It’s time for DoFollow comments to GO
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Tags: Blog, Dofollow
Way back in August 2007 I had removed the nofollow attribute from the comments section of this blog to show some link love for my readers who post comments. That did not show up any problems for quite sometime but now it has turned into a problem that I need to immediately take care of. And the problem is an increase in spam comments by almost 500% that results in significant amount of time that I now need to spend in going through the comments to filter them.
A while back I was going through all the comments that my blog received in last one month just to make sure I did not miss giving reply to any comment and that’s when I noticed that I have let some spam comments come in. The comments looked genuine at first and that’s why I let them in but when I checked the website of the commenters, to my horror they now point to a page that promotes some product. I always check the website of the user before I approve their comment and I am sure that when I checked those sites at the time of approving their comments, they must have had something else on the website but now changed into something else, spam!
So, there you go, good bye DoFollow! I hate turning it off but that’s what I think is best for my blog in the long term. Do you still DoFollow?
Binny V A Said,
March 20, 2008 @ 11:01 pm
I never turned that on - I am getting way too much spam as it is.
Heather Said,
April 2, 2008 @ 6:24 pm
More than likely a part of the problem is the popularity of the blog. On a daily basis we get dozens of generic post attempts to any and all possible locations and we were never a follow type blog or site. It’s sad in a way.