How CommentLuv and Dofollow links can help your blog

I have recently changed this blog from a no follow blog to a do follow blog. I have also added CommentLuv. The reasons I have done this is because I want to reward those who comment on my blog with a free backlink. It seems today, that everyone wants their blog to be no follow, and no one wants to link to anyone just because of what Google dictates. I have said it before, and I will say it again. A person should create and tailor their blog to their readers, and not to the whims of some search engine.

I believe that CommentLuv and Do follow links can greatly increase your readership, and it encourage users to leave meaningful comments on your blog posts. I think the readership and meaningful comments are much more important to your overall SEO then anything else. What is the point of SEO if it penalizes your readers? I want my blog to have active participation, and the more the better. I also want to share the link juice with my readers as my way of saying thank you for commenting on my blog.

I firmly believe the overall goals of the internet is to link and share useful and meaningful information. The no follow premise actually goes against these terms and penalizes the honest reader who is not a spammer. I can understand the whole premise around the no follow ideology as a way to combat link spam, however, using captcha’s and the askimet  service along with good comment moderation will go very far in eliminating most of the spam that plagues many blogs.

By making your blog Do follow and adding CommentLuv or the like, you are encouraging your readers to link to you and participate in your blog. This is the single most important  goal one should have for their blog. I don’t think anyone wants to have a blog where no one comments on it. What would be the point of that in the grand scheme of things?

There is a WordPress Plugin called Do Follow that will change all the comments on your blog from No follow to Do Follow.

The Do follow plug-in can be combined with the CommentLuv plugin will allow your readers to post comments on your blog with the link to their latest blog posts, etc with do follow links and help your readers as well as yourself. This also gives you the ability to find interesting blogs that you may wish to read and comment on as well which will help the overall blogosphere in finding, and talking about all the latest and greatest things going on. It is a win-win situation for both yourself and your readers.

So please feel free to comment away on my blog and show your CommentLuv

take care everyone. I hope this blog post helps you in your SEO goals

thanks again to everyone for their continued support.

Update March 7th, 2010

Due to unforseen circumstances, this blog is no longer a dofollow blog. I am sorry, but I simply do not have the resources to deal with the amount of spam I have been receiving. I implemented automated spam checking services, and also using captcha’s, and the amount of spam I was receiving was just simply overwhelming. I am only one person, and I just simply do not have the resources to deal with that amount of spam on a regular basis.

I am sorry to those who have links on here, but the links on this blog are now nofollow. Due to so many useless comments that were submitted over the last few months that had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the content of the post topic left me no choice. It seems people were actually filling out the captcha and then submitting useless posts that made no sense whatsoever.

However, The content of this post still applies, and If I had the resources to deal with such spam, this blog would still be a dofollow blog. however, since that is not the case anymore, It will not be.

I still wish to thank you for your continued support.