Irish Blogs which do follow comments

April 20th, 2007 by Cormac Moylan · 65 Comments

Hi guys, following on from my last post about blogs which do follow, I’m going to compile my own list of Irish blogs which are providing link love via their comments. If your blog has dropped rel=nofollow then post a comment and I’ll add you to the list.

I’m a bit weary of adding people to the list without their permission and especially since some recent concerns, and further concerns, some more further concerns, regarding comments made by Matt Cutts on his blog regarding linking.

Irish Blogs which DoFollow:

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Tags: SEO

65 responses so far ↓

1 Dave Rooney // Apr 20, 2007 at 5:29 pm

I dont, mine has rel=”external”
2 Gavin // Apr 20, 2007 at 5:33 pm

Always happy to be on a list, except if its a black list.
3 Cormac Moylan // Apr 20, 2007 at 6:05 pm

Dave, I’m fairly positive that your madness has a method

I think that if you used Rel=’external nofollow’ then you would be cutting off the link juice supply. Maybe Gavin can confirm. Gavin?

Ireland SEO Marketing is added by the way.
4 Gavin // Apr 20, 2007 at 6:36 pm

It basically works the same as a normal nofollow. Only difference is that it shows the link is to an external location from the site.

I think Matt Cutts uses it for his comments.
5 Richard Hearne // Apr 20, 2007 at 7:25 pm

Juice flows fully from my comments. Of course I have to moderate due to the 3,762 spam comments I’ve gotten in the last 9 days….. (I used to be able to check for FPs, but alas no more)
6 Cormac Moylan // Apr 20, 2007 at 7:29 pm

Hi Richard, FPs? C’est ce se FPs?

I’ll add you to the growing list above will I?
7 Richard Hearne // Apr 20, 2007 at 7:41 pm

False Positives

By all means add me to the list
8 Cormac Moylan // Apr 20, 2007 at 7:48 pm

Ah yes, I presume you are using Akismet. The lack of an admin panel for their spam application made me switch to Dr. Dave’s Spam Karma. It has had maybe 2 false positives in its time.

Dave is the only doctor I recommend!
9 Gavin // Apr 20, 2007 at 7:57 pm

Richard your blog had me tagged as a spammer, is still doing that?
10 Richard Hearne // Apr 20, 2007 at 8:02 pm

Not sure Gavin. Dont think so - your recent trackbacks seem to have made it through.

Unfortunately hence forth any poor soul who comments and gets FP’ed by Aksimet is doomed I’m afraid.

I also think since upgrading to Bad Behaviour 1.1 it’s failing to keep out the crap it used to save me from. Tonnes of spammers….
11 Gavin // Apr 20, 2007 at 8:33 pm

You calling me part of that crap?
12 Cormac Moylan // Apr 20, 2007 at 8:40 pm

Hit him Gavin!
13 Gavin // Apr 20, 2007 at 8:46 pm

Guess who has been drinking & blogging.

Blog Rage, its in these days.
14 Cormac Moylan // Apr 20, 2007 at 8:52 pm

Not quite blog rage. No booze at the desk. I had a spill a few months ago which I never recovered from.
15 Gavin // Apr 20, 2007 at 8:57 pm

Bah spills at the desk. Thankfully never got one. *touch wood*

You should ask Rooney what his wireless router has been drinking.
16 Dave Rooney // Apr 20, 2007 at 9:24 pm

My router has a taste for vodka!
17 Richard Hearne // Apr 20, 2007 at 9:39 pm

You calling me part of that crap?

You were one step up from the rest - a FP
18 Dave Rooney // Apr 20, 2007 at 9:49 pm

Okay, my blog is fixed. I had to do it by hand. So no more rel=” in comments!
19 Cormac Moylan // Apr 20, 2007 at 9:55 pm

Good man Rooney. The plugins wouldn’t work no?
(I tried sending you a message there on MSN but I think your messenger might be acting up?)
20 Richard Hearne // Apr 20, 2007 at 10:09 pm

/throttles up the auto-commenter
21 Dave Rooney // Apr 20, 2007 at 10:25 pm

Gavin, rel=’external’ isn’t like nofollow, its meant to tell the browser to treat it like _blank as xhtml doesn’t have _blank. As far as the bots go its ignored. So rel=’external’ is good and doesn’t effect page rank and will work like a normal link.
22 Gavin // Apr 20, 2007 at 10:26 pm

Ah above the rest is good enough for me.
23 Gavin // Apr 20, 2007 at 10:42 pm

Dave thats what I said about being the only difference with nofollow, it tells the browser its an external link from the site.

