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Update 7-26-2007:  I’m still a do-follower, but you must reach a certain number of comments before you receive your link.

Remember when I did that experiment to leave 1,000 genuine comments in 30 days to try & help with SEO? A few weeks ago I read that blogger had all comment links disabled with nofollow links. D’oh. At least there were still all of those wordpress blogs right? Nope, they all had nofollow in them too.

The more I read about nofollow, the more I decided that it didn’t do the one thing it was supposed to do, keep out spam. All the nofollow tags were doing is not giving links to my faithful commenters, so I decided to become a dofollower. That’s right, I’ve removed the nofollow tags on comments so they will be followed by search engines (as long as they aren’t spam). Here is a list of more blogs that do follow.

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This entry was posted on Friday, April 20th, 2007 at 2:11 pm and is filed under Home Business. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

11 Responses to “Follow Me”

  1. Nathan Briggs (1 comments.) Says:
    April 20th, 2007 at 3:28 pm

    Yay - good call. nofollow was, like many things (e.g. catchpa) a great idea on paper - and that’s where it should have stayed. Google is more than capable of identifying spam on its own without us bloggers helping out.

  2. Colleen (1 comments.) Says:
    April 21st, 2007 at 9:39 am

    LOL - I started this list, and yet, my blogs aren’t on it anymore?

  3. Jonathan-C. Phillips (1 comments.) Says:
    April 23rd, 2007 at 12:59 am

    Great stuff, i enabled dofollow on my blog also a while back, it definitely is nice to reward people that comment. As for spam, akismet plugin doesn the trick :)

  4. azrin (2 comments.) Says:
    April 24th, 2007 at 8:27 am

    reminds me to do the Follow Me too for my MEME tag!

    azrin @ http://www.azrin.net

  5. Doris (2 comments.) Says:
    April 24th, 2007 at 8:17 pm

    The Do Follow movement helps to attract more traffic too. Visitors are happy to comment more when they know rewards are on the way! Thanks for visiting my http://dorischua.com too.

  6. SYH (1 comments.) Says:
    April 25th, 2007 at 1:22 am

    I joint it too..Hope do follow will bring me more comment. I just love to read comment. :)

  7. Remi (1 comments.) Says:
    May 9th, 2007 at 2:01 am

    I feel guilty, but thank you. :) I will disable nofollow when I have a chance…

  8. HOBO SEO (2 comments.) Says:
    May 9th, 2007 at 6:51 pm

    Us too! Nofollow takes the fun out of blogging!

  9. elysa (10 comments.) Says:
    May 10th, 2007 at 4:33 pm

    Ok dumb question … on my blog when I roll over a commentors name it shows their web address in the status bar, does that mean I don’t have no-follow on?

  10. Vogelsberg (1 comments.) Says:
    April 27th, 2009 at 10:08 am

    I agree with you 100% - things happen for a reason. I found this by accident and noticed that we have some things in common. Thats what I love about the Internet, every blog is like a box of chocolates :) Thanks - Great blog.

  11. life coaching (1 comments.) Says:
    October 17th, 2009 at 5:01 pm

    I accepth Mr. Nathan the first commentor he told, no need to make yours no follow to avoid spam , google itself will find the spam comments with out the help of blogs, with out do follow no enjoyments and point is there in blogging…….

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