After having a brainstorming session with the editor-in-chief, Gail from Growmap, we decided that dofollow should be implimented here, with a twist….
Bots don’t get it
My biggest concern with dofollow are the bots that trawl the internet looking for links within comments that have no rel=”nofollow” attributes in them.
This is why I have modified the CommentLuv plugin to only allow dofollow on last blog posts links and then, only if the person making the comment is using a URL that has been registered with ComLuv!
Do you follow?
You will be able to tell if your link is going to be dofollow or not when you start to type your comment..
If you’re commenting with a registered URL, you will see a ‘DoFollow Enabled’ message next to the drop down list of posts.
From now until you get banned!
Only comments qualifying for a DoFollow link made AFTER today will have the attribute removed and the best thing is, if someone abuses the system, I can ban them at source and from thenst onwards, thou mayest not post thine links!!
I think this is a great compromise, dofollow can be useful to attract comments but it’s only useful if it can weed out the spammers. This way, a blog owner wont have to worry about dofollow bots any more because if they spot someone taking the piss then they can report them via the ‘report this comment’ link and I can rip out their heart remove their status from the db and they wont feel the luv on any CommentLuv enabled blog.
All you need is (com)Luv
The new feature is only available to commenters on this blog and on sub-blogs that activate it. The rest of the world will have to wait until it’s finished it’s trial here. What a great excuse to pay a fiver for your own CommentLuv / DoFollow enabled wordpress blog!
You can enable the feature by visiting the CommentLuv settings page and putting a tick in the checkbox..
Give it a try!
Why not visit Gails’ posts and leave a decent comment, if you’re a registered member then your last blog post like will be dofollow. Awesome.
Twitter: lostaddress
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I’m always impressed by how many new ideas you come up with for Comluv. One question, for those of us who use IntenseDebate, will this be enabled for the ID plugin?
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Twitter: commentluv
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intense debate uses a simplified version of the plugin because it has to be done with pure javascript, all this fancyness needs php and maintaing two different version for two different platforms takes too much time for support. Hope you understand..
Twitter: lostaddress
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Ah, that makes sense. Shame I have to choose between ID and full CL. Maybe when WP3.0 comes out the commenting will do what I want and I can switch back.
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Twitter: lostaddress
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I am confused – I did a post here and it disappeared. Most odd.
Anyway, still continuing to be impressed by the ideas you come up with for Comluv. Will this be enabled on the IntenseDebate plugin as well?
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Twitter: commentluv
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your comment got moderated, I have approved it now and it should be dofollow.
thanks for your kind words, it’s people like you that keep me at the keyboard thinking of things to make better!
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Always happy to show my appreciation – as a non-coder I stand in quiet awe of people who code quality apps as a hobby!
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Twitter: zikrihusaini
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already can use??
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Twitter: commentluv
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only on this blog and sub blogs for now. When it’s been fully tested, I might put it in an update to the official wordpress directory
Twitter: kujie
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Can’t wait the latest upgrade!
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Twitter: brandon_schmid
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Hey,
This is awesome news. I’ve been trying to spread the word to other personal finance bloggers that ComLuv and DoFollow enabled sites are much better for attracting more comments and loyal readers.
This new attribute will help recruit their support.
Cheers,
Guy
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Twitter: commentluv
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there’s a new feature I only just added, see if you can spot it..
Ok, I’m not sure what is dofollow and what is not, as I’m not quite understanding what the article is about. So, I thought I would comment and see if it’s dofollow. I can see other’s comluv blog link as dofollow.
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Twitter: commentluv
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dofollow basically means that the plugin will remove the rel=”nofollow” from the last blog post links so google will follow it to your blog. It is supposed to help with seo and search enging rankings.
Thanks Andy. Actually, I know what ‘dofollow’ means, I just wasn’t exactly sure what part of comluv.com you were referencing would become dofollow! I can see now.
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Twitter: commentluv
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Glad to help..
btw..you can see that I now automatically keywordluv your name from the site name you entered when you registered your site.
Be sure to visit http://comluv.com/member/ and give your site a name that you want to be displayed next to your real name for future comments.
I just tried, but when I submit a name for my site I get an error that states my feed url is not a valid url! I think it’s a bug!
