Do Follow and Spam?
When I changed my template on Sunday, I forgot all about changing it so that comments are do follow. When I went looking for the directions I originally followed, I couldn't find them - the page was missing! So, I went searching for instructions and found these:
I did a search (CTRL+F) for comment.authorUrl, deleted the nofollow attribute, and saved my template.
While looking for the directions, I noticed that some people have stopped making their blogs Do Follow because it encouraged spam. I'm probably asking for it here, but I haven't had a huge problem with spam. Sure, it happens every once in a while, and I did have one commenter who repeatedly left spammy comments on one post. I had never used comment moderation until then, but now I have it set so that comments on any posts older than 30 days have to be moderated. So far that seems to be a decent compromise.
Any comments? Have you made your blogs Do Follow? Does it seem to encourage spam, and if so, how do you handle it?
Edit your template HTML with widgets expanded and replace:Basically, just remove the part that says rel='nofollow'.
<a expr:href='data:comment.authorUrl' rel='nofollow'>
with
<a expr:href='data:comment.authorUrl'>
I did a search (CTRL+F) for comment.authorUrl, deleted the nofollow attribute, and saved my template.
While looking for the directions, I noticed that some people have stopped making their blogs Do Follow because it encouraged spam. I'm probably asking for it here, but I haven't had a huge problem with spam. Sure, it happens every once in a while, and I did have one commenter who repeatedly left spammy comments on one post. I had never used comment moderation until then, but now I have it set so that comments on any posts older than 30 days have to be moderated. So far that seems to be a decent compromise.
Any comments? Have you made your blogs Do Follow? Does it seem to encourage spam, and if so, how do you handle it?
Once again - I have to thank you! I forgot all about this when I changed my template!
I love the new template. I am do follow. I used to NEVER get spam...well, the occasional here and there. But, within the last two months I had to turn on comment moderation. They were hitting me up to 20 times a day. Mostly it's not even written in English and it's for cialis, penis enlargements, etc. It's horrible! They would put it on older posts and I guess they thought I wouldn't catch it. Mostly they were hitting the same two or three posts. Since I turned on comment moderation it hasn't slowed them down any. I doubt this has anything to do with being do follow, though. I honestly don't think the idiots even know what that means. It never even makes it to the blog and they still keep commenting. It's a hassle, but what else can ya do?