After spending much time researching other blogs, I have decided to open DragonBlogger.com up as a dofollow blog, but I decided to do it in style in much the same way TycoonBlogger has done.
This means I installed the following plug-ins and methods to reward readers who comment on this site:
Dofollow - This is a plug-in which overrides the wordpress default nofollow for comments, so that everyone who comments gets a legitimate link back to their site.
CommentLuv - this plug-in will show the commentors latest post on their blog when they leave a comment and enter their URL
KeywordLuv - This plug-in will allow the user to enter <user @ keywords> and it will show the keywords and link back to their site.
Top Commentator Widget – This plug-in will now show the top 5 commentors on my site with dofollow links back to them from my blog.
The combined above may cause some PR juice to leak out of my blog articles, but should encourage people to leave more comments since they get the linkback as a reward. I will check to see if this increases my spam comments or not. Since comments on blog posts help increase the SERP listing of an article or page you want to encourage comments but somehow have effective policies and measures to block spammers from abusing the comment and backlinks.
As a result I have created and listed a set Commenting Policy which you can see below. All blogs should have a commenting policy that can be referenced somewhere.
Commenting Policy
- You MUST use your name or online name. Keywords only will get your comment delinked or marked as spam. Be warned.
- Both Author URL and Commentluv URL will be dofollow only after 5 “solid” comments.
- Restrict yourself to 3 Keywords or less only. Anything more than 3 keywords and your comment risks getting deleted!
- Links to incomplete sites, suspicious sites, blatant affiliate sales sites or Google unfriendly sites will be removed.
- STUPID SPAMMY COMMENTS such “Bookmarked for future reading”, “Great site. Good article” and the rest of them are not allowed. Don’t waste your precious time and mine. Also comment regurgitation is not allowed on my blog.
- Comments not written in proper form/grammer or with mispelling may be deleted or edited for readability sake.
- Finally for me to believe that your comment ain’t spam, you MUST make reference to something written within the post.
-Dragon Blogger
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September 13th, 2009 at 6:25 pm
Yes some good news
I have been do follow for along time and it has helped my blog alot.I know that if it wasn’t do follow I would have TONS LESS comments so it’s a win win 
I hate when anyone tells me my fonts are this or to change that but I do it 
PS Your site looks awesome and thanks for stopping by I would take that BLUE rt button off and just leave the one THE GREEN ONE it works LOL cause I just used it
Thanks
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September 13th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
I leave both because I do get more traffic from Twittley than Tweetmeme, but the Twittley does seem to be a bit unstable. I can rank on the homepage of twittley when people retweet me via twittley though.
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September 13th, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Great to see that! My blog is a 80% dofollow blog too just I didn’t follow comment but I’ll be doing this roughly by this week. But for sure we will get more spammy comment, so you’ll more work on reading comment and approve them manually.
Anyway, that’s a great step!
Regards,
Lee
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September 13th, 2009 at 6:52 pm
I heard from Tycoon Blogger that he doesn’t get more spam comments, Akismet should still block most of them.
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September 14th, 2009 at 1:13 am
It does seem a lot of sites are going down the dofollow route these days, it’s also nice to see a top commentators widget on the blog.
As you say you may lose some PR juice, but at the end of the day, you usually find you get more comments on your blog, I found this with mine
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September 14th, 2009 at 3:22 am
Welcome in the do follow club
I’m a do follow blog too and have been for most of the time, I think I see a fair amount of comments compared to the amount of visits I get. Spam, I don’t recall seeing any spam making it through akismet yet.
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September 14th, 2009 at 4:53 am
Wow, this is great. I had known about dofollow, but not the others. I’ll add those to my sites as well. Feel free to my site as well, for it does have the dofollow at this time. We’ve also set up http://www.dofollowing.com for companies to post their sites as dofollow blogs, etc
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September 14th, 2009 at 6:40 am
Thanks, I will definitely check out your site and dofollowing.com
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September 14th, 2009 at 6:30 am
thanks for your information friends,,, i like do follow blog,,,
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September 14th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
awesome site, especially social bookmark widget,,
can you tell me to get that into my blog,,
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September 14th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Though I use a wordpress blog and it uses PHP code to display the buttons which blogger does not support.
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September 15th, 2009 at 7:32 am
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September 17th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Justin,
I am glad to hear that you joined the movement. I am sure you will see a spike in comments as well as traffic. I left comments when you were not do follow and certainly will be leaving them now that you are. I just RT this to help spread the word.
