U Comment – I Follow
Sunday, June 3, 2007 21:29
I have implemented the do follow plug-in New Do-Follow Plugin on all my sites and I have been using it for the past 3 weeks. I hope this is something that is viral and everybody follows suit.
With the most recent comment spam filters there is really no reason not to implement this feature that will help fellow bloggers get some much needed link love.
What this plug in does is it removes the ‘tag=”nofollow” in all the links that are in the comments. So when you fill in your URL to your Blog the search engines will not be told to ignore your link because the no follow tag won’t be there to turn them away, thus increasing your PR ranking a bit.
I also believe this will encourage more commenting on blogs because if a person comments on a DO Follow site, they will get a reciprocating link back to them also! We all know what links to your site will mean in the long run right? Good Page Rank!
Hopefully Word Press will remove that no follow tag in their future versions, since the spam filters are working so good these days, but until they do, you may want to get a DO FOLLOW Plug-in like the one I use New Do-Follow Plugin.
It’s just something you can do for your fellow bloggers. If you are a ‘do follower’, then join this community.
UPDATE: May 20, 2008:
This site no longer uses the do-follow tag.
Unfortunately it was abused by those dirty bastards we know as comment spammers.
MacBros' Favorite Link Page says:
June 4th, 2007 at 12:35 am
the latest comment spam filters we have nowadays it’s safe to say that we can start to share the link love within our comments. Plus it will encourage more discussion on your posts now, since commenting means a reciprocating link back to your site. read more
MacBros’ Place - Everybody’s Entitled To My Opinion says:
June 5th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Like the ‘U Comment – I Follow‘ was all about. This post is pretty much about the whole DOFollow movement. What good is a blogging communit, if we don’t pass along a little link love amongst ourselves? So thanks to Manila Mom
Charlotte Internet Marketing Firm says:
September 3rd, 2010 at 6:26 am
pointed out, using a wordpress plugin that strips the nofollow attribute out of your comments should hopefully encourage more folks to interact with your website.
MacBros’ Place - Everybody’s Entitled To My Opinion says:
June 5th, 2007 at 4:26 pm
Like the ‘U Comment – I Follow‘ was all about. This post is pretty much about the whole DOFollow movement. What good is a blogging communit, if we don’t pass along a little link love amongst ourselves? So thanks to Manila Mom
Opal: Vegan Momma says:
June 3rd, 2007 at 9:34 pm
It’s about time you started using it!
MacBros says:
June 3rd, 2007 at 10:12 pm
I didn’t know about it till 3 weeks ago.
i
Andy Beard says:
June 4th, 2007 at 4:32 am
I am checking you out
Just a heads up… the other 2 sites dofollow was clearly working, on this post currently there are nofollow links… that might be ok if you are using a timer on them, but I have known a few sites that for some reason the dofollow plugin with the timer didn’t work correctly.
MacBros says:
June 4th, 2007 at 10:03 am
Andy Beard, I just noticed that. Strange. But the link in the Avatar doesn’t have the nofollow tag so you still being followed. Not sure why it’s not taking the nofollow out of the name though?
Know of any other plug-ins I should try?
Andy Beard says:
June 4th, 2007 at 10:14 am
I just use this no frills version
http://www.semiologic.com/software/dofollow/
MacBros says:
June 4th, 2007 at 10:17 am
Heh! I browsing your site right now. The Antispam Collateral Condolences is what I ‘m snatching.
MacBros says:
June 4th, 2007 at 10:26 am
Andy Beard, that dofollow plug in did the trick. Thanks :worship:
MacBros says:
June 4th, 2007 at 10:27 am
That other pluging ‘Antispam Collateral Condolences‘ to coexist with Akismet makes commenting wacky. It’s out of here.
I don’t have issues with Askismet anyway. I just delete them or let the program do it after a month.
If somebody can’t comment, there’s always my e-mail to tell me.
Andy Beard says:
June 4th, 2007 at 10:37 am
Ymmv as they say – I am not what you could call a massive Akismet fan, so that is one I haven’t tested.
It is always possible to hack plugins to fix small problems
MacBros says:
June 4th, 2007 at 10:42 am
Andy, I always say if it ain’t broke, then break it. err.. I mean fix it,..ummm. whatever how the saying goes.
Opal: Vegan Momma says:
June 5th, 2007 at 8:22 am
Are you sure it’s working correctly? My comments I leave here never show up in my Dashboard. I never thought anything of it though you didn’t want to follow.
i
Andy Beard says:
June 5th, 2007 at 8:49 am
I just pinged this page to Technorati – maybe it will show up but they are becoming better at detecting comments as opposed to real links in content.
All search engines discount links in comments to a certain degree even with Nofollow removed, but then they are known to heavily discount blogroll links that are sitewide.
