Encourage comments on your blog!
Do you have your own blog or website? If so, it’s pretty much a given that you want to increase your incoming links, right? Wouldn’t it be great, if the comments we left on other sites ‘counted’ with the search engines? THEY CAN!
Find out how to make the comments on your site ‘count’ below.
If you scroll about 1/2 way down my sidebar you’ll notice a graphic that looks like this:
It means I have installed a wordpress plugin that will disable the ‘nofollow’ attribute in my comments. The ‘nofollow’ is an HTML attribute that can be attached to a hyperlink. Basically, it tells search engines not to ‘count’ (or follow) that link.
It was set up to keep comment spam to a minimum, but it doesn’t work. Spam is now controlled by other means, so why not share the **Link Love** and disable the ‘no follow’ attribute?
When you fill out my comment form with your name, website and url, the search engines will follow that link and you’ll get an ‘effective’ back link from mommyknows.com. **U Comment I Follow** – You too can help your readers and encourage commenting all at the same time!
Here’s how you can join the ‘i follow movement’:
Wordpress: Install and activate this plugin: DoFollow
Blogger or Blogspot: use this guide
Typepad: use this guide
Moveable Type: use this guide
Want to know more? Check out these great posts, by bloggers who explain this way better than I do.
RandaClay – find out more about why, who and how; and get a your own graphic while you’re at it.
Paul Enderson – @ Reflections
Chris Garrett – @ chrisg.com
Ben Yoskovitz – @ Instigator Blog
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REMEMBER:
Mommyknows together with www.pippalily.com and www.thebabymarketplace.com is giving away TWO Pippalily baby slings (Value $75 each).
In addition, if I receive more than 100 ‘unique’ comments on any post between January 19th, 2007 and January 31st, 2008 (@ 9:59 pm MT) I will give away a FREE pair of Bical Grippers to one lucky commenter on that post (random draw) – Value $26 each! That’s 13 pairs of shoes!
You may enter by commenting on ANY or ALL posts between between January 19th, 2007 and January 31st, 2008 (@ 9:59 pm MT). Comments will be turned off after 48 hours on each post – so come back often.
See full rules here: CONTESTS!
MK xo
January 27th, 2008 at 14:20
I so don’t get it. Maybe I’m just too tired right now. I’ll think more about it later. :S
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January 27th, 2008 at 14:35
@ glittersmama – when you put a link in a post on your blog, the search engines and technorati count that link and use it to assign page rank etc. All the things that make your site more popular.
BUT, they don’t ‘count’ the links in comments, due to a small little piece of ‘nofollow’ code.
If you deactivate that code, you will give your commenters comments a back link.
You use blogger so you need to go here: http://betabloggerfordummies.blogspot.com/2007/03/remove-nofollow-attribute-on-comments.html
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January 27th, 2008 at 14:36
nak….
that was really interesting! i went and did that to my blog. thx
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January 27th, 2008 at 14:44
I love these plugins but am always scared of Google not liking them as much… I think they are good for blogs looking for interaction and no so good for those looking for SE traffic… As a compromise I have them on about 1/2 my blogs
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January 27th, 2008 at 15:16
Very very interesting. I hope this gets you a higher google rating. I think that is the point. I so do not get all of this fancy stuff:)
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January 27th, 2008 at 15:31
Hey thanks MK. I’ll do it!
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January 27th, 2008 at 15:35
I wish I understood half of your post I have just read!!!!! Every once in
awhile, I think about starting up some type of blog. I would definitely have so much to learn. Take care, Cindi
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January 27th, 2008 at 15:54
I’m so new to blogging that I’m totally lost… lol. I’ll have another look later today when I have some “ME” time. Right now we’re (I mean I’m) just trying to dig out from the disaster zone my house has become. We had no power this morning and we rushing around trying to get out the door to swimming and somehow it looks like a tornado traveled through the house.
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January 27th, 2008 at 16:05
Yes, I agree, very interesting. Something I’m going to look into here. Thanks for sharing!
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January 27th, 2008 at 16:46
Very cool!
