18 am
Linkbuilding: If I comment on a blog and include a link to my site, will it hurt or help my pagerank? I’m learning about seo, specifically linkbuilding, and I’m just learning about white hat, gray hat, black hat, etc. I’m trying to do some linkbuilding on by commenting on some well ranked blogs and including my link. I’m not just commenting with only my link. I’m making comments relevant to the blog content, and including my link at the bottom, like this:"That’s very interesting. I’m glad you posted this seo information. I can really make good use of these tips. I’m looking forward to reading more of your posts.Thanks,
March 28th, 2009 @ 2:17 pm
I like the anology of organic gardener..
Do follow blogs surely getting the benifits of more visitors and getting valuable feedbacks.
Few people might not be reading those articles But i would like to tell you today i was first time looking for a do follow blog .I have read about 20 blogs before this but i am writing the first comment of the day here.(you know the reason…)
March 31st, 2009 @ 7:56 am
I have do follow blogs..
Thx for this information..
March 31st, 2009 @ 6:19 pm
I generally changes names like “Instant Payday Loan” or “Affordable Cabinets” to a random first name and nofollow the link, if I deem them worthy of even being posted.
April 5th, 2009 @ 2:40 pm
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April 20th, 2009 @ 11:10 am
Great bloggery; I will be sharing this on our forum as a guide on proper commenting for bloggers.
April 20th, 2009 @ 11:15 am
Few people might not be reading those articles But i would like to tell you today i was first time looking for a do follow blog .I have read about 20 blogs before this but i am writing the first comment of the day here
April 28th, 2009 @ 2:40 pm
Good ideas, and GREAT analogy. I can’t think of anything better. However, I wouldn’t say do away with keyword anchor text altogether. If it’s not to your money site, and just your blog, I think that’s alright. But, I guess your post was more directed at people who ARE trying to spam for their money site. Well, thanks for the post. Stumbled!
May 4th, 2009 @ 2:14 am
I m new in seo field, Thanks for sharing such great tips. All suggestions are really very nice but i can’t get “The common sense “not” to spam a Do Follow Blog”.
May 4th, 2009 @ 4:41 am
Great article, keep up the good work by posting excellent content.
May 4th, 2009 @ 4:44 am
I just start to learn about blog commenting.
Here I find some details really very useful,which I will
share with other friends who are also beginner.
May 4th, 2009 @ 6:51 am
Well, agreed spamming is the wastage of time. It won’t give you anything. As anything which is spammed is to be deleted today or tomorrow. It will also not continously link back to your website. Instead of it a valuable comment can benefit both of them.
May 5th, 2009 @ 12:00 am
You can use the firefox add ons-nofollow
May 5th, 2009 @ 1:08 am
I completely agree, thanks for the post. Nice analogy too
May 5th, 2009 @ 5:51 am
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!
May 6th, 2009 @ 1:27 am
How can you avoid spam ?
May 9th, 2009 @ 5:46 am
Total agreement about attempts to place keywords in a no-follow blog. I liked the gardening metaphor.Great bloggery; I will be sharing this on our forum as a guide on proper commenting for bloggers.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.
May 9th, 2009 @ 10:04 pm
Thanks for the informative post. I especially liked your garden analogy.
May 10th, 2009 @ 4:56 pm
I am curious, and I noticed someone else asked this in a comment, but if I switch my blog area to “dofollow”, is that going to possibly lower my search engine ranking with google, etc.? I really would like to encourage commenting on my site, but again, don’t want negative ramifications for linking out to non-related sites. Please let me know!
May 12th, 2009 @ 4:42 pm
You are absolutely right, spam comments are actually abuse to the system of do follow. While spamming, people do not think that they are actually cutting their own roots and putting limits on them selves.
Such people should read this post and open their eyes.
May 13th, 2009 @ 12:14 am
As someone that happens to use comments very heavy to promote money sites. I am amazed that so many spammers just have no clue how to utilize do follow blogs. They are some of the most highly cared for pieces of real estate online. It is often the value they bring to your internal link structure that many just do not see.
May 13th, 2009 @ 11:43 pm
I think look up or read before complained by the people well nice info from you.
May 14th, 2009 @ 5:22 pm
hehe loved the comments and what an intelligent post… although there are mediocre blogs, some even plain awful, but there obviously are lots of great blogs that have been made with a great deal of effort… the very least that commenters could do is make a decent comment or ‘not’ make a comment when in the first place he/she has nothing worthwhile to say…
May 15th, 2009 @ 4:25 am
really interesting and well written article.
May 15th, 2009 @ 5:21 am
Busy people with no or little time have enabled the no-follow attributes in their blog to avoid spamming while certain discerning people allow do follow comments but this requires hard work and spending of precious time. The blogger has to juggle and find out which one is suitable?
May 15th, 2009 @ 3:38 pm
I had the same problem on our company blog, I know a lot of companies like Craiglist have implemented no follow tags to ensure their website remains free of spam.
