Just my opinion here, but the problem with dofollow blogs is that your page may be flagged as selling links and get googlesmacked. Often, dofollow blogs attract a lot of valid comments but **off-topic** links... these links hurt you. I think this is the reason why daveN no longer makes his blog dofollow. Ok, now flame away.
i had people denying perfectly LEGITIMATE comments because i had "Make Money" as anchor...retards. They prefer google ranking over real humans and good comments....he was scared that his "great" site with his "great" pagerank gets "defaced" by such an obscene work like "make money". I assume such people also think their farts smell like flowers
I would delete such comments... the blog owner is potentially losing traffic by approving that kind of comment.
I am running two dofollow blogs and my comment guidelines are clear that one can't use 'keywords' as name. I like to reward my readers and put efforts in removing spam comments.
Yes some blogs which were do-follow earlier are now no-follow. The main reason behind is the fakes commenting which is a kind of spamming act. Commenting should always be something appropriate to the content of the blog.
What Georg says is that the comment is appropriate to the content of the blog. It is just that because he used the phrase make money in his sig or link his comment was removed. Some bloggers feel that "make money quick" is like a scam
we even allow keywords as long as the comment is genuine and theyre not taking the pi$$ with the anchors. they need to be decent comments though, irrelevant one liners in barely legible english dont pass. i dont believe that allowing keyword links off your blog will hurt you as long as you moderate the sites they're going to etc. it doesnt hurt our rankings.
I don't think this reasoning checks out...how do you determine what's a relevant link from Google's perspective? On the site level, it's almost impossible...take newspapers, for example, they're about everything, so you can never have an irrelevant link. On the page level, it's more clear, but still difficult. Writing tends to be incoherent, even if you can discern the subject, so links can come out of left field.
Mike, I know that you are exactly right. Google want us to think that they can determine what is relevant and what isn't but the truth is that if they really knew what was relevant they would show so damn many irrelevant adsense ads.
Comments in blogs becmes a way to get backlinks, in most cases are something like "Great, your blog is very nice" that the spammer put all over the web.
Yeah, I try to let in any reasonable comment, but if my article is pushing my own (for example) "Best Red Widgits", with a clear link to a quote page..... I am not going to let in a comment like "Did you know you can quote red widgets at http://redWidget.com?" I mean ... c'mon....
Google can determine if something seams to be relevant or not. Just look at Google news and you will find that they CAN parse and define related stuf in such a complex way. Ofcoruse if a site has some small percent of some apparently-non-relevant-links, Google will ignore that. But if that sites goes beyond that, it is flagged fast. Inh fact, for Google is not the same some backlink to your site from a non-related site, that a backlink that comes from some autoritive site that is related to yours.
I don't care what the name is as long as teh comment is relative to what I typed. I don't think that really matters. What matters is if you are getting hundreds of commentsl ike "yo dawg, I laughed so hard! It was hilarious!". Only the post was about my grandmother dying or something. Those are the ones I do not approve.
Part of making a dofollow blog is to moderate it. There are tons of spammers out there that leave irrelevant comments to a blog to just get backlinks. But you can always delete them.
Yes, some people need more and more links so they build their site at do follow blogs,and you can see lots links are rubbish,so they use no follow to reject it.