Comments on: NoFollow vs. DoFollow

By: HughHaley@Car Carrier

HughHaley@Car Carrier — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:38:40 +0000

I do visit a few websites because of my job but it does not mean to say that I am only leaving a message because of work to make a living but also because I am a reader and there are sites as well that I visit often especially if I know that the writer is interesting on how he gets to invite a lot of crowd to share their thoughts. I appreciate your generosity and I am very much grateful about it. I do find your discussions very relevant to my work as an SEO and I think if there are those people who just use your site and does not comeback well! that is their waste not yours…

By: derek

derek — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:24:35 +0000

I don’t have numbers like this handy.

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:22:55 +0000

Well, it was more about numbers. Maybe I am not attentive enough, but I can not see you mention any. Like, how many comments(approx) there were before installing DoFollows and how many after. Just to be able to count the % of interrest growth. But, do not bother if you do not have them. It's just my interest and giving you a trouble would make me feel uneasy.) Alexs last blog post..Sweet Treats Make Your Phone Adorable

By: derek

derek — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:27:57 +0000

Was there a particular experiment that you were looking to see results? I’ve shared the details throughout various posts but please let me know if there is something specific that you were looking to see.

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 06:54:28 +0000

well, the discussion seems preety interesting to me. so, i have come hare again) this is the best proof that it's not about the number of comments. it's about the content of the blog! derek, you have a very interesting one. so far you've done some experiments, please share the results with us. it would be rather interesting to know the statistics. Alexs last blog post..Sweet Treats Make Your Phone Adorable

By: derek

derek — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:48:47 +0000

Thanks for sharing your thoughts Alex, you do bring up an interesting point. Installing the KeywordLuv plugin and requiring a certain number of comments before the nofollow is removed seems to have worked pretty well so far.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:39:06 +0000

ADAC is rignt! even if a man comes to your blog only for a link, it doesn’t mean, he is not interested in your content at all. he might just do his job and come again being just interested. anyway the policy of giving links only after a fixed ammount of content will lead to the increasing of spam comments. people will come because of dofollows anyway and spam because of the number of must coments before enabling dofollow.

By: ADAC

ADAC — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 18:33:44 +0000

One of the advantages to keeping the “DoFollow” on is you get a wider range of commentors. Yes, many of them (like me) found your site because it is a DoFollow site. But whether they keep coming back or not is determined by how interested they are in your content.

Being a dofollow site increases the number of people that know about your site. Having things like the “Subscribe to comments” plug in like you have reminds people to come back, which increases your readers.

By: Futon-Matt

Futon-Matt — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:02:12 +0000

I don’t think no follow is necessary, it’s not like you’re selling links to commenter’s. Especially if they’re adding something valid to the discussion.

I’ll get off my soap box now

Matt

By: Nicole Price

Nicole Price — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 09:18:39 +0000

Wow, 100% commenters voted “no”. Now thats hardly surprising.