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This is my feed url, btw: http://www.joelane.com/real-estate-blog/feed/
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Twitter: commentluv
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Colleen Lan: when you register your feed url , you are putting http:// before it aren’t you?
please use the support tickets if you need help, thanks!
It’s working now! I guess is was a temporary glitch (or a user temporary brain fart).
Thanks Andy. You should consider a Paypal “Donate” link on your home page. I promise to donate something as soon as you have one up! I’m sure others would donate as well. You provide a good service to the blogging community.
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Twitter: commentluv
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oh brain farts are fun. they always happen to me when I’m in a hurry.
I do have a donate link in the about section but mainly it is very underused! I don’t mind answering support tickets and if someone needs extra help I can point them to it.
Nearly all cases will be a simple user settings problem and I’ve seen them all so it doesn’t take long to answer most of them (if people just follow the instructions).
glad it’s all sorted for you now
Donated! You should put that Donate link on the home page. Very few people would find it on your About page. Just a thought!
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Twitter: commentluv
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wow, thanks Colleen! and I see you figured out how to add you keywords to your account so it shows up ‘Kennewick Real Estate’ nice!
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You are welcome and worth it. Consider putting that ‘Donate’ link on your home page, eh!
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I’m not sure how I feel about this. Do I really want to give my link juice to each person? That’s not exactly what I want my commenters to be thinking about each time they post.
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Twitter: commentluv
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see this post http://www.growmap.com/keywordluv/ , it has tons of comments all with dofollow links and the page is remaining at PR4
but, I understand how you feel. That’s why I set it as an option to be switched on or off.
Hip.. Hip.. Hore! “I might put it in an update to the official wordpress directory” Yes! I’ll be waiting
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Twitter: commentluv
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more testing is required to make sure it doesn’t break anything so be patient!
thanks for coming by.
Twitter: commentluv
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Just making a little tiny teeny Comluv nameluv test…
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Twitter: lostaddress
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Comluv testing as per Twitter
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Twitter: lvano
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Oh. Never mind my recent tweet! I just read through the comments above and realise it’ll only work on this blog for now.
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Twitter: bivori
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I love commentLuv ever since I saw it for the first time in other people’s blog. This is the driving force to dragg me from blogger platform into wordpress. I quit Blogger because I could not implement commentLuv in my blog. Though provided through IntenseDebate comment system, it is Java based and my friends did not like it.
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Twitter: cmygoodies
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I haven’t stopped by in a while but it looks like you are making many fun and exciting improvements! An odd thing tho when I was logged into my account it said the “if you are a member of comluv…” text and only showed my last post. But when I logged out to make this comment it showed my last ten posts (with the new dofollow option enabled)
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Twitter: commentluv
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You should check your logged in dashboard profile to make sure the website field is filled the same way as you registered url (that means no www if you didn’t use it for the registration).
I will see about modifying the dashboard profile so it updates the registered url. (they are 2 different db’s)
Twitter: cmygoodies
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Yes you are right it looks like the url in my dashboard still has the /eco-blog after the domain name which should be removed since I moved the blog to the main directory of the site. But when I change it in the dashboard it won’t save… so when you get some time (what’s that I know) perhaps you could remove it?
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Twitter: carolnewbie
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Thank you i am not really no follow or do follow means??? so i am giving it a go to find out hope you dont mind.
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Twitter: commentluv
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dofollow is really no-nofollow.
does that help?
seriously, it means links you have on the end of your comment will not have the rel=”nofollow” on them which makes them get followed by the search engines.
Twitter: CoachNotesBlog
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Hi Andy – I appreciate how you’re always thinking about not only how to make the plugin better, but how to make users’ experiences better, too.
I might be missing the point here so correct me if I’m wrong. This new feature only applies to comments on ComLuv.com and those made on blogs hosted at ComLuv? I’m asking because I thought the plugin already fixed the nofollow problem with comments on self-hosted blogs. Is that right? Thanks for bearing with me here.
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Twitter: commentluv
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you’re right, this blog and sub blogs are the only ones with dofollow and nameluv built in . I am trialling out the features here first and will release a basic version and premium version soon.
thanks for your comment!
