Comments on: Link love, Google and spammers

By: Karen

Karen — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:22:27 +0000

With a new product and a new website, the newbie marketer is interested in everything you have to say. Thank you for sharing your experience with us.

By: Best Air Conditioners

Best Air Conditioners — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:07:19 +0000

I too notice that by making sure my blog’s comments are set to do follow, I’ll get a lot more conversation. True, there’s still a lot of spam to weed through, but I think in the end I get more than I would have with no follow attribute there.

By: cosmetic dentistry guide

cosmetic dentistry guide — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:35:22 +0000

I think do follow blogs work better because the user generated content outweighs the link juice you loose and also you can choose which ones to publish or not any way. If they add value in content then it makes sense to reward you commentors with a link

By: Jim Connolly

Jim Connolly — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:16:34 +0000

The problem with offering dofollow, is that people put you on lists and spammers use those lists.

This means there’s links from your blog, which point to some ‘very bad neighbourhoods.’

Many believe this is penalised by Google. I am in the process of a marketing experiment and will post more in 2 weeks, when the experiment is finished.

By: uwspstar

uwspstar — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:27:30 +0000

Hi, Jim
Thanks for your article. I am searching some dofollow blogs and try to work with my website, as you said, seems like that 99% blogs are doing nofollow. if you can give a list of some dofollow blogs , it will really help us.

By: Mark Oborn

Mark Oborn — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:24:43 +0000

Jim,

Great advice, I use do-follow and sometimes get spam… but hardly ever. It’s also a great way to say thank you for readers and commenters.

Cheers,

Mark

By: Marketing Specialist - Jim Connolly

Marketing Specialist - Jim Connolly — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:54:41 +0000

That’s a pretty good argument for me and others NOT offering link love. We don’t do it to encourage comments (well I don’t) We do it to help people, who value our blogs. Not those, who only use it for their own gain.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:35:26 +0000

I comment like crazy just for the fun of it. However… Getting a link is certainly a bonus. I have my own list that I track in Google reader. If I see a great post in that feed, reading it will usually get priority over reading other blog posts that have nofollow installed.

By: twenty-six

twenty-six — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:57:10 +0000

to be frankly, i don’t really care how much extra traffic from this do/no follow setting.

Its like Google threaten us to do what we want to do at first place.Most of my readers have blogs PR below than 1 but that not mean their are rubbish.

i would like to give something back but as much as i afraid of being penalize by Google.

By: Marketing Specialist - Jim Connolly

Marketing Specialist - Jim Connolly — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 08:50:03 +0000

It ’should’ be all about content.

The tech news blog is obviously going to get more search traffic, because the topics are in the news.

I do wonder though, how much of the extra traffic is because of the nofollow / dofollow.