Now I just need something other than the crap blog that I have.
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January 27th, 2008 at 17:09
Gosh! That is so incomprehensible to me. I was starting to think that I should start blogging too, but now I just realized I know absolutely nothing about blogging.
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January 27th, 2008 at 17:24
I’m such a follower! I’m all fixed up with the “no follow” code deleted.
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January 27th, 2008 at 17:35
I linked my “you comment, I follow” graphic to your post (because I’m being lazy and don’t want to write my own post right now). I hope that’s alright!
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January 27th, 2008 at 18:28
I think I sorta get it. I’m going to try and follow the instructions..
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January 27th, 2008 at 19:08
Okay – if nothing else comes out of my visiting your site, I think it will be that you are slowly inspiring me that I REALLY need to set up a blog. I am just so not computer friendly *laugh*. I do have to say that your prize this time has to be one of your best – I am desperately trying to find a pouch sling for my dd!
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January 27th, 2008 at 19:35
Try the Lucia’s Link Love plugin. It gives you better control over who you want to remove nofollow tags. You can select how many times they have to comment for the tag to be removed. This movement is a nice idea however you may start to get “real person” spam. I had joined a while back and I’m still getting nonsense comments from people who use the i follow list to advertise. Be careful!
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January 27th, 2008 at 20:05
Okay, so I’m in the clueless category, too. :) Ditto on probably too tired to think right now. :)
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January 27th, 2008 at 20:30
Also clueless…
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January 27th, 2008 at 21:42
Even better is your CommentLuv plugin. I love that one!
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January 28th, 2008 at 07:56
It’s way too early in the morning for me to comprehend any of this…
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January 28th, 2008 at 08:52
I’ve thought about setting up a blog but really I am just too damn tired and busy. I will just read other peoples!
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January 28th, 2008 at 12:17
i’m so out of this blog thing…i have our son’s website where i try to keep new pictures up and running…but, i need Blogs for Dummies or something… you are SO good to do this blog and stay so up to date on it! A huge pat on the back for all of it!
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January 28th, 2008 at 12:18
I honestly have no idea what that all means. Seriously. Come enter my Bloggy Carnival contest, though!
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January 28th, 2008 at 12:23
All it means is … if you ‘disable the nofollow’ using the instructions above, the people who comment on your site will get a link that ‘counts’ with google and other search engines.
A good reason to stop lurking … and comment.
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January 28th, 2008 at 18:32
I need to add this to my blog…because I do it anyways, so this’ll be perfect. :)
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January 28th, 2008 at 19:09
Count me in ! Thanks!
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January 28th, 2008 at 20:06
Thanks for the info…I’m going to look into it…
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January 28th, 2008 at 23:14
very cool idea
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January 29th, 2008 at 00:43
I have had to read this twice now and I am still not sure I get it. I am a slow one, aren’t I?
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January 29th, 2008 at 19:20
I’m been blogging since March 07 and still don’t get some of this stuff. I’m still learning new stuff everyday. I’m off to learn some more.
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January 31st, 2008 at 06:48
I right there with everyone else I am clueless to these blogs thing!
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February 11th, 2008 at 18:05
Thanks for stopping by my blog!
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February 19th, 2008 at 11:31
Congrats for the plugin. I’m happy every tiem I see someone disabling the no-follow attribute. It doesn’t serve any purpose in my opinion.
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March 3rd, 2008 at 02:21
May do follow movement continue to grow stronger and stronger :-)
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March 4th, 2008 at 00:26
What I’m also curious to know is how you have your comments set up to note the person’s last blog post. Interesting! I want that!
Thanks for the tips. I’m gonna try to get that done!
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March 5th, 2008 at 11:00
Glad to see you’re part of the do follow movement
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March 19th, 2008 at 21:23
Great,
Thanks for spreading the link love!