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September 18th, 2009 at 8:20 am
Thanks, I have seen a huge influx of comments, but some from websites I wouldn’t want to link back to, so its a dilemna, they leave a good comment, I just don’t like the site they are linking back to? Is it censorship to deny?
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September 23rd, 2009 at 11:17 pm
Pretty cool, I’m here from your twitter.
Best of luck !
~fiazio
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September 23rd, 2009 at 11:18 pm
Thanks for visiting, let me know your twitter URL and I will follow.
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September 26th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
I’m interested in using these dofollow plugins but the thing is… will it hurt my website’s SEO? Maybe we will be linking out too much when we use them. What do you think?
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September 27th, 2009 at 7:49 am
Dofollow does pose the risk of reducing your PageRank as you will be linking out of your articles, but you receive the benefit of increased traffic and comments which help SEO. From the blogs that I have seen, many that are dofollow are still able to maintain a pagerank, but since my blog was making virtually the same money with PageRank 2 as PageRank 0 I would rather get the comments and forsake the PageRank.
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September 29th, 2009 at 2:32 pm
I respect blog owner who “dofollow”
You just need a bit more moderation on your comments and make sure all your plugins are up to date…
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September 29th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Right, I moderate every comment, I only allow comments automatically if person previously commented, or else I must review and approve all 1st time commenters.
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September 30th, 2009 at 5:55 am
Hello,
I was in search of do-follow blogs drastically.
Finally I land up to your page .
thanks a lot .
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October 3rd, 2009 at 1:30 am
I’ve been seeing some many install all three of the dofollow plugins and I can tell you that haven’t installed it on one of my own blogs, it really gets you a lot of visitors. BUT… you do get a lot of spammers too.. as long as you do some moderation it should be fine.
Its a trade-off to get some activity and participation on your site!
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October 3rd, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Yep, and there is always the low quality sales sites desperate to get a link back to their site. People feed on DoFollow blogs and search for them.
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October 6th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
I love these plugins and I installed them on all my sites. It’s a way to appreciate your readers and at the same time, increase your website traffic and improve your search engine ranking. But, of course, there’s always the tendency of attracting spammers, but hey, that’s why we Akismet, right?
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October 7th, 2009 at 3:24 am
That’s a good thing to do as it get’s you incoming links from a lot of dofollow search engines and blogs that point to dofollow blogs.
It should help your website rank better in search engines.
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October 9th, 2009 at 10:15 pm
Dragonblogger is there such plug-in for google’s blogger platform? Really interested in the idea. Thanks
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October 10th, 2009 at 1:26 pm
I don’t know, I will research it.
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October 10th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Its a welcome sign that many webmasters are implementing the do follow along with keywordluv and commentluv plugins. Together we will make this do follow movement a great hit and make sure spammers are kept at bay forever. My wordpress blog uses akismet and it takes care of most of illicit comments.
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October 10th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
Yep, I do get a lot more comments, but there are commentors leaving junk websites to follow back which takes some pruning.
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October 12th, 2009 at 3:52 am
These plugins do attract spammers but you just have to moderate them. In the end, dealing with spam is still worth the effort when you have quality comments coming in.
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October 12th, 2009 at 5:37 am
Hey buddy, I am interested in enabling these plugins for a real estate blog. Can you please throw some light on the moderation time one requires on an average to keep spammers away. I already have a dofollow blog but don’t have keywordluv or commentluv enabled. Reading the comments gives some optimistic views but still wanted to know from the blog owner.
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October 12th, 2009 at 8:56 am
KeywordLuv and CommentLuv don’t add any additional spam time, in fact because they show a bloggers latest post they benefit and encourage bloggers to post more than regular web site owners.
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October 24th, 2009 at 4:57 am
Awesome, do follow blogs are the best!
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November 3rd, 2009 at 12:19 pm
hi, just read your blog and I find it very awesome!
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November 3rd, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Thank you
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November 6th, 2009 at 9:17 am
Kudos dragon blogger. Very recently only I came to know the existence of such amazing plugins and the benefits one get from using wordpress. My site is an ordinary html built and its more than 5 yrs old. I am planning to revamp it and this time I will definitely pick wordpress so that I can use these plugins in mine too. Thanks for sharing your experiences.
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November 6th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
In response to number 8 there, my understanding is that you can not loose page rank and authority by having links, you just pass the rank on?
