New NoFollow Plugin
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1. If you haven’t read the old post already, make sure you read why Saying No to NoFollow is a good idea. And why should you allow the search engines to crawl the websites of the people who comment on your blog.
2. Removing NoFollow tag from your blog does invite more spammers though. Many comment spammers use a script that finds blogs that have removed the NoFollow tags. And then automatically post a spam comment on that blog - never to visit it again.
3. Here is a solution to discourage these comment spammers: remove the NoFollow tags only if the commenter places more than one comment on your blog. Web sites of drive-by commenters won’t be craweld. The plugin that does this for you is LinkLove WordPress plugin - that has been activated on this blog recently.
(You will have to read the readme file and change one of the settings manually to reduce the minimum number of comments a person has to post to get his websites crawled. The default is 10 - which is way too high. I recommend to change it to 2 or 3. Don’t worry, its very easy to change the default setting by using notepad.)
Credit: Tip via David Airey
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Posted 03 Sep 2007 #
I enjoyed your articles, particularly the one about increasing earnings by removing MyBlogLog…I’ve been wondering if it served any purpose other than making your site seem popular
-Raymond (MONEY BLUE BOOK)
Posted 04 Sep 2007 #
Great find. I was looking for a different plugin that could do this.
Posted 04 Sep 2007 #
Thanks for making nofollow a thing of the past on your site! I hope your site and others that join get the attention they deserve.
Posted 04 Sep 2007 #
David: Thanks for dropping by. You’ve got a pretty decent blog.
Raymond: Thanks for your kind words. Am glad you like this blog
Jared: Thanks. For the comment as well as the message about the spelling mistake.
Michael: Thanks for encouraging others to remove the NoFollow tags.
Posted 04 Sep 2007 #
Great tip
Spam Karma 2 - also great plugin I use to reduce spam 
Posted 05 Sep 2007 #
can I use the “u comment i follow image” for my blog?
Posted 06 Sep 2007 #
Gardino: Thanks for asking about the image. Its free to use. I’m not the creator of the image though. Randa Clay is.
Posted 06 Sep 2007 #
Thanks for this plug-in reference. I followed your advice on using DoFollow earlier on but got a lot of spam like you said. Hopefully this would make it harder for spammers to hit my blog.
Posted 06 Sep 2007 #
Tariq: Thanks for commenting. You could do a couple of things. Download a captcha plugin and your spam will go down to zero. But captcha also doesn’t allow legitimate trackbacks.
Another thing you can do to combat spam is activate the akismet plugin that comes along with WordPress. Its been very effective for this blog. Although I had to do quite a bit of moderating initially, its working well now.
Posted 07 Sep 2007 #
I installed the plugin! Let’s see if I can capitalize on it. If its lucrative I’ll be back to fill your mug!
Posted 10 Sep 2007 #
Valuable hint! I usually have the no-nofollow active and protect my wordpress sites with akismet. It works very well but misses about 1 spam per week (out of about 100).
Think I give linklove a try.
Posted 10 Sep 2007 #
Mike: Thanks. Make a post regarding your new commenting policy and you should see a lot more people commenting on your blog!
Pere: Thanks. My akismet statistics are about the same too - misses 1 or 2 spams a week. Thats not too bad…
Posted 10 Sep 2007 #
This is a fantastic post. I have been looking into the no follow thing for a while now. Thanks for the help. Nice Plugin.
Posted 28 Sep 2007 #
Nathan: Thanks for your kind words. Am glad I could help
Posted 28 Sep 2007 #
I’m going to give it a try also. I get very little real comments. Maybe this’ll encourage participation.
Posted 03 Oct 2007 #
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Posted 03 Oct 2007 #
who knew. Thanks for explaining
Posted 03 Oct 2007 #
hi
this is the first time i have seen this blog and i can say that this site can really grow much more than it it now.nice to know that you let crawl for 2 posts…..
Posted 09 Oct 2007 #
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Posted 06 Dec 2007 #
this is always a good idea, plus, with Akismet I only get a few spams few per week, and those are held for moderation, so it’s never an issue. Akismet has stopped 32,000+ spams on my site.
Posted 29 Mar 2008 #
I also believe in rewarding readers and encouraging comments with doFollow. The thing is, I’m wary of spam and hope that this provision will not be abused.
Posted 13 May 2008 #
This is how it should be. no follow seems just giving in to the spammers. if you want to fight the spam then there should some other way without hurting the real reader or hurting the readers and people who read the posts and give there feedback.
Good work
Mark
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Posted 23 May 2008 #