What Are You Doing For Your Commentators
Every blogger wants a reaction to their posts. Whether or not everyone will admit, this is the whole reason we do what we do it. It is no fun talking out of your ass if everyone ignores you. So ask yourself what are you doing for those people?
I have put a lot of thought into this of late. I know how to get a lot of diggs when I want, and a lot of traffic too. What I was missing though were lots of comments. I read what the big guys were saying. Then I realized many of them were just talking out of their asses, because if it were really great advice they would be doing it themselves.
When big name Blogger X loses a lot of credibility by saying remove the nofollow from your comments, but doesn’t do it themselves. I am taking a stand. Nofollow is gone from all my comments as of now. I am not stupid enough to not moderate my comments, but I am going totally nofollow free in the comments. This is step one. I recommend the nofollow free plugin for WordPress. I also recommend using the nofollow from home and nofollow those dupes to keep Google juice flowing the right direction from there.
Secondly give back to your commentators. I not only have I made the link to their blog nofollow free, but using CommentLuv and KeywordLuv the link to their last post is nofollow free. This will pass along some serious Google juice when you are indexed.
The third thing I am doing is providing subscribe to comments by email. Your commentators will know when someone else posts a follow up comment. Last but not least I am using Brian’s Threaded Comments plugin. Commentators will be able to respond to each other. If you run a political or religiously minded blog you will probably want to be careful how many levels deep you let that one run though.
Lastly I intend to do a better job than most of the big guys when it comes to interacting with you. This is another area you see top name blogging gurus telling you to be social but never have anything to do with the people commenting on their own blogs. I can promise you this if you comment and leave your site I will at the very least give your site a visit, which usually will translate into an ad click or comment of my own if your subject interests me. Also be sure to check out the weekly CommentLuv Link List posted every Friday at Blogging For Noobs.
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July 20th, 2008 at 2:07 am
Thanks for the link love. Making my blog dofollow really attracts commentators.
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July 20th, 2008 at 7:54 am
I noticed my article was trackbacked to from this post, and I now see why. Good choice with abonding the nofollow attribute. As long as you still modertae comments you’ll be fine. I also reccommend the math spam protection to prevent robots from spamming.
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July 20th, 2008 at 10:23 am
You’re quite welcome for the link. I like to spread around the love when ever I can. It is one of those things that a lot of bloggers could do, not only out of professional courtesy, but to help themselves. Anchor text on keywords effectively doubles how much weight Google gives to them. I also think that it is a good way to introduce yourself to other bloggers. You might not be able to always interact with them on their blog at the time you post but you do have a good record of where you want others including yourself to go back to.
Thanks for the comment
Brad
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July 20th, 2008 at 10:28 am
I am looking at a couple of anti spam methods and will probably have a follow up post on them. Another plugin I do use right now is wp-ban which will let me ban an entire IP address. This has been very effective.
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July 20th, 2008 at 10:36 am
Another great technique you can do with CommentLuv is to log out of your administrator mode when commenting and use the CommentLuv option to send link love to yourself.
July 25th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
If you have more than 1 blog that might work, but else, that would appear pretty stupid from my point of view.
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July 26th, 2008 at 8:09 am
It would be pointless if you only had one blog, but if you are running several there are plenty of benefits. Not only are you crosslinking between posts for SEO purposes, you are directly advertising post titles to potential readers.
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