As of today, I do-follow
I’ve decided to change my comment links from no-follow to do-follow.
If you don’t know what this means, I can sum it up like this: Most often, when you leave a comment on a blog, that’s it. Even though your comment has a link to your website, Google won’t recognize that link, and you get no reward.
Conversely, with do-follow, you can leave a comment on my blog and I’ll reward you by sending you a tiny little bit of Google juice (that’s a good thing!). Now obviously a do-follow link is something other bloggers want, so while I’m expecting a few more people to comment, I’m also expecting a lot more spam.
Because I moderate all comments by people on my site, this means I spend time reading what you have to say. So in exchange I expect you to play by the rules. Here they are:
- Links to offensive sites. If you wouldn’t let your kids look at your site, I don’t want to know about it.
- Scraper site links. If you’ve decided that stealing content from other people just to make money, you don’t deserve my links. In fact, you deserve to be shot at dawn.
- General spam. I’m opening up my comments to do-follow in order to start a conversation. So posting a comment that reads ‘great post!’ doesn’t really do much for me. If you want to get published, write something worth reading.
- Very few parents name their kids “Make money online now!”, so don’t try keyword sniping in your comments. Unless you publish your real name, you won’t get my link.
So the question is, do you have anything to say?
Hi Dave,
Will you accept my link above as long as I put me name in my post? I hope so. If you won’t accept these types of anchored links, it really hurts your commenters.
I am a very big fan of the DO Follow movement. I use do follow on my blogs. I think that it is good for the community. As long as someone adds valuable content, I will accept their link.
-Fred
Hi Fred, I agree that the link text is the all-important part of allowing do-follows. I think that as long as a commenter adds their name in a post and they’re adding value, I’ll let it through.
I just don’t want to have to start conversations with people called ‘Debt Consolidation’ and ‘Buy cheap jewelery’.