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Giving Google love to your readers.
By Todd Carpenter | July 23, 2007
Hat tip to Dave Smith of Real Estate Blog Labs for this cool little Wordpress Plugin. It was exactly the tool I needed. Now, anyone who leaves comments on this blog will receive a back-link that Google will follow. There’s a one day probation for all comments so I can discard any comment spam.
Topics: Cool Gizmos |
July 23rd, 2007 at 5:22 pm
I’ve had the “Dofollow” plug in on my blog for about a month. Haven’t really noticed an increase in comments, but that’s not really the point. SpamKarma still catches dozens of spammy comments a day.
I suspect at some point the spammers may (if they haven’t already) find a way to pick out blogs with “dofollow” and hit them harder. But I haven’t really noticed that yet.
July 23rd, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Jay, Comment Spam got so bad on Lenderama got so bad that I just turned them off for almost a year. I’m hoping this blog will better encourage reader participation.
I don’t see the Dofollow making that much of a difference, but why not do right by the reader for contributing. I’m glad to here you’re using it to.
July 25th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
Todd and Jay,
Even if it does increase the spam traffic they will just feed your spam filter more food. It won’t get them a link back in any form.
Jay, you might want to let your reader’s know as Todd just did. It might make a difference then : )