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61 Responses to “DoFollow plugin not installed on my blog”

1. Aaron || miLienzo.com, on May 1st, 2007 at 1:03 pm, said:

   Another one joins the ranks… Thanks for the link, rob.

   This is the first time I’ve come across your site – there’s some good stuff here

2. Rob Cubbon, on May 1st, 2007 at 1:15 pm, said:

   Thanks Aaron, I was very impressed with your site as well. I’ll return soon!

   And well done for explaining the DoFollow issue so well!

3. David Airey :: Creative Design ::, on May 4th, 2007 at 12:08 pm, said:

   Good to see you’ve joined up, Rob.

   I hope it creates a benefit for you. I’m pretty sure it has for me.

4. Rob Cubbon, on May 25th, 2007 at 1:16 pm, said:

   It’s a good point, Frédéric, but so far so good
   The comments are intelligent and add something to the site, like yours!
   Rob

5. Gabriel, on June 9th, 2007 at 3:30 pm, said:

   I installed the DOFOLLOW plugin too primarily because I truly support the cause.

   Anyway, thinks for the link.

6. Hobo SEO Scotland, on June 20th, 2007 at 2:56 am, said:

   Have you checked out the Dofollow community on Bumpzee?

7. Rob Cubbon, on June 20th, 2007 at 5:45 pm, said:

   I’ve just checked out Bumpzee and registered my blog. Thanks for the tip!

8. Julia, on July 21st, 2007 at 2:52 am, said:

   YAY! Another one.. I have started a directory, you can have a free link there if you like.

   It’s great to see so many folks getting on board.

9. Rob Cubbon, on July 24th, 2007 at 10:46 am, said:

   That’s a good idea for a website, Julia. I’ve submitted three links of websites that I run.

10. skrachs, on July 25th, 2007 at 8:08 am, said:

    this is great. but i won’t instal this plugin in my blog. i think there will be more spamers

11. Rob Cubbon, on July 25th, 2007 at 10:49 am, said:

    Actually in my experience there hasn’t been any discernable increase in spam in the three months since intalling this plugin.
    Akismet sorts it all out and it’s not a problem!

12. mlankton, on September 16th, 2007 at 2:58 pm, said:

    Hope it’s helping your traffic and comments.
    Thank you

13. Rob Cubbon, on September 18th, 2007 at 3:11 pm, said:

    As with so many of these things, perhaps we’ll never know! Let’s hope it increases traffic and comments at least a little bit.

14. Hobosin Love, on September 27th, 2007 at 1:35 pm, said:

    This sounds interesting. Here goes nothing!

    Thank you for having all of this info!

15. Bape, on September 28th, 2007 at 3:24 am, said:

    Its ironic that many bloggers talk about this but then they actually use no follow.

16. Xavier :: Greenville Design ::, on October 5th, 2007 at 3:56 am, said:

    More bloggers should follow your example. Whatever happened to being part of a community.

17. Rob Cubbon, on October 12th, 2007 at 1:33 pm, said:

    @Hobosin Love
    @Bape
    @Xavier
    Thank you, doFollow is still active!

18. John, on December 30th, 2007 at 4:23 am, said:

    Thanks for the information about the “do follow” plugin. We’ve been considering WordPress for an upcoming project and have been exploring the various plugins, etc.

    Enjoy the day!
    JB

19. Rob Cubbon, on December 30th, 2007 at 7:15 pm, said:

    I can only recommend WordPress as a blogging platform and CMS. Let me know if you need any help with it!
    Rob

20. the awesomeness poster, on February 25th, 2008 at 4:58 am, said:

    Rob,
    1st off, thanks for the link. Secondly, do you have any policy on keyword names (like I have done here?)

    Some people don’t allow it, others weigh the quality of the comment…I was curious on your take…however, I suppose if your opposed to it this comment will never make the page.

    Cheers.

