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 Lucia’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 Lucia’s Linky Love Plugin.
- Install the plugin: Download Lucia’s Linky Love. Unzip, upload into your plugin folder; activate.
- Find the Admin Panel: Visit your Wordpress Admin panel find “Options” click. Click “Lucia_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. Lucia’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 Lucia’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 “Lucia’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 Lucia’s Linky Love. Use it. Tell people about it.
Finally, leave me comments and trackbacks and let me know how Lucia’s LinkyLove works for you. And remember: I use this plugin. So, if you leave several comments, you’ll be dofollowed too!
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Hi, I downloaded the plugin, thanks for a great plugin, I blogged about it as well
Just downloaded this plugin so I can join the dofollow community. It looks like the best plugin of the bunch so thanks!
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Thanks for this! This would be the 2nd plug in I’m getting from you…
I’ve tried to remove the nofollow tag from my other blog in blogger - it returned an error message.
BTW, how can I allow email comments follow up, like what you have below? You have a plug-in for that as well? Sorry for being so dumb…
BTW, I’ve downloaded a plugin for the email comments follow up before, but it didn’t work on my blog - appeared as junk. It was called ’subscribe-to-comment’ plug-in. Any good recommendations (in case you didn’t write one)?
@Suzette: I use subscribe-to-comments.
If the plugin is causing you difficulties, let the author know. If it’s a WP 2.3 incompatibility, they’ll want to fix it. (Or if you hit a bug, they’ll want to fix it.)
Or they might just be able to help.
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hey there..
nice plugin..
i’ve downloaded it..
thank you very much this a very helpful article
.I must learn a lot thing about this
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Yeah I must admit, this is a really nice plugin. Using the ‘no follow’ FF plugin I can see that every comment on this page has acheived a no follow link so I guess the plugin is doing its job
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Want to see if this plugin still works. thanks!
Lucia’s Linky is so awesome that it worked at the first time i am bit of confused but after i worked on it then things are going good.
Tammie you are obviously extremely passionate about your position. I commend you on your passion and urge you to keep it up. Thanks.
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