I am a DOFOLLOW Blog | HOBO Custom Link Love
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A while back I wrote a post “How to say I Love You over the Internet” about using the Lucia Link Love plugin to spread the link love to the commenter’s who frequent your blog. This was a nice plugin and I had been using it for a while, until I redesigned my blog and tried to trim down the plugin usage. Now I am back to putting in plugins and hoping they don’t ruin my validation.
Now, I am going to use the new WordPress comments plugin, HOBO Custom Link Love, which is an updated custom version of the Lucia Link Love plugin. Here’s what the Hobo’s have to say about their plugin;
From Improve Pagerank: Custom Link Love For Wordpress Comments Plugin..
So Basically;
- Regular commentors will get a dofollow link that passes link love – with this, you really reward regular contributors
- Those with less than say 3 comments will not get a link at all (although you can modify this) but when they do hit 3 comments, hey presto, link love, and with anchor text value!
- Pagerank won’t evaporate through nofollowed links from link droppers because they won’t be links
I am DOFOLLOW again
Since this is a custom (newer) version of the comment link plugin from Lucia I decided to install this one instead of the original, sorry Lucia. Something about it being newer, even though I don’t see too much different at the moment.
So, all you faithful followers who make comments on my blog, know that I have a Google Page Rank 3 and think that it should be shared with those who are networking with me. So if you have something (semi)intelligent to say, say it. BUT, know that I am not keeping “one-liner” comments any more, and I am going to delete all the older comments that I do not think are worthy anymore.
Download the plugin here: HOBO Custom Link Love
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Well, I’ll admit to excess eye-glazing when it comes to technical stuff.
But this sounds good, so I’m going to make a comment longer than one line, and hope to hell my previous comments were worthy, too. :)
What I’d be interested in knowing (without having to look it up) is how dofollow works, and how what anchor text value is. Somehow the text of this comment is bleeding into your sidebar as I type, so I hope there aren’t too many typos.
Thanks.
Your comments have always been worthy :)
Hmm, non-technically; let’s use my site as an example.. I am a Google PR 3, so if I had 6 links on my site then each link would get a percentage of the PR3 and I believe the higher the link is on the page, the more PR is gets…
Now, in the code a link is
you would change the link to
By putting in the rel=”nofollow” you are telling GOOG that you do not trust this site and not to pass PR.
Anchor Text is the part where you see LINK HERE. GOOG also sees this as the piece of information that is linking the two sites, and should be your keywords. For me, my keywords are Costa Rica, Web Design and SEO (plus my name :) ) SO I would want my Anchor Text for links to my site to be something with those keywords in them?
I hope that makes sense, let me know and if you have any ?’s just ask…
Thanks for letting me know about the problem with comments leaking over to the sidebar, I will fix that…
Hi Jim. I use to run the Lucia plugin on my blog as well and like you, I decided it was time to trim down some on my blog’s plugins. It’s not that I don’t want to reward my normal commentators, but I felt it wasn’t really a necessary plugin. When I come across something good on their sites, I’ll tweet it or write up a post about it.
But, there is a part of me that wishes I could pick and choose dofollow links.
Good luck with the plugin and let us know if you ever run across anything good or bad about it in the future.
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True, it is not a necessary plugin, but I just need an easy way to spread the love until I design it directly into the website.
“BUT, know that I am not keeping “one-liner” comments any more, and I am going to delete all the older comments that I do not think are worthy anymore.”
My rules are do not use keywords for a name – if you post and use keywords for a name then it will be deleted.
I recently had one guy write a massive long post – some three or four paragraphs – but he used keywords for a name so it had to be deleted
HOWEVER – if people want to register first then they can put two links with keywords in their signature.
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Same here, I do not like it when people don’t use their name so I get rid of those too. Some bloggers allow it for branding reasons, but it just doesn’t look good to me.
Oscar Myer Wieners said “” sounds stupid…
Umm, the two links look the same to me. That’s okay, so did all the equations in 9th grade Algebra class!
But I *think* I get it. And I *hope* our site is doing that anchor text thing.
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Yes, you should be getting links from my site to yours with your name as the Anchor Text, or whatever you put in the name field (please use your name)
I had some problems showing the code in the comments section, so you may be seeing an older version.
Hi Jim,
I find your policy quite refreshing. Like yourself, I am a “dofollower” (I have my own custom CMS for managing my blog site rather than using wordpress or another premade CMS) and do not receive many comments, most of the ones I do receive are only from friends so I do not mind them receiving link juice (most of my friends do not even maintain websites) and I was wondering whether people who comment on your site followed a similar pattern or not, or whether you just chose not to go the nofollow route for other reasons. Here's to a lack of abuse to both of us (and like minded bloggers).
Jamie
Hello Jamie, I can tell you that I started using the dofollow blog idea with the Lucia link love plugin. I wanted to encourage commenters. But now, I have it only because I feel that, unless your site is spammy and you were not from a bot, you deserve your link for commenting. I do however force you to come back and comment 5 times.
Thanks for the nice post.
Thanks for the nice post.