Thoughts?
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November 6th, 2009 at 12:39 pm
The more links out of your site the lower your pagerank, so if you have more links going out than in then your pagerank is lower. So in essence you are draining your PR juice and sending it to other sites.
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November 7th, 2009 at 3:30 pm
I’m actually doing some personal testing with many of my blogs right now; dofollow, follow, link out to authority sites, ect ect ect…
The one test I have seen that is really surprising to me was that a blog of mine was on the SERPS on page 2 of Google at position 11.
I noticed that the links where all “follow.” Thinking that it would help me I turn nearly 30 of my out going link all to “nofollow”
That was the only thing I did this week to the blog.
A couple days later, my blog is now sitting in position 151. It might have been some other factors, but I find it very interesting.
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December 4th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
I could be wrong, but I don’t think you lose page rank when you give other sites a link. I have been doing some experimenting, and have been using this keyword luv tool to get about five links to each of my sites everyday. I also put about two or three links back out to similar random sites.
I just don’t link to the same site I got a link from, because I think google considers that reciprocal links, and devalues them.
Four of the five sites I have been doing this with are on page one, or the top of page two in google. The fifth one isn’t there because I made a poor choice on the domain name.
They are all for low volume, and low competition keywords, (3,000 searches mo, 25k exact match sites) but I was never able to get there before with my old tactics.
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December 11th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
I have been thinking of doing the same thing, it seems to be working out for yourself.
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December 28th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
Hi,
I have all of the same plugins in my two blogs. I like the fact that I can be helping visitors to my blogs when they comment and they help me out at the same time.
I just wish people would leave more substantial comments. When I was in the online university they had online discussions and we were required to post substantial content or risk loosing points.
Don’t get me wrong, some do leave nice ones…others not so good. But, we take the good with the bad right?
Great site, I am learning much from it, thank you.
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January 23rd, 2010 at 9:53 am
Thanks for the sharing on the tools. Seem will be very useful for me to increase my blog exposeure. Thanx
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January 29th, 2010 at 10:09 am
Great way to give back to your readers. KW Luv is awesome..
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February 2nd, 2010 at 4:44 pm
Hey man! Thanks for explain all this! I knew it abou the commentluv and the keywordluv but not about the others! Really helped! Thanks
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February 14th, 2010 at 7:30 pm
I have added keywordluv to one of my blogs, and have found my comments have gone up 300%. Fantastic. Although you really do need to check on the links that people leave, to make sure your not linking to bad sites. Worth it I think and a great addition to the do-follow blogging movement.
Michael@naruto project´s last blog ..Naruto Project
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February 21st, 2010 at 11:29 am
Glenn, are you saying that you think your PR increased because of outgoing links from your site? I haven’t heard that outgoing links hurt your rank but I didn’t think they helped it, either. Did you really notice a bump when you added them?
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March 12th, 2010 at 2:52 pm
Congratulations on joining the dofollow movement. As a previous poster said I don’t think you’ll find an increase in spam as the askimet system really stops it getting through.
I look forward to reading your future posts and visiting your blog regularly.
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April 4th, 2010 at 8:41 pm
Even though I barely get any comments, the spam ratio doesn’t seem to be too bad with Akismet installed and dofollow activated. It’s great to see bloggers at the higher end of the spectrum not worrying about the superfluous PR and more about user-interaction.
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April 14th, 2010 at 7:26 am
Great decision I must say – the whole point of having a blog is to create a community of sorts and telling your readers “I want your comments, but you won’t get anything out of it” is not the best way to go about it.
Thanks,
Ana Hoffman/YourNetBiz Attraction Marketing Cafe blog
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April 14th, 2010 at 10:41 am
Thank you, I certainly am pro DoFollow and get lots of comments out of it.
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May 8th, 2010 at 3:16 am
this is great news for all the reader !! now we people will get backlink from your great blog . thanks for the change
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May 17th, 2010 at 2:58 pm
KeywordLuv and CommentLuv don’t add any additional spam time, in fact because they show a bloggers latest post they benefit and encourage bloggers to post more than regular web site owners.
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May 17th, 2010 at 7:36 pm
Those plug-ins don’t add more spam, but being a dofollow blog definitely does as spammers want the ‘backlink’ and PR juice.
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August 6th, 2010 at 5:17 am
After reading the comments here by the other people, Ill give my blog a do follow , and add the keyword plugin, i use comment luv and it rocks!
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