In regards to Search Engines, it works the same as nofollow, to link juice is passed so it doesn’t work the same as a ‘normal’ link.

Quote from a comment on Matt Cutts blog:

“Explanation: “This attribute usually use for outer links from a websites. It refers that outer link is an external link, which means don’t consider it and don’t share PageRank with this link.””

Admit it, your were being tight with your link juice.
24 Dave Rooney // Apr 20, 2007 at 11:11 pm

Gavin >>
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=61308
25 Gavin // Apr 20, 2007 at 11:24 pm

Yes and aren’t we talking about Rel=”external nofollow’ and not rel=”external”.
26 Keith // Apr 20, 2007 at 11:27 pm

Nope, nofollow ain’t here
27 Dave Rooney // Apr 20, 2007 at 11:27 pm

Noo we are talking about rel=”external”, Rel=”external nofollow” has nofollow in it so your fucked for link juice.
28 Gavin // Apr 20, 2007 at 11:34 pm

*cough*

Cormac mentions Rel=”external nofollow”
29 Cormac Moylan // Apr 20, 2007 at 11:48 pm

Hit him Gavin!
Dave, hit him back!
30 Gavin // Apr 20, 2007 at 11:56 pm

Mere you Dave!
31 Dave Rooney // Apr 20, 2007 at 11:58 pm

HAHAHA Ill hit Gavin the next time I see him, which should be next week!
32 Blogs that follow … // Apr 22, 2007 at 1:13 pm

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33 Aidan Finn // Apr 22, 2007 at 1:40 pm

I follow but I also manually approve all comments posted.
34 Cormac Moylan // Apr 22, 2007 at 5:27 pm

Hi Aidan, thanks for commenting. What’s your blog URL? Would you like to be added to the list?

C0rmac
35 Aidan Finn // Apr 22, 2007 at 5:38 pm

Oops, misspelled my own url in the previous comment - it’s http://www.aidanf.net
36 Gavin // Apr 22, 2007 at 5:50 pm

I spotted a “I follow” logo on Rooney’s blog, looks the part.

So Cormac when are you sending Google the petition?
37 Cormac Moylan // Apr 22, 2007 at 5:57 pm

Yeah, they’re nice enough. I posted about it yesterday. It’s called the iFollow Movement.

I will send in the blacklist, er..I mean petition to Google once Cutts knows what he is doing.

Aidan, I have added your link and also added you to my blog roll. I attended your demo on Ruby at Barcamp W’ford. Very interesting stuff.
Cormac
38 Gavin // Apr 22, 2007 at 6:10 pm

Missed yesterday’s post, will catch up now.
39 Justin Mason // Apr 22, 2007 at 6:40 pm

Good idea! Sign me up…
40 Cormac Moylan // Apr 22, 2007 at 6:55 pm

Hi Justin, I have added your blog to the list. You probably came across my blog via Michele’s trackback? - Cheers

Keith (comment 26), I have just seen your comment now and I have added you as well.

Cormac
41 eoin // Apr 23, 2007 at 8:58 am

Hi Cormac

I’m convinced; I want to reset my copy of wordpress. In your previous message, you say you are using Semilogic’s plugin and that Marios is using the Link Love plugin for Wordpress. Which would you recommend to the technical novice (ie, me)?

Eoin
42 Cormac Moylan // Apr 23, 2007 at 9:04 am

Hi Eoin, I haven’t installed Link Love myself but Semilogic’s plugin is a straight forward one file upload to the plugins folder followed by clicking on “active plugin” within your admin panel. It’s a 30second or less operation.

Link Love looks the better plugin though. I’ll probably migrate to LL this evening.
43 frankp // Apr 23, 2007 at 3:15 pm

no idea why the word nofollow disappeared from the end of my sentence…!
44 Gavin // Apr 23, 2007 at 3:21 pm

It is now a banned word
45 Tom Raftery // Apr 23, 2007 at 4:41 pm

Cormac, I wrote the first WordPress hack to get rid of back in Feb 2005! and got great link love for it.

The fabulous Dofollow plugin followed sometime after.

