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After having a discussion with Bush last week in the pub. I have changed my mind on my Dofollow policy. Previously on 24, I stated that only regular readers should be rewarded with Google Juice. I still stand by that, but what happens if a random posts a link to another article not written by themselves that I find interesting? Should that person who is completely unaware of my posting suffer, even though the commenter was trying to be selfless? I don’t think so
With that in mind, my comments have now switched to Dofollow. I have submitted my blog to dofollow.us, hopefully I will get more comments, you will get more clickthroughs, they will find new blogs. Everybody’s a winner.
However.
I do not want bullshit. I do not want people gaming me. I do not want people saying “nice post!” and calling themselves “Web 2.0 Technology News”. So this is what I’m planning on doing.
I get an email with every comment from it. Usually it’s a “such and such” has left a comment. Usually I go “Oooh, Sayre has said my cheat sheet is crap”, “Han has complained about her Text Link Ads Account again” or – more usually – “Ryan has once again failed miserably to be funny”. Should any comments appear from people who have never commented before (or you are sending me linky love, thanks Roberta and Pureblogging, the latter of which I also won $100 from. Thank you!), they go into the moderation queue.
Now don’t worry. If you’re name is say Webd360 or Torsten, your comment will appear on the site, unchanged. But if your name is – say “Technologies for Blogging”. Your name will be changed.
Your name will be changed to “A Shit Website”.
Think of it! Everybody wants to be top for “make money” or “secrets to blogging” and other interesting Google terms. Who would want to be top for Shit Website? Nobody!* It’s fucking genius!
Oh, and by the way, knowing you lot, you’d probably change your name to something else just to annoy me today. It won’t work, I know all your email addresses. Don’t bother, I’ll just change it back to your name. You are not funny.
So, what do you think? Genius? Potential to backfire and humiliate me? Let me know in the comments!
* Incidentally, this website is top for “A Shit Website” in google.
Comments: 17 Comments
Rhys Wynne, the author of this blog, is a 20 something web designer from Colwyn Bay. 
First of all, thanks for the link love, second congratulation for winning the $100 in the 1000th comment contest and third it really made me laugh as I read in which way you want to change the names.
I am offended and also I be the shit website guy gets loads of hits
Haha, I’m so glad that “Shit Website” wasn’t the one I saw as a fourteen year old. Take my word for it, don’t click on links that have the word ‘shit’ in them.
I have seen some disturbing pictures of what whores do with shit for perverted people with sick fetishes, my eyes have been permanently soiled.
(Don’t act like you don’t know the ones I’m talking about…)
*sigh* i had to do it
I have nothing of relevance to say. I just wanted to comment. I am hungover.
lol its a great search phrase to come top on!
I’ve never said anyting about my tla! I cba about it atm!
Personally I think it’s that unimportant that I can’t believe you wrote an entire entry on it (nonetheless, I’m leaving a comment.. yes, that is probably ironic/hypocrtical/stupid.)
While I do applaud the “dofollow” movement, I cannot believe it has taken this long to actually become something that people are getting involved in and really doing with a passion. I was one of the first people to write about removing the nofollow attribute from WordPress when it was integrated but back then, very few were interested. Bastards – think of how famous I could be if I’d caught the trend at the right time!
“hypocrtical” = the alternative spelling for hypocritical, you know.
Well, my settings were already saved so maybe I’ve already annoyed the shit out of your readers. And I’m back.
A few points:
1. Congrats on the $100.
2. I like the dofollow policy because my site sucks and it needs help. If my blog was better or I knew what I was talking about, I’d probably disagree.
3. Anyone who doesn’t check out my website will die of plague (sorry, but it’s been proven).
4. Today, Google officially changed the term Google Juice to Site Beer. It won by a hair over Geek Grog.
5. The only problem I see with this policy is that you’ll get unfunny, annoying, know-nothing blowhards like me trying their best to be the official Shit Website.
I don’t even really have a website to be shit
I think that’s the most hilarious thing I’ve heard in a while and genius, too! Great idea, I think I’ll do the same….
Lol, great post, it made me laugh. Thanks for the link love too
I tried that dofollow site, but it was infuriating
The captcha codes didn’t work, and it took me months to finally register/submit my site. I hope it’s worth it!
ha ha I am laughing my ass off … good one man …..
I hate when people comment with “Web 2.0 Technology News†and etc as names. It’s baaad. I always change their links to “nofollow” lol. Am I evil?
Its ironic that many bloggers talk about this but then they actually use no follow.