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Re: Is Dofollow a Spam Magnet?

PharmaPricing — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 18:56:20 -0000

This is interesting. Thanks

Re: Is Dofollow a Spam Magnet?

DoFollow Blogs — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 09:51:16 -0000

Human spam tends to be a gray area. A few of these mixed in with 20 good posts is okay but if every comment is those generic comments it gets frustrating in my experience.

Re: Is Dofollow a Spam Magnet?

Omer — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 19:59:52 -0000

Sometimes yes. Even no follow blogs get spam, you need to have a powerful anti spam tool like Akismet for WP. That blocks out most of the garbage.

Re: Is Dofollow a Spam Magnet?

Mr Diet — Sun, 11 May 2008 01:08:22 -0000

yes i agreed that dofollow a spam magnet.
however we can minimize that, comments needs approval will help.

Re: Is Dofollow a Spam Magnet?

MMORPG — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:20:44 -0000

Well I think spammers will always be a problem but that doesn't disqualify dofollow as a useful tool. I've found dozens of great blogs using DoFollow, many which I still read today.

Re: Is Dofollow a Spam Magnet?

Perfect Wealth Formula — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:56:19 -0000

The Internet is a place for people to come and do what they want. The nofollow is a way of making the Internet not so free, and that isn't what it was meant to be like. I do think, however, that having dofollows does allow for more spam, but I guess you have to pick your battles.

Re: Is Dofollow a Spam Magnet?

Jeff F. — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:57:16 -0000

Is a DoFollow blog more lucrative to a spammer? Of course, so in a way, you are a more obvious target. You just have to have a good spam catcher, and keep a good eye on who, what and where the link is about.

I've also noticed an increase in traffic and comments, as well as more clicks on my ads. I'm glad I made the switch to DoFollow.

Re: Is Dofollow a Spam Magnet?

Tino — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:39:27 -0000

Since installing dofollow on my blog - http://the16art.com - I have noticed a slight increase in legitimate comments. In the other hand comment spam went through the roof. With some spammers simply saying 'Thanks for the link', as if...
I have now installed the math-comment-spam-protection plugin and spam went right down. A simple but very effective plugin.

Re: Is Dofollow a Spam Magnet?

Bourse Goldman — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:25:48 -0000

I have the gut feeling that if you look at the numbers your gut feeling will be confirmed. Spammers can be very creative finding dofollow sites to leave links on and though I do believe that a nofollow tag will not stop them from spamming, I also believe that a "dofollow" mentioning will certainly attract them.

So I don't believe in coincidences.

Re: Is Dofollow a Spam Magnet?

Malignant Ignition — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:02:10 -0000

I would guess that the more sophisticated spammers are able to locate blogs using the "dofollow" attribute. It's a sad thing that these people waste time spamming instead of investing some time and work into generating an honest income online.

Re: Is Dofollow a Spam Magnet?

Ben Holmes — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:50:48 -0000

One interesting side effect of the 'dofollow' campaign is that you get more visits from other webmasters. I certainly would never have visited this site - indeed, would never have found it - except that it's listed over at Bumpzee - so now I'll be a regular reader here. There's obvious problems with 'dofollow', but I think that the benefits outweigh them. Spam will be with us always, but programmers are winning that fight, IMO.

Re: Is Dofollow a Spam Magnet?

Scott — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 06:23:57 -0000

If the comment is a good one, there isn't really anything wrong with it unless the link is totally spammy and I can't even tell who the person is behind it. Makes me wonder if the comment is even real, or written just to get a link. That happens a lot.

I don't want to have conversations with people who are just making shit up.

Re: Is Dofollow a Spam Magnet?

matt — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 01:36:51 -0000

Dofollow is good - personally though, I will stick with nofollow. It's just not worth the effort for me.

In saying that, if they write something relevant to the post that encourages more conversation (like a comment should) then what's the problem.. you get more conversation on your blog, more chance of visitors returning, and they get a link to their website.

Re: Is Dofollow a Spam Magnet?

Maurice (TheCaymanHost) — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 23:09:24 -0000

It's also "ironic" that people try to game dofollow blogs, and justifies why the bloggers using dofollow are very wary of people just dropping one liners in an attempt to gain link juice.

http://money.bigbucksblogge...

Some people follow more than one thread on the topic ;-)

Re: Is Dofollow a Spam Magnet?

reliable web hosting — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:55:27 -0000

I'm going to have to agree with uncleche. If a user comes to the site, reads the post and writes an honest response to it (not just something generic) then it should be no problem. I guess it comes down to, what's the point of the website field if you can't even post your link properly?

