Comments on: Are Do-Follow Blogs Creating Dishonesty? [Thoughts]

By: Web

Web — Tue, 18 May 2010 10:54:47 +0000

Your thoughts are so valid Sarge! Do-follow blogs come with great responsibility. In fact, all blogs come with great responsibility. When our readers trust us, we better be careful about whom we link to. Even in comments.One more thing, your hypothesis about Tony is very valid but Google has outsmarted that. Had it been just link and niche of the site the link is coming from – it was ok. But there are so many other factors which will make sure that the true one stays on top. If people like you – Google will like you and where people rule, fake can’t stand for long.Even if Tomy somehow manages to fool google and get top ranks, bounce rate because of his hopeless content will do the justice.
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By: Imran Yousaf

Imran Yousaf — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:34:59 +0000

Do follow blogs work just like a magnet. Bloggers post comment on site with dofollow enabled. I think its a good idea for generating comments.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:18:41 +0000

thanks for the post. dofollow blogs actually take more work b/c you have to weed through the spam and whatnot. but it is a reward to visitors and can increase traffic.

By: Eppie

Eppie — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:36:13 +0000

I find it interesting that you argue against rewarding commenters with DoFollow links but implement a DoFollow top commentators section, which gives sitewide DoFollows to people who comment. Granted, on a blog like this where you have a pretty active commenting community, it’s harder to game the system, but the point is still the same.

I also implement a DoFollow top commentators section, specifically to encourage comments, but it’s frustrating when you look at your analytics and see people searching for something like:

inurl:keyword “top commentators”

Then they go and post a comment like “great post,” and use a keyword-rich name. The goal is to encourage real discussion.

By: Dev

Dev — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:48:38 +0000

Great post man//
and making your blog dofollow is great way to reward your readers…and commenters.

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By: element321

element321 — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:29:48 +0000

Sarge,

Great post. I have to agree, DoFollow blogs need to take responsibility. My blog is a DoFollow and uses commentluv. I spend a lot a lot of time monitoring and removing spam. If someone leaves a comment that looks real but has a link to crap, I remove it, I think its crap I remove it. I also advertise being a DoFollow Blog, that is only because its a new site and I am encouraging people to comment. Once I start paid advertisements, I will remove the DoFollow Advertisment and let people figure it out.

By: Sarge

Sarge — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:07:45 +0000

@Jordan – Good challenge issued there to the do-followers! Would only work if they tell everyone they’re going to no-follow but it would be a great experiment to see who is really an authentic commenter and who’s just there for the link juice.

Definitely linking in posts is one of the greatest way to reward a commenter. I love doing it. Not just for rewarding a consistent commenter either, just good content in general that I’m aware of will get a link

@Keith – Out of curiosity what are the firefox plugins that you are using to see if a site is do-follow/no-follow?

@Anthony – Is that a coincidence that I was visiting your page then I see a comment from you here on my blog? Amazing! Anyway, I totally agree with you. Commenting section should be about discussions and adding to the article. In fact, we should rename comments to ‘discussion’. Perhaps it will get the message across a bit better about the type of ‘comments’ we want left on our blogs.

@King – I know there are many other factors involved to get high rankings in google. There’s probably a ton of variables that people haven’t considered when it comes to ranking well. There are some sites I would consider quite junk though that rank really well and that was my point when it came to the Tony example. As I titled it – it’s a ‘fictional tale’

Not sure if something like it is out there but I think there should be an easy way to report sites to google that are ranking well but perhaps shouldn’t be. If google get enough complaints from a particular site then they will check into it and adjust accordingly.

By: King Sidharth @ Meditation Rocks

King Sidharth @ Meditation Rocks — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:56:56 +0000

Your thoughts are so valid Sarge! Do-follow blogs come with great responsibility. In fact, all blogs come with great responsibility. When our readers trust us, we better be careful about whom we link to. Even in comments.
One more thing, your hypothesis about Tony is very valid but Google has outsmarted that. Had it been just link and niche of the site the link is coming from – it was ok. But there are so many other factors which will make sure that the true one stays on top. If people like you – Google will like you and where people rule, fake can’t stand for long.
Even if Tomy somehow manages to fool google and get top ranks, bounce rate because of his hopeless content will do the justice.

By: Anthony Feint

Anthony Feint — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:53:38 +0000

I was reading through the comments on a reasonably popular dofollow blog in the “blogging” niche. There were around 40 comments – it seemed impressive but when I started actually looking at the comments, half were just “good post blah blah blah im just promoting my blog”. The other half, bloggers were linking to specific “spam blog” posts. There were around 2-3 genuine comments.

I would hate that if that happened on my blog. I love the discussions, arguments etc. that happen in my comments. I use the Top Commenters plugin on my blog, and all the commenters listed in the widget are awesome! I;m proud to have them their

And btw. I’ve found that if I only comment on a select number of posts that I actually want to contribute too, I often make a really good connection with the author.