U Comment - I Follow Campaign
I recently began using the “DoFollow” Wordpress plugin from Kimmo Suominen in order to combat the ongoing battle with search engines and the new “no follow” tag being attached to all comment links in most blogging platforms. What exactly does this “no follow” tag do? It essentially marks all links that are placed within comments as a “Dead End” and will pretty much scream out to all search engines to ignore me and don’t count me towards increasing my blog/site strength. Implementation for this tag began in early 2005, of course by Google, in order to defend their algorithm against the thousands of spammers out there, placing endless amounts of links all over blogs and blog comments in order to increase their page strength and entice more people to visit their site by being placed higher in one of the many search engines.
The real reason why this was put into play, was because there are thousands of “ghost town” blogs out there, just collecting spam links and helping the spammer, but we are the ones taking the big hit. So, while it doesn’t necessarily “help” the blogger to remove this tag, it may entice users to comment on your blog more often, just knowing that the “no follow” tag is removed. So, I’ve decided to join this movement, by placing their unofficial mascot, just above my “Top Commentators” section, where it simply states “U Comment -> I Follow”. All comments here on out will count towards your blog, your links and your page rank.
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June 2nd, 2007 11:55
I’ve had the DoFollow plugin installed since my blog started a few months back and also highlighted it with a post and a logo in the sidebar recently.
I firmly believe it’s a good idea to be doing it and certainly gives something back to your readers who choose to interact with you on your blog.
June 2nd, 2007 21:17
gr8 way to reward blog readers..
removed the nofollow tag from my blog
June 3rd, 2007 08:51
It’s a fact that the majority of consistent bloggers should remove the no follow tag from their blog, the users not regularly updating their blogs are the ones costing us.
June 3rd, 2007 13:41
Good to see you joined the community!
June 3rd, 2007 18:10
great way to reward readers, i will also look in to it
June 3rd, 2007 21:05
that reminds me ..i i will also put the logo .
June 4th, 2007 00:28
that’s great
June 4th, 2007 23:10
I am a new blogging and I was not aware of this inherent limitation. Thank you for pointing it out! I will definitely change mine as well.
June 15th, 2007 06:54
good to see u also joing dofollow camp i am also in.
June 15th, 2007 13:16
Thanks for sharing I like this ! .
btw thanks for commenting today on my blog as you can see i follow my self without plugins
June 15th, 2007 16:14
Have you seen a lot of help from this? Any benefits that are worth noting?
June 15th, 2007 16:34
Thanks Julian. Hope to have you as a regular reader. I think I’ll certainly enjoy yours.
June 22nd, 2007 21:12
hmm..may be I’ve to get my own blog name..and use wordpress as a CMS…blogger.com seems does not have features like this…
July 27th, 2007 06:54
very well said.. i’m joining in..
September 4th, 2007 02:07
“The real reason why this was put into play, was because there are thousands of “ghost town” blogs out there, just collecting spam links and helping the spammer”
I disagree with this. The nofollow directive was started to combat all spam, not just on sites that are ‘ghost towns’. The idea being that, of course, you take away the incentive to spam (backlink), that the spammer will take his business elsewhere. I do not see how the site being active or dead really comes into the picture apart from how likely the author is to moderate comments.. even then, active sites have lazy authors as well.
September 13th, 2007 16:41
Spammers come to wordpress with fallow or nofollow so it’s acctualy good for traffic to have ‘follow’
I like it.
September 14th, 2007 01:18
Interesting, isn’t it? I’ll follow this movement in my wordpress blog. Don’t know how to do the same thing in my blogger blog.
September 18th, 2007 05:14
And how can you stop bad comments just to get links?
Thanks
September 18th, 2007 15:30
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.
September 19th, 2007 06:01
Hi there. I found the way to implement Dofollow in blogger. Read this article http://indobloger.blogspot.com/2007/09/u-comment-i-follow-lets-readers-leave.html
November 12th, 2007 17:18
I actually think that we have to stop using all the nofollow, and people have to moderate their blogs. We alll may contribute in blogs of each other but try to bring some new topics
January 4th, 2008 20:19
Thank you! Wordpress itself have a good tool to fight spam - it’s Akismet. With a little training it catches about 99.99% of blog spam!
January 18th, 2008 21:00
Thank you for making your blog “u comment, we follow”.
January 19th, 2008 21:36
Stop nofollow
April 10th, 2008 22:41
It seems like nearly all “I follow” blogs on the web are PR0 or PR ‘n/a’.
It’s hard to find anyone with a PR1+ that follows.
I still think it’s a good thing and I applaud you for following.
June 26th, 2008 00:38
It’s actually good to encourage comments too! Thanks for joining the campaign!