Lucia’s Linky Love(a dofollow plugin for Wordpress) now has new features!
- New! User can delay dofollow some number of days. Default is zero, and that’s what I plan to use. This was added to fulfill a request.
- New! Problem related to a call to a function that did not exist in PHP 4 is fixed. This is provided to fulfill a request.
- New! You can skip the do follow for a particular name. I use this on my name both to save CPU and to minimize the risk that Google might think I am Google bombing to gain rank on the mega-important word “Lucia”.
- Do follow url in “name” after a specified number comments from a particular visitor: Blogger can specify the number “N” in a range.
- Do follow urls left in comments after a specified number of comments by a visitor.
- No follow “names” with too many characters. Number of characters specified by blogger.
- No follow all comments left more than 14 days after a blogger stops blogging entirely. This prevents your blog from becoming a link farm if you get busy, hit by a car or whatnot. (The superstitious know doing this will actually prevent you from being hit by a car.)
I also made a few invisible changes to further reduce the cpu. These are technical things that have to do with when and how the database is called. Note: This program already calls the database less than 1/4 as often as the original Linky Love.
Future Plans
I am looking into a few other issues to see if there are other ways I can optimize the plugin just in case we discover the plugin is cpu or memory intensive at blogs that contain many, many comments in the database and/or are get lots of comments.
I will be developing an comments review interface that simplifies catch and delete old comment spam that may have slipped through in the past. In particular, I what I have nick-named “Daniel” spam. That is spam that sort of looks innocent the first time you see it, but turns out to contain the same phrase over and over.
Summary
Download Lucia’s Linky Love. Upload to your plugin directory. Activate. Select your settings. 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!
PS: Oh, and note to those who linked me before Wednesday. I apologize. At first, I didn’t know I had problems receiving trackbacks. Later I knew, but didn’t know how to fix it. My trackback issues are now fixed.
Sounds good.. just what I was looking for..
downloading now!
Great additions. I was holding off, but I am going to get it now and try it on one of my blogs. The easy ability to see all comments with no-follow (or with no-follow) and edit them would be nice. Both editing them individually (and by name/email). Maybe that isn’t in the scope of what you want but I would like it - if someone gives a great comment I don’t mind having it follow right away…
What does it actually match on for 3 previous comments? Name only, name and email, name and email and website?
@John: The program does this:
1) Identifies the first “word” in your name. The first work in “John Hunter” is “John”. That’s your “short name”.
2) Identifies your email address. (I’m not repeating it. )
3) Identifies the top level domain in the urls you left. Yours is investing.curiouscatblog.net If you had left investing.curiouscatblog.net/page10.html the top level domain would still be investing.curiouscatblog.net
It then looks at the first comment in the database and
a) “short” name to “short name”.
b) the exact email to exact email
c) top level domain to top level domain.
If all three match, this “counts” toward the match.
This means that you, John, can start to get follows to anything at investing.curiouscatblog.net as soon as you leave 3 comments from “John” at your email address and at any page on investing.curiouscatblog.net.
As to your suggestions: those are more or less in line with what I plan. The only issues are how to best organize based on what database calls are easy etc.
Nifty. I think I’ma try it out.
thanx for this tip