Comments on: The I Follow Movement is Like Family Guy only Evil, and how I am Fighting It

By: IFollowU

IFollowU — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:12:13 +0000

My blog now follows links. At first I thought nofollow was a good idea but I have changed my mind on that. After a long time procrastinating I have seen the importance of “dofollow” and making sure everything stays connected and links don’t get broken. I will follow comments on my blog, http://www.reallyreally.net I hope more people adopt these principals. Regards Bree.

By: Billy

Billy — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:57:40 +0000

Funny rant. I will leave this one comment and be done with your blog. You miss the whole point of the do follow movement which is to reward those who contribute good content to your entry. However, if you are such a scrooge about spreading any link love then stick to your guns. Anyway, thanks for the link condom.

By: webd360

webd360 — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 14:29:29 +0000

Well, no matter what you do you will get spammers. I have the dofollow plugin installed on my blog and for the most part I’m getting good, related comments (maybe because my audience is webmasters/bloggers and they would know about the topics I am writing about). The linkjuice plugin seems good too and it would probably be a good way to weed out the genuine commenters from those that just want links (But you may lose comments in the process).

By: Roberta

Roberta — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 23:07:57 +0000

That cracks me up….love the button…can I steal it? LOL j/k I am a follower of the dofollow idea, but this one seems great if you’ve just received a spike in traffic. I don’t have that worry just yet.

By: Rhys

Rhys — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 01:55:51 +0000

Great idea! You know what else is also a great idea? Those great new toys for the iPod!

Wow, what an easy turnaround!

You’ve worked hard to get your blogging status, congrats with it – seriously, it’s more of a commitment than marriage!
But I guess not quite so bad, I mean, your blog doesn’t get jealous if you go commenting on other blogs, and other people comment on your blog, but you don’t like randoms, but for the regulars it seems fine. It’s just like one massive swingers party!

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 18:14:18 +0000

awesome button

i wonder if ive commented 10 times?

By: Rhys

Rhys — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:53:31 +0000

Paddy: Basically, no follow means that google doesn’t find your site, do follow does.

If your site is found via a do follow link, then whatever text is used to link to it is used to find it. Say your WordPress Theme, google will more likely find doingword.com if people search for the words “Paddy Ryan”.

What a section of bloggers are doing is commenting on a number of blogs with names like “Web 2.0 Technologies” and linking to a huge amount of articles, because google will find their links if they’re dofollow links.

Makes sense?

Torsten: Yeah, there actually does seem to be a bit of a “Do Follow” backlash, largely due to the targetted spam (which is worse than spam) from individuals like you’ve mentioned. I personally think it’s worse than spam.

HB: Yes, it really isn’t, but you’re a regular, you’re allowed

I have seen the episode, so know exactly what you’re talking about. I guess it does, a little.

By: HB

HB — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 14:10:44 +0000

My comment probably isn’t too relevant, to be honest..

Those comments you singled out in your post sort of remind me of the “Lucy Liu-bot” dialogue from that episode of Futurama, for reasons I can’t quite explain.

I hope you’ve seen it, otherwise you’ll have no idea what I’m taking about. Even if you have seen it, it’s probably just how my brain works

By: Torsten

Torsten — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:35:04 +0000

Somehow you are right with this. I also have the Do Follow Plugin installed. But now as I know about the LinkLove Plugin I am thinking about a change.
There are some comments from time to time, which are exactly how you decribe them. Until now I manually deleted the URLs in them, but the more comments will hopefully come, the more work this would be.
Some of them don’t even think about what they are writing, I guess the write it one time and than copy and paste it through several blogs.
Recently I had a comment saying something like, that this post I wrote would have some very good information and it my bog would be a good source for the commenters visitors as well.
But come on, she was english speaking, with an english website. I bet more than 99% of her visitors don’t even understand what I write, and most probably she also didn’t, as my blog is in german language.

By: Paddy

Paddy — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:34:47 +0000

I like the new logo, but don’t get the whole nofollow thing; and will never, no matter how many times you explain it to me.