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DoFollow Blog Comment Rules
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My blogs have been dofollow for a few months now, and for the most part it is going very well. However, I do get a few comments that I will NOT approve because they are obvious comment spam.
I want to give you some real life examples of what I consider comment spam that I will not approve, and provide you with some dofollow blog comment rules.
Before I do, I want to stress how important it is to post quality comments, related to the post you are commenting on.
Remember, DoFollow blog owners are giving you some link love, in exchange for your quality comments.
If you, and others, post junk comments, blog owners will get tired of seeing the junk, get tired of moderating junk comments, get tired of being taken advantage of, and will turn nofollow back on.
So, please be considerate, and appreciative of dofollow blog owners by doing the right thing and leaving quality comments related to the post you are commenting on.
DoFollow Blog Comment Rules
1. Read the post you are going to be commenting on! I also read several of the current comments if there are some. It only takes a few minutes to read the comments and get a general feel on what people are thinking.
Then, post comments directly related to the blog post, related to the general tone of the comments, or related to a comment left by a specific person.
2. Be kind, even if you disagree with the blog owner’s post, or some individual comments. As a blog owner if you blast me or some of my posters directly, I won’t allow your comments. If you disagree with me, that’s fine. Disagree, offer more information to support your disagreement, and do it respectfully.
3. I prefer at least a short paragraph of comments, that adds to the comment conversation. A simple “I agree” is not going to be approved by me.
4. Don’t use your comments to list every website you own. After leaving some good comments, don’t blatantly advertise your other websites. I’m already giving you an incoming link with your selected anchor text. If you add additional websites, I probably won’t approve your comments.
If you add a website in the comments that is directly related to the discussion, even if it’s yours, I will allow it. If I think you are just trying to get more links, I won’t allow it.
Okay, so here are some examples of posts that I did not allow.
Comment #1
From my post: Do-Follow Blog Directory - New Feature
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I changed my blog to dofollow also:
http://www.website-withheld.blogspot.com/
http://www.website-withheld.com (Note: This is the same website user used in the comments form)
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Sorry, but I want more comments than just telling me you changed to dofollow, and giving me two more websites in the comments field.
Plus, this was in a post that didn’t really fit, I don’t think the user really read the post. If you want to let me know about your dofollow blogs, add them to my dofollow blog directory that is mentioned in the post.
Comment #2
From my post: How Do I Know if A Blog is Do-Follow?
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Well when you open a website you can right click and check if it is a dofollow or no follow by clicking on properties. Do follow allows you to make comments where any link in the website can be track. No follow stop there itself.
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The above comment is a nice paragraph of related text, but it’s apparent they didn’t read my post at all. My post was all about how to tell if a blog is dofollow or not.
That comment added absolutely no value to the discussion, and was just stating information I had already stated in the post.
It looked to me like the user just read the headline “How Do I Know if A Blog is Do-Follow?” and thought - oh I know the answer to that. So, they posted the answer without having any idea what the post was about.
Sorry, doesn’t pass my approval test 
Comment #3
From my post: How Do I Know if A Blog is Do-Follow?
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it is interesting! thanks!
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That one is pretty obvious. That sort of comment just makes me mad, and gives us responsible dofollow blog commentors a bad name.
It only takes a few minutes to read before you comment, and only takes a few minutes to post a relevant comment that adds value.
The blog owner will approve your quality comments, and appreciate you adding value.
Others who read the comments are also more likely to click on your link if you are contributing good content to the discussion.
If you have additions to my list of dofollow blog etiquette, please leave a comment with the suggestions below.
Mike
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Please respect DoFollow Blog owners by following common sense dofollow blog comment rules. I provide some real life examples of bad blog comments, so you know what NOT to do. Please be considerate, and appreciative of dofollow blog owners by doing th…
You are right. Spam does not have to be automated to be spam. A person can leave just as many worthless comments as software. The line between spam and worthwhile comments is very fine.
I often get 5 comments in a row from the same visitor to my blog. I think this is because I set my dofollow to kick in after 3 posts. Sometimes all 5 comments add value so I let them through. But I still know the intention was to get some links.
It’s just hard to tell sometimes and most of the time, I just delete instead of telling Askimet it’s spam, because then the person is marked at Askimet. And I like to give the benefit of the doubt.
i think it is good to let your viewer to have another link from your site after they leave a comments. But i agree also with you that you may have a lot of work to filter out the spam comments.