21. Rob Cubbon, on February 26th, 2008 at 1:19 pm, said:

    Hello, the awesomeness poster, I’m not sure what link you are referring to.
    My policy is if the comment is relevant then people can call themselves what they want. I really just like comments for what they’re supposed to be – beautiful internet interaction that we can all benefit from. Which is what this is. Thank you!
    By the way, I leave my keywords when I comment on other sites as “Rob Cubbon – freelance graphic designer London”. It may be a bit cheeky but no one’s objected yet!

22. Free ecommerce website templates, on March 25th, 2008 at 9:07 am, said:

    Installing this plug-in may be one of the best actions a blogger can take! it improves your comment number and this is one of the most important factors when it comes to blogging. What shows the fact that a blog is visited and active? The comment number!

23. Acoustic tabs, on March 25th, 2008 at 9:08 am, said:

    A good thing to do. Just beware of spam. Akismet is there to protect you I guess, otherwise you must be facing hard times I know on my blog I receive quite a lot of spam comments.

24. hamdi, on March 29th, 2008 at 8:45 am, said:

    glad to hear that.

25. Bubble Man, on April 4th, 2008 at 12:37 pm, said:

    Wow this is great. Thanks for the info. Glad to see peeps helping each other out. Oh and I must say that I really like the layout of your site; clean, functional and easy to use..

26. Rob Cubbon, on April 4th, 2008 at 11:27 pm, said:

    Thank you to the last four posters who’ve shown support by adding your comments. I think it’s nice to see a bit a feedback after posts. I still have the plugin activated – I’ve had no real bad spam issues so far. I noticed Akismet needed an upgrade recently and, for me, that keeps the worse at bay. Thanks for coming round, thanks for the comments, thanks for the encouragement!

27. Thomas, on April 29th, 2008 at 4:05 pm, said:

    dofollow – some issues activating it with blogger – any suggestions?

28. Rob Cubbon, on April 30th, 2008 at 11:38 am, said:

    Hi Thomas. I’m not an expert with Blogger, only WordPress. But I did find this…
    http://webstractions.blogspot.com/2007/05/processing-classic-ftp-blogger-pages-as.html
    Hope it helps!

29. computer training, on June 9th, 2008 at 2:26 pm, said:

    going to add the plugin to my blog now. thanks for info.

30. J P, on June 25th, 2008 at 5:33 pm, said:

    Do you now get lots of boring comments from people just to get a backlink? You know, the kind like “good post!” and “thanks for the info.”

    Come to think of it…ALL comments are like that on blogs, dofollow or not

31. Rob Cubbon, on July 1st, 2008 at 11:15 am, said:

    I have a policy now, J P, of deleting the obvious two word comment spam like “nice post”. But honestly, most comments are like yours, intelligent and relevant. I know what you mean some comments are just fairly token, but I don’t mind those on mine, at least it means take people are visiting and contributing.

    @computer training, I can recommend it. Good luck!

32. sapimoto, on July 1st, 2008 at 12:53 pm, said:

    Sir, I found your do follow logo and will add at my blog…
    Thanks…

33. Rob Cubbon, on July 2nd, 2008 at 3:27 pm, said:

    I’m glad you like the logo, sapimoto.

34. Olly, on July 4th, 2008 at 8:49 pm, said:

    Well done for the nofollow addition.

    I think you will benefit as much as the people commenting from the valuable feedback you will receive.

    Now you need to hunt out commentluv and keywordluv to really reward your followers!

    Cheers

35. Rob Cubbon, on July 8th, 2008 at 4:43 pm, said:

    Hello Olly, You’ll notice that CommentLuv is here. I always follow my commentors’ advice! Valuable feedback indeed!

36. How do to do freelancer diary, on July 26th, 2008 at 8:21 pm, said:

    that’s nice social act to the blogger community

37. Peter Morrow, on August 18th, 2008 at 1:54 am, said:

    Really appreciate the link love Rob. I’ll be back.