太棒了。
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Twitter: commentluv
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谢谢！它的作品中文字为你
I love the Comluv setup I only wish I could get it for my blogger blog. Is there any hope that in the future it will be available for blogger?
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a very nice step…
i love the quote “hate spam not blogs”
very nice keep it up
cheers:)
Twitter: mmangen
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Andy – I just installed the new beta version (was using the previous version). I do see below that it says “DoFollow Enabled” but when I go to my settings page I do not have the option to “Enable DoFollow Links….” that your screen shot shows above.
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Twitter: commentluv
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as it says in the post content, the dofollow is only on this blog and comluv sub blogs for now while I test it.
Twitter: mmangen
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Andy – sorry about that, I must have breezed through too quickly and missed that part.
Twitter: johnhallassoc
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Word up! I registered this morning after seeing the commentluv plugin used on a blog – great concept/idea. I think the plugin with or without nofollow will spark more comments, hopefully they are constructive and not a whole bunch of “great”, “nice post”, “amen” type of comments.
Thanks again,
Phil
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Twitter: TechChunks
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Hi Andy,
While I appreciate your decision to let your registered members gain a dofollow backlink via CommentLuv comments here, I must let you know that I arrived at this post via Google ‘for all wrong reasons’!
Let me elaborate. I have been using CommentLuv plugin on my tech blog (TechChunks.com) since a very long time now and recently I had to upgrade the plugin to let it stay compatible with WordPress 3.0
However, today while checking the nofollow status of the comment links on my site (TechChunks.com) I came to know that the CommentLuv enabled links that were left AFTER the plugin upgrade have turned DoFollow! As far as I remember, these links were NoFollow in the earlier plugin versions [and even I have verified this by revisiting the old comments and the links there are still NoFollow].
On my site, I prefer letting the CommentLuv links stay NoFollowed and thus it came as a surprise to me. Could you please help me turn these back to NoFollow as they were earlier?
I appreciate your help.
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Twitter: commentluv
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I haven’t changed the way commentluv treats links. the comment should follow the format that you have set on your blog. The comments here at comluv.com are dofollow because I am using a special version of the plugin.
I see you have a ‘sponsored comment’ on the page your last blog post links to , that is dofollow so maybe you have a dofollow plugin or similar?
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Twitter: TechChunks
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Thanks Andy, for the quick reply.
Well, you made an interesting point. But as far as I know I do not use any DoFollow plugins and hence this is a bit strange! As a test I have deactivated the plugin that was generating the ‘sponsored comment’ on the pages. And I left a test comment and CommentLuv still made the commentluv link DoFollow. Interestingly, the Author name link and the link that I had dropped in the comment body still stayed nofollow. Please take a look at this test comment – http://techchunks.com/technology/amazon-app-store-for-android-live-now-challenge-google-android-market/comment-page-1/#comment-162902
I wonder if it was a problem due to some fictitious DoFollow plugin (that somehow got installed without my knowledge), then the author name link and the comment link also would have turned dofollow; not just the CommentLuv link.
Could you please help?
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Twitter: commentluv
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I know for sure that I haven’t changed the code for how commentluv adds the link to the comment and I know from support tickets made by people who wrongly assumed that commentluv would make their link dofollow when they noticed that the links were indeed nofollow so i can only assume that is a code change by WordPress on the latest updates.
The last major update of WordPress actually stripped out ALL url’s in the comment text and had to be patched with an update to Akismet, maybe that wasn’t fully patched and the comment text is not being passed throug the nofollow filter?
Maybe I can add something to the plugin to allow you to specify if you want the link to be dofollow or not… I will work on something this afternoon. can I ask for your support to test it when it’s ready?
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Twitter: TechChunks
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Sure, that would be just great! I’d love to test the new feature for you.
Please do let me know when you have added this feature in the plugin to specify if the user wants the link to be dofollow or not. And I’ll definitely test and get back to you with my feedback.
Thanks again.
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Twitter: commentluv
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cool. I just sent you the new plugin as an email attachment, look out for it and let me know!
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Awesome! Now, does anyone know how I can export my ID comments to Comluv??
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I know about dofollow, it so important for google pagerank and now i always use comment luv in my blog. Thank Andy for a best plugin.
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