Re: Is Dofollow a Spam Magnet?

Uncle Che — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:02:04 -0000

To me, it's all free speech. I frankly don't care if someone wants to come to my site, read a post and make an honest comment on it and put their website in the website field. I listed my site in a dofollow directory more than a month ago. I haven't had any increase in spam at all.

As long as someone has read my post and is putting an honest comment on it, it's not spam and is something I want to encourage.

Re: Is Dofollow a Spam Magnet?

Peter — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 08:31:07 -0000

Yes, I think that seo freaks search for blogs that mention dofollow in the hope that those blogs will actually will use no nofollow. I'm also thinking about if I should change my blog to nofollw. At least there is more traffic.
I think there is some interesting software out there although I do not remember the name. There are ways so you can determine how many posts a person has to write till he/she gets a backlinks. I think this will prohibit the majority of spam comments.

Re: Is Dofollow a Spam Magnet?

jane doe — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:33:31 -0000

Grrrr. my comment did not go through. Yes, I did notice a surgence of SPAM after I installed I follow. I got blasted a couple of days with a ton of spam comments peppered all over my blog. They were all from a company based in India selling diet pills. I haven't had anything recently.

Re: Is Dofollow a Spam Magnet?

jane doe — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 00:31:05 -0000

Yes, I have noticed. Although it seems to a) come in spurts and b) be mostly from India-related to selling phentermine or other diet pills. You know the posts where they don't even know how to speak proper English. "you blog is good. I like."

Re: Is Dofollow a Spam Magnet?

Slevi — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:20:51 -0000

Myself I'm simply using first-comment moderation, have been doing it ever since I began with the blog. I haven't really noticed an increase though after I began using the dofollow plugin, but it hasn't been long ago though. My main sources of spam are 2 entries dating quite some time back though which on a daily basis keep being bombarded, Akismet fishes most out but a couple still end up in moderation. Currently each of them is getting about 40 spam comments a day directed at them already and still rising.

Anyways, the first-comment moderation works great to simply fish out the spam. A minor wait for people which never commented before, but once they did they can just keep on commenting without any waiting.

Re: Is Dofollow a Spam Magnet?

jangro — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:12:35 -0000

What Maurice said.

I honestly don't think that nofollow is a good way to reduce spam. It is easier for spammers to do so indiscriminately than to stop bothering with blogs that use nofollow.

It does seem that some are seeking out the blogs that talk about using DOfollow. So I guess the lesson is that if you use it, don't flaunt it.

Re: Is Dofollow a Spam Magnet?

Fox Tucker — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:01:25 -0000

My blogs stats package shows me that spammers are specifically searching for TypePad blogs with a NO NOFOLLOW statement, and despite my statement that I manually approve all comments/trackbacks, and the fact that I use the 'vetting box', still they submit their spam.

But, it's just a click of a button to remove it before it makes it on to my blog.

I'm a big fan of the 'no nofollow' movement. I'll continue to shout about it, and continue to swat the spammers.

Re: Is Dofollow a Spam Magnet?

Maurice(TheCaymanHost) — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:12:12 -0000

SEOExpert

I think it must be the language barrier causing us to talk at cross purposes here :-)

I'm not sure what you're getting at. I'm sure Scott does not 'invite spammers to comment on this blog', but he wants to encourage and reward genuine comments by using DoFollow - his question is aimed at other DoFollow bloggers, wondering if they have noticed an increase in spam comments themselves since implementing it.

If you're asking why doesn't he revert to nofollow if he is now finding spam a problem I'll have to let Scott respond himself :-)

Re: Is Dofollow a Spam Magnet?

seo expert — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 12:40:02 -0000

hi Maurice ,
be cool , i know that it passes the page rank , but why this blog does not apply nofollow tags, Because it also invites spammers to comment in this blog

Re: Is Dofollow a Spam Magnet?

Maurice (TheCaymanHost) — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:06:46 -0000

SEO Expert?

You ARE joking right? Tell us you're just fooling....

If you're really serious, the DoFollow movement enables the bloggers that use it to pass page rank or link juice, usually to those commenting on their blogs, by stripping out the NoFollow attribute - which tells the Googlebot to ignore the links that use it. A comment on a DoFollow blog, therefore helps the commenter to build inbound links to his/her own blog.