Fair points, it’s not much to ask. I like the idea of dofollow but always wonder what happens when someone leaves insightful comments with a link to a bad neighbourhood site that could damage your Google ranking.
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I had my blog set to DoFollow for months and found I was getting useless and spammy comments.
I put up with it for a few months but finally decided to go back to nofollow.
Maybe I should have written a great post like yours explaining some rules.
Thanks
Itd be great if people start respect these rules, cause sometimes its frustrating to read stupid spam comments
In fact, is very hard to do an ethical backlink work. But that is no reason to spam every blog just to get “link love”.
As the author says, its just take a moment to TRULY read the post and then write something helpful.
LOL I can so understand your comment policy. I have dofollow on my blog as well and started getting listed on different do-follow lists.
At first I did not really saw when my blog was abused by spammers, my ego got a little boost when somebody commented that the post was great and that they had dugg it but then I started seeing a pattern and really felt stupid ROFL.
At one point I have thought about switching back to nofollow, especially when another link was made to my blog from a do-follow list, and the poster was commenting just how easy it was to get PR links with just leaving some comments.
In the end though, the spam is pretty easily controlled by some good plugins, plus the delete button is my good friend. I do believe in the do-follow movement and do want to give some linkjuice to people who actually have something interesting to comment. Lazy commentators who just abuse my blog are fastly deleted without feeling bad about it
Cheers to you for your comment policy!
Thats pretty fair.
we should remember the owner of blog came to good PR is by struggling. So mostly they know whats the intentions are of a commentator.
If they made it do-follow then its not by mistake.
I think we should prefer commenting only to those blogs that we really want to read, even the intentions are backlinks.
Thank you for your post. I am fairly new to the dofollow revolution. After reading many articles like yours, I requested that my blog be dofollow. My systems engineer removed the no follow tag about a week ago and added something called comment luv. So far, I also get a lot of comments that are not satisfactory. This article will definitely help.
I should post your criteria on my website! I get so many spam comments that it gets a little overwhelming and I notice the pending comments building up. I wish everyone could read through the list and follow it. Thanks for posting this.
I have one blog that is completely overrun with spam. It got so bad that I just turned comments off. It’s really sad that some people can’t respect blog owners.
i am quite new of this dofollow, it is a shame that spammers overtake blogs tho
I belife in “dofollow model”. You give people the normal links, they respect you with a smart comments
We all apreciate the fact you are allowing the DO-Follow in your blog and I hope like in my case everybody respect the rules so we can all benefit of this mean. Thanks.
It is interesting to me that the poster who posted the following:
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At one point I have thought about switching back to nofollow, especially when another link was made to my blog from a do-follow list….
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I think he totally misses the point. Dofollow blogs get lots of link love coming in to them from all the lists of dofollow blogs. I would be glad to find my dofollow blog on all the lists, not sad.
I also appreciate your initial point #2 above. I discovered that one of the big nofollow blogs will not approve your comments if you in any way disagree with his original post, no matter if you are respectful, and no matter how valid your disagreement might be.
Hi,
I agree with all the points you made, I just wish other blog owners would take such a sensible view.
I have had several arguments with other bloggers who delete perfectly good comments just because of an anchored keyword. I think that most bloggers just do not understand how Google works.
The biggest argument I get is that an anchored link will dilute the PR of the page giving the link, which is total rubbish. The anchors “Free Mortgage Advice” or “Fred Smith” carry the same amount of link juice. It is only the site receiving keyword anchored links that will see the difference between the two links.
Another point these bloggers don’t realise is that every new comment will ping the search engines and bring the spiders back. Lastly, the benefit of having new content added to the bloggers blog via comments will probably out way the link juice lost.
Anyway, sorry to rant on.
All the best
Marco
LOL. right! lots of comments are not making sense nowadays. its only fair to remove comments that seems to shift from one topic to the other. what a load of clobbers. hehe.
I would be mad if a comment is not related at all to the real subject or comments. People abuse of the kindness of some bloggers who change to dofollow by just spamming their pages and forcing them to just go back to nofollow. That should be penalized with more strict rules for the protection of bloggers.
It’s great that you set specific rules because sometimes it hard to know what is allowed and what is not for a blog comment.
After getting unapproved by by many blogger i came across dofollow rules it,s really good information you provided you are spreading link love. All commentor should respect the blog owner.
