Apr 22 2008
U Comment I Follow with CommentLuv
Today I removed the nofollow tag from comments on this blog and recently added the commentluv plugin as well. My goal of this blog has not only been to share information but to encourage interaction and community. I hope you take advantage of these features because your comments and feedback fuel this blog.
Some of you may be unfamiliar with nofollow (I hope this helps):
nofollow is a non-standard HTML attribute value used to instruct search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target’s ranking in the search engine’s index. It is intended to reduce the effectiveness of certain types of spamdexing, thereby improving the quality of search engine results and preventing spamdexing from occurring in the first place.
“nofollow.” Wikipedia. Wikipedia, 2008. Answers.com 22 Apr. 2008. http://www.answers.com/topic/nofollow
nofollow HTML example:
<a href="http://www.anofollowlink.com" rel="nofollow">A No Follow Link</a>
Comment spam will be deleted.
Best wishes
[...] U Comment I Follow with CommentLuv [...]
I’d like to pass out link love to commenters as well, but…
What sort of extra ‘filters’ (if that’s the right word for it) do you have to use to protect yourself once the spambots realize you are a ‘follow’ rather than a ‘no follw’ blog.
Oh, and by the way, I want to keep all comments on my blog immediately published without my approval, becuase it really does help the conversation keep going. (That plus I’m too darn busy to uber-monitor it.)
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Jamie - I think it is a good idea to manually approve all 1st time visitors comments. After that you can leave it to spam filters and comment review.
CommentLuv is a great plugin - I run several blogs/maintain websites myself like http://www.virtual-coach.com and http://www.askowlbert.com and have found it invaluable.
Comment Relish, alas, I uninstalled, because received email was obviously identifiable as auto-generated and not personal.
http://www.timnash.co.uk/comment-prompt/ is another wordpress plugin to encourage comments - I have something similar installed on my vbulletin.
Enjoy,
Barbara
Monmouth County Mom
Commentluv is a great plugin, never heard of a negative comment about it till today.
Although i have nofollow in my blog, i think commentluv helps in some amount of traffic too
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I haven’t added the CommentLuv plugin yet, however I have allowed my commentators’ names to be followed for some time now without too much hassle from spammers. Akismet does a great job of catching the majority of spam, so allowing comments to follow is my way of showing my appreciation for taking the time to read my post and to share opinions (which is also why I’ll be adding the CommentLuv plugin soon).
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