38. Edinburgh Lover, on August 22nd, 2008 at 2:12 pm, said:

    Thanks for offering the clarification about this: I’ve been curious exactly how that worked. It’s amazing to me how the google search engine works.

39. What do sheep and my blog have in common? - about the dofollow plugin | Andrew Kelsall | Graphic Designer | Poster and Leaflet Design, on August 23rd, 2008 at 4:24 pm, said:

    [...] Recently, I installed the DoFollow plugin for WordPress—something I’ve been intending to do for a few weeks now. One of the first places I learned about this tool was on a blog post by London-based graphic designer Rob Cubbon. [...]

40. Gotham, on August 29th, 2008 at 7:36 am, said:

    I am amazed at how many people are picking up on this movement, and how many just aren’t. Getting a few good comments all for a free link back to some sites? Now that’s a great bargain for both parties!

41. Funny Forwards, on August 29th, 2008 at 1:52 pm, said:

    Link love for all is always nice. We went dofollow about a month ago but haven’t really seen a boost in either traffic or comments yet.

    What’s more, I’m surprised at how difficult it is to get listed on most people’s dofollow lists or in the dofollow directories. I mean, it seems easy by their instructions but I have applied to several and sent emails (as requested on sites) and only got 1 response! I do believe in the dofollow movement but it’s seems to be getting a lot harder to get that word out that you are…heh, and I thought everyone loved free link love.

42. Funny Forwards, on August 29th, 2008 at 1:56 pm, said:

    oh and Rob…I saw your comment on Andrew Kelsall blog (trackback from below) and I did want you to know I have been reading your blog since I first saw this post (I think we actually emailed some). You’ve got great content and I think that dofollow only helps more people find you, I came for the link love but you won a regular because of it.
    PS.Your RSS has been on my google homepage for sometime too!

    Funny Forwardss last blog post..Childhood Picture of Michael Phelps

43. James, on September 3rd, 2008 at 6:25 pm, said:

    Have you noticed that your blog traffic has icnreased sicne installing this dofollow plugin?

    Jamess last blog post..Is Wikipedia forced dofollow?

44. Personal Business, on September 9th, 2008 at 7:12 am, said:

    I am to be the one of your traffic here, congrat,..and visit my blog too

    Personal Businesss last blog post..How To Earn Money By Playing Online Games

45. Tanner (does logo design), on September 9th, 2008 at 7:35 pm, said:

    Have you noticed an increase in comments made on your blog because of the plugin? I’m wondering if giving links out would increase the amount of comments to a blog post.

46. Pramudita, on September 10th, 2008 at 1:01 am, said:

    I followed you by install nofollow remover plugin. Sure commentluv plugin included too. Let’s do dofollow

    Thanks

47. Graphic Designer London, on September 13th, 2008 at 10:15 am, said:

    Off to install this myself!

    Graphic Designer Londons last blog post..10 Tutorials and Resources to Teach You CSS

48. Rob Cubbon, on September 17th, 2008 at 10:14 am, said:

    Ooooh, lots of comments!
    I like to do a good social act for the blogging community. It has helped me, only fair I should help it. Thank you, How to do Freelancer Diary!!!

    @Peter Morrow, thanks, LinkLuv is nofollow, so far. But it’s still cool!

    @Edinburgh Lover, I’m far from an expert on Google, but, yes, it’s amazing.

    @Gotham, yes, you definitely do get more comments and most of them are good.

    @Funny Forwards, thank you for your two great comments. I’m surprised you should be finding it hard to get on the DoFollow lists. I would have thought that inclusion should be fairly instantaneous. Keep at it! People do tend to look for DoFollow blogs with high PageRank. But then again, you don’t want a load of worthless comments from a lot of webmasters looking for link juice. I love your point about being a subscriber as a result of this post. For me, a subscriber is a piece of gold dust and really, that’s proof that DoFollow pays off. Hang in there. Your blog is laugh-out-load funny, by the way!

    @James. No, I would say you definitely don’t get significantly more traffic from going DoFollow. Just one or two a day from DoFollow lists. You do get more comments, however!

