Comments on: Weekly Link Dump Three

By: Jeff Chandler

Jeff Chandler — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 02:17:52 +0000

Not yet as I wanted to perform the experiment behind the scenes and then report back the results. It has only been a week since I turned them off and I’ll wait one more before I make up my mind.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:52:20 +0000

A few people have actually said the same so perhaps I have a skewed view. When I removed it I had a huge influx of spammers and generally the quality of comments went way down. Have you promoted the fact that dofollow has been removed from your blog? I think this plays a big factor.

By: Jeff Chandler

Jeff Chandler — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 02:58:51 +0000

No problem Kevin, I’ve been a subscriber to your stuff for quite a while. To be honest, I’ve actually disabled the DoFollow plugin on my own WordPress blog as an experiment to see if I would stop receiving stupid comments which looks like they were made, just to be published on the site with the DoFollow attribute attached to them. So far, I haven’t seen the amount of spam going down. I wonder if that is because it takes awhile for my site to stop showing up in those software programs which lists sites that have NoFollow disabled?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:56:05 +0000

Thanks for the link Jeff. The nofollow debate is something I have followed but I have to give credit to SEOAly as her decision to remove the nofollow tag for a while was the inspiration for the post