Comments on: Dofollow Blog Commenting Netiquette vs a Barbecue Party

By: J. Lerr

J. Lerr — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:19:48 +0000

I wonder if eventually Google will implement some algorithm that ignores blog comments and back links. Maybe it depends on how aggresive they become.

Regardless, allowing dofollow is great and encourages comments. The comments benefit the blog because it has the “bandwagon” appeal , so to speak.

An SEO expert told me that back links from blog comments will only make your page come up for unrelated queries.

They do help your page get found by google though!

Thanks for the great blog.

By: onreact

onreact — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:24:43 +0000

Yeah, it’s the link love plugin. I know it, but I decided not to complicate the process and offer an incentive for new users to join the conversation.
For a professional site I’d suggest adding a new form field for your favoriute anchor text like Tim Nash did.
For me, as a part time blogger for fun, the way I handle it suffices.

By: Meat is Murder

Meat is Murder — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:03:24 +0000

JUST KIDDING! I couldn’t resist after reading your article. It’s got a lot of good points, but I can understand people who want to promote a site and keyword using their keyword as their anchor text. It doesn’t bother me, but when I look through your comments, it does look more real… not like the Google-Scape that screams at me from other sites.

You can change my name to meathead if you like, but I kind of liked crashing someone’s barbecue and spouting “Meat is Murder”.

Oh, I’m not a vegetarian.

I understand that there is a WordPress plugin that rewards people for being regular visitors to your blog and not one-off popins (like me… gulp…)

I cannot remember the name of it, but it is a little more flexible in that you can set how many comments someone must post before they get a ‘follow’ link.

By: Terry Reeves

Terry Reeves — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:25:55 +0000

You posted what I have been saying for quite some time. I guess I should have beat you to it. Your post received much more attention than mine would have anyway.

Much Success!

By: Adam Snider

Adam Snider — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:41:58 +0000

This is one of the most common sense guides to netiquette (god, haven’t used that word in a long time) for commenting on dofollow blogs (or any blogs, really) that I’ve ever seen.

I love the BBQ party analogy. Unfortunately, there will always be a few people who just don’t get it, but at least a post like this might help clarify things for people who didn’t realize that they were spamming. I mean, most spammers know what they’re doing, but sometimes I think people just don’t know the “proper” way of doing things.

By: Jeff F.

Jeff F. — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:21:40 +0000

I love this article! I have a DoFollow blog, and I can’t begin to tell you the amount of ridiculous spam comments.

I like the idea of having a DoFollow blog, and I’m not thinking of changing it anytime soon, but it’s just funny the kinds of things people try to slip past me thru comments…. which, I have on moderation, so it never works.

Great post!

By: Chris

Chris — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:38:30 +0000

Hi - thanks for the great BBQ!

How could you not write a comment after this article?

I hope it is up to scratch and not spammy:)

By: Malte Landwehr

Malte Landwehr — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 09:57:39 +0000

On my blogs I have a simple rule: Your name is neither a real name, nor a nickname, nor the name of your website? -> I delete the link.

By: Michael D

Michael D — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:30:41 +0000

Was just working on a post about proper way to leave comments when I saw this on Sphinn. You pretty much summed up my thoughts but you’re a lot nicer to most commenters than I have been. Printing this and using it a reference for my next post.

Nice BBQ.

By: Steve Guyot

Steve Guyot — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:02:36 +0000

It really is like a barbeque and I must admit that I have more than once embarassed myself at a “barbeque”. So I think I’ll print out your 7 tidbits and pin them to the wall in hopes that I remember to read them before I “manually spam” the next half interesting blog I read.