Comments on: Bright Beginning! Is Now DoFollow Compliant – Freedom To Follow Comments

By: morbid man

morbid man — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 01:45:51 +0000

yeah, you will have many visitors when you turn on do follow plugin. this comments is the example. Maybe for some people turn on do follow plugin will bring many spam comments to their website, but anyone that send comments will see and browse their website to know their content. And if they like your website, they will recommend it to their friends and finally the spammers become visitors.

By: Aldian

Aldian — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:15:03 +0000

By the way, here's a quick and easy way to find out if your comment link is spidered by Google: simply use Google Alerts. Ever since I joined D-list community and start participating at D-list blogs, my comment links are caught by Google Alerts.

By: Aldian

Aldian — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:09:29 +0000

Hi Sam,

One of the good thing about blogging is to socialize… like what we do now

Definitely. I notice that Peter’s Custom Anti Spam helps cutting the number of spam bots comments. I usually receive those notification from Askimet 3-4 times daily. However since I installed Peter’s Custom Anti Spam, I haven’t received any Askimet notifications.

You absolutely hit the sweet spot here Sam. DoFollow report is great idea! Especially discussing how to optimize it and prevent spams at the same time. Just like Paul and Jonatahan stated, TimeFollow and its usage should be explained.

I can start this little project Anyone wants the report that Sam suggested?

About links in the prior comments before DoFollow, I checked by viewing the Page Source and I didn’t find NoFollow attribute in the comments’ links

By: Sam Freedom

Sam Freedom — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 07:00:32 +0000

ps. Sorry to post again, but here’s another quick question. When you go DoFollow, what happens to all the links in comments that existed prior to DoFollow? Do they start to convey PR immediately after the site is spidered again? Or what? Thanks.

By: Sam Freedom

Sam Freedom — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 06:55:01 +0000

Hi Aldian,

Thanks for being so responsive. It’s much appreciated to make good connections with good people even if they are just for a few moments.

Since I am going to make the leap to DOFOLLOW, your anti-spam suggestions are going to be of interest and importance. Are you suggesting PETER’S CUSTOM in ADDITION to akismet?

I’m starting to get the impression that you, or I, or SOMEONE could write up a small little pdf report on the X steps for optimal anti-spam for the DOFOLLOW crowd. It would state things like…

1) which plugins were absolutely essential;
2) which plugins were helpful but not essential;
3) which options to tick (timed follow sounds great!)
4) whether or not to moderate based on X, Y and Z

I know it must seem obvious to you and, perhaps, a certain number of the “in the loop” crowd by now but for those new to the scene, or just a little slower to grasp these things, a pdf report would be of great value.

As of now, all the info is kind of piece-mealed out throughout all kinds of blogs.

Of course there’s value to having people bookmark and revisit our blogs but a pdf report on the desktop (that one could give away, too) would be invaluable (and, ultimately, viral).

What do you think?
Sam
the coolest guy on the planet

By: Aldian

Aldian — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 05:11:56 +0000

Mine is http://www.semiologic.com/software/wp-fixes/dofollow/

Different variant but same purpose.

By: Jonathan-C. Phillips

Jonathan-C. Phillips — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:45:57 +0000

humm, weird, what version of the plugin do you use?

http://kimmo.suominen.com/sw/dofollow/

This is the one I use, it adds a “dofollow” tab in the wordpress admin. Maybe there are other versions of the plugin though.

By: Aldian

Aldian — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:19:43 +0000

Strangely DoFollow is not listed the Option (I don’t have DoFollow tab in the Option). So that means I have to hard code it in its php?

By: Jonathan-C. Phillips

Jonathan-C. Phillips — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 03:10:14 +0000

well the time thing is part of the dofollow plugin, look under the option->dofollow tab for “Nofollow timeout” if you set this at 0, it’ll remove the nofollow attribute right when a comment is posted and appproved, but you can set it to 1 or 2 days if you want. I have it set to 0 on smartwealthyrich.