Comments on: To Follow or Not To Follow, That is the Question http://omninoggin.com/search-engine-marketing/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-that-is-the-question/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=to-follow-or-not-to-follow-that-is-the-question WordPress and Web Dev From the Ground Up Wed, 16 May 2012 09:51:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Weight Losshttp://omninoggin.com/search-engine-marketing/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-that-is-the-question/#comment-3180 Weight Loss Thu, 18 Aug 2011 18:34:32 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/?p=207#comment-3180 I think that moderating should be harder.So even if someone want to advertise(50%) and leave good and quality comment(50) he should be rewarded with do follow link..Good for owner of the blog , good for someone who posted quality post. Other spamming should be denied of approving and even submitted to Askimet. That is just my two cents. I think that moderating should be harder.So even if someone want to advertise(50%) and leave good and quality comment(50) he should be rewarded with do follow link..Good for owner of the blog , good for someone who posted quality post. Other spamming should be denied of approving and even submitted to Askimet.
That is just my two cents.

]]> By: faizanhttp://omninoggin.com/search-engine-marketing/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-that-is-the-question/#comment-2821 faizan Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:19:01 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/?p=207#comment-2821 i think you are right! many people just comment to earn some links(whether for traffic or PR) but i think allowing do-follow links on our blogs can annoy google any ideas regarding that? i think you are right! many people just comment to earn some links(whether for traffic or PR) but i think allowing do-follow links on our blogs can annoy google
any ideas regarding that?

]]> By: Ways to Increase Visitor Activity on Your Blog « OMNINOGGINhttp://omninoggin.com/search-engine-marketing/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-that-is-the-question/#comment-721 Ways to Increase Visitor Activity on Your Blog « OMNINOGGIN Sat, 27 Dec 2008 20:53:25 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/?p=207#comment-721 [...] Dofollow your comments [...] [...] Dofollow your comments [...]

]]> By: Thaya Kareesonhttp://omninoggin.com/search-engine-marketing/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-that-is-the-question/#comment-452 Thaya Kareeson Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:18:15 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/?p=207#comment-452 I wish I was getting 1000 comments per month to moderate. That would be a good problem to have on my site :). I wish I was getting 1000 comments per month to moderate. That would be a good problem to have on my site :) .

]]> By: Andy Beardhttp://omninoggin.com/search-engine-marketing/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-that-is-the-question/#comment-449 Andy Beard Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:44:35 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/?p=207#comment-449 I haven't been very active for the last 2 months so had 2000 comments to moderate (those are the ones that made it through Spam Karma on very harsh settings) Of those, 50% of the trackbacks and pingbacks were accepted, and maybe 25% of the comments. 75% of the comments wouldn't be missed. I haven’t been very active for the last 2 months so had 2000 comments to moderate (those are the ones that made it through Spam Karma on very harsh settings)

Of those, 50% of the trackbacks and pingbacks were accepted, and maybe 25% of the comments.

75% of the comments wouldn’t be missed.

]]> By: Widgett Wallshttp://omninoggin.com/search-engine-marketing/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-that-is-the-question/#comment-365 Widgett Walls Sun, 27 Jul 2008 08:17:21 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/?p=207#comment-365 You know, it's interesting. I get a lot of those sort of "Awesome!" comments but they're not bearing links. Usually I'm removing the URL from people who have tried to put their e-mail address where the URL is supposed to go. But I agree with the other commenter: if somebody's really trying to be obnoxious and just get a link--and they haven't brought anything to the party--I'll generally just remove the URL. Come to think of it, though, I did make an example of a couple of dumb linkers early on in the process by changing their URL to something a bit...shall we say...caustic. Maybe that's it. :) You know, it’s interesting. I get a lot of those sort of “Awesome!” comments but they’re not bearing links. Usually I’m removing the URL from people who have tried to put their e-mail address where the URL is supposed to go. But I agree with the other commenter: if somebody’s really trying to be obnoxious and just get a link–and they haven’t brought anything to the party–I’ll generally just remove the URL.

Come to think of it, though, I did make an example of a couple of dumb linkers early on in the process by changing their URL to something a bit…shall we say…caustic. Maybe that’s it. :)

]]> By: Thaya Kareesonhttp://omninoggin.com/search-engine-marketing/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-that-is-the-question/#comment-355 Thaya Kareeson Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:42:37 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/?p=207#comment-355 @Talk Binary Thank you for visiting and for commenting! I hope you find this site helpful in developing your new website. At a glace, your site looks professional and you seem like a good writer so you shouldn't have anything to worry about. @Talk Binary
Thank you for visiting and for commenting! I hope you find this site helpful in developing your new website. At a glace, your site looks professional and you seem like a good writer so you shouldn’t have anything to worry about.

