Are you a dofollow blogger? Are you tired of human comment spammers leaving insipid, irrelevant comments just to get link-juice? L’s Linky Love is the dofollow plugin for you!
What does the plugin actually do?
This is a variety of “dofollow” plugin. It’s main function is to strip “nofollow” tags from links in comments. The purpose is to encourage comments by rewarding commenters with “dofollow” links which boosts their rank in search engine. However, this particular plugin also has features that thwart human’s who are paid to visit blogs and leave insipid comments simply to boost their companies back links.
Here are the features:
- Encourages good comments: Dofollows are added to the author “name” and links in comment text after a commenter leaves some minimum number of comments. The blogger can set this minimum number to anything between 3 and 10. This encourages regular visitors to comment, but discourages spammers by forcing them to visit your blog many times before they get “dofollows”.
- Encourages links. Dofollows are added to trackbacks and pingbacks only after the blog author has left some minimum number of comments, trackbacks or pingbacks. This discourages scrapper sites from sending you spammy trackbacks but rewards real bloggers for linking you.
- Gives peace of mind. Dofollows will not be added to comments left more than 14 days after you published your most recent post. This is a safety feature that prevents your blog from becoming a link farm should you ever be unexpectedly absent from your blog due to illness or any other major life event.
- Thwarts overly aggressive SEO types. The blogger may refuse “dofollows” to “names” that contain too many characters. This can be used to avoid giving “dofollows” to commenters who claim their name is “cashmere dog sweater”.
- Gives you more control over dofollow / nofollow options. As is always the case, the blogger can also delete the comment, report the comment to Akismet or delete the name or url. That’s good for truly spammy comments. But with L’s Linky Love, you get another, less drastic, option. You manually prevent “dofollow” but still show the comment url and name by deleting the user email address when editing the comment. This lets you permit borderline visitors continue to comment, but deprive them of “dofollows” until they behave the way you like visitors to behave.
Get L’s Linky Love Plugin.
- Find the Admin Panel: Visit your WordPress Admin panel find “Options” click. Click “L_LinkyLove” in the menu sub-bar. The admin panel will open.
- Customize: In the top box, enter the number of comments you want visitors to leave before the “author name” associated with their comment becomes “dofollow” in the top box. In the second box, ener the number of comments you want visitors to leave before the comments they drop in the content become “dofollow”. In the third box, enter the maxmum number of characters in a “name” you are willing to dofollow. Finally, decide if you want me to drop links in your blog.
- Click Submit. L’s Linky Love is now working!
Now for the big question:
Should you drop me links?
I bet you are trying to decide if you should give me links? Well, the links have several purposes. One is to get me zillions of links and propel me into the top ranks of money making bloggers. The more important reason is to inform valued commenters and spammers you are participating in Dofollow using my plugin rather than other plugins. My plugin makes it more difficult for human comment spammers to spam and it may discourage them from visiting your blog.
Currently, the plugin places a link just after single post; the text says
“Comments protected by L’s Linky Love.” Technically, this text appears outside the area where programs like PPP forbid links. However, to avoid the possibility that PayPerPost will ding you for links, you can limit display these informational links to older posts only be selecting: “Yes, but only on old posts”; older is defined as more than 180 days old. You can also exclude these links entirely.
What do I suggest you do? I think it’s useful to inform visitors about the plugin. So, I would suggest you select “yes” and display my links for a little while. Later, when you have time, create a “comment policy” page where you describe your comment policy; instead of showing my links, link to that. On that page, describe your policy and mention “L’s Linky Love”, posting the url of my plugin page. That will give me one link instead of zillions and also inform spammers and valued visitors of your comment policy.
Summary
Download L’s Linky Love. Use it. Tell people about it.
Finally, leave me comments and trackbacks and let me know how L’s LinkyLove works for you. And remember: I use this plugin. So, if you leave several comments, you’ll be dofollowed too!
I’m getting it!
Email sent to your dietdiary address.
p.s. I installed your latest version and I’m still getting the same error…
OK! hehe
I don’t know where I went wrong, but I downloaded the current file to a different place on my computer and unzipped it. Then I uploaded it and it worked. All is well that ends well, right?
Home now and getting ready to demote ya…
It seems to be working…
thanks for this nice tip. i search a very long time for a plugin like this. i hope you understand my english
Is this a wordpress version? You got a blogspot version? If yes I need one
And what if a guy comments in 10 posts of yours??
I like the sound of this plugin. I’ve been using the LinkLove plugin which only activates DoFollow after a set number of comments, but this goes to a whole new level…..
I have to say, this plugin sounds a lot better than the standard do follow plugin in. I installed then uninstalled that after having to clean out too many comments from “cashmere dog sweaters” etc.
interesting article, not really got into love links yet but can see the advantage
I’m curious as to why my last comment went into the Akismet queue… it was a good comment! hehe
Probably because I keep derailing comments!
But what is this all about?
Submitted comment 349 to Akismet.com as spam (Akismet said it’s ham)
Sorry, but your comment has been flagged by the spam filter running on this blog: this might be an error, in which case all apologies. Your comment will be presented to the blog admin who will be able to restore it immediately.
You may want to contact the blog admin via e-mail to notify him.
