Following the dofollowers
By AndrewBoyd • Sep 5th, 2007 • Category: Blogging tipsI read Snoskred’s post on dofollow this morning and it has inspired me to get involved. I’ve thought about it for a while - I remember Wendy Piersall going through some dofollow pain a while back.
There are two good reasons for installing a dofollow plugin on your blog:
- it shares the link love by allowing the comments to be indexed by Google, and
- there is an active dofollow community movement that promotes dofollow blogs (including the no-nofollow community at BUMPzee).
I installed the Lucia’s Linky Love plugin (thanks Sephyroth for the tip) - it allows control over the number of comments that have to be in place prior to dofollow being turned on for that commenter - I’ve got it set at three comments at the moment as this is the lowest level allowed by this plugin.
So…. I’ll see how it goes, and if it becomes too much of a hassle with spammers specifically targeting me because of the dofollow status I can always deactivate the plugin as a last resort.
A word of caution: Wendy’s advice (and Snoskred’s) is to moderate with extreme prejudice - I can do this (and word up to the Rainbowfish Mailing List old-timers from ten years ago and more who may remember my alter ego… The Moderaptor 
).
Note: I’ve entered this post into the Carnival of Australia.
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Just be careful to stay away from the “text based” do follow lists. Katie from A Byootaful Life was on one of those lists and found a lot of spam coming to her as a surprise. The people creating those lists are aware that spam is a side effect but I do not believe they let people know that. ;(
The Bumpzee one is ok, because it takes a lot more effort on the part of the spammers to visit each blog.
Congrats on going do follow!
I’m glad my article was useful to so many people.. 
Cheers!
Snoskred
http://www.snoskred.org/
Hi Snoskred,
thank you for your comment
That is a good tip about the various groups - it reminds me a little of some “share links for marketing” programs that are used by some affiliate programs - getting the same email from 27 people ends up being the equivalent of spam anyway
I’ve applied for membership of the BUMPzee group, hopefully I qualify (not a lot of comments here yet).
Cheers, Andrew
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