Change Of Rules, Links “Do-Follow” After You Make 5 Comments

By Stephen Dean | Published February 18, 2009

A few days back I told you how to increase traffic to your website using my blog.

The 4 point plan was to exchange links with me, comment on my posts, link from a post of yours to mine and to follow me on Twitter.

Many of you did these things and I greatly appreciate it. I’m also glad to see you’re being proactive.

But I am disappointed with 2 things.

One, no one has exchanged links with me. I know, cry me a river. But I’m really trying to make this Wordpress Link Directory work. My next post will be on how to set it up on your blog just in case you’re unsure how to do it. And then hopefully you’ll exchange links.

Two, some of the comments that have appeared since I invited you to comment for SEO reasons have been, I guess predictably, skeptical. There were a couple that forced me to make a decision on whether or not they were spam or legitimate comments by a reader.

I want people to get some link love back to their sites, but I also want comments that constructively add to the conversation.

So here’s what we’re going to do.

I’ve changed the “DoFollow” plugin I’m using. It’s now Lucia’s Linky Love and it only changes your links from “nofollow” to “dofollow” after you’ve made 5 comments. This will protect the blog from drive by commenters.

At some point, I may raise the barrier to 10 comments before you receive link love from me. But for now it’s 5.

Now I don’t want you to leave a bunch of “junk” comments in order to hit the 5 comment barrier. So if you don’t have 5 comments yet, don’t worry! You can still get some link love from me by exchanging links in the link directory :) It’s here: http://www.stephensblog.com/dir

And if you want to start boosting your comment count now, why not let me know what you think about this policy? Leave a comment :)

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  • http://lockwoodletter.com Chris Lockwood

    I think this is a good idea. I didn’t know there was a way to turn on dofollow after a certain number of posts- I need to study the plugins site more.

    Chris Lockwood’s last blog post..Odinn’s Huge Giveaway Is Now Live

  • http://www.lighthousebc.co.uk Ian Brodie

    Lucia’s Linky Love is a great plugin Stephen - I’ve been using it for a while and it’s keot spammy link-juice-seeking comments at bay while still rewarding regular commenters on my blog.

    Ian

    Ian Brodie’s last blog post..Business Development North West 2009 Survey Launched

  • http://www.copyproductions.com/ Stephen Dean

    Thanks Chris. And I’m really liking your new blog design.

    @Ian. Cool Ian, any other plugins you recommend?

  • http://dofollow001.com/ Andy @ DoFollow 001

    I think using “lucy links love” plugin is good idea for a “dofollow” blog as they give some discouragment to drive by spam merchants.

    If you want to exchange links with me Chris then feel free to submit your site do DoFollow 001: http://www.dofollow001.com/

    You have to register before you submit but it literally takes about 20 seconds

    :)
    Andy @ DoFollow 001’s last blog post..Review of Find Do-Follow Blogs (beta)

  • http://www.detroitccw.com Rick Ector

    I guess you have to do what you have to do to get the results you want. In an ideal world, people would link to you - or anyone else - because of great content that the site owner wanted to share with his readership. These days, everything seems to be about gaming the system. Good luck.

  • http://www.copyproductions.com/ Stephen Dean

    @Rick My goal is to rank higher in Google. And my strategy isn’t to say, “If it happens it happens.” Instead my strategy is to trade links with others, both by allowing them to get links from comments/trackbacks and letting them exchange a link in the directory.

    Google sets the rules, I play the game. And so do many others with top ten rankings. I plan to compete.

  • http://www.misscopy.com Rebecca Dean

    Great idea for sharing the love without getting burned :o) I do love the new look of your blog, by the way. I love how that pic looks like your controlling the clouds with your mind, ha ha ha.

    <3
    Sis

  • http://www.lovecalculator.tk mcook

    To start earning money with your blog, initially use Google Adsense but gradually as your traffic increases, keep adding more and more money making programs to your site.

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