May 17th, 2009 @ 2:36 am
I follow your blog from digitalpoint. This is very good point to start “do follow”. Thanks for the rule of thumb.
May 17th, 2009 @ 6:18 am
Always go for quality comment. Only quality comments are welcome most of the time.
I hate spams and also doesn’t like commentators who leave unrelated link (or links) in the comment body. It looks like doing commenting is not their real motive but just to build links. That is so fake.
May 17th, 2009 @ 1:35 pm
Thank you, you answered the question I have been searching for which was whether or not to place keywords when blog commenting. I felt it was spammy, yet the buzz on webmaster forums was to always place keywords in the name section. I felt this to be wrong, yet they had a very sound argument saying that most bloggers didn’t care if you placed keywords into the name or not. Anyway thanks for clearing it up and I will continue to use my name rather than keywords, I am curious though would it be better to use my real name or my screen name kbeus21? I like using my real name since when I write articles or blog posts about marketing I usually talk about networking (actually taking the time to get to know bloggers and webmasters) which alot of people forget about when marketing. Sorry for babbling good post.
May 18th, 2009 @ 7:01 am
“Do Follow Blogs are not the place to use a keyword anchor text link.”
Howcome you generalize this ? If the blog owner likes to accept , he will accept the comment with keyword anchor text. if he doesn’t like he will delete it. But it is a good practice to see the other comments to find out if a blog accepts keyword links.
I do not need a link for this comment. so I am not even adding it. But do not generalize. I appreciate you for your dofollow blog and I can also understand your frustrations because of the comment spam.
May 18th, 2009 @ 4:59 pm
Excellent article. For those interested more great blogs with the same features offered by this one can be found here:
http://www.seopositions.net/dofollow/
May 18th, 2009 @ 8:58 pm
I used an anchor text at some point to post comments and I got into some trouble. I am now convinced more than ever that it just doesn’t pay to do this. I guess in the long run it still is more profitable to maintain good relationships with the do follow “gardeners.”
May 19th, 2009 @ 4:18 am
thanks for useful info.
I think all must moderate it including keyword as anchor text
May 19th, 2009 @ 6:26 am
Thanks for sharing us about,”Do Follow Blog”.
May 19th, 2009 @ 6:32 am
i accept that this is very important in SEO.
May 19th, 2009 @ 6:41 am
What a great post. I was about to use a keyword link for my name, I think the most efficent way of getting your fertilizer in the garden is let the animals run around poop on it.
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
May 19th, 2009 @ 7:04 am
Thank you very much for this useful information.
Please keep on blogging.
I am looking forward to read your next great article.
Best regards…
May 19th, 2009 @ 8:41 am
Really Good and well written article ! David
May 19th, 2009 @ 12:13 pm
Couldn’t agree more, I see so much garbage in my Akismet queue it breaks my heart. Of course I’m not going to allow your comment which consists only of links, what were you thinking?
May 20th, 2009 @ 5:08 pm
Great post, well written and informative, thank you! I’m taking your advice and appreciate your input.
May 22nd, 2009 @ 8:33 am
nice post for “no follow” and “do follow”, and i am agree with chris, i am regular reader for thisismyurl.com, and they are close “do follow” link, because spaming is so high…
May 23rd, 2009 @ 8:35 am
The garden analogy is perfect. Comments must be given great care!
May 23rd, 2009 @ 1:11 pm
Thanks for the post. This information is very useful for me as I just start to learn about blog commenting.
I see you really has an eye for it. I can also understand your frustrations because of the comment spam. Thats tha ball game.
June 25th, 2009 @ 10:09 am
I’ve be all over the internet the last few days digesting every piece of information I can about Do follow blogs. This was a great post and taught me a lot. I’ve since made my blog do follow. Many Thanks
June 26th, 2009 @ 11:45 pm
Newbie blogger here. What I would like to see is a plugin that is customizable. That is, I can selectively put back “nofollow” tag to some commenters. And perhaps I could set a minimum-number-of-characters policy to the comment content so that commenters who just type “Nice post.” or “Thank you for the information.” will be given “nofollow” while the rest are given “dofollow”.
June 28th, 2009 @ 8:08 pm
Thanks for the information, I’m in the process of learning blog commenting myself. It has been hard work!
June 29th, 2009 @ 9:55 am
I think its a hard balance between offering rewards and encouragement to users to leave comments and interact with your site, against bringing in an inevitable frenzy of spamming comments. Pages with 100 odd comments will never help those still worried about their PR rating (not that that is actually important anymore).
I wonder how Google will judge comment links in a few years, they’re already clamping down on sites like Squidoo, i believe.
June 29th, 2009 @ 11:09 am
Very fine tutuorial and guide! This is very valuable information for me to get my site some SERPs. I need some dofollow backlinks and blog commenting is the most fun and easy way (no registration needed!). Hope i will succeed and avoid my comments being classified as spam :/ To bad there is not any keyword benefit involved tho ;( just PR but PR will get traffic to the website i suppose