ZigPress is now "DoFollow"

ZigPress is now “DoFollow”

Many articles have been published about the merits (or de-merits) of using “nofollow” links on websites and blogs, especially in comment signatures. Essentially, if a link is “nofollow”, then Google and other search engines will not count it as a “backlink” to the site it links to, thus preventing the site from gaining ranking from it.

WordPress makes the URLs that commenters submit “nofollow” by default, as a way of discouraging spam. However, if you have a WordPress blog and use Akismet or a similarly good spam-elimination plugin, there is no need to be stingy with your “backlink love”.

So, as of today, all comments published on ZigPress blog posts will be “dofollow” (i.e. the “nofollow” attribute will not be added to the link). I’m using the very simple Dofollow Plugin to achieve this. As I often hunt out “dofollow” blogs and make comments myself, to gain backlinks, it seemed only fair to allow others to do this using my site.

This change will also allow myself and colleagues to promote URLs of our choice when replying to comments.

A Word of Warning

All comments on ZigPress are still moderated, and comments I receive that have no relevance whatsoever to the post where they are submitted, or are simply “me too” or “yeah cool”, will not be approved.

05 Oct 2009 Blogging, Marketing, WordPress

23 Responses to ZigPress is now “DoFollow”

On 05 Oct 2009 at 21:29, Gouri said:

Welcome to the dofollow community. I find the concept of PR leakage through outgoing links very stupid & i’m sure many other fellow bloggers, too. I dream of the day when something more rational like Alexa Rank will rule the roost.
On 06 Oct 2009 at 09:18, AndyW said:

Welcome to the dofollow club!
On 06 Oct 2009 at 13:49, Outdoor Lighting said:

Being do follow helpful both ways. One site gets the fresher content in the comments and the other sites gets the back link.
On 07 Oct 2009 at 06:57, Resume Templates said:

I’m really impressed with your article, such great information you mentioned here, thanks for your sharing and waiting to see your future posts.
On 07 Oct 2009 at 13:50, Top Web Hostin Companies said:

Welcome to the do-Follow club =).. I think it would be nice if the element was never made..
On 07 Oct 2009 at 18:58, deakaz said:

Welcome to the “Do-Follow” club, I can imagine you will receive more spam than you used to. However, I do think its a great idea for the blogosphere in general to adopt this method.
On 07 Oct 2009 at 22:23, Cincinnati Web Design said:

I just learned of do follow blogs and am currently speculating their relevance in the Google algorithm and what constitutes spam when leaving a comment. Is putting your business name as your name spam. My opinion would be no unless you leave a sales pitch or list of keywords instead of an actual comment. Anyone else’s thoughts?
On 08 Oct 2009 at 11:59, godaddy promo code said:

Great job on deciding to go dofollow. I made one of blogs dofollow recently and the amount of comments rose considerably
On 08 Oct 2009 at 19:05, Annuity Rates said:

Great to see you are with the dofollow crowd, now if we could just get rid of the spam with things such as “cool site” then we will all be happy.
On 09 Oct 2009 at 13:04, Flash Games Master said:

I agree with most people here. All blogs should be dofollow and then up to the owner to remove the links if need be.

I think the amount of extra comments(content) recieved can help most sites to attract traffic with even longer long tail phrases.
On 09 Oct 2009 at 16:31, ZigPress said:

Not everyone who has commented on this post will see their comment here. C’mon people, play ball and try to think of something more to say than ‘this is good idea’… Please also note that I’m still running Akismet and if you get trapped by Akismet elsewhere, you will here as well.
On 09 Oct 2009 at 22:42, Manhattan said:

Zigpress, you gotta be careful about dofollow. You’re going to get a lot of people here just commenting for backlinks. I mean… in the long run you’ll get some more traffic, but you’ll also get scuzzy blog spammers. You need to moderate a little to at least discourage them. I see some bad ones here. Don’t encourage them…

By the way, I’m honestly only here for the backlink myself, but I believe in at least giving the poster the courtesy of reading their post.
On 10 Oct 2009 at 09:11, Competitions said:

My opinion is that all websites should be dofollow , everyone needs backlinks .
One do-follow blog will have more visitors and more comments than one no-follow blog.
Every blog owner comments on other blogs for backlinks , so why not to have do-follow? It’s weird .. Or maybe some bloggers don’t know how to change it to do-follow(LOL) .
On 10 Oct 2009 at 19:11, lois said:

I’m still learning about this blogging stuff and I found your do follow article quite helpful. I assume there will be more traffic to this blog of yours since you made it into do follow blog. Is it correct?
On 11 Oct 2009 at 14:06, Latex Shop said:

Yes indeed – in my opinion the nofollow tag is not required in these days. Isn’t the WWW depending on giving and taking?
As I’m quite new to blogging and I established our Latex Shop Blog just a few days ago, I will try to get a plugin fpr WordPress which enables the dofollow tag.
On 11 Oct 2009 at 18:39, SEO Software For Mac said:

Do Follow is great and I hope people don’t spam you to death…
I am building a list of dofollow blogs and will include your site.

Thanks
Jim
On 13 Oct 2009 at 08:33, Ruri | Free article directory said:

One thing you need to aware of, Do-follow comment will increase comments activities. Some people report they get about 300 comment per day after using do-follow. Because you moderate all, then you should check which one is spam and which one is not a spam.

For commentator, I am happy if you use DoFollow. but are you prepare for this?
On 15 Oct 2009 at 08:27, Computer Repair Las Vegas said:

I like the blogs that have a do-follow policy but then have that cool plug-in where if you have a blog it puts a lil brief snapshop of the most recent post you wrote on your blog along with your comment, that gives people more of a reason to check out your blog you are promoting in your comment.. If anyone knows what plugin i’m talking about please email me…
On 15 Oct 2009 at 17:40, Darrell said:

Hi

I had many of my websites with a no follow simply because it was getting out of hand at some locations. However, lately I have seen a number of places going back to do follow. Perhaps part of the problem really stems from G discounting the no follow attribute. Some search engines as I understand ignore the no follow anyways and follows the links.

So I will do a test on a couple of websites and add the do follow attribute back, but moderate my sites carefully to see how much time I am spending on it to find a balance. I think the key is to always have comments moderated.

Thank you by the way and its appreciated.
On 23 Oct 2009 at 12:51, Sydney said:

Having do follow is great to bring increased traffic to your site. I guess if you moderate comments its a good thing for blogs.
On 03 Nov 2010 at 12:41, Comfy Living said:

Wasn’t aware of the dofollow plugin for WordPress, I will use this information and also pass this on to others. Thank you.
On 04 Nov 2010 at 00:53, Consultorio Psiquiatria e Psicologia said:

Good to see that some websites promote this kind of interaction and traffic exchange.
On 22 Nov 2010 at 10:29, Rock Garden said:

Why some people thinks that being dofollow is not that good just because of it brings spammy comments.
Why they cant understand that this brings some readers who will come back again. I’m proudly a do follow blog

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