I had some problems with the original link love plugin, could never get it to work. So far, your plugin is working great, & I love all the customization, I wrote about it on my blog, I’d send you a trackback but I don’t know how. Thanks for the great plugin!
Just letting you know I installed your plugin on my recording blog. I’ve linked back to this page for you. The blog is digitalburn.org
I don’t like spam karma. I’d like to notify people when their comment goes to Akismet using only Akismet though. Do you know of a plugin like that?
Yeah, I guess most normal people wouldn’t want to do that… I don’t use Spam Karma or Bad Behavior because I don’t need them… Your spam karma keeps kicking me in the butt, hehe… sorry I keep needing to be rescued… I guess I talk too much…
I very seldom find any comments at all in my Akismet queue because my captcha plugin works so well (knock on wood)… the only comments I find are ones I usually have to let back out again…
thanks for the plugin, I will definitely try it out. I first saw your post today (July 29) about how there was no way that love website would get a dofollow link in time (since you need 3 comments to get a dofollow link) and I was wondering what that plugin was. I was about to ask you, but first I decided to check your plugins category and voila! Thanks again,
webd360
This sounds absolutely perfect for what I need. I’m going to download it right now - heard about it from Andy Beard’s review.
Sounds great, but I just chose a different plugin (4 days ago, and this wasn’t listed on Andy Beard’s review then)!
Your plugin has got lots of extra things the others don’t, but the plugin I went with has a delay on turning off nofollow. Yours doesn’t seem to have this - any plans to add it?
For me, the delay feature is great because I have a couple of days to prune spam before they get the love.
Anyway, great work!
I am getting the following error message in the admin page when I install your plugin:
Error, SELECT query failed in while getting status and urgency from ticket table.
SELECT `post_date` FROM `wp_posts` WHERE `post_status` = ‘publish’ ORDER BY `post_date` DESC LIMIT 0 , 1
Any ideas what might be going wrong or how to fix it?
Thanks
I think I am a complete moron. I thought I had installed a similiar I follow program. I joined the I follow community and for two months thought I was in the thick of things. Just got word today from the head of the I Follow that I do not have an I follow going on at all. So now I tried your add in. I downloaded it and microsoft won’t even allow me to open it. Is it really this hard? Are am I just that drunk?
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Do I need to uninstall my other dofollow plugin or do they work together?
Remove No Follow Tags – One somewhat controversial method of increasing reader participation is to remove the no follow tags that are included by default on links left in the comments. By removing the no follow tags search engines will recognize and follow links to your readers’ blogs. Andy Beard has an extensive list of DoFollow and NoFollow plugins.
I shall forward this page to my home email ( I am working really)and install it on both my blogs. I currently have a do follow plugin on both,but yours looks to have more features.
Okay, got it installed, configured and posting a comments policy page with a link to here.
Check it out and let em know what you think.
[...] Again, I pulled a lot of this information from Andy’s site, so please do go and read the original. Also, this list is WordPress specific…again, go to the post referenced above to learn more about other blogging platforms. [...]
What a cool plugin, just added it to my blog, nice one!
Hi, thankyou for the Plugin, I am using it and have credited you in my sidebar rather than leaving the link in the comment section. I have a question - I am assuming the number of comments next to the commenter’s name is due to this plugin, and is it possible to turn that off? To me, it seems a little like a popularity contest, and was wondering if there’s a simple way to remove that, but keep the DoFollow thing happening.
Once again, thankyou for an easy to install and configure Plugin, it’s the first one I’ve installed completely by myself (without making my boyfriend do it) and I feel quite computer savvy!
Katie
From what I have read, I want it. It sounds great. I don’t get a huge amount of comments just yet but I have had the comment spam recently. Thank you!!
Once again, my name thing didn’t put the Z in the name Jaz. So, that’s me. Not actually trying to run up the number of comments right now. Just wanted you to know it’s me.
Hi again, Thankyou for the new option of turning off the comment count - I’ve reinstalled it. That was so quick!
thanksss
A great plugin and now the wife has it in her new blog so all three of our blogs sport this great plugin.
Thanks
LOL. I like the example of an overagressivce SEO calling themselves “cashmere dog sweater”. Hee hee.
After browsing around for do-follow plugins, I found this better so I’m going to use this. Thanks for this.
Just installed it on two of my blogs after seeing it in action on another person’s travel blog. Thanks for being so creative and resourceful!
Thanks for this great plugin. I currently display ‘Recent Comments’ on my sidebar, how can I get your plugin to work with those links just like they do with the links on the comments section?
Okay, thats fair enough. I thought there might have been a %rel code or something that I could of placed into that plugin that would get replaced with either nofollow or dofollow. I see now that it is not that simple. My main reason was not for Google, but for Technorati - it uses any link it can find to increase ‘authority’.
Thanks again for a great plugin though.
That would be great if it’s not too much trouble. I’ll send you an email!
That’s a lovely plugin! About time someone made it. Good work!
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I am using this plugin, and I have a couple of questions:
(1) I have set the plugin to remove the “nofollow” tag after 3 comments. How do I check whether the “nofollow” tag has been removed after 3 commnets?
I’d like to make sure the tag is really removed, or my readers will think that I’m lying to them, LOL.
(2) Is this plugin compatible with WordPress 2.3?
Hi, I downloaded the plugin, thanks for a great plugin, I blogged about it as well