    @Personal Business, thanks will do!

    @Tanner, once the word gets around that you are DoFollow and you have a PageRank of 2 or more then, yes, you will get significantly more comments.

    @Pramudita, welcome to the DoFollow gang!

    @Graphic Designer London, welcome to you also!

49. Justin Wright, on October 23rd, 2008 at 7:32 pm, said:

    Congrats on joining the DoFollow revolution! I did it a while back and have never looked back.

    It is a great way to help out your readers and encourage them to say something more often : )

    Justin Wrights last blog post..5 Questions For My Readers

50. Rob Cubbon, on October 23rd, 2008 at 8:50 pm, said:

    Thank you Justin, I’m afraid I’m no longer a DoFollow blog. I got myself onto a lot of DoFollow lists and word got around and eventually I ended up getting tons of comment spam from people wanting a cheap PR3 link.

    I’d love to help my readers and encourage good comments, like yours, but in the end I just got tired of rooting through all the rubbish!

51. Best Trends Blog, on December 4th, 2008 at 7:27 am, said:

    Keep up the great work

52. Nicksta, on December 12th, 2008 at 1:38 pm, said:

    This is a great idea…thanks for the plugin!

53. Eskil, on December 16th, 2008 at 9:33 pm, said:

    Too bad, but I really can understand your decision.
    Dofollow does indeed attrect tons of spammers.

54. Mahmut, on December 17th, 2008 at 9:47 pm, said:

    Glad to hear that, i think it will increase comments numbers

55. Used motorhomes, on January 12th, 2009 at 1:06 pm, said:

    It is nice to see bloggers who are trying to solve spam problem with solution other than adding nofollow to all commenters links. I have just launched new blog and also left comment links dofollowed. My plan to combat spam is to read first time commenters comments before publishing and than delete them if spammy, if not, publish them with dofollow.

56. Cool cars, on January 12th, 2009 at 3:12 pm, said:

    Very nice post on do follow plugins, and these are very useful for my blogs, thanks.

57. Rob Cubbon, on January 19th, 2009 at 5:41 pm, said:

    THIS IS NO LONGER A DOFOLLOW BLOG.

    Posting here will not give you a backlink if that is what you want please go elsewhere.

    Above are two or three examples of comments from spammers that were the reason for me putting back the rel=nofollow from the comments in this blog. They haven’t bothered to read the post and they have left meaningless comments that don’t benefit anyone.

    Unfortunately I ended up on a few sites that posted links to dofollow blogs and I got spammed by just about every idiot who thinks writing “nice post, dude” on my site is going to get them a bit of link juice from Google and money from Adsense. Wrong!

    Eskil, thanks for your comment and understanding.

    Used motorhomes, maybe one day I’ll do what you do but for now I just want people with something sensible to say!

    Thank you for the real, intelligent commenters who have added to this discussion. Those spammers who have left two or three words with keywords for names can … go away. They were always deleted immediately and never got any benefit from their actions. They just wasted their time!

58. oxitnexia, on February 15th, 2009 at 10:30 pm, said:

    Your web page doesn’t correctly work in safari browser

59. Rob Cubbon, on February 18th, 2009 at 12:43 pm, said:

    Thank you for your comment, oxitnexia, I have tested the site on Safari on Mac OS 10.5 and Windows Vista and it seems to be OK. Can you tell me what’s wrong and what system you are using?

60. Essay Writing, on March 15th, 2009 at 3:23 pm, said:

    This post is really a must bookmarked for me! Thank you so much.
    Just asking, do you use Aweber? If so, can you provide more information on this? I am subscribed to your rss to check if you are going to post something on Aweber.

61. dofollow plugin not installed on my blog | Intenseblog.com, on June 15th, 2010 at 3:28 pm, said:

    dofollow plugin not installed on my blog…

    … the rel=nofollow command to all links in comments. and this dofollow plugin removes rel=nofollow command allowing those search engine robots to follow….