Fixin’ the Linky Love
One of the effects of PayPerPost has been in trying to get bloggers to increase the page ranking of their sites. One way is to leave comments on a site that has a higher page ranking than your own. As I found out several months ago, many sites automatically insert code that defeats this link love arrangement. So I started this site, I was pleased to learn that it didn’t insert the nofollow code — or so I thought.
Tonight is the first night that I have had a chance to do some work on my websites and to make some entries. With the recent concern among my fellow posties about “page rank thievery”, I want to make sure that my sites allowed the link love that they so crave. This is especially important since a couple of days ago all of my blogs have had an increase in their Google page rankings. I’m happy to say that “What’s All This Then” has gone from zero to three! In any case, tonight I went through the comments to my posts. To my dismay, though some allowed following, I discovered that some did not. I have immediately install a wordpress plug-in that now removes all nofollow code. As soon as I can get a chance to analyze the PHP code, I want to put an explicit “rel=follow” tag on every comment. I’ve done so on my blogspot site in hopes to force the Google bots to make note of all links to my sites. For now, you can rest assured that Google is not blocked into following your comments.
Of course, the question arises if this matters to you. I very much welcome your thoughts and ideas. So bring them on …. 
Popularity: 18% [?]
One of the effects of PayPerPost has been in trying to get bloggers to increase the page ranking of their sites. One way is to leave comments on a site that has a higher page ranking than your own. As I found out several months ago, many sites automatically insert code that defeats this link love arrangement. So I started this site, I was pleased to learn that it didn’t insert the nofollow code — or so I thought.
Tonight is the first night that I have had a chance to do some work on my websites and to make some entries. With the recent concern among my fellow posties about “page rank thievery”, I want to make sure that my sites allowed the link love that they so crave. This is especially important since a couple of days ago all of my blogs have had an increase in their Google page rankings. I’m happy to say that “What’s All This Then” has gone from zero to three! In any case, tonight I went through the comments to my posts. To my dismay, though some allowed following, I discovered that some did not. I have immediately install a wordpress plug-in that now removes all nofollow code. As soon as I can get a chance to analyze the PHP code, I want to put an explicit “rel=follow” tag on every comment. I’ve done so on my blogspot site in hopes to force the Google bots to make note of all links to my sites. For now, you can rest assured that Google is not blocked into following your comments.
Of course, the question arises if this matters to you. I very much welcome your thoughts and ideas. So bring them on ….
Popularity: 18% [?]
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In addition to activating my Akismet plugin to handle spam commentators, I’ve also added “do you know your math?” plugin to validate comments. This comment is a test of that feature…
Congratulations on the higher PR! What is your experience with not having “nofollow” in comments? Are you getting more insightful comments or more spam? Is it something you’d recommend?
I think it great. As a matter of fact, I am here for Click and Comment Monday from CoolAdzine for Marketers. Just following do follow blogroll.
Hello C of I,
In the beginning, Google created no-follow code to thwart spammers from leaving the unwelcome comments. And it was good … at least in the beginning. Since then spammers have found other ways to make their unholy presence known.
I have removed the no-follow tags so that the bots that traverse the Internet can bestow upon legitimate commenters the bounty of page ranking. Such commenters who take the time to leave appropriate comments should be blessed, yes?
My level of spam has not increased, especially since I have taken further measures (at least on this site) to block their slimy influence. At this point, I would recommend removing no-follow tags. At the same time you should safeguard your blog from spam by having the final say over whether a comment is approved or not. If you have a Word press blog, you can also install plug-ins that will do a lot of the sorting of “wheat from the chafe” for you.
Thank you for writing. If you have any other questions please feel free to leave a comment or even write to me at my e-mail address listed in “about me”.
Enjoy,
Ron
cool ron, nice plugin though in my opinion, is there really a use for these? do spammers really exist?
CyberCelt: Thank you for stopping by! I hope that you want to visit more often now.
Rob: I guess you read my response to “C of I”‘s comment. I think that Google had good intentions with its no-follow tag. But given the amount of spam comments that I still get, I think that the no-follow code has become more of an annoyance and a hindrance than anything else. For example, I think that it’s important that the page-ranking bots follow through from my site to yours (and to my other important readers). I am doing my part to thwart spammy links from infiltrating my sites through other means. All in all, I think it is my responsibility in this page ranking game to make sure that all my readers get credit for their comments. Does that make sense?
Just joined the you follow movement this weekend and have been visiting and commenting some. This is some good information, thank you.
Very cool, I love Do Follow, all my blogs have it. Though adding… now that is something that is hard for me at 2am (not that I’m up much at 2am fortunately).
Ron: I glad that you found this post of some help. Hopefully I have (and will have) more goodies for you here and on my other blogs.
Cynthia: Thank you for stopping by. And I don’t mind if you want to visit at times other than 2am.
This is exactly what I expected to find out after reading the title Whats All This Then!. Thanks for informative article
Eric: I hope this mean that you’re not disappointed.
I plan to have many, many more articles soon … some of them informative too! LOL
As a tribute to those bloggers who follow links (remove nofollow attribute from links) in comments and trackbacks I have created a custom search engine to search within blogs that follow links in comments and trackbacks. Hope this will be helpful to bloggers who are in search of posts in their niche to comment on.
I am looking forward to your participation in this project. If you are willing to become a contributor please click on “Volunteer to contribute” link on the Custom Search Engine homepage. By becoming a contributor you can add new blogs to the search engine and apply labels to blogs to refine searches.
If not you can simply contribute by sending in the URLs of the blogs that follow links in their comments and trackbacks section.
Don’t forget to bookmark this custom search engine for your own use.
You can also add this search engine to your google ig homepage and also to your blog! Just visit the custom search engine homepage and you’ll find the links to add them.
http://google.com/coop/cse?cx=010220498804450277415:0owokl4plkc
For any further assistance / discussion / doubts, do write to me.
Couldn’t be written any better. Reading this post reminds me of my old room mate! He always kept talking about this. I will forward this article to him. Pretty sure he will have a good read. Thanks for sharing!