Are you a dofollow blogger? Are you tired of human comment spammers leaving insipid, irrelevant comments just to get link-juice? L’s Linky Love is the dofollow plugin for you!
What does the plugin actually do?
This is a variety of “dofollow” plugin. It’s main function is to strip “nofollow” tags from links in comments. The purpose is to encourage comments by rewarding commenters with “dofollow” links which boosts their rank in search engine. However, this particular plugin also has features that thwart human’s who are paid to visit blogs and leave insipid comments simply to boost their companies back links.
Here are the features:
- Encourages good comments: Dofollows are added to the author “name” and links in comment text after a commenter leaves some minimum number of comments. The blogger can set this minimum number to anything between 3 and 10. This encourages regular visitors to comment, but discourages spammers by forcing them to visit your blog many times before they get “dofollows”.
- Encourages links. Dofollows are added to trackbacks and pingbacks only after the blog author has left some minimum number of comments, trackbacks or pingbacks. This discourages scrapper sites from sending you spammy trackbacks but rewards real bloggers for linking you.
- Gives peace of mind. Dofollows will not be added to comments left more than 14 days after you published your most recent post. This is a safety feature that prevents your blog from becoming a link farm should you ever be unexpectedly absent from your blog due to illness or any other major life event.
- Thwarts overly aggressive SEO types. The blogger may refuse “dofollows” to “names” that contain too many characters. This can be used to avoid giving “dofollows” to commenters who claim their name is “cashmere dog sweater”.
- Gives you more control over dofollow / nofollow options. As is always the case, the blogger can also delete the comment, report the comment to Akismet or delete the name or url. That’s good for truly spammy comments. But with Lucia’s Linky Love, you get another, less drastic, option. You manually prevent “dofollow” but still show the comment url and name by deleting the user email address when editing the comment. This lets you permit borderline visitors continue to comment, but deprive them of “dofollows” until they behave the way you like visitors to behave.
Get Lucia’s Linky Love Plugin.
- Install the plugin: Download Lucia’s Linky Love. Unzip, upload into your plugin folder; activate.
- Find the Admin Panel: Visit your Wordpress Admin panel find “Options” click. Click “Lucia_LinkyLove” in the menu sub-bar. The admin panel will open.
- Customize: In the top box, enter the number of comments you want visitors to leave before the “author name” associated with their comment becomes “dofollow” in the top box. In the second box, ener the number of comments you want visitors to leave before the comments they drop in the content become “dofollow”. In the third box, enter the maxmum number of characters in a “name” you are willing to dofollow. Finally, decide if you want me to drop links in your blog.
- Click Submit. Lucia’s Linky Love is now working!
Now for the big question:
Should you drop me links?
I bet you are trying to decide if you should give me links? Well, the links have several purposes. One is to get me zillions of links and propel me into the top ranks of money making bloggers. The more important reason is to inform valued commenters and spammers you are participating in Dofollow using my plugin rather than other plugins. My plugin makes it more difficult for human comment spammers to spam and it may discourage them from visiting your blog.
Currently, the plugin places a link just after single post; the text says
“Comments protected by Lucia’s Linky Love.” Technically, this text appears outside the area where programs like PPP forbid links. However, to avoid the possibility that PayPerPost will ding you for links, you can limit display these informational links to older posts only be selecting: “Yes, but only on old posts”; older is defined as more than 180 days old. You can also exclude these links entirely.
What do I suggest you do? I think it’s useful to inform visitors about the plugin. So, I would suggest you select “yes” and display my links for a little while. Later, when you have time, create a “comment policy” page where you describe your comment policy; instead of showing my links, link to that. On that page, describe your policy and mention “Lucia’s Linky Love”, posting the url of my plugin page. That will give me one link instead of zillions and also inform spammers and valued visitors of your comment policy.
Summary
Download Lucia’s Linky Love. Use it. Tell people about it.
Finally, leave me comments and trackbacks and let me know how Lucia’s LinkyLove works for you. And remember: I use this plugin. So, if you leave several comments, you’ll be dofollowed too!
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Just added this plugin to our blog, nice one!
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Will Linky Love work on WP MU sites? Would be ideal to be able to aggregate posts across blogs but I am guessing that would depend on how the database is set up.
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Thanks for the great little tool! I’ve heard a lot about it. Now I just need to figure out how to upload the plugin – I’m new at this and have no clue what I’m doing!
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Nice Post
I am new to the blogging venue and it seems like you have a lot to share ~ I am not sure if my new blogs are even WordPress, but I will certainly use this if they are.
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Great plugin, thanks, I am using that.
Removing nofollow may be one of the best thing one can do in terms of comments and it really gets to the bottom of the internet idea. Nofollow is artificial.
thanks..great plugin..
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i need more traffick how i can get with dofollow
Great plugin. But the above link is not working today.
http://www.shonnielavender.com/blogcoach/2007/07/23/thank-you-blogosphere-style/
This show the below error
Fatal error: Call to undefined function php_e() in /home/slavender/shonnielavender.com/wp-content/themes/azul/index.php on line 73
Hi
Thanks for dofollow plugin
thanks for the plugin
good info thanks
hi i have a site im looking for some feedback on do u like it if not can u tell me what i can do to make it better.
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The potential is great. Nice work!
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thanks for sharing, great article
Hmmmm, I uploaded the plugin and it does not appear to be working properly. Can someone go to my site and on the 1st article just put in a comment so I can see if it works. Let me know you are my test poster so I look out for it.
Thanks for anyone’s help in this matter.
Tam
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Посмотрите на мой сайт о Любви http://sites.google.com/site/tvoalubov/
I think it’s good to employ plugins such as the one you suggest – that way spammers don’t get rewarded but those who actively participate and add to discussions do get rewarded.
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