Why have a Dofollow Blog?
Since making this blog dofollow 3 months ago, I’ve experienced a big rise in spam comments with over 2000 total spam comments being posted. Luckily Askimet seems very good at spotting spam so all I have to do is periodically press the Delete button to remove the scores of comments I seem to get every day. Still, it’s a monotonous job filtering out the good from the bad and I’ve considered going nofollow to discourage the spammers.
However, on balance, I think the reasons for being dofollow still stand. There are two main purposes:-
- It encourages people to make comments. In exchange for a decent comment, people get a good backlink. I’m only OKing good comments though and any comment where the author name is a keyword I delete straight away.
- People keep posting lists of dofollow blogs in various places - forums and other blogs for example - so from time to time I pick up backlinks. This is a pretty easy way of building links.
Having said that neither of these reasons for being dofollow are pretty strong. I’m still not getting many decent comments and the rate of link-building is low. If my PR drops in the next toolbar export or the rate of spam increases significantly in the next couple of months, I’ll probably go nofollow and hope the spam dies away.
greetings from Ibiza
the spam will be exactly the same nofollow or dofollow, we run multiple dofollow blogs and have no plans to change, especially now that using nofollow internally “evaporates away your pagerank”
stay dofollow, there are other very good reasons why.