Thanks Ben, I'd like to think that's the case.
Trisha, I'll trade you. You turn on do follow, I'll turn it off. Equilibrium in the world. Ready..... go.
Damien, yes, lots of link juice getting distributed. But on the non-aff marketing posts with all the comments, like the TV stuff, virtually none of the 1000+ commenters even provide a URL. Imagine that. How selfless.
Top Commenters plugin is in the works, yes. That'll be part of the redesign.
You know, there are a couple of possible, and complicated solutions involving making a nice wordpress plugin (I dont code)
It looks at the site it is linking back to, and it has to have nearly equal pagerank. This approach isn't great for more than one reason.
what about a voting mechanism for "best comments" like on digg. only the best comments from other registered users counts. maybe even combine with that other plugin that only allows long time contributors to get dofollow.
I still think google should give slightly higher rankings to sites that use dofollow.
I installed this on 4 do-follow blogs:
http://tantannoodles.com/toolkit/spam-filter/
I've hardly been bothered by spam since then. If you really prefer to keep do-follow, it might be worth a try.
I have been supporter of dofollow for some time. I benefited from commenting on your blog and other blogs a lot in the past.... But, I have wrestled with myself over the same issue.
I have not PR as of yet on my blog but 50+ spam monkeys wonder to my blog daily. I just can imagine what you guys have to go through if you enable the moderation.
I think I might be just follow you Scot in removing dofollow plugin from my blogs.
What about BumpZee? You probably need to hire a full time moderator to keep up with spam there.
Hey Scott:
I'm almost afraid to leave a comment as I don't want you to think I'm spamming. However, I'm a fan of do follow. I follow on my blog simply because I view readers as customers and I'm all about my customers. Having said that, I believe your decision should come down to the value of do follow for you. If the cost is more than the value - then you should drop the do follow. If not - then keep it - it's really that simple. Also, I would ask this from you - if I may? If you decide to shut down do follow - I would appreciate that you not be negative toward do follow or those of us that choose to have do follow on our blogs. What's great for me might be a pain for you and vice versa....
Hey E Lawrence. Judging from your commment, you are probably relatively new to my blog. I've been a very long-time supporter of do follow, and the reasons for that haven't changed. I had been using it since probably 2004. Four years is a pretty good run.
If you want to use dofollow, great. I have nothing against it. Just the people who use and abuse others.
I think always been very lenient on commenters, generally assuming the best of people, even if they stuff keywords into their name.
And that's just the thing. I don't want to have to worry about your intentions or whether you're a spammer with motives other than sharing your opinion. So I'm giving this a shot.
Hey Scott:
Actually, i've been reading your blog for about 6 months now. I rarely comment on any blog unless it's a topic I feel very srong about. You and Andy Beard are the reason I began do follow on my own blog.
I never meant to imply that you are "anti - do follow" or anything like that. I just didn't want to see you become "anti do follow" because of your specific situation.
If I were in your shoes - I would do the same thing - but that's what I meant about the value of do follow. It's obviously become a liability to you and I can respect that.
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I've been thinking a lot about this recently. Currently my comment links are set to Dofollow. I've always thought that it is the least I can do to thank people who take the time to comment on my posts and contribute.
But I'm getting slammed by spammers. Until a few days ago, this blog was PR6. A PR6 Dofollow blog? Spammer heaven!
I have to ask myself, why am I sweating this dofollow comment thing? Is it really worth it the hassle?
I've been keeping it at bay pretty well. For a while, I tried putting comments into moderation. I don't like that because it disrupts conversations if I'm not around to approve them. So I turn off moderation and I try to be super diligent to clean up the spam. But then there are the faux-commenters who pretend they're writing a useful comment when they're just coming by to use me. And then I have to psychoanalyze the commenters to divine their intentions.
Then today, @PsPrint_Trish asked today on Twitter: "Can some people weigh in for me for a blog post - are you for or against DoFollow links in blogs?"
A few us weighed in that it's just not worth the hassle trying to be good about rewarding commenters with dofollow links. She's going to include the quotes in her blog, so I won't steal them here. I'll link over when she posts it. (Added: Here's Trish's post)
I love getting comments and I love that my posts often generate double-digit comment counts.
But I can't take the spammers. So I'm turning it off. Spammers ruin everything.
Time to find out who my friends are. I'll find another way to reward them.
What do you think? Go for it? Talk me out of it?