]]> By: Talk Binaryhttp://omninoggin.com/search-engine-marketing/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-that-is-the-question/#comment-354 Talk Binary Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:22:03 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/?p=207#comment-354 I recently came through your page through Plurk! Got to agree, I love your site and the way you respond to user comments! Makes me want to keep commenting! Keep up the great job! I just recently started a website so starting conversations is still a little hard for me. =) I recently came through your page through Plurk! Got to agree, I love your site and the way you respond to user comments! Makes me want to keep commenting! Keep up the great job!

I just recently started a website so starting conversations is still a little hard for me. =)

]]> By: Thaya Kareesonhttp://omninoggin.com/search-engine-marketing/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-that-is-the-question/#comment-345 Thaya Kareeson Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:51:10 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/?p=207#comment-345 @Jon Do Haha, that is a good measure of intelligence. I will up the number of required words per comment. This will hopefully help filter out these manual spammers. @Jon Do
Haha, that is a good measure of intelligence. I will up the number of required words per comment. This will hopefully help filter out these manual spammers.

]]> By: Jon Dohttp://omninoggin.com/search-engine-marketing/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-that-is-the-question/#comment-343 Jon Do Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:46:58 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/?p=207#comment-343 Yes, captcha is pretty annoying. Anyway for "manual spammers" I think a good method is to increase the number of words per comment and more than 30% of this spammers will give up ... because a lot of them doesn't know more than 10 words in English :) Yes, captcha is pretty annoying. Anyway for “manual spammers” I think a good method is to increase the number of words per comment and more than 30% of this spammers will give up … because a lot of them doesn’t know more than 10 words in English :)

]]> By: Thaya Kareesonhttp://omninoggin.com/search-engine-marketing/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-that-is-the-question/#comment-341 Thaya Kareeson Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:24:28 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/?p=207#comment-341 @Jon Do I used to use captcha plugins on this site but after getting frustrated by many sites with captcha on the net, I've decided to turn it off on this blog. Instead, I use a combination of Akismet, Project Honey Pot Http:BL, and Ajax Force Comment Preview plugins to alleviate my automated spam. The problem I have now is just manual spammers who come through do-follow search engines and leave irrelevant comments. Hopefully I can plug this hole once StupidFilter comes online. @Jon Do
I used to use captcha plugins on this site but after getting frustrated by many sites with captcha on the net, I’ve decided to turn it off on this blog. Instead, I use a combination of Akismet, Project Honey Pot Http:BL, and Ajax Force Comment Preview plugins to alleviate my automated spam. The problem I have now is just manual spammers who come through do-follow search engines and leave irrelevant comments. Hopefully I can plug this hole once StupidFilter comes online.

]]> By: Jon Dohttp://omninoggin.com/search-engine-marketing/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-that-is-the-question/#comment-340 Jon Do Mon, 14 Jul 2008 09:05:10 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/?p=207#comment-340 Spam is our biggest problem, but with little moderation and some "captcha" plugins we can solve 90% from spam. Anyway if you have 30-40 comments per day is easy to moderate the posts ... but more than that I think is pain in the ass. Also if we increase the minimum number of words in a comment I think it can be useful. I'm also intersted in a plugin like "StupidFilter" ... Regards Spam is our biggest problem, but with little moderation and some “captcha” plugins we can solve 90% from spam. Anyway if you have 30-40 comments per day is easy to moderate the posts … but more than that I think is pain in the ass.

Also if we increase the minimum number of words in a comment I think it can be useful.

I’m also intersted in a plugin like “StupidFilter” …

Regards

]]> By: Thaya Kareesonhttp://omninoggin.com/search-engine-marketing/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-that-is-the-question/#comment-338 Thaya Kareeson Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:55:54 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/?p=207#comment-338 @Brian Spam protection does help fight this battle since it works well against most automated spamming and some semi-automated spamming. But it does not protect you from real life spammers who go around commenting "nice post thankz" on every dofollow blog just so they can gain link juice. I've been looking at something like <a href="http://stupidfilter.org" rel="nofollow">StupidFilter</a> to help combat this, but the project has not completed yet. Do you know of any similar service? @Brian
Spam protection does help fight this battle since it works well against most automated spamming and some semi-automated spamming. But it does not protect you from real life spammers who go around commenting “nice post thankz” on every dofollow blog just so they can gain link juice. I’ve been looking at something like StupidFilter to help combat this, but the project has not completed yet. Do you know of any similar service?

]]> By: Brianhttp://omninoggin.com/search-engine-marketing/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-that-is-the-question/#comment-337 Brian Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:39:38 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/?p=207#comment-337 Wouldn't it make sense for blog owners to enable dofollow if they have spam protection in place? Wouldn’t it make sense for blog owners to enable dofollow if they have spam protection in place?

