Want to bring link juice back into blog commenting? Join the Dofollow movement on your own blog, and others will follow.
As you probably know, the biggest purveyors of blogging software and blog hosting, Blogger and Wordpress, to name two, added a little think called a nofollow tag to links in their comments in hopes that killing the link juice from commenting blogs would disuade spammers from filling up everyone’s comments with crap links. Well it didn’t work too well, and in the process killed the joy of appropriately commenting blogs.
Here’s the Wordpress dofollow plugin, to get you started if you use Wordpress. If you are on Blogger, check out the instructions for defeating nofollow in the new Blogger. If you are on the old blogger, sorry, you are screwed (but we always were).
Then, to start making new dofollow friends, check out this dofollow blogs directory, and add your link. Sure, you will get spam comments, but you already do. Suck it up!
#1 by Ronnie T. Dodger - September 16th, 2008 at 07:10
Thanks for the plug Bottlecap!
Love your attitude on spam ’suck it up’.
There are numerous Dofollow lists out there, many outdated, that are used to spam the Dofollow blogs with. Some of these idiots hit up everyone on the list without any regards to the blog owners. A bunch of link whores, if you ask me.
Anyhow, good luck and welcome to the Club!