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Re: New DoFollow Rules - Thanks to Andy Beard, Spam Catcher.

Omar from Blue Falcon — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:57:12 -0000

I recently implemented dofollow on my blog comments. My criteria are similar but not quite as stringent as yours.

For me as long as the comment adds value to my post, and the linked website is also somewhat relevant / not spam, I will allow that comment.

Re: New DoFollow Rules - Thanks to Andy Beard, Spam Catcher.

Haroun Kola — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:29:55 -0000

In learning to have a DoFollow, I've come across your site. Just subscribed via email and looking forward to visiting here often. And not just for the link love you understand, ahem :)

Re: New DoFollow Rules - Thanks to Andy Beard, Spam Catcher.

sacx from DoFollow Directory — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:16:39 -0000

This is a good method to keep spammers away ... but you need to be more specific than "delays DoFollow love" because if they see it is a real limit then is possible to skip spamming :)

Regards

Re: New DoFollow Rules - Thanks to Andy Beard, Spam Catcher.

Sacx from DoFollow Directory — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:08:32 -0000

First of all I'm glad to see other people joining to "dofollow revolution".

Manual spamming is our big problem right now ... is hard to elude if is a spam message or not ... for example I just read above my comment: "thanks for your dofollow" posted by a "Chat"? ... Beware ... chat's starting posts ...

Regards

Re: New DoFollow Rules - Thanks to Andy Beard, Spam Catcher.

Jon Heller — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:37:22 -0000

Now I'm really confused as the last post I commented on said to be sure and "fill out your link?" All that was there was the DoFollow icon which I cliked on...and ended up here!

I know, I know...short-bus rider and proud of it.

Help?

Re: New DoFollow Rules - Thanks to Andy Beard, Spam Catcher.

Craig Rentmeester — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:29:40 -0000

Tinu,

I've never read your blog before, but I wanted to learn more about 'dofollow' and 'nofollow' links, and I was directed here from Google, for good reason IMHO.

I agree with your policy for giving link love to commenters, and is a topic that is not explored very often by bloggers. Since I began blogging in April, 2007, I've learned first-hand how frustrating comment spammers can be on blogs.

I'd like to install a plug-in like Linky Love on my blog that is hosted on Typepad. Do you know if it's compatible? The Linky Love site that you linked to above only mentions Wordpress. If it isn't, do you know of any good plug-ins that work with Typepad?

Thanks,
Craig

p.s.
What would possess someone to think their three-sentence comment on traveling to India will remain posted when the topic of the post is internet marketing strategy? I don't know.

Re: New DoFollow Rules - Thanks to Andy Beard, Spam Catcher.

Mohsin — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:40:15 -0000

Hi Again Tinu,

I am glad to be here again :-)

LOL thanks for sharing behind the scenes truth in SPAM world ...

Yes spammers are notorious to post comments like that with offending sites in Links. Thanks to Open Source we have some awesome plugins to combat the spammers.

Best,
Mohsin
PS. Thanks again for your response.

Re: New DoFollow Rules - Thanks to Andy Beard, Spam Catcher.

Mohsin — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:35:39 -0000

Hi again.

LOL sorry i forgot to say THANK YOU for the post...

maybe i forgot about this because of your anti-praise sentences in the Original Post :-)

Wish you best and thanks again for sharing great tool,
Mohsin

Re: New DoFollow Rules - Thanks to Andy Beard, Spam Catcher.

Mohsin — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:31:50 -0000

Hi Tinu,

I was not aware of this comment plugin or policy before!
I have had my blogs with nofollow policy as so much comment spam
forced to do so....

But plugin like this is awesome to enforce own moderate comment policies.

I will be using it at many of my blogs soon.

Best,
Mohsin

Re: New DoFollow Rules - Thanks to Andy Beard, Spam Catcher.

C Richey — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:05:30 -0000

OMG. What a tool. Seems like he wants to be blacklisted.

Re: New DoFollow Rules - Thanks to Andy Beard, Spam Catcher.

Andy Beard — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 17:41:08 -0000

You know, Bape is a man of many words, who uses the exact same phrase on every dofollow blog he comments on.

Subscribing to comments on many real discussions and you see this little stream of messages from the same person.

Re: New DoFollow Rules - Thanks to Andy Beard, Spam Catcher.

Jenny — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:17:18 -0000

I tried submitting a comment earlier, but it blew off. Hope this one succeeds. I understand we accumulate links this way. Now what is your policy to our creating a signature link that gives more information about our website?

Re: New DoFollow Rules - Thanks to Andy Beard, Spam Catcher.

