Comments on: Did You Find My Blog Through a D-list? Stop Being so Lazy!

By: Tiretrera

Tiretrera — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:06:20 +0000

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By: Carolina Panthers Store

Carolina Panthers Store — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:40:36 +0000

You know what you could do; just go in and edit only certain comments to be do-follow comments, then delete the crappy ones. Carolina Panthers Store's last blog post..By: Carolina Panthers Store | Carolina Panthers Blog

By: Chuck

Chuck — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:02:10 +0000

I agree with your observations about spammy comments, but I hope you don’t go back the other way. I, too, arrived here from a D-List of sorts…in fact, my own new do-follow blog directory:

http://riseabovedirectory.com

So I would likely have never stopped by had you not gone the do-follow route. But I completely concur with your comments, as I stated in my philosophical statement on the directory:

http://riseabovedirectory.com/our_philosophy.html

The simple fact is that many folks have no moral core when it comes to how they put food on the table. They’ll do anything to make a dime, and they don’t care who they “use” to get there. I find that terribly sad. I believe it’s important to take steps to yank the web back from the hands of the idiots (having already lost the battle in terms of email spam, etc)…so I am firm in my commitment to do-follow…but I won’t honor spammers by approving their comments. That’s the only way to choke off those of that ilk.

CommentLuv is great…and I also like KeywordLuv as an option…which enables folks to use their real name in their posts, but also to get the anchor text they need.

Don’t give up the good fight. The idiots will eventually go find a new strategy, once they find out that “Great post!” isn’t going to get them anything but a comment deletion.

Chuck’s last blog post..Cure for Bad Breath

By: Carolyn Bahm

Carolyn Bahm — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 21:12:10 +0000

Heh-heh. When I first read this post, I wondered if you were using “D-List” like Kathy Griffin does — as in “a notch below the A-List, B-List, and C-List” blogs. I’m glad someone else asked in the comments, because I was about to. )

I leave comments only if I have something to say, whether the person has nofollow on or off. That’s one of several reasons why I wasn’t a good fit for Entrecard — to drop cards quickly and accumulate points efficiently, I visited lots of fast-loading blogs I didn’t particularly love and didn’t have anything to comment on. Bleah — waste o’ my time.

But back to the point of this post: I use the Lucia’s Linky Love plug-in on my self-hosted WordPress blog to manage this issue. It’s designed to minimize the problem of “human comment spammers leaving insipid, irrelevant comments just to get link-juice.” You can set it up so it only adds dofollow to the author name and links in comment after a commenter leaves some minimum number of comments (3-10).

It’s at this URL: http://money.bigbucksblogger.com/lucias-linky-love-a-dofollow-plugin-to-foil-human-comment-spammers/

Carolyn Bahm’s last blog post..47×365, No. 60 – Smelly Girl

By: Bodybuilding Videos

Bodybuilding Videos — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:49:35 +0000

One of my blogs has been dofollow for months and on many lists and I been getting junk comments, but I also get mostly good comments. I f someone posts nonsense and doesnt even read the post then I delete it, but otherwise I approve it even if their name looks spammy. Bodybuilding Videos's last blog post..Ronnie Coleman Bench Press Video

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:32:41 +0000

Mirjam – I think people are disillusioned by the benefits of passing juice to commentators websites. The PR would be so small and in my experience, those who comment only to get some PR juice leave poorer comments. Good comments should come from good articles. A top commenters list can also be spammed but I think that would be much better than sending PR to everyone who leaves a comment.

You should check out dailyblogtips comments stats plugin. It shows who has commented the most in your dashboard and you can then decide how you want to reward them (eg. a thank you post). This leaves you in full control and you can simply leave spammers off this list.

Kevin’s last blog post..Networking is not a one way street

By: Mirjam

Mirjam — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:00:06 +0000

Hey Kevin
at this point I am still not wanting to turn no-follow back on, because it goes against my initial decision to turn do-follow on, wanting to give something back to people who do take the time to make meaningfull comments on my posts.

By: Mirjam

Mirjam — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 07:56:54 +0000

LOL I am using akismet as well but it is not a catch all system

By: The Movie Whore

The Movie Whore — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:43:49 +0000

So this is why I use Askimet to weed out some the more obvious spam comments.

I get it now. You are always so informative. Now get back to writing or else. lol

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:18:15 +0000

Unfortunately, promoting the fact that your comments do not have the nofollow tag attached to them is a sure fire way to get pointless, irrelevant comments from spammers who whose only interest in your blog is to get a link using a keyword.

I would definately encourage you to add the nofollow tag back to comment links. I’m sure the average comment would be a lot less spammy

Kevin’s last blog post..Networking is not a one way street