ManilaMom says:
June 5th, 2007 at 9:48 am
Glad to have another dofollow blog to visit!
Your blog is already doing so well so this would be more of a “thank you” to your readers, I guess.
For those of us who are still trying to climb the page ranks, though, the dofollow movement is really beneficial. My blog which is just littlemore than two months old has gained enough momentum to be in the Top 100 Philippine Blogs. Hurray for DoFollow!
MacBros says:
June 5th, 2007 at 10:05 am
Opal, what Andy said.
Manila Mom, I don’t mind sharing a little link love, just as long as it is returned.
I just wish I could get my Mac`s Opinion and MacBros` Reviews sites up there in the PR.
i
Opal: Vegan Momma says:
June 5th, 2007 at 10:14 am
Do you use your siggy for those websites when visiting others? My Alexa is under 1m for both The Raw & The Cooked is a little over 700k, but I do visit others and use that url. I also added those blogs to my social network.
MacBros says:
June 5th, 2007 at 10:31 am
Opal, I use this site as my signature still. I want a PR 6 at least.
You know why I’m sure.
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Bhangra music blog says:
June 15th, 2007 at 8:16 am
i wish wikipedia should also use dofollow tags.
techfare says:
June 15th, 2007 at 8:18 am
yeah you are right they otherwise all blogger shld not link to wikipedia.
MacBros says:
June 15th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Bhangra music blog and techfare are two of the same people. DO you like having conversations with your self?
same IP: **.**.177.20
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mr. simplicity says:
June 25th, 2007 at 12:37 am
How does this “you comment i follow” works?
MacBros says:
June 25th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
mr. simplicity, it just means that I don’t use the nofollow tag in the comments. So when you put your link in the form the search engines will crawl from that link to your site.
Max T says:
June 28th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
I see lots of people started doing that and I support them because google doesn’t own the internet.
P.S. Just checked your webcam and it’s dead
MacBros says:
June 28th, 2007 at 9:20 pm
Max T, my IP changed during the move, I fixed it. But the thing is I don’t think you want to see a guy with a big gut and boobs with no shirt on…do you?
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July 14th, 2007 at 10:26 am
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Chris says:
July 22nd, 2007 at 10:11 am
The NoNoFollow movement is a great way to increase blog participation at the end of the day if you want to leave a comment the last thing you want is for it to be moderated by some backdoor piece of code. I for one have implemented the DoFollow plugin on my blogs and hope more people do so in the future.
barbi bharadwaj says:
July 26th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Hi,
Everybody loves links. Even the google bot, but it dies not like non- genuine links.
For instance, some time ago, google had a controversy over following paid links.
Now for a spider or a crawler to identify the paid links from non-paid is almost impossible.
But in most CMS , including wordpress and blogspot, it is very easy to identify comments from content.
do – follow may go void, if google thinks so.
But still, it does good in the short term..
gio says:
September 3rd, 2007 at 1:11 pm
the plugin doesnt seem to work on my blog. im using a 2.0 version of wordpress. do i need to upgrade?
MacBros says:
September 3rd, 2007 at 7:12 pm
gio, that question would be better answered by the author of the plug-in. But in my opinion, that you’re entitled to, is that you should always have an updated version of WordPress just for security reasons.
jameswillisisthebest says:
September 8th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
This is my first post
just saying HI
Blogger Blog Tips says:
September 13th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Nice post, so hows you follow working out for you?
MacBros says:
September 14th, 2007 at 4:35 am
Blogger Blog Tips, ask the folks that are getting the free rank linkage.
Hans says:
September 17th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Cool plugin! Maybe I’ll try it some time
eace:
MacBros says:
September 17th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Hans, thanks for dropping by. I’ve blogrolled you and added you to my RSS because youre site has some very handy tutorials for Photoshop.
Hans says:
September 18th, 2007 at 9:45 am
Wow, thanks!
Neil says:
September 18th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
The good thing with dofollow links as oppose to nofollow, is that it can actual help a websites listings, Google will spider the site and realise that the content update, the more comments the updates which for your site as a whole is a very good way to encourage user generated content, the phenomenon of nofollow has been taken to strongly, people even try getting reciprocal links add a no follow to it, very sneaky. If your using wordpress make sure you install Askimet, this plugin will eliminate much of the spam from automated blogging programs, also look out for the occasional “I found your post very interesting and have similar views myself”, spammers are getting smarter so my thoughts are keep dofollow’s it can only do your site good, so giving a link away is your way of saying thanks for the free content.
Mahesh says:
October 15th, 2007 at 2:40 am
The do follow is a good technique to increase the page rank.. But the page rank updation doesn’t prove to be proper and the pages with less traffic are allotted with page ranks greater than the pages with more traffic.. I cant get the working behind..??
redspace says:
October 15th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
hi Macbros,
just to say congratulations for joining the “u comment i follow movement”. giving and sharing is the best part of living.
