CommentLuv, DoFollow, and NoFollow Free
In the last few days I’ve been exploring the web and learning about comments and plugins for Wordpress. What have I learned? I’ve learned that the default for most blogs is to have nofollow set for an author’s website, or links in comments.
There were a quite a bunch of plugins I found to remove nofollow from comments. The ones mentioned most often were: LinkLove, DoFollow, and NoFollow Free.
They all looked like good choices, with DoFollow the simplest if someone wants to remove nofollow from all links in comments. Just install it, activate the plugin, and you’re done.
By default, LinkLove leaves the nofollow set until a comment author reaches 10 posts. That could be a good choice for some folks. There are instructions for how to change the number of posts to something other than 10, if a different number is desired.
I decided to use NoFollow Free. It takes a tiny bit more time setting up, since you’ll likely go to the options page and customize the settings, but you have options for whose posts you want to remove nofollow from, and the number of posts before it will do so. It also allows removing nofollow from a author’s website, links in comment contents, or both. Plus… There’s a built in option to put back nofollow if blacklist words are matched.
CommentLuv is a plugin that will go to a comment author’s website (if they fill it in) and posts a link to their last post at the time of the comment. A fun way to share a little luv by making it easy for readers to check out a commenter’s site. It may also encourage folks to comment on your site.
And lastly… You may have wondered about the… U Comment - I Follow design:
You can find one for your blog in a number of colors or a css version from Randa Clay Design.
February 11th, 2008 at 2:14 am
Is there any comment luv pluin for blogger?
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February 11th, 2008 at 5:32 pm
The short answer is no. Blogspot doesn’t have a plugin.
February 14th, 2008 at 11:31 pm
Thanks for the links and infos about those three great plugins.
March 10th, 2008 at 7:27 am
Hey, thanks for this, wasn’t aware of it!
April 14th, 2008 at 10:58 am
That is a very good idea for donations and to get comments. Just wanted to let you know I added your blog to a list of CommentLuv bloggers.
April 30th, 2008 at 3:29 am
Glad to see another blogger joining the movement. Do follow helps build relationships and give the readers credit for their contributions as well.
May 5th, 2008 at 11:13 am
NoFollow Free is a great way of wrestling control from the Google and their comrades, and placing it in the hands of the bloggers where it belongs. Anything that encourages interaction is a good thing. It’s what the web does best.
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May 10th, 2008 at 8:01 am
No plugin for blogspot which is a shame. Do Follow is such a great tool to use.
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May 10th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
The dofollow movement is a great one. We are currently setting up our blog with wordpress and will be a dofollow blog. The plugins that are available are awesome too. I see you are using CommentLuv, thats great. Have you seen the newest one? KeywordLuv! Really cool…
May 23rd, 2008 at 12:20 pm
I agree, putting DoFollow back up is a trend, even though it was abused in the past, we have many more tools to stop this; Aksimet in Wordpress, and the dofollow plugin that makes everything dofollow, but allows trackbacks (the major point of spam attempts on my site) to remain nofollow. Between the two of those I think it’s 90% safe to go back to dofollow, I know I have!
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June 1st, 2008 at 3:25 pm
I think everybody should have the do follow plugin installed. If people are willing to give useful spam free info then i dont mind giving them a link back.
June 2nd, 2008 at 2:06 pm
I was aware of CommentLuv, but not the other two plugins. Now I have to decide which one to use. Thanks for the resources.
June 9th, 2008 at 2:30 pm
Thanks for the post and the information. It is really hard to find the right plug-in. I tried the “you comment, I follow” one but I did not realize that there were additional settings to make it work correctly (i.e. nofollow)
Thanks again,
Bill
June 20th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
So what options did you choose for NoFollow Free? Interesting to see what other people choose.
Also, you may want to check out Keyword Love (or Luv?) that complements CommentLuv.
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June 26th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
I have always been a little scared of using the dofollow plugins, I like how with the LinkLove pluign I can set it to 10 comments and slowly break myself into the dofollow movement.
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June 26th, 2008 at 6:57 pm
I agree with one of the above comments, that stated there are many more tools for us to prevent spammers, i.e. Akismet. I also like what I’ve learned so far about the CommentLuv plugin, I’m going to add it to my blog.
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June 29th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
I use CommentLuv with Dofollow, and just found another really useful plugin for comments which you may like… find it in my latest blog post below
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