]]> By: Thaya Kareesonhttp://omninoggin.com/search-engine-marketing/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-that-is-the-question/#comment-329 Thaya Kareeson Wed, 09 Jul 2008 23:02:48 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/?p=207#comment-329 @Mark You have a good point about grey area posts. I guess Andy Beard said it right the first time: "If I delete it, will it be missed?"<br/> Thank you for adding me to your rss reader. I do not post as often as many other bloggers, but that's because I only post when I have something important to say/share. So please keep me up there in your reader, I won't disappoint you. :) @Mark
You have a good point about grey area posts. I guess Andy Beard said it right the first time: “If I delete it, will it be missed?”

Thank you for adding me to your rss reader. I do not post as often as many other bloggers, but that’s because I only post when I have something important to say/share. So please keep me up there in your reader, I won’t disappoint you. :)

]]> By: Markhttp://omninoggin.com/search-engine-marketing/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-that-is-the-question/#comment-328 Mark Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:50:34 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/?p=207#comment-328 Hi Thaya I just found your blog recently and added it to the top of my rss reader :) I wasnt trying to dissuade you from making a no-follow blog, just had to air my rambling of thoughts I had recently on the subject. For the gray area posts like "nice post thankz" I would just delete the comment! You'll be doing yourself and your readers a favor by showing that you are interested only in meaningful comments. Why waste any more of your time on a comment that the commenter didn't spend more than 0.5 nanoseconds thinking up? There is also a lot of controversy on the weight of no-follow and do-follow links so spammers may still be happy getting a no-follow link from you. Keep up the good work! Hi Thaya

I just found your blog recently and added it to the top of my rss reader :)

I wasnt trying to dissuade you from making a no-follow blog, just had to air my rambling of thoughts I had recently on the subject.

For the gray area posts like “nice post thankz” I would just delete the comment! You’ll be doing yourself and your readers a favor by showing that you are interested only in meaningful comments. Why waste any more of your time on a comment that the commenter didn’t spend more than 0.5 nanoseconds thinking up?

There is also a lot of controversy on the weight of no-follow and do-follow links so spammers may still be happy getting a no-follow link from you.

Keep up the good work!

]]> By: Thaya Kareesonhttp://omninoggin.com/search-engine-marketing/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-that-is-the-question/#comment-327 Thaya Kareeson Wed, 09 Jul 2008 22:41:00 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/?p=207#comment-327 @Mark Thank you for visiting! It's nice to see fellow BSD lovers comment once in a while. :)<br/> I'm sorry if I have misled you into thinking that I will be making comment links no-follow. Implementing no-follow was never my intention at all. My plan is to keep the comment links do-follow forever *by default*, but I would like to have an option to mark a link as no-follow if I really wanted to.<br/> A lot of my visitors give great comments (like yours!), but I sometimes get "gray area" comments (the ones that I'm not sure if the purpose was just to gain link juice or not). This no-follow toggle method would be a good tool for me to deal with these "gray area" comment. Also leaving things as do-follow by default should alleviate a lot of this moderation work, freeing time for quality post generation. :) @Mark
Thank you for visiting! It’s nice to see fellow BSD lovers comment once in a while. :)

I’m sorry if I have misled you into thinking that I will be making comment links no-follow. Implementing no-follow was never my intention at all. My plan is to keep the comment links do-follow forever *by default*, but I would like to have an option to mark a link as no-follow if I really wanted to.

A lot of my visitors give great comments (like yours!), but I sometimes get “gray area” comments (the ones that I’m not sure if the purpose was just to gain link juice or not). This no-follow toggle method would be a good tool for me to deal with these “gray area” comment. Also leaving things as do-follow by default should alleviate a lot of this moderation work, freeing time for quality post generation. :)

]]> By: Thaya Kareesonhttp://omninoggin.com/search-engine-marketing/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-that-is-the-question/#comment-321 Thaya Kareeson Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:52:28 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/?p=207#comment-321 Definitely not too incredible a task, but I just wouldn't want to reinvent the wheel. :) By the way, I love the Shaler jump. I love the one you did on 4th of July. Instant classic. Definitely not too incredible a task, but I just wouldn’t want to reinvent the wheel. :) By the way, I love the Shaler jump. I love the one you did on 4th of July. Instant classic.

]]> By: Brianhttp://omninoggin.com/search-engine-marketing/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-that-is-the-question/#comment-320 Brian Wed, 09 Jul 2008 17:31:10 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/?p=207#comment-320 I don't know of any, but it doesn't seem like it would be too incredible a task, no? I don’t know of any, but it doesn’t seem like it would be too incredible a task, no?

]]> By: Thaya Kareesonhttp://omninoggin.com/search-engine-marketing/to-follow-or-not-to-follow-that-is-the-question/#comment-319 Thaya Kareeson Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:26:32 +0000 http://omninoggin.com/?p=207#comment-319 @Brian Thank you for your great suggestions about how to deal with comments that fall in the gray area. Do you know of any plugins out there that let you toggle do-follow/no-follow on a per-comment basis? @Brian
Thank you for your great suggestions about how to deal with comments that fall in the gray area. Do you know of any plugins out there that let you toggle do-follow/no-follow on a per-comment basis?

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