Comments on: Is your Blog “Link Lite”?

By: Social Media Optimization - SMO - SMOmashup » Wordpress makes your comments suck.

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 19:23:26 +0000

[...] thanks to the very followable Lyndoman who alerted me to the ‘link lite’ status of this [...]

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What ten months of blogging looks like — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 17:05:44 +0000

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By: Lyndoman

Lyndoman — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 21:24:01 +0000

I will look into it Chris, thanks.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:41:00 +0000

Something else that may be of interest to reward your commenters is the ‘Top Commentators’ plugin. Does what it says on the tin, and has no-follow turned off automatically.

Has really boosted the number of comments on my blogs, and people get a Google friendly link out of it. Nobody has abused it yet, and it’s got some easy to set up filter options if they do…

John Chow put me onto this, he comes up with some good stuff.

By: smoMashup

smoMashup — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:42:23 +0000

yes, brilliantly. haven’t you noticed that the internet has been spam free for at least a month now due to their heroic efforts.

By: Lyndoman

Lyndoman — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 08:28:27 +0000

I think they did it to discourage comment spam.

Did it work?

By: smoMashup

smoMashup — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:42:28 +0000

holy hell. this being my first personal wordpress venture I’ve never realized that comments had this! I feel like a friggin hypocrite railing against the big wiki when I didn’t even realize I was doing this on my own! Why does wordpress come with this? What a crock of s#^*!!

By: Hawaii SEO

Hawaii SEO — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:09:02 +0000

Cool! I would comment anyway though. You have a great blog.

I?m fairly good with the marketing stuff but I suck at programming. (I also don?t update my blog very often, it?s all just for fun) I use the Search Status FireFox plugin to highlight the nofollow links pink. I don?t see any pink links on my blog but I don?t remember doing anything special to make it that way.

By: Lyndoman

Lyndoman — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:39:40 +0000

Thanks Andy, I didn’t realise there were plugins available, but I have spent zero time looking.

I now have no excuse.

By: Andy Beard

Andy Beard — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:20:07 +0000

You can just do the simple code hack, or use one of the many “dofollow” plugins for Wordpress.

On my blog spam rarely gets through SK2, even to the moderation queue.

I would also suggest using a clear comment policy

By: Lyndoman

Lyndoman — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:00:19 +0000

Thanks Rob.

Will do WP.

I need to slap up contact details, this blog is so rinky dink at times.

By: webprofessor

webprofessor — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:54:17 +0000

Hey man you got no contact info on here.. shoot me an email if you want sometime

By: robwatts

robwatts — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:52:10 +0000

This might help you Lyndon
http://www.tomrafteryit.net/how-to-turn-off-the-nofollow-attribute-in-wordpress-15/