Back in 2005, Google evangelized the No Follow tag to be inserted into all links that need not be followed by the Google bot. The links that were immediately designated to default to No Follow in a blog post were the links in the comment and the trackbacks. It was done because a lot of spammers, specially those promoting their medical subscriptions were abusing the public sites like blogs to game the search engines.
The problem was getting compounded by the lack of a reasonable comment spam detector. Due to this bloggers were literally unable to fight back, some responded by turning off comments altogether. All this however changed atleast for WordPress by the arrival of Akismet. Akismet just simply works, it works such efficiently that I have to rarely delete a comment spam manually. Although it does catches some false positives too, that is some genuine comments also end up being flagged as spam. But this is the price I am happily willing to pay for the hard work that Akismet does for us.
Although the comment and trackback spamming radically changed with the arrival of Akismet, the conventions were never reversed or even re-evaluated for that matter. WordPress, to this date continues to add No Follow keywords to all the comments and trackbacks, effectively making those links irrelevant for the search engines. This has continued to take away the credit from the sites that genuinely write good stuff and link back to others. It also deprives the commentators who go the extra mile to write a meaningful comment on a post.
In the light of all this, we have decided to announce our new Trackback and Commenting policy which could be stated in one sentence as “You link we follow, you comment we promote”. We have installed the WordPress DO Follow plugin for comments and trackbacks, and from now on would be following all trackbacks and comment links. This means that if you want your site to have a link on Startup Meme, you could just do that on your own by linking to a Startup Meme story and the trackback on Startup Meme would become a plain old vanilla link to your site. In addition to this we would also be displaying the ten most recent trackbacks and comments in our sidebar with links back to the originating site. Furthermore, the top ten commentators and linking sites would also have their time in the limelight. This would put your site or comment in front of the thousands of Startup Meme readers. Information about our traffic stats could be found here and here.
This is our little contribution in response to your efforts to build Startup Meme into a vibrant and active community on Startups.
PS: Please keep in mind that with the new changes we would be aggressively going after any person or site, whom we find to be spamming Startup Meme.
It’s good to see that people appreciate our move
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Akismet new version on wordpress is even better.
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Just an update Matt Cutts gave a bit of clarification. He said that no follow don’t prevent the loss of page rank they just prevent the people recieving benefits.
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/015004.html
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I think that you need a combination of dofollow and moderation, that way you get good comments and link juice
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@Personal Wedding Website
The dofollow works fine as for moderation, i have been lazy on that so far. Do give us your feedback or email me with any suggestions you have.
Regards,
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what type of “help” do you prefer ?
and so, what will you trade or offer in return ?
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@Sardar Mohkim Khan
The only other suggestion I have is for you to have max comments, so from your perspective once you are “done” with a topic you can stop moderating.
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New reader to your blog here. Liking it so far. Thanks for being cool with the link backs. Maybe some day we can return the favor!
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Thanks for the nice article. I appreciate your quote “You Comment We Promote”. I have my blog and i implemented both plugins keywordluv and top commenter.
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If you have added analytics tracking code to such a page and you have visitors to this page, analytics data will still build up. Noindex tag is to tell crawlers to not index a particular url. But, say, you run an email marketing campaign containing this url, then what? Analytics would capture all footprints nevertheless.
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Just a comment to say that it's nice to read this post after stumbling onto your site via Google. I believe that everyone deserves some kind of acceptance when they can be bothered to read AND reply to something that has been written – it's the essence of blogging.
In my opinion pingbacks 'broke' blogging and made them all look like spam.
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Why this blog don’t remove nofollow link in comment??
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Sardar Mohkim Khan Reply:
August 25th, 2011 at 11:29 am
Thank you for your kind words
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