Tinu Abayomi-Paul — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:27:41 -0000

Well, Bape, I made this post because repeated abuse of what was Automatic DoFollow led to a situation where I switched to a plugin that removes no follow after a certain number of posts. :) Click the link below that says "DoFollow the Smart Way" for more details. Though you're right, there are people who do that.

Re: New DoFollow Rules - Thanks to Andy Beard, Spam Catcher.

Josh Spaulding — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:24:57 -0000

Its ironic that many bloggers talk about this but then they actually use no follow.

That's true but they may also be using Lucia's Linky Love plugin or something similar to reward frequent commentors. I thought Tinu was nofollowing everyone a few weeks ago until Andy set me straight and let me know that she was actually using Lucia's Linky Love plugin.

Re: New DoFollow Rules - Thanks to Andy Beard, Spam Catcher.

Tinu Abayomi-Paul — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:54:19 -0000

I appreciate that Julie, thank you. Come back anytime!

Re: New DoFollow Rules - Thanks to Andy Beard, Spam Catcher.

Julie — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 21:08:32 -0000

It is obvious that you all put a lot of work into this site! Thanks for the observations and comments. Keep up the good work!

Julie

Re: New DoFollow Rules - Thanks to Andy Beard, Spam Catcher.

Tinu Abayomi-Paul — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:54:30 -0000

Hi Chino,

Well they are Now... was talking about Before these rules came up. :) Very observant, though. And thank you for commenting.

Tinu

Re: New DoFollow Rules - Thanks to Andy Beard, Spam Catcher.

Chino Yray — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 03:36:44 -0000

actually, your rules is enough to detect that someone who will comment here aims to spam and not really comment.

By letting the first name be the name on the comment, you eliminate anchor linking already.

and most of all, number 3- you eliminate already those who do not read your post and just go fly away with a comment

Re: New DoFollow Rules - Thanks to Andy Beard, Spam Catcher.

Tinu Abayomi-Paul — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:46:56 -0000

Welcome Walter. :)

Especially the DoFollowers need to have comment policies. I had a really loose one before and let some of the borderline stuff slide, but then it got out of control and I thought about it.

And what I really needed was a way to reward regular commenters and be able to block people who make wack one-off comments without even reading the policy, and give people who comment in passing the chance to get juice. I don't care if someone tries to game my system as long as the comment they leave is meaningful and advances the conversation, I'm fine with giving them a free link.

What Lucia's Linky Love allows us to do is ignore the one-off frivolous comments because they aren't going to get a dofollow link anyway. If they leave a bare minimum comment, they can get a bare minimum reward.

So don't let it worry you Too much. Just keep engaging with the people who leave real, sincere, repeat comments. :) And greet everyone who leaves even one - that's part of how you tell the real commenters from the paid bots. Even when they engage you can tell it's fake. :)

Re: New DoFollow Rules - Thanks to Andy Beard, Spam Catcher.

Walter — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 23:11:14 -0000

I use dofollow on my blog. Lately though, I've been getting a lot of "nice post" or "I agree with what the last commentator said" comments. I'm moderating comments more than ever! I've started using Lucia's Linky Love, which gives you more control over the dofollow. It's gotten so bad, I'm posting a list of rules directly above my comment form in the hope of discouraging some of the non-meaningful comments.

Re: New DoFollow Rules - Thanks to Andy Beard, Spam Catcher.

Tinu Abayomi-Paul — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:14:25 -0000

Exactly. You want people to be rewarded for their comments. But then you have to deal with people who take advantage of that kindness.

Re: New DoFollow Rules - Thanks to Andy Beard, Spam Catcher.

Beetlejuice — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:00:16 -0000

Those are exactly the 3 criteria I use when weeding out spam comments. I think if someone is good enough to read your post and say something about it, then they deserve their link. This is the point of the whole dofollow movement - relevant comments get a link, spam sites do not. Very simple.

Re: New DoFollow Rules - Thanks to Andy Beard, Spam Catcher.

Pablo — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 09:48:40 -0000

Well i appreciate this initiative, indeed is a good way to keep people making more comments and to seem your blog is more active.

Re: New DoFollow Rules - Thanks to Andy Beard, Spam Catcher.

Tinu Abayomi-Paul — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 20:18:55 -0000

No clue - you'd have to ask Lucia. I'd also Google "Drupal dofollow". And check the group at Bumpzee that Andy Beard runs. I don't remember how you edit Drupal templates as I haven't used one in about two years, however, if the templates are like Google's Blogger, then you should be able to edit out DoFollow from the html without affecting the functionality if you're careful, in which case you don't need a plugin.

Re: New DoFollow Rules - Thanks to Andy Beard, Spam Catcher.

C Richey — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 17:34:05 -0000

Do you know if it works with Drupal? I'm converting my main site to a drupal powered one and incorporating a blog into it. I think it uses the blogger api.