You might consider adding me to your list,

Thanks,

Tom.
46 Tom Raftery // Apr 23, 2007 at 4:43 pm

D’oh, that should have read the first WordPress hack to get rid of

Hopefully I get it right this time!
47 Tom Raftery // Apr 23, 2007 at 4:44 pm

I’m sorry Cormac, for some reason the word nofollow keeps getting cut off from my comment.

Maybe you can edit it to fix it?

Tom
48 Richard Hearne // Apr 23, 2007 at 4:52 pm

LOL

I’d say it’s the plugin that removes the nofollow that’s also removing it from your anchor Tom.

A really nice plugin I have is the DontFollow plugin - you simply append “/dontfollow” to any link in your blog and it applies a nofollow. Very handy for those commenters who push their luck a little and reveal their spamming tendencies.
49 frankp // Apr 23, 2007 at 5:02 pm

Didn’t you read Gavin’s comment Tom? Nofollow is now a banned word…

Richard, that plugin sounds interesting…

Tom, you could use it to perform that test we talked about earlier
50 Cormac Moylan // Apr 23, 2007 at 7:00 pm

Hi Tom, thanks for stopping by. I have added your blog to the list. The list is coming together nicely now. Thanks to all those who have submitted their blog

@Tom & Frank: Lads, I’m not sure why nofollow isn’t appearing in the links. When I look at both of your posts in the admin panel the link appears fine.

@Gavin & Richard: The dofollow plugin is historically a territorial beast, he marks his territory by devouring dofollow once it is linked.

Frank, you can switch to the code view when writing posts in the latest version of wordpress and add a rel=”nofollow” attribute to any link.
51 Dave Rooney // Apr 23, 2007 at 9:22 pm

Everyone you are better off doing what I did. Open wordpress in Dreamweaver or what ever text editor you use and remove it by hand. Those pro link juice plugins aren’t the best. I tried using 2 different ones and it didn’t work. Well for me!
52 Gavin // Apr 23, 2007 at 9:28 pm

BY HAND? Dave this is 2007, the age of automation.

DoFollow works grand for me.
53 Cormac Moylan // Apr 23, 2007 at 9:31 pm

Dave, your WP Theme most likely isn’t using the correct ‘hook’ for the plugins.
54 Niall // Apr 26, 2007 at 1:03 pm

Dave,

Dreamweaver?! Are ya mad? Be a man and use Vim/GVim
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56 David Behan // May 10, 2007 at 6:13 pm

I just added that plugin to wordpress.
57 Cormac Moylan // May 10, 2007 at 6:42 pm

Sweet as a peach. Added to the list.
58 Matthew Rochow // Sep 18, 2007 at 8:58 am

I am for links being followed - my only concern are of course the spam comments. After reading richards comment about thousands of spam comments in just a week, nofollow does sound pretty good
59 Cormac Moylan // Sep 18, 2007 at 9:03 am

Hi Matthew,
If you have a solid comment policy there should be no need for concern. I hold all intial comments for moderation now. Once you have dropped a single comment, I allow all your comments to be published automatically.
60 Matthew Rochow // Sep 18, 2007 at 9:09 am

Are they settings I can change from “Discussion Options” in the WP backend? I’ve only had WP for a week so I’m not sure quite sure what I’m doing yet
61 Cormac Moylan // Sep 18, 2007 at 9:16 am

No problem,
Make sure “Comment author must have a previously approved comment” is ticked @ wp-admin/options-discussion.php page within your admin panel.

Some people hold all comments for moderation but I think that’s too strict on repeat commentors. You want to encourage people to post comments as much as possible. Holding all comments for moderation is a hurdle too much for your active audience IMO.
62 Johnny // Feb 14, 2008 at 1:51 am

This is dangerous because malicious people can take this list and post links to their poorly built niche sites that use black hat to rank.
63 James // Apr 10, 2008 at 5:09 pm

black night have moved their blog and the above link is dead.
64 Cormac // Apr 10, 2008 at 5:38 pm

Hi James,
It works fine for me. It is redirecting from blog.blacknight.ie to blog.blacknight.com

I can’t see anything incorrect with it.
65 About DoFollow // Apr 28, 2008 at 11:41 am

DoFollow is the way to go. But it only works with good admin on the comments. Good contributions deserve to be followed.