Sometimes DoFollow, Sometimes NoFollow

December 12th, 2007 | email this

Leave your comment Posted by Life is Colourful

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My blog recently have been bombarded with manual spam and couple of days before, I had to pull down my DoFollow plugin that I added couple of months back. But before I decide to bring it up back again, I desperately needed some more control on DoFollow plugin - specially since this blog got PR4 and PR6 post pages. Greg Boser’s new DoFollow plugin gives me that control over each of the comments.

I just have activated this plugin and now I am kinda seeing more control on adding DoFollows or NoFollows to the comments from my comment moderation screen. This plugin shall allow you to individually mark the commens as DoFollow or NoFollow - which is a great flexibility I shall say. Have a look!

I do have some confusion about this new plugin though. When I installed and activated it, it directed me to Options -> DoFollow page to select few options. I chose to “Remove nofollow from comments posted by registered users and other visitors.” with zero days timeout [that means "Nofollow will be removed immediately except from comments of type pingback or trackback"] - as per the snapshot below.

Whatever option I have chosen, Remove NoFollow or Donot remove NoFollow, I expected that it shall show me appropriate option on the Comment moderation page for all the comments posted in past. But for the option selected “Remove NoFollow…”, it shows me “NoFollow” for each comment as shown in the image above which I believe is the existing state of the comments and can be changed to “Follow” by clicking that link. Well, I was hoping to see changes in the Options -> Dofollow page to be reflected in Comment moderation page, isn’t it right Greg?

12 Responded To This Post

2944. Joedel said in December 16th, 2007

That’s a good move! Also, I noticed that you now only have 5 top commentators. Is that part of your spam control?

2951. Life is Colourful said in December 16th, 2007

Yeah, I wanted to pass on the most benefits to regular commentators like you.

3149. dan said in December 20th, 2007

thats good for u my bro
we should all be ready
dan

3275. Greg said in December 21st, 2007

There’s definitely some room for improvement. We just got buried with end-of-year stuff and haven’t had time to publish an update. But we should have some time to update it after the new year.

6659. iuguy said in February 18th, 2008

u r the greatest, thats for sure.
hope to learn some from u.

7612. Tracy said in March 31st, 2008

Would you share some of your criteria for marking comments as “nofollow”? A few of the previous comments on this thread are obvious spam. But what about the less obvious- do you mark as nofollow anyone who tries to use anchor text for their name?

I am about to transition my website from a traditional website into a blog. Any advice you can give on screening comments would be greatly appreciated.

11611. Nick said in June 9th, 2008

I’ve never heard of this plugin, but might have to give it a look if I start getting a decent amount of comments on a regular basis.

Currently, if it smells like spam I just delete it as such and leave all other comments as DoFollow.

17470. Justin Wright said in August 13th, 2008

It really is getting that much harder to tell real comments, from manual spam comments. I do not have dofollow on my blog right now, but I still see comments that say thanks for sharing and pop up more than once with the same domain.

I think this is a really cool plugin, the only hard thing is deciding which comments to follow and which ones nofollow.