That’s good news isn’t it? So what does it mean? What does it give to you and your blog?
Well, basically it just means that when you comment on any articles on this blog, the link that you provide is actually getting indexed by Google and some juice is passed over to your blog.
Normally when you comment on any blog, the link is “nofollowed” which means that they will not be traced by search engine spiders, other than Yahoo and some insignificant ones. Now, DailySEOblog is an exception, so if you want incoming links to your blog, all you need to do is write sensible comments on the blog (You are reading t anyway).
So commenting on DailySEOblog has two benefits now.
1 – Get some google juice from the no-nofollow links to your blog.
2 – Get some traffic to your blog from the “latest post” link featured from your blog on the comments.
Why this new change ?
Well, I know for a fact that there are readers out there on RSS readers and other places who read Daily SEO blog on a regular basis and there are some smart and loyal ones like Niyaz who regularly post sensible comments on the articles.
Now, it’s perfectly fair for the rest of them out there not to comment on DailySEOblog, because they don’t get anything out of it. They read the articles and that’s about it. Why should you comment……..? And now you have an answer. For a backlink whenever you need to.
I also realize that this would be good news to the spammers. Well, got to live with it anyway. I’ll be selectively moderating comments and approving them. If there are more, there will be a time limit put on new commenters, before their comments become no-nofollow.
So if you are a regular commenter, your links get indexed quicker than anyone else. Makes sense? What are you waiting for?
—- UPDATE——
The comments will be selectively moderated and keywords/author names that does not give any idea about the author but in turn looks deliberate to drive google juice to the products will not be approved. Ex:- Pharma, Free software, Online games.
However comments that are sensible and makes sense to the community will be approved even though may carry a not so popular name. Consider this a manually approved comments area.
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Hi, I'm Mani Karthik, Pro Blogger & SEO Consultant from India. I blog, I Tweet, help websites with SEO. Loves working from home office. Quit my day job as SEO consultant 4 years ago, to pursue full time blogging and consultation. Living the dream now.
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very nice, and congratulations for your job. Grettings from Mty, Mx.
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ask and ye shall receive, good move Mani!
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I think its a good idea. Is there a plugin that you will use? I personally just moderate all the comments and delete any spam. Its only fare to give some linky goodness to regular commentators who contribute to my blog.
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Mani Karthik
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Yes, I use a plugin that will keep track of regular users and only allow them instant commenting. For new ones, there will be a time delay set so that I can take time out to moderate them.
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Awesome man! I posted some comments before anyway, because a lot of your stuff is really awesome.
Also, as a webmaster with a blog about link building, I thank you for being a person who contributes to the link building community.
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Great move Mani.
Thanks for the link too.
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Hey Great News… Let me send a invitation to the spammers… ( Just Kidding
) If the comments goes beyond 30 or 40 for every page, won’t that reduce your link juice?
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Mani Karthik
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Well, yes and no. But, I think I know how to curb that. You are right although.
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Hi Mani, I recently found your blog and have been visiting it regularly. I think your move is a good one (if not a brave one). Spammers are a pain in the backside and spoil a good thing with their stupid antics. I didn’t understand why more than 30 – 40 comments on a page will reduce your “Link Juice” Could you explain what you mean? Thanks
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Mani Karthik
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Ric, It’s a popular understanding that more number of outlinks will drain away your page rank. I don’t completely agree to it (was a commenters remark) since a lot of it can depend on the kind of blog. If you are one with lot of information to be pointed to others then you naturally will have lot of outgoing links. Well regarding DailySEOblog, I think we are in a safe position that even more number of outbound links will not drastically bring down the reputation.
We have a strong one there.
Also, not all links will be allowed. I keep an eye on comments like a hawk so moderating the junk out won’t be a problem.
The idea of making the blog a dofollow one is to actually reward the commenters. Junk/Spam and Time wasters will be taken care of.
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Is this a April fool day prank?
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Mani Karthik
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Good guess K,
Wel actually no. If you see your comment links, they are all no nofollowed with a one day time limit. Everything prior to April one is a no nofollow.
Good guess though!
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are you testing something?
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Mani – This is a great way to increase commenting on your blog. It certainly helped on my blog, that’s for sure.
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Well thats a great piece of news for many bloggers out there who want to get some google juices from this. Lets hope you dont have more task of deleting spams due to this.
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nice shot. I’ve just made the same modificatin to my blog. it’s no follow as well.
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we use dofollow on all our blogs. then we also remove comments that use a keyword as a name.
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Mani Karthik
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That’s a nice idea Matt, I might do something similar here as well if the keyword based commenters grow in number.
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Hi Mani!!
Thanks for this interesting post. Well, i have a query; My blog called Technofriends is on a wordpress.com account with some redirection thing set up so that i can have it redirected to my own domain technofriends.in ; My doubt is, is there something like this ( the do follow of comments) available with wordpress.com accounts as well. Also, if i host out my blog entirely on my own, will i lose the traffic i get from search engines?
Cheers
Vaibhav
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What is no nofollow
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Dofollow is certainly good. Beside getting free traffics, it helps a new blog to accumulate backlinks which is good from SEO standpoint.
BTW I enjoy reading your articles.
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I spammers came to know that comments in this blog are being followed by search engines there is great chance spammers will bombard you blog with spam comments. I think spam filters like askimet will help you keep out those spammers from commenting on your blog.
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I´ve never used Askimet but BadBehavior for my blog and the honeypot from http://www.projecthoneypot.org/ does the rest to blog these spammers.
Try it out !
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Of course I meant ban !
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Personally, I am under the impression that Google has found a way of distinguishing blog comments from other links and therefore giving less value to them. This would at the end of the day make an end to blog spamming sooner or later.
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fivekitten
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Less value would be better than no value at all! Seeing that at Sphinn (That’s how I got here! Now I remember!) they’ve chosen to give link juice to valued contributors and commenters and Danny Sullivan and Matt Cutts are there all the time, among a thousand other reasons, I don’t think Google will be eliminating consideration of blog links any time soon. They need all they help they can get to determine their SERPS and there’s other ways of dealing with spammers. Maybe it could be boiled down to user interest first, dealing with spammer second. (Although clearly dealing with spam is in the user’s best interest.) And there is something to be said for individual responsibility – webmasters taking care of their own spammers. (Hence, nofollow links.) And I read either here or somewhere else (sorry I can’t remember!) that Google will bypass no follow links when they deem it appropriate.
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I think this is the first time I’ve visited your blog (which surprises me because I do a lot of SEO articles – I’m actually looking for Twitter/SEO info and got sidetracked!) and I think it’s great. I’ve just subscribed to your RSS feed. You make things very short, concise, valuable and easy to understand.
I’d love to to have a “do follow” on both of my blogspot blogs but it’s my understanding that they are no follow. Is there a plugin or workaround for blogspot comment links?
(Ya, I know, it’s not Wordpress – but I wanted to start off at the bottom to learn from my mistakes before I put any websites up.)
I should do my own homework…but thought I’d ask! Of course I just realized that this is an April 1 post…should I be worried it’s April Fool’s Day? And I’m only a year or two or three late in posting…oops..
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great info.
but how does one know if the blog comments are follow or no follow?
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