Aug
I Do Follow, But I Don’t Plug In
Some time ago, the “DoFollow” Wordpress plugin got a lot of buzz amongst bloggers who wanted to reward their commentators (or just from sneaky webmasters who wanted to encourage comments as much as possible.)
I thought it was a neat idea, but I wondered why you needed a plugin to do that. I mean, all you’re doing is removing the rel=”nofollow” from your template. It’s kind of like that optimal title plugin. There’s no point in adding yet another plugin (which will slow down your blog) just to handle a one-time fix you can do in Notepad.
So I just went ahead and removed that code myself. If you want to do the same, I recommend reading this post on Blogstrokes. It should give you all the info.
Now we’ll see if this blog gets included on those “Blogs that DoFollow” aka “Spam These Blogs!!” lists that are popping up. It shouldn’t matter though, because Akismet takes care of all my comment spam so I don’t even have to see it. Take that spammers!
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Is that really all it takes? LOL!! Well, sometimes I just get stuck in “plug-in” mode and stop thinking. Thanks for reminding me.
Yep, it’s just like editing the registry on your computer. It’s pretty simple as long as you don’t screw something up in the process!
Thanks for the mention.
I have also used custom title code for quite some time. I always thought that it was more of a template function than a plugin function, and I even did an article on the code I use at Blog Strokes.
One distinction I would be sure to point out is that the dofollow code tweak modifies core files, so, you have to re do it each time you upgrade WordPress, whereas the title tweak is in the theme and won’t have to be redone.
Some people may have problems remembering to re do their tweaks, but other than that it’s a great option.
Good thing you pointed that out!
It’s worth noting the one tiny drawback is that you do have to re do this each time you upgrade WordPress.
However, you usually have to deactivate and reactivate plugins and stuff anyway, so it’s not like this adds any extra time.
Akismet does do a great job. If to many get through you can also add something like math challenge - the combo works very well for me.
Thanks for stopping by John!
I’ve seen math challenge used on some blogs, it looks pretty good. I’m going to stick it out with just Akismet for now (unless the spam gets too bad, of course.)
Nice job there, very good initiative.
I’m using drupal on my blog. I follow ?
With your permission.i want adding my do follow website.
1. google Ebooks blog at http://Www.Ebooktops.com/google
2. Studentloan Ebook at http://Studentloan.Ebooktops.com
3. Computer Ebook site at http://computer.Ebooktops.com
if want submit your website goto http://Www.Ebooktops.com/tools/submit-url.php otherwise checking Backlink Pagerank, please go to http://Www.Ebooktops.com/tools/pagerank
finally keep do follow exist and please dont be spam. Thanks
Awesome. I’ll be switching over to WordPress and the rel=nofollow in the standard install always bugged me.
Thanks for the tip. I knew there had to be an easier way to get rid of that no follow code. I’ll be doing that on all my wordpress blogs from here out. I hate having to keep track of plugins
Great tip. I think I’m going to add that for my site to try and encourage some more commenting. I haven’t really got big enough traffic for it to make any kind of difference yet though.
It’s something I’ll do in the near future I think.
great post
askimet is brilliant
i use no follow wordpress plugin to encourage comments and works great
I think that’s a great idea.
I just started a blog not too long ago, but I use the plugin. I’m going to use your tutorial sometimes and get it hooked right once and for all.
Akismet is great, Sometimes changing code is a dangerous and not so easy for someone who doesn’t understand coding at all and that’s when the plug-in comes in handy.
Yeah i do agree with all the above comments , by adding those do follow plug in your commenters can get high back links , nice job
Well you do follow and dont use plug in thats really good
, i really appriciate your work ..
Thanks, nice solution
thanks for this post
i really like your blog
After reading your post I installed Akismet and now I think I am going to take off the nofollow in comments.
Maybe I will get more visitors.
@Claudia: Sure you will. I just left a comment there
In one of my blog akismet dont really work very well. Its probably got to do with the fact that I had to add the akismet key manually. I always get the mobile phone spam everyday, the comment are moderated anyway but it tiresome to go through hundreds of those.
At the end I use the math-comment-spam-protection. It works wonders