10 Jun

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.

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19 Responses for "Link Love: PowerDosh Goes Do-Follow"
I think it’s great that you joined the do-follow community. I’ve been a part of it on my flagship blog for a few months. We get a few folks who simply write ‘great post man’ and leave. They don’t understand that you need to write a little content for the blog owner, perhaps even try and throw in a keyword for him, like do-follow blogs, if you want him to approve your comment and give you a little juice. As for your blog, odds are I may have never found it if it if it weren’t for the do-follow list. Looks interesting though I believe I’ll have a look around.
Thanks for your comment. That’s exactly the reason why I implemented Do-Follow, to give people a reason to visit when they otherwise might not.
Ideally, I hope that the content appeals to new visitors and they stick around!
Thanks for having the Do follow blog comments.
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xenbet.com
I got your link from a do follow list. I see your site is good designed. And good wp theme. I stick around your blog.
There are pros and cons for implementing DoFollow. Of course as spoken, the pros will be it will definitely invite readers to your blog since they get a backlink when u approve their comments.
However, the cons would be spams and you can be expecting like 1 spam every 2 hours if no proper anti-spam engine has been setup.
I would like to invite you to submit all your DoFollow blogs (of any niche) to my DoFollow Blog category as follows. I am holding a weekly contest now which may interest you.
http://bloggeroftheweb.com/directory/
I do have an anti-spam plugin at work which takes most of the rubbish. Flagging any further comments as spam helps improve the engine too.
Thanks for the directory info, will get around to submitting PowerDosh (unless you want to do it for me?
what kind of anti spam are you useing? i dont see any captcha (wich is very irritating) sow i’m interested
Hey,
I reached your site from a Do-Follow blogs list.
i think it’s a great idea to allow this, cause it actually serve both sides interest. as long as the comments are real and not spammy.
cheers, i’m subscribing, and i’m calling everyone to do so too!
I love this do follow thing.im working on my blog too.Thx for the link Dan
I’m using akismet, which is particularly good since it uses a centralised database for spam identification. This saves me a lot of work flagging spam posts.
Turning this blog into Do-Follow is a great way for you to increase your visitors as well as add comments.
For example, I would have never stumbled across your blog if it weren’t for a list containing Do-Follow blogs!
Dan,
Welcome to the do-follow movement. With the great anti-spam plugins for Wordpress, I see no reason for anyone not to be do-follow theses days. I just spend a few minutes each day checking comments.
I suggest you checkout another do-follow related plugin - KeywordLuv.
Also, come by and add you blog to my do-follow directory, no reciprocal link it required.
http://followlist.com
The directory is brand new and I’ve had 15-25 hits to my blogs already.
P.S. Love your theme. Did you design it yourself?
Mike
Dan, I have been using akismet since 6 months and it is managing comments very well but i have a problem with it. Let’s say if I flag a message “spam” then I suppose that I shall not get any further message from the I.P but I always receive a lot of spam from spam I.P’s. What should I do with it?
nice, welcome to the community. comments should be rewarded with backlinks as least
@Mike, thanks for your comments. I didn’t design the whole theme, it’s a free template that I heavily modified. I credit the author in my about page.
I’ll submit my site to your directory shortly.
Thanks
Dan
Do-follow really sounds like a win-win situation. I’m not sure why every blogger doesn’t do it. Anyway, thanks for letting us voice our opinions, Dan.
@Qaswer - the key is to manage the comments and moderate them. It does take effort. For this reason, that’s why all bloggers don’t do it (in answer to the most recent comment from Fourth World Clothing). Oh, and no-follow is the default for Wordpress, so you need to actively add the plugin to allow it.
If “do follow” is the reason for people to visit blogs then we should think about blogs. Perhaps a few years ago people don’t know about that or it was not included in the people’s link building campaigns. I can see many “do follow” blogs list all around forums and blogs, many webmasters are crazy to get listed but what if they will not have good, fresh content?
Stair lift, If you are saying that you have found some dump blogs on such list then you might have an older one. Although my interest was being build by such “do follow” campaigns but am a regular reader on many of them. It is kinda addiction.
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