Comments on: I might be changing my do follow policy slightly

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 13:11:58 +0000

The do-follow has it’s good points but also some bad ones. Myself, tend to think it’s still a good tool, although people try to profit from it. Especially for young of fresh started blogs, this plugin might attract interaction, and might be one of the first steps into creating a community.

That’s why i use it. Of course, there’s the other aspect you mentioned, trying to thank your already existing community. But, for a very big blog, might come a time where the incredible amount of spam will make you think if this worth it.

Unfortunately (or not), i haven’t quite reached that step with my blogs

By: Angie

Angie — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:33:21 +0000

I intend to stick with dofollow. I strip out my fair share of URLs, though and delete many. But my real readers need to be rewarded.

By: Marj

Marj — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:30:03 +0000

I am relatively new to all this and don’t have the amount of spam that the long time bloggers have, but I cannot stand people abusing a good thing. Having a plugin that requires a certain number of posts before links, sounds very reasonable to me. Nice post.

By: Drew

Drew — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 00:36:53 +0000

I have noticed an increase in comments too. Some have been interesting. I got a comment the other day about how cute the photo of my cat’s paws was, and I hadn’t uploaded the photo yet, I had just uploaded the post. It was the one time I put one before the other and I got this long comment about how cute the cat’s paws were. So I let it stay on my blog and put a follow up comment about the omniscient quality of the commenter.

By the way I tagged you for a Meme, hope you don’t mind. The link is attached to my name.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:38:28 +0000

I have no idea about CPU load on that plugin, but if you are still using wpcache then that shouldn’t be a problem anyway.

Lots of people with popular blogs are using Linklove, it is a good option, though I would tend to still delete junk comments.

I delete junk comments all the time, sometimes I don’t even ban the commenter from commenting again

By having a generally high quality of comments on your blog, you actively encourage better comments.

By: Truden

Truden — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:25:24 +0000

Tricia, most hosting companies will complain about CPU and server overload once your blog become popular and visited.

You won’t have this problems with wordpress.com
Check what the prices are there for using your domain name and just move your blog to their servers.

I had to rent virtual dedicated server for my websites.
My previous hosting company clearly told me to move away.

Do not wait for them to tell you that.
Before it comes to that point they will cut your website server recourses and make it unusable.

By: Robyn

Robyn — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 15:08:16 +0000

Hey Tricia–can I ask a dumb question? On the Do-Follow linkage–a while back Kat gave a link to a site that will actually show you all of your link backs. Pages and pages of link backs due to comments. But all of these links were directly to the post where the comment was left–every “specific” post I’ve ever seen has a PR0–so is there really much “love” in the link anyway, right? It would be something if it would give a link to the blog itself–if it were say a PR5 or so–but to a PR0 post–it doesn’t seem to be a huge help. Am I understanding the ‘link’ correctly??

Just a question–I’m not normally tech-savvy–and have a PR3 so no one really spams me–Thanks for you post though–I do want to look into the two plug-ins that were mentioned here.

By: Lynne

Lynne — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:43:59 +0000

Oh my, this is all way over my head and I apologize for being a new blogger, but I am very interested in following this train of thought. I am trying to learn what I can and I’m not very techno savvy, but I do understand the annoyance of spam. My sister, who is more experienced, was nice enough to set up my blog for me. At this point it is set up as dofollow and I am working on improving my page rank. But I certainly don’t want to do it by spamming as I look to those of you who are more experienced as people I can learn from. I have a vague idea of what a plug-in is and would like to follow this conversation more. I hope you do hear from people that have the linkylove plug in and can hopefully find an improved way of rewarding your frequent readers. I would like to become one of those as I find your information very helpful. Would you mind if I added you to my blogroll?

By: Flap

Flap — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:55:30 +0000

Tricia,

I have been a do follower now for a couple of weeks and have noticed an increase of spam just the last few days.

Hopefully, the new pluig-in will not be a resource hound.

Did you change all of your RSS feeds btw?

By: Snoskred

Snoskred — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 11:43:18 +0000

I think spam will be spam with or without do follow. The linkylove thing sounds like a good idea.

However I think this is the kind of thing that could easily drive one round the twist - trying to decide what someones motivations for posting a comment are. I’m inclined to let them have their link unless it is really obvious outright spam. I also tend to gravitate to the blogs of people who comment, and they’re likely to get a sidebar link from me in the long term if I like their blog. Generally I do. I have only found one or two blogs out there on the internet that I’ve utterly hated.