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I tried to post most of this on a nother blog the other day but the php – or whatever – wouldn’t let me, so I’ll try to do it here (because size is indeed an issue);
The question of moderation arises. Look how many posts have been made on this page alone. How much of any blogger’s life are they prepared to surrender to moderating? If you get into blogging because you like writing, but then you don’t get to hardly do any because you have to spend so much of your time moderating comments, do you want to carry on as a blogger? I can sing a little, people have often asked me why I don’t sing professionally, imagining me up on the stage having applause and so forth, a great time. That wouldn’t be my life though, my life would be sitting in cars and trains and planes and dressing rooms. Ugh! Similarly, a blogger’s life is largely going to be moderating instead of writing. What writer wants that?
If I can bang on here a bit, the whole blog concept is dependent upon not too many people commenting. If you write a blog post, ten people comment, you do a few minutes moderation, that’s ok. Ten thousand people comment, routinely, as more of the world comes online, well how is that supposed to work? Blogs will be like a work of art, you create a post now and again and then walk away. Moderation will be impossible because of the volume of comments. Blogs will cease to be interactive between OP and commenters and will become battlegrounds for the commenters.
The whole blogging movement as it already is is utterly dependent upon not too many people actually participating.

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It’s going to be interesting to see how Google works around this if the movement gets too big. I’m sure they’re already looking for ways to penalize paid links. How long before they start penalizing blogs with NOFOLLOW removed?

Also, does any one know if the other search engines respect the NOFOLOOW attribute? I’ve never heard anyone mention it.

Thanks to Lyndon and Andy for extolling the virtues of DoFollow. It feels so liberating :D

The chat system is better but still complicated. You can actually discuss the same post making comments within different communities, and gradually become a top active member in all of them (which is a useful backlink for any of the top 10 communties, and that is like a community wide PR5 link)

So I added the blog manually so others can read it

To be listed as a member from your profile I think you have to join the community yourself, and then add the blog to the community.

I am now a subscriber.

“Did anyone ever tell you that you really have a way with blog post titles?”
Cheers mate.

Seriously though, thanks for stopping by the nofollow post on our blog. It reminded me to subscribe the ConrwallSEO, which I should have done a long time ago.

Did anyone ever tell you that you really have a way with blog post titles?
Screw Pink Links, I?m going commando
This Blog is built on the sun bleached bones of Linkbait
What has Andy Hagans and General Baron Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord got to do with each other?

Bravo!

I’m sure your comments count will go up. Been following the articles for a bit and want to say thanks for writing.

To become a great blogger you need to develop your brand, by leaving worthless, obviously spammy comments on random blogs you will damage your brand.

People are watching!

For those interested I have installed http://kimmo.suominen.com/sw/dofollow/ this allows me to to put a timer on when the dofollow kicks in. Although as yet I have not turned it on.

Michael: Is there a different flavors of Google juice?

Thanks

Negative is getting random people commenting just so they get some more link backs.
Positive is getting random people commenting just so they get some more link backs.