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April 22nd, 2008 at 14:58
Hi, sorry about your diagnosis. I must say that I have personally experienced healing and seen family and friends experience healing. I do not pretend to be a theologian, but this is how I see it. Jesus took our sins and disease on the cross. Disease is a direct result of sin being in the world. Sin is simply missing the mark and falling short of God’s perfect standard. Anyway, Jesus rose again and defeated death out of his love for us. Anyway, Jesus said to pray,
Our Father, Who is in heaven;
Hallowed by thy name;
Your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven;”
If you were in heaven right now you would not be suffering from disease. So just as Jesus said “the kingdom of Heaven is at hand”
I said a prayer for you.
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May 8th, 2008 at 16:02
Thx..nice topic.I will try asap in my blogs…
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May 10th, 2008 at 13:12
Its odd how many people are blogging and do not know about these plugins or the dofollow movement. The dofollow movement is a great one and when you incorporate some of the other plugins like CommentLuv, and the newest one being KeywordLuv (really awesome) you can do wonders with your blog. Tons of comments and interaction. Just have to make sure that you have a great program to take care of all the spam you will get. Nice Post!
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May 10th, 2008 at 15:03
I have incorporate the dofollow on my blog and I am not really getting spammed. It’s helping me with fresh content every other day as well.
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May 10th, 2008 at 15:04
Here’s my blog, I have do follow.
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May 29th, 2008 at 09:15
Excellent clause, I shall add in bookmarks
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June 8th, 2008 at 16:15
Don’t you find that you are hit with a lot of spam with this plugin?
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June 10th, 2008 at 13:59
Thanks for the info. I have been hearing about the importance of this lately and now I get it!
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June 11th, 2008 at 12:17
thanxs for he post helpful
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June 26th, 2008 at 10:38
I have tried this plugin before but I started to get spammed a lot. Maybe I will give it another try with an updated version.
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June 27th, 2008 at 21:06
good idea!
will implement this on my blog :]
check it out if ya don’t mind!
Ang
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June 30th, 2008 at 22:13
Hi there
The problem with “no_follow” is that you are expecting your visitors to take the time to comment without offering very much in return.
People worry about getting lots of spam or comments from people promoting their websites, but as long as the comment left adds something to the debate it doesn’t really matter why someone left it. On the subject of spam, it didn’t seem to make much difference when I put “do_follow” on my blog, and the spam filter catches it all anyway.
Good to see another “do follow” blog.
Neil
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July 1st, 2008 at 06:16
I think have a do follow blog greatly adds to user commentary, thus making the blog seem “alive”. I’m glad to see that other bloggers are beginning to join the revolution.
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July 1st, 2008 at 12:42
I always download the do-follow plugin on my blogs. I get some spam, but most of the comments are insightful.
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July 6th, 2008 at 16:19
oh boy…I have so much to learn about blogging that I hardly know where to start. Thanks for the Do Follow information…it makes sense to me.
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July 10th, 2008 at 17:10
we just installed this script on our blog. great movement
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July 18th, 2008 at 02:46
Pretty interesting idea, getting my webmaster to put this in
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July 27th, 2008 at 11:46
you can better,
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July 27th, 2008 at 22:27
Changing from nofollow to dofollow helps quite a bit in my experience with it. Just the extra interaction and comments really improve your blog and helps build a community. No-follow was never any good at preventing spam, and spam still shows up regardless. Thanks for the guides!
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July 28th, 2008 at 07:42
Since I found your blog with keyword freebies and you put UCIF here, may I put my freebies resources blog link http://www.nowitisfree.com
hope it will great for mommies who looking for some free stuff
thank you,
this is great mommy blog :)
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August 2nd, 2008 at 06:16
“U Comment I Follow” is a perfect stratigy to make your site more interactive and to get more visits by people who are interested to get backlinks….
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August 3rd, 2008 at 16:31
As soon as I became aware of NoFollow I installed the Wordpress plugin. I have found that the “Stylish” Firefox plugin is useful for spotting NoFollow links. This site http://linkbuildingbible.com/2008/06/10/how-to-easily-spot-nofollow-links/ explains how to use it and provides the script to make it work.
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August 6th, 2008 at 23:21
I’m such a follower! I’m all fixed up with the “no follow” code deleted. Thanks for this great article.
