Comments on: Why NOFOLLOW My Comments?

By: Ramit

Ramit — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:43:37 +0000

Aly,

Just found your blog today and its quite nice. Interesting discussions and glad your blog like mine is a do follow. I agree it does increase the amount of discussions.

Ramit
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By: Alysson

Alysson — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:51:43 +0000

With the recent admission by Matt that nofollow no longer works the way we once believed it to, I think nofollow vs. follow argument is relatively moot.

Nevertheless, having links that are follow vs. links that are nofollow may still have some impact. How much is up for debate, but I still believe it is worth giving my most frequent commenters a link that is free of the nofollow attribute, whether its impact can be measured definitively or not.
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By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:34:54 +0000

This was a great read as we are almost ready to launch our new blog and I have been thinking about these issues.

I like the solution you came up with to reward “real” participants with removing the NOFOLLOW for their link after a certain number of posts. Very clever!

Thanks!

By: Alysson

Alysson — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:16:44 +0000

As I noted in the post above, there are certain criteria that have to be met in order for the “NOFOLLOW” to be removed – like the number of comments you have to leave before it is removed and whether or not you’re a registered user. :)

By: Mr. Swagga

Mr. Swagga — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:42:11 +0000

You STILL HAVE THE "NO-FOLLOW" unless I'm a little late and you added it backy Stuart | Design Meme onMr. Swaggas last blog post..Kobe Bryant

By: SEOAly

SEOAly — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:29:24 +0000

Aww...I'll take that as a compliment, jackmo. :) As will the rest of the "honies" that are also "geeks" around...more than you might believe. It's a common misconception. ;) Here are just a few:Carolyn Shelby, Rebecca Kelley, Jane Copland, Rae Hoffman, Lara Kulpa, Lisa Barone and Lora Lufark...just to name a few. :)Glad you like the post and that you're trying out having FOLLOW links. Please come back and let us know how it turns out for you!

By: jackmo

jackmo — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 05:03:21 +0000

I have added dofollow to my blog as a result of reading this now. I just googled any random plugin so I don't think it has the same functionality but I totally agree with you that it's one of the best incentives you can give to your readers.p.s. what's with all the honies getting into SEO, I thought it's supposed to be a geek field :pjackmos last blog post..So I quit my job

By: SEOAly

SEOAly — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:39:09 +0000

Thus far this “test” is going just as I anticipated. You can be sure I will post again if circumstances change! :)

By: Sinead

Sinead — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:33:15 +0000

I can see both sides of the coin here for this one. You might get more dodgy comments but on the other hand, you’re not hoarding the link love. There must be a balance somewhere :) After some testing, I’m sure you’ll make the right decision.

By: SEOAly

SEOAly — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:59:07 +0000

Thanks for joining in on the conversation, Robert. :) Conversation, knowledge gathering and sharing are the goals of SEOAly.com – not concerned with PR at all.

But, if you check out the links within the comments you’ll see that most are still indeed NOFOLLOW (as a result of how I’ve configured the plugin). So, I’ve actually accomplished 2 things: 1) generated a lot of comments on this post; and 2) maintained low number of external links that flow PR.