Comments on: DoFollow or NoFollow?: The “I Can Has Backlink” Dilemma

By: Condos Toronto

Condos Toronto — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:09:15 +0000

Wow! Got to say that is an A for being creative, and F for etiquette! Thanks for letting us know, donâ€™t know that I would have caught that, Iâ€™ll have to pay better attention to commenting.

By: Josh Todd (Inside Affiliate)

Josh Todd (Inside Affiliate) — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:07:09 +0000

Best blog post title this year.

Oh and the article is good too

By: Leo Dimilo

Leo Dimilo — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:35:06 +0000

In the grand scheme of things I don’t think it really matters. You do get more spam and one line comments when you do follow though.

Personally, I no follow for none of the reasons above…I just am too damn lazy to upload the plug-in or modify my wordpress platform.

By: Digital Products Center

Digital Products Center — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:15:03 +0000

The idea to place a pair of watchful eyes near the comment box is interesting.

By: JACK

JACK — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 09:34:48 +0000

I am a seoer,I agree with your views.

By: AndyW

AndyW — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:41:30 +0000

The whole blanket nofollow thing is really lame.

With just a little bit of thought its easy enough to deter most spammers

For instance, in the link to my blog my comment policy there are no keywords for a name – if you register then you can put two urls with keywords in your signature.

Also, there’s a tried and tested psychological trick near the comment section with the display of a pair or eyes and the users IP address – it sends out a message that they are “being watched”

Honestly, just putting little hurdles like that deters most spammers – because they are lazy. They rush though blogs and social bookmarking sites submitting to anything as they go and so any little bump in the road forces them elsewhere.

I’ve just tried to find an excellent quote by Danny Sullivan who recently wrote about this practice of “SEO blackhole” – but I can’t remember what article it was in.