14 April 2007 ~ 11 Comments

Make your commenters happy and follow them.

Thanks to Dawud at DMiracle.com I recently discovered my blog was doing something very naughty. Whenever someone would make a comment on any of my posts they weren’t getting a link back. This is because by default WordPress has the nofollow attribute turned on for comment links. Very uncool. Fortunately there’s something you can do to correct the nofollow insanity. Install Kimmo Suouminen’s DoFollow plugin for WordPress and you’ll once and for and all be providing your commenters with much deserved link love. U Comment I FollowNot only that you can go a step further and proudly to display a “U Comment I Follow” badge on your site, courtesy of RandaClay.com, letting your readers know that if they comment on your blog, they’re going to get some love in return.

11 Responses to “Make your commenters happy and follow them.”

  1. Dawud Miracle 14 April 2007 at 7:28 am Permalink

    Thanks for joining the movement – one I feel is important. Spread the word.

    BTW, you can get a transparent version of the U Comment I Follow graphic at Randa’s site link above.

  2. Mike 14 April 2007 at 7:36 am Permalink

    Coool. I was actually going to just open it up in Photoshop and knock out the background after I got done doing a little blog editing, but that’ll make my morning a little easier :)

  3. Sharon 14 April 2007 at 2:07 pm Permalink

    I’m so glad I had my thinking cap on because I had to do some serious match for the captcha… Hope I proved I was human this morning.

    Anyway, that’s very cool and very nice of you :) Love your blog.

  4. Mike 14 April 2007 at 2:21 pm Permalink

    Haha…I know it was some pretty advanced math, but I’m glad you made out okay with it :mrgreen:

  5. Sharon 14 April 2007 at 3:29 pm Permalink

    Yeah, some days I don’t get so lucky…… :roll:

  6. dude 14 April 2007 at 6:22 pm Permalink

    plugins! there are too many plugins, good you post about the better ones here :P

  7. Mike 14 April 2007 at 6:46 pm Permalink

    Haha…no kiddin’ man. Just yesterday I cleaned out my plugins folder of well over 20 that I’d stopped using and I still have a boatload installed :shock:

  8. :: Suzanne :: 19 May 2007 at 2:03 am Permalink

    Hi,

    I’m curious, have you noted any drawbacks to removing the no-follow? I just removed it and posted about it, but now I am wondering.

  9. Mike 19 May 2007 at 2:14 am Permalink

    Hi Suzanne :)

    So far I’ve not seen any drawbacks to removing nofollow. I’ve had it disabled for a while now. As I understand the nofollow was supposed to be for security and spam reasons, but if you set up an alternate way to catch spam (like I have with the math question) then there’s really not too much to worry about.

    Fortunately it’s one of those things you can easily turn back on should you decide it wasn’t such a good idea :)

  10. Pablo 9 September 2007 at 10:11 am Permalink

    Very good initiative indeed, it will keep your blog comments active by doing this.

    Good job

  11. do follow 15 December 2007 at 11:19 pm Permalink

    Hi, just dropping by to say hello and telling you that your site is featured in the DoFollow blogs search engine!

    Cheers!


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