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A Word of Advice on D-lists and Comment Luv

The reason for writing this article is noticing the upcoming trend of using Do-Follow lists of blogs that have their no-follow option turned off and therefore pass on link juice every time somebody comments on their blog. Another upcoming trend is the number of Comment-luv lists posted where people can go and leave their comment and have a direct link exposed to the latest blog entry on their blog.

Even though I chose to turn of the no-follow on my own blog MeMyselfandI ????????a few months ago, I am becoming worried by the number of people who have started distributing these type of lists without warning their readers not to destroy the system.

You might have noticed that the number of do-follow blogs is becoming smaller every day and many blogs that found themselves listed at one point in time actually start switching back to no-follow again.

Speaking from personal experience, I do feel that having my blog set to do-follow does improve the participation on a blog in general and I am in favour of using this option. It saddens me though to see that so many people are starting to abuse these type of lists in order to get a few back links to their blog or website.

And yes, I am using the word ABUSE on purpose.

I consider my blog to be my own place in the blogosphere and I take great pride in what I send out into the world. It takes up quite a bit of my time to keep my blog going without having a financial purpose in mind.

I appreciate the time people take to comment and add to the conversation which is why I turned off no-follow in the first place, but seeing that more and more people think they can take advantage of other people’s blogs and services by putting up a lame “great post” comment just to get a back link is actually making me think of returning to no-follow and get rid of the crappy comments that way.

Even worse, some make a comment without having read the post at all (yes, it does show when you are commenting without having read the post) and just pick 2 or 3 post where to put a few words comment and than go on to the next blog.

If you are using do-follow blogs in your SEO tactics (and I have absolutely nothing against it as long as you work for it and in fact add something to the content of the blog) think about that before you start leaving your comments, that is, if you want do-follow blogs to exist …

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7 Responses to “A Word of Advice on D-lists and Comment Luv”

Vivienne (1 comments.) June 4th, 2008 at 5:20 am

I experimented with do follow on my first blog, which is now 1 year old. Thankfully, I only got a handful of lame comments and they were posted repeatedly by the same bloggers. I ended up following them to their blogs and posting comments calling them out. They stopped spamming me, I’m happy to say.

I also found my blog linked on a number of these do follow lists on personal blogs, which didn’t bother me at the time because I didn’t know much about SEO. Now I request to be removed.

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colleen (1 comments.) June 8th, 2008 at 9:42 am

what is SEO downside with being on d-list on personal blog? We have akismet that filters most spam.

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Mirjam (4 comments.) June 10th, 2008 at 2:46 am

I don´t think there is that much of a downside SEO-wise.

TIME-wise I do believe there is. Akismet doesn´t catch all spammy comments, but I am receiving more and more lame comments on my blog and tracing back, most of those commentators seem to arrive through d-lists.

Sorry, but I just can´t stand to see my blog abused by lazy commentators who don´t even take the time to read my posts!

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Stephan Miller (1 comments.) June 18th, 2008 at 12:05 pm

I am one of the culprits, at least at creating the lists. Didn’t mean for them to be used as spam material, but I guess that’s what happens.

Just to let everyone know. It’s not what I intended.

What are you doing over here, Mirjam? Nice to see you.

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jason (1 comments.) July 16th, 2008 at 11:46 pm

Its true, going do follow and installing luv comment would certainly help increase traffic in your blog. I did it for my blog, and traffic increased 3folds! Amazing isn it. I’m sure you’ll be a great success!