Raymondm says:
December 18th, 2007 at 2:03 am
I just found out about this today and i was like wow!!!
so many blogs are joining this now
It’s great blog on guys.
I’ve made sure to show you some love on my end.
TechNomads says:
January 27th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
I think it’s a great choice . . .
I’ll probably implement it on my blog when I wake up tomorrow (It’s 3:30am here in China!)
Jon
MacBros says:
January 27th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
TechNomads, why bother? Nobody can comment on your site anyway. Plus this is a WordPress plug-in. I don’t believe it will work with Joomla.
Digital Scrapbook Freek says:
February 19th, 2008 at 2:10 pm
I think every one should use this plugin. I use it and I like everyone who uses it. It does nothing in preventing spam, so why does anyone use it?
pmpmag says:
February 21st, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Thanks for following, or at least allowing Google to do it
Anthony says:
February 23rd, 2008 at 8:41 am
What some people do is following the links of their visitors and after they have enough comments in they switch to nofollow. That’s happened on serveral blogs I read with passion, but now I don’t comment on it.
BaseGuardian says:
February 28th, 2008 at 3:49 am
I tried to go to the link given up there, but it’s not working. I was looking for this plugin, everywhere
MacBros says:
February 28th, 2008 at 4:15 am
BaseGuardian, sorry about that. I’ve updated the links to an even better plug-in that I happen to be using.
watch free anime says:
March 14th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Do follow blogs are a win win situation. you get comments and tons of views and we get some link juice. btw i really like the southpark comments avatar. what plugin did you use for that?
George Lindemann Jr says:
May 20th, 2008 at 10:50 am
I agree that some people will probably spam, but at the end of the day most commenters will not fall into this bracket.
A blog with no comments looks like a blog with no readers = uninteresting…!
Carolina Panthers says:
July 1st, 2008 at 9:47 am
I’ve recently joined the do-follow revolution as well. I think it greatly adds to user commentary.
MacBros says:
July 1st, 2008 at 10:51 am
@Carolina Panthers -Did you read the update in the post? I really don’t think you did because if you did you would know that I don’t use it anymore.
Or are you one trying to take advantage of a non-existent plugin?
Sherri says:
July 6th, 2008 at 8:14 pm
seems to me that it’d be just as easy to remove comments that are blatant spam.
online tv says:
July 18th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Doesn’t seem to working (if you still are using it). Everything has a nofollow on it.
MacBros says:
July 18th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
@online tv – That’s right! If you weren’t so busy link dropping on web blogs and actually READ this post, you would have seen the UPDATE stating it is no longer being used.
Let me refer you to THIS post as to why.
It basically states that it because of people like you that ruin it for the rest of us.
Deleted your URL too BTW.
Google Adsense Guide says:
August 2nd, 2008 at 9:48 am
“U Comment I Follow” Stratigy is perfect way to make your blog more interactive and get much traffic
selena says:
September 1st, 2008 at 4:12 am
Hi, thanks a lot for this do-follow plugin, I hope it will be useful in my work.
ADMIN: What’s your line of work, comment spamming?
ShopBlimp says:
September 10th, 2008 at 11:59 am
Did you stop using it because all the comments here are nofollow
MacBros says:
September 10th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
@ShopBlimp – No shit! It’s because of people like YOU who ruined it for the rest of us. Read the fucking post before asking the question. Because if you actually did, you would see the answer to that question at the end of the post. But instead you just popped in here, dropped the shitty comment for a link drop and left.
PS: I removed your link and replaced it with the reason why
matt says:
October 9th, 2008 at 9:27 am
“Lead, follow, or get out of the way…”
–Thomas Paine–
matts last blog post..Fanatec RennSport Wheel
mrmuggles says:
November 8th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Well, I added a dofollow plugin today on my blog, We’ll see what it looks like. BUT, I added a “one day” wait before it removes the nofollow, leaving me some time to remove spams.
mrmuggless last blog post..Geek Cirgarettes : Good For Health!
MacBros says:
November 9th, 2008 at 9:05 am
@mrmuggles – I don’t use it due to the abuse.
ooopinionsss says:
December 3rd, 2008 at 12:43 pm
How you think when the economic crisis will end? I wish to make statistics of independent opinions!
MrCorey says:
December 4th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Why do you suppose that this is the most active post on the site?
MrCoreys last blog post..He’s Just the Result of Bad Parenting
macbros says:
December 4th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
@MrCorey – Because people think they’re going to be able to drop a free link to their NON blogs. Hoping to generate traffic to their peddling bullshit garbage site.
MrCorey says:
December 4th, 2008 at 11:36 pm
That is crap! Its not so much to Do the Follow – which reminds me – I’ve got to check the settings of my plugins, since I upgraded to 2.7. Its sweet. You’re gonna like it.
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