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August 8th, 2008 at 11:38
I am for this dofollow movement. But i hope this will not create trouble for non genuine commenting. I have experience of being blocked by Wordpress Akismet and wonder if anyone knows how to appeal to unblock spam.
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August 8th, 2008 at 12:45
Thank you, Mommy, for the dofollow ideas … and the tasty grilled cheese.
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August 9th, 2008 at 15:28
Google juice rocks:)
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August 11th, 2008 at 00:55
ok!thanks
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August 12th, 2008 at 11:20
We all need Google juice:)
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August 12th, 2008 at 19:05
we just installed the plugin on our site. its a great movement. thanks you admin :D
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August 16th, 2008 at 15:23
Nice Site. I am new here but will be visiting more often as you have done a good job.
Thanks
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August 17th, 2008 at 02:22
The Do-follow plugin rocks:P
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August 18th, 2008 at 23:19
Yes, we dofollow we dofollow and we dofollow :P
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August 31st, 2008 at 13:05
Nice plug in..But I still think social bookmarking is the way to go. Here are 5 do follow social bookmarking websites I found
http://www.totagit.com – PR2
http://www.socialblink.com
http://www.youtagz.com
http://www.wigletagz.com
http://www.buzztagz.com
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September 2nd, 2008 at 21:23
This is a great idea, and hopefully the movement will catch on even more! Thank you for being a part of it.
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September 2nd, 2008 at 22:56
I’m still learning about blogs but appreciate what you are doing here. When my blog gets going, I will definately follow the movement. People like you are making the internet a friendlier place!
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September 3rd, 2008 at 06:01
I like do follow blogs
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September 3rd, 2008 at 21:48
Great article. Thanks for sharing
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September 3rd, 2008 at 21:49
Do follow blogs rock!
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September 4th, 2008 at 01:39
I love this idea of do-follow blogs, it is quite a positive one, no doubt
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September 4th, 2008 at 15:03
I love do follow blogs. It really is a great idea for people, encourages more action and in the long run brings you readers you wouldn’t have had before.
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September 5th, 2008 at 07:46
Hey thanks for writing such a great blog and joining the I follow / Do Follow movement.
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September 7th, 2008 at 15:01
DoFollow is a great idea…thanks for joining!! ;)
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September 9th, 2008 at 21:30
Mommy knows alright … Dofollow all the way!
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September 15th, 2008 at 00:42
I have to agree, dofollow is pretty awesome, or at least I’m finding out. Still pretty new to blogging, and I still have to figure out how to set up my blog that way :D
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September 17th, 2008 at 05:16
I agree with this and appreciate to .
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September 17th, 2008 at 05:18
Seriously i like this blog very much.
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September 17th, 2008 at 10:50
“dofollow” is the way-to-go if you really want to build a community. It’s a fair exchange/reward for people taking the time to post real comments.
Thanks for joining the ‘DoFollow’ movement!
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September 23rd, 2008 at 03:21
great post!.. I am definitely coming back to read more.
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September 24th, 2008 at 12:29
Great to hear!
I think I should add your blog to favourites, huh? :)
By what means do you protect your blog?
I have billions of spam comments when I choose Dofollow.
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September 24th, 2008 at 21:53
It seems like this movement is getting stronger everyday. And I think with good reason. Something that was intentionally meant to control spam is now blocking links for all sorts of reason. It’s getting tot he point where new sites won’t be able to indexed because everything is a no follow tag.
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October 3rd, 2008 at 14:33
That DOES make sence! Thanks for the DOfollow )
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October 16th, 2008 at 09:04
Thanks for the DO-follow movement. Appreciate your help.
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October 17th, 2008 at 10:55
Thanks a bunch for the ‘do follow’. For those of you trying to figure out what this is, just do a google search for “do follow vs: no follow” and you will soon know!
Cheers
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October 19th, 2008 at 11:16
I think it makes sense will have a go
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October 23rd, 2008 at 21:48
great post. i am using do comment ,,,,
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October 24th, 2008 at 11:27
I’ve heard some goody things about this blog. Remember to balance the pics with the text tho. cheers!
