I’ve joined the “dofollow” movement

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Today I removed the “nofollow” attribute from links in comments using the LinkLove plugin. So now if you are a regular commenter (5 or more comments) on my blog you’ll get a backlink (provided you enter one in the URL field). Note that I still moderate all comments due to all the spam I get , so please keep your comments on topic. Comments like “Nice post” are indistinguishable from spam, so I won’t approve them…unless I know who you are, of course.

If you’ve left 5 or more comments in the past, don’t worry–the link is already being followed. Hopefully this will encourage participation and be some sort of reward for helping me improve my blog.

This entry was posted on Thursday, August 30th, 2007 at 12:48 pm and is filed under Blogging, Website updates. You can trackback from your own site. You can also follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

6 Responses to “I’ve joined the “dofollow” movement”

Sweet!

Posted by Sicarii on August 31st, 2007

Congratulations, hope you don’t have too much trouble with comment spammers.

Posted by mlankton on September 1st, 2007

Hi mlankton,

Thanks for stopping by.

Posted by casey on September 1st, 2007

isn’t there a settings in the comment where you can automatically call one word comments spam plus akismet?

Posted by Linden man on September 13th, 2007

I don’t know. I’ll have a look. I’m still looking for ways to quit moderating. Once you’ve commented once and I’ve approved it any subsequent comments will automatically be approved.

Posted by casey on September 13th, 2007