I Do Follow You! Do You Follow Me?
Writing by Bree on Thursday, 4 of October , 2007 at 10:02 am
“Do Follow” is a term used by bloggers and site owners who choose to “follow” the valuable links left behind by members and commentators. Most websites especially blogs tend to mark links with the “no follow” tag. When the no-follow tag is used links in the source code of the page have this trailing tag; rel=”nofollow”. Why don’t we use the “no follow” tag? Well Google does not follow links that have the rel=”nofollow” tag. This means that should you leave a link to your site it would not be recognized by Google search engine!
So why have the rel=”nofollow” tag at all? This tag has been created (by Google) to reduce spam & spammy websites from leaving their valueless links behind, crowding the search engines and Internet with non important sites. Most people use the tag to deal with spam and it is the lazy way to deal with spam in most cases. We however manually review every single comment, spammers don’t have a chance here but the majority of comments we get don’t require moderation and in themselves are of high value, we think their sites are great too!!!
Do you follow me? We have abolished the rel=”nofollow” tag and have a strong do-follow policy which ensures your links will be followed and this is great news for our visitors. We are proud to have you here, glad that your visiting and sincerely hope you like this site! Where you go we will follow! This is our promise, feel free to comment and leave your favorite site link so we can check it out.
Where you comment I will follow! I love visiting the sites and blogs of my visitors and commentators. If you leave a comment be sure I will take a look and may even give you a free plug if I like your content 
Don’t despair we do follow you! Comment and be followed! So do what is right fellow your being followed 
Category: Chit Chat
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Comment by nicusor
Made Thursday, 4 of October , 2007 at 5:10 pm
From what I see you do follow links inserted into comments, but not the ones on the name… I prefer the other way around to avoid multiple links in the same comment.
Cheers,
Nick
P.S. There are more than 280 blogs on my Do Follow List waiting for your comments
Comment by Jason
Made Thursday, 4 of October , 2007 at 5:18 pm
Right you are, mmmm, I need to check this plugin. I got me the Lucia’s Linky Love happening here. I think another one may be needed to enable the name link. What plugin do you use Nick?
Comment by nicusor
Made Thursday, 4 of October , 2007 at 5:29 pm
I use the one from Semiologic - http://www.semiologic.com/software/wp-fixes/dofollow/ - and I modified it to leave the nofollow on the inside comment links.
Comment by Jason
Made Thursday, 4 of October , 2007 at 5:35 pm
Cheers Nick, downloading now. Will have this up very soon.
Comment by Jason
Made Thursday, 4 of October , 2007 at 5:41 pm
Done! would love to know how you disabled the inside comments? I think this will be a good idea to prevent spam.
Comment by nicusor
Made Thursday, 4 of October , 2007 at 5:47 pm
You need to comment this line from the file
add_filter(’comment_text’, array(&$this, ’strip_nofollow’), 15);
Comment by Jason
Made Thursday, 4 of October , 2007 at 6:19 pm
Cheers for that code! All done now, that’s better. I just replied to one of your posts here, http://nicusor.com/money/payperpost-here-i-come
Comment by nicusor
Made Thursday, 4 of October , 2007 at 6:32 pm
Glad to help!
Do you want me to add you to the Do Follow List now?
Comment by Jason
Made Thursday, 4 of October , 2007 at 7:08 pm
That would be great Nick cheers!
Comment by nicusor
Made Thursday, 4 of October , 2007 at 7:34 pm
Done!
Cheers!
Comment by Tyler Ingram
Made Friday, 5 of October , 2007 at 12:09 am
I am glad more people are choosing to allow the bots to ‘follow’ links in their comments (well mainly the person’s url in their name)
Comment by Kirk M
Made Friday, 5 of October , 2007 at 12:30 am
Welcome to the world of do-follow. I’ve had Kimmo Suominen’s original Do Follow plugin on my blog for so long I can’t remember a time without it. I had it a couple month’s before the first do-follow list hit the Blogosphere. I’m gald folks like yourself are still discovering this. It’s a good thing indeed.
And thanks for stopping by my blog. I’ll add you to the list that I have.
Comment by Claire
Made Saturday, 6 of October , 2007 at 2:22 am
Bree! I think that you are among the most valiant of the dofollow divas! Your wonderful blog is one of the first dofollows that I found and was the inspiration for my digging about to get instructions for making my baby blog a dofollow blog, too! I have an old blog template, but I think I was able to follow the instructions to get rid of the bad old “don’t give the sweet people who comment a bit of credit” attribute.
Y’all please drop by to see me and comment to your little heart’s content cause that’s why I BLOG! To connect with other mommies out there! I will moderate all comments, but so long as comments aren’t one-liners or complete spam…you’re in baby!
Comment by Sarah, Goon Squad Sarah
Made Saturday, 6 of October , 2007 at 2:39 am
I’ve been trying to make my comments follow, but I can’t even find the right place in my code. I might already follow.
How can I tell?
Comment by nicusor
Made Saturday, 6 of October , 2007 at 4:33 am
Sarah, you are still having the no follow tag on!
Check this out: How To Check Nofollow Links
Cheers,
Nick
Comment by Jason
Made Saturday, 6 of October , 2007 at 1:14 pm
@ Sarah, the plugin I used here was really simple, just enable it in the admin (no code) and your done! Could not be easier. Let us know if your still having problems, someone should be able to help
Comment by Jerad Kaliher
Made Monday, 8 of October , 2007 at 4:22 pm
Great post, I’ve just disabled nofollow from my blog. I love the idea of this type of community as it really lets you open up and delve into genres that you normally might not.
Cheers!
Comment by Jason
Made Monday, 8 of October , 2007 at 4:41 pm
Thanks for the positives Jerad. Great that you are following now also. Nice blog!
Comment by bocabit
Made Sunday, 25 of November , 2007 at 5:36 am
I’ll study this iniciative, it might be interesting.
Comment by Webhostingpad Coupon
Made Saturday, 16 of February , 2008 at 11:55 pm
All my blog and website now doing dofollow, interested please contact me.
Comment by 406NotAcceptable
Made Saturday, 1 of March , 2008 at 1:11 pm
No follow has never really been effective:
1. The bots do not care.
2. Askimet/Badbehaviour/Captchas do a good job.
3. Not all the search engines care about it.
4. It kills the blogging network.
I have always removed it and asked for other users to do the same. Why comment if there is only a very small chance other users will read your blog? At least a link helps.
Comment by Snowboard Central
Made Friday, 7 of March , 2008 at 11:07 am
I don’t agree with the comment above when they say that “the bots do not care” - NoFollowed links really don’t have much of an effect on a site for their ability to rank highly, although having said that they do still appear to influence based on anchor text. I prefer dofollow though simply because it encourages people to talk on your blog. You should still moderate it and remove obvious spam though, if akismet doesn’t catch it.
Comment by Luciano's Car
Made Sunday, 9 of March , 2008 at 5:33 am
Have you noticed an increase in comments / site revenue since implementing ‘do follow’? If so, does your increased revenue make sifting through the additional comments a little easier?