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October 28th, 2008 at 12:20
I agree no one should use nofollow on links. Purposely “sculpting” your page rank by doing such serves no purpose to anyone other than scam artist SEOs.
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November 2nd, 2008 at 20:53
This is some very valuable information that you’ve posted here. Thanks for sharing.
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November 18th, 2008 at 13:37
I’ve created a dofollow website that searches only dofollow websites. This makes it a little easier for people to find them and this site has been included in the search.
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November 23rd, 2008 at 09:23
Perhaps Wordpress will just reactivate dofollow in a future release and then we don’t need to go to the effort. nofollow clearly hasn’t worked in reducing spam, and a blog owner always has the ability to remove links they don’t like anyway…
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November 24th, 2008 at 22:55
Thanks. Can this be turned off in myspace blogs? That would be pretty cool. Their linking system is quite complicated since the last few years. Please let me know at my Australian of the year 2009 site
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November 26th, 2008 at 12:52
Spam needs to be cut down on, I do not understand why people feel the need to go around spamming people, there is no need for it and spoils it for everyone else who wants to take part in blogs and instead they are filled with useless information where people are just adding silly stuff like above
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November 27th, 2008 at 06:07
You mention comments would be turned off after 48 hours?
Even though we’re up to comment 100, and this is quite a cold post, comments dont seem to be turned off, so 1 more comment, means someone might get the prize you mentioned.
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November 28th, 2008 at 14:36
we just installed this script on our blog. great movement
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December 3rd, 2008 at 07:42
How you think when the economic crisis will end? I wish to make statistics of independent opinions!
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December 4th, 2008 at 00:51
GREAT ARTICLE AND THANKS A LOT FOR THE FREE LINK, I HATE NO FOLLOW.CHEERS!
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December 8th, 2008 at 08:20
Hey, great post there! Im first time here visited your blog, definitely will visit back later, keep it up :)
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December 23rd, 2008 at 13:31
commens should just be moderated if there is a problem
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December 23rd, 2008 at 21:01
Interesting, thanks.
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December 29th, 2008 at 04:43
I think all of us should show some generosity as you have shown already. I have 6 blogs and all of them are do follow. Perhaps this is the most effective way to have good traffic and loyal users.
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December 30th, 2008 at 18:58
Do follow is a great revolution. When used appropriately, it can be a great asset to your blog and will definitely drive more traffic to your site…that’s for sure!
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January 10th, 2009 at 11:15
It is very difficult to handle all the spam after removing “no follow” attribute and that is the only problem I have with do follow blogs. On the other hand I love to share link juice with my users so I have set a limit of comments to get a link on my blogs.
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January 15th, 2009 at 17:02
hi all. The toughest thing about success is that you’ve got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You’ve got to keep on working that talent. Someday I’ll reach for it and it won’t be there.
I am from Japan and also am speaking English, tell me whether I wrote the following sentence: “Seven out of wait until at least to lose virginity but despite health risk, many fail to use condoms.”
Thank :o Sid.
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January 28th, 2009 at 16:51
Seems everywhere I look people are using this commentluv and keywordluv, really a revolution towards the purpose of the web. Which is of course sharing. Keep Bloggin’, I’m gonna have a look around.
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February 2nd, 2009 at 14:13
Love the commentluv plugin, I use it on all my blogs. It is great for the comments. Have you tried keywordluv ?
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October 1st, 2009 at 17:07
Thank you! Excellent post!
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October 2nd, 2009 at 07:01
Hallo an alle:) Ich kann nicht verstehen, wie zu Ihrer Website hinzuf?gen
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February 16th, 2010 at 03:38
couldn’t agree more mate.
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February 16th, 2010 at 14:15
Hi, i must say fantastic site you have, i stumbled across it in Google. Does you get much traffic?
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March 9th, 2010 at 15:36
Very wicked-cool information. I think im gonna stick around and read about 8 more of your posts. Yours respectfully
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