Comments on: Canned Spam and DoFollow

By: bapes

bapes — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:36:45 +0000

I understand your frustration for sure. I have the same issue on my blog page. It is very hard to combat it!

By: El Yanqui

El Yanqui — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:29:02 +0000

I have seen blogs talking about DoFollow but having NoFollow enabled. I believe that the majority of the time it’s simply a matter of them not being aware of it. It is possible to install the DoFollow improperly and while it is fairly easy to check, not everyone is that into the nuts and bolts of their site.

I have my Firefox set up with a plugin that highlights all nofollow links so they’re pretty easy to spot.

By: Bape

Bape — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 07:16:44 +0000

Its ironic that many bloggers talk about this but then they actually use no follow.

By: El Yanqui

El Yanqui — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 10:28:06 +0000

I do have Akismet installed and would probably have pulled all my hair out by now if I hadn’t. As of today it tells me that it has caught over 6,000 spam messages. I have learned to check it frequently though, as I’ve had to unspam a few comments that it mistakenly quarantined. Small price to pay though.

I don’t have a problem with people posting to link to their site, that’s the point of DoFollow. I know many of them are here just for that purpose, and that doesn’t bother me. They write something about that post, or something that is at least meaningfully interactive and then go on their way. What annoys me are posts that consist of “cheap viagra” or “I agree! Great site! Great Design! Good Information! Ok!” just so they get a link. That does nothing, and will quickly find itself in the spam hole.

By: ashley gilmour

ashley gilmour — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 14:23:21 +0000

at what point do you consider it spam? when someone blatently posts promotional comments? i dont have this problem as no one visits my blog : (

By: Crystal

Crystal — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 07:16:16 +0000

Honestly, I don’t have a do follow blog, but I think that spam does increase with do follow blogs. This isn’t the first post i’ve seen where people say they get more spam after removing no follow, and I’ve seen pay for comment services say they will get you links on sites with nofollow removed. I’m sorry this is happening to you, I hope it goes away soon

By: chilli

chilli — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 00:59:59 +0000

i really don´t like “nofollow”. i think “dofollow” and reasonable “spam-protection” is the best solution for the blogging empire.

By: Dave RH

Dave RH — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:08:48 +0000

Do Follow is not going to increase your spam, the very nature of spammers dictates this. They don’t even check to see if your blog is do follow or not, they just send out millions of spam comments and play the law of averages game.

As one of the previous commentors mentioned, if you don’t have Askimet installed, get it up and running! It will capture the majority of the spam for you, making your moderating job a lot easier.

By: Louiss

Louiss — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 16:03:13 +0000

erm.. Actually I don’t agree some of the DoFollow called as spam! That is their original post and cannot considered as Spam post because those reader (what you called as spammer) do read your article. Maybe the way they express teir comment idea is different from our idea.

Just my opinion

By: Jew

Jew — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 11:32:38 +0000

Amm… on top of what I’ve said b4, I also agree with mlankton, but only if it’s in the way of real posts…