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Comments and Trackbacks Now DoFollow

May 12, 2007 · Written by Joel

Just a quick update to let you know that those who leave comments (or trackbacks) to Life Goggles now receive a follow link to their website.

WordPress by default, just like other blogging platforms, automatically adds the “nofollow” microformat extension to all links on comments and trackbacks. This is primarily to stop spamming, however with anti-spam plugins and comment moderation switched on, we thought it was time to “thank” people who left comments with a link back to their site. We’ve used the Semiologic DoFollow plugin.

For more information, read the No NoFollow | I Follow | DoFollow community website.

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    15 Responses to “Comments and Trackbacks Now DoFollow”

    1. Hobo SEO » At last! A worthwhile link-train - The Charity Meme! on May 26th, 2007 1:44 am

      [...] Joel [...]

    2. Scott on June 3rd, 2007 5:18 am

      Kudos on enabling Do follow. Have you seen very much spam since you have done it? Or has it stayed about the same

    3. Who’s Using Do Follow Trackbacks? on June 3rd, 2007 7:17 pm

      [...] Life Googles [...]

    4. Joel on June 4th, 2007 4:54 pm

      Hi Scott, thanks for your comment. Spam hasn’t increased at all so far, Akismet picks 99.9% of it up still so I’m happy and others are happy to :)

    5. Mark from Bloglyne.com on June 6th, 2007 12:45 pm

      DoFollow is a great thing. Thanks for hooking your readers up!

    6. Hobo SEO UK » At last! A worthwhile link-train - The Charity Meme! on June 20th, 2007 8:38 pm

      [...] Joel [...]

    7. Bape on September 28th, 2007 3:38 am

      Its ironic that many bloggers talk about this but then they actually use no follow.

    8. bapes on March 10th, 2008 10:37 am

      I think allowing DoFollow is a great idea. Good to help your readers out. Thanks

    9. Chris Shennan on December 19th, 2008 7:30 pm

      It’s great that you’re allowing DoFollow! Everyone wants the search engines to follow the links through from other sites to their sites and it’s only fair that it should work the with links from their sites too.

    10. Best Green Jobs on February 4th, 2009 2:49 am

      Thanks for your post, I made my blogs do follow last month and the uptick in traffic has been great and not as much spam as I thought. Good luck with your blog as we green bloggers must stick together.

    11. Joel on February 4th, 2009 2:57 am

      Thanks, and good luck with your blog too, looks like a good start

    12. Green Directorys on February 5th, 2009 4:19 am

      Thanks for the do follow. I just spent some time reading some of your other posts, I really like your eco friendly vide. Keep up the good work.

    13. Free Blog Directory on February 9th, 2009 3:48 am

      Thanks a bunch. I think do follow is a win-win situation. I have opened up my blog and it has worked well, i hope it is working out for you as well. Keep up the good work.

    14. Bauwelt.eu on October 1st, 2009 9:35 am

      This is a good idea. I am currently looking for a plugin to change at least the trackbacks to do-follow!
      Can you recommend me something?

    15. Solar cookers on October 2nd, 2009 6:16 am

      That is a great thing to do, really. I have been using this features on a few of my blogs and I was afraid at start that I will be spammed, but no, people commented on regular basis, so no problem here. And you know what? It attracts more visitors based on a sympathy bases, they see you are open and they want to interact.

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