Discussion Bubbles

After reading the post about Gravatars and DoFollow comments on SelfMadeMinds, I thought it was about time that I implemented it on my blog. I was particularly interested in the DoFollow comments to encourage more comments on the site and ideally even increase the number of RSS subscribers by people who choose to stick around.

I used the Wordpress DoFollow plugin, and the Gravatar Caching plugin, since loading Gravatars directly is very slow.

I’m happy for different anchor texts to be used in comments, but any attempt for blatant spam comments (“yeah, I agree” or “nice post”) will be deleted. Any keyword stuffing in the site name box for the anchor text will also be deleted. Depending on what comments I get, I may end up changing my policy on this. I only have about 20 readers daily, and I want to get this to between 50 and 100. The make money niche is so saturated, but I want to appeal to those individuals who like the anecdotal approach based on my own findings.

On a slightly different note, I’m looking for long-term contacts for link exchanges, etc. When you have a new site, getting links can be tiring work. If anyone is interested in doing in-content link exchanges on occasion, please get in touch. I have a number of different sites in different niches, so swaps should be fairly easy.