I also support the “Do follow-movement”.It´s only fair that people who take the time to post a relevant and helpful comment will be rewarded with a link back to their site.
This do-follow movement thing will really help writers get good quality comments.
It doesn’t take to much to read the article and comments in order to contribute with a comment to the conversation. It is better than “please keep it up”, that’s not contributing at all.
Thanks for information i read your blogs all sounds are interesting i have already a dofollow blog so thanks for information.
i think it is good to let your viewer to have another link from your site after they leave a comments. But i agree also with you that you may have a lot of work to filter out the spam comments.
Thanks for joining the dofollow community. When I switched to a dofollow I started recieving a lot more comments. One thing I noticed to get rid of spam comments, is to not let any short pointless comments be posted. I think when people see a one sentence comment that got posted they think that their one sentence comment will get posted too.
Thanks for this information, i really have to know this info about the perfect blogging, many sites don’t except even the sensible comments which relate their aritcle. Now i can make a better post.
I think it is important to have a well laid out list of what you expect from your comments. If you don’t people will try and take advantage of you and claim ignorance when called out.
I’ve found people will try and take advantage of your blog comments unless you have well laid out set of guidelines for them to follow.
Hi Mike,
my hat off to you. I personally have no problem with people leaving posts on my blogs (22 of them at last count, all of which are dofollow). The only thing I ask is that they register, as they will not be able to comment unless they do so, and that they leave a comment thats on topic and not just a thanks, great post etc.
I will immediately reject such comments as spam.
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Thanks for info i looked at your blogs all sounds are interesting i hold presently a dofollow blog so thanks for information.
I am appreciate your knowledge and i am agree with you that to get a back links many spammers use Do Follow Blog….
Thanks for the info…i really liked this article very much.Nowadays many people are using do follow so that they get more comments.
i think that dofollow is win-win situation, of course is necessary use some anti spam plugin like asimet, to me has been working fine too.
Some blogs is not using do-follow is because many spammers is on the net right now,…thanks for accepting my comments.
I agree, it is very difficult to keep dofollow blogs as spammers always leave their spammy comments there. I tried to delete these comments automaticaly using some plugins but this was worthless. that is why I always delete spammy comments manually.
It is true that blogs that are dofollow are the ones targeted for spammers, but the reputation of being one of them is hard to remove.
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great article thanks…
i mostly don’t consider about do follow and no follow. if i saw a nice and interesting article, i just comment on…….
It would be a good idea to penalize those I.Ps were the spam comes from so they really stop sending that crap.
it doesn’t matter to me whether it is do follow or not. If I am interested, I will post.
Do follow links is nice to promote website
I think dofollow links is like a reward for webmasters who give post related and valuable comments. This is a 2 way profit: the blog owner get more traffic and interested readers, and the visitor get useful posts and 1 way backlinks.
as long as your blog is interesting, i believe that people will comment accordingly whether or not it is dofollow or notfollow.
Seriously it does not matter if the site i comment on follows me back to my page.
Well, but no harm giving rewards for a good comment right?
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Thank you very much! Mike!
nice article. i mostly don’t care about commenting with or without keyword, because i always do the good comments related to articles so my 90% of comments will get approved.
Hey good post. I’m about to use a dofollow trackbacks plugin and will later try KeywordLuv. I’ve added your site to a list of links on my post. Cheers.
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I think that search engines should revise the way in which they look at links to websites. Nothing should be taken away from the linking site in my view. Nice article by the way
This is a very good tip. This is also one way to know who are the spammers and who are not by the way they respond to the topic and the comment.
All rules you’ve mentioned for commenting in a blog are reasonable. I just hope that all who had the chance to comment in your blog should be at least reasonable enough to provide clean and related comment to the topic. More power to you and to your blogs.
Hi,
Very nice post.
It is necessary to gives some respect to the blog owner at least read the full blog and comment on relative matter.
Thanks for the sharing.
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it is interesting! thanks!
Just kidding
My blog is fairly new and I’m yet to receive a decent genuine comment. I’ve also gone dofollow, and though the spam hasn’t grown, it’s still all I’m getting. Very frustrating but still agree with your post. I think we all quickly become experts at spotting comments that obviously never read the initial post.
I agree that their should be rules on placing comments on do follow blogs. It’s just fair enough. Besides, if we follow these guidelines on other blogs, then we’ll receive the same treatment as well.