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Demise of the DoFollow Plugin
For some time I’ve been using the DoFollow plugin, which has the effect of passing link-juice through to blog commenters.
But owing to the increasing number of spammy comments I’ve been receiving of late, I’ve just de-activated it.
Your comments will of course continue to be displayed and I welcome comments that add to the conversation – they will just no longer pass link juice.
R.I.P. DoFollow.
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Hi Wil, it’s a tough call. I think it’s good to give people some sort of incentive to comment but you definitely don’t want people commenting rubbish just to get links. I think this is why CommentLuv has taken off because it does exactly that.
Comment by Dan — October 10, 2011 #
Hi Dan. You make a very good point. It would be nice to reward commenters but the sheer volume of rubbish comments was getting the better of me. I will check out CommentLuv…. I’m certainly open to any workable solution. Cheers Will
Comment by Will Swayne — October 11, 2011 #
I don’t blame you a bit Will. I clean out TypePad every day and am astounded at some of the crap that comes in. Some of these people must think webmasters are absolute idiots posting meaningless nonsense as comments. I have no problem with linking if they would make a half-hearted attempt at contributing to the topic at hand.
Comment by Zack Holley — October 24, 2011 #
You’re not wrong Zack. I just deleted around 10 totally incoherent “Nice post. I will come back here regularly.”-type comments. Thanks for speaking some sense.
Comment by Will Swayne — October 24, 2011 #
Your blog will still attract tons of spam though, just like any other blog. Such a shame that these idiots have to spam the web.
Comment by Dan Peters — October 24, 2011 #
same agony here…can you imagine having a 10,000 comments in just what a day or two my websites memory is suffering so i decided to put some security code of just turn the comments off.
Comment by ubru — December 29, 2011 #