Hey everyone, I've been hearing about a lot of people making the switch over to dofollow for their blog. On the other hand, I see a lot of people who do not make their blogs dofollow. I can see some obvious advantages and disadvantages, but would like to know some more. Advantages - You will likely receive a lot more comments Disadvantages - More likely to be spammed (but a good filter should stop spam) Any others?
it helps if your blog is new to get the traffic. If you already the have some good traffic then it will affect your performance.
As you will have lots of links pointing to different websites this might effect your PR. However, if you don't care about PR that much, then all you need to do is seperate spam comments from non spam ones.
It is up to you whether you choose to get traffic by sharing your pagerank juice with them or you want them to post comments because of some other reason. For example, you can mention your commentators view in any of your post and explain or provide answers for his question. This way you can get more n more commentators as well.
I want to add a adventage You will get a hell lot of traffic. But Behnam1123 you are right spamming is the biggest problem. But I think we all should make our blogs dofollow for our mutual benefit.
Definate advantages of having more comments and traffic, but again spam will probably take over unless you have a good spam filter. You may even think about allowing dofollow comments for a while so people who are not there to spam may think your blog is fairly popular.
All valid points. Reason I ask is that I am considering making my blog dofollow. Not 100% sure yet though.
My Blog is Do Follow. I dont get that much spam. Everything I have got so far has been filtered by Akismet. So far so good
Nice! Yeah, Akismet is great. I don't see why people are scared of making their blog dofollow. Akismet stops everything.
My dofollow blog http://www.bestnewautomobile.com ranks incredibly well in the SE's after one year. I get a fair amount of traffic, and not too much spam at all. This blog has the "u comment, i follow" image on it and ranks way better than my other blogs that are nofollow, and gets more traffic to boot!
Once your blog becomes popular - no matter if you have DoFollow or not - you will see increased comment spam. I use LuciaLinkyLove to enable DoFollow on links after 3 approved comments. Interesting thing is that with May Google changes - DoFollow or not doesn't matter that much anymore as Matt Cuts has confirmed that even rel=nofollow links still leak the PR juice just in lesser amount. So commenting on blogs that have higher rank wil get you PR juice even if nofollow added to your link. I recommend you look into combining commenting on blogs with CommentLuv enabled and high PR for even more benefits.