News Source: http://www.hobo-web.co.uk
Published: Jul 01, 2009 - 03:32 pm
Story Found By: martinbowling 956 Days ago
Category: Social Media
So Basically;
Regular commentors will get a dofollow link that passes link love – with this, you really reward regular contributors :)
Those with less than say 3 comments will not get a link at all (although you can modify this) but when they do hit 3 comments, hey presto, link love, and with anchor text value!
Pagerank won’t evaporate through nofollowed links from link droppers because they won’t be links!"
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Thanks for Sphinning Martin :) I think this should remove the nofollow worry from bloggers AND really reward regular contributers with more powerful links.Any feedback appreciated here or on the Hobo site :)
uh oh is martinbowling back to his mega-sphinn-success ways? beautiful concept, hobo
Thanks very much Brian :)
Timely idea Shaun. Hope you keep working on it. The perfect solution would be adding even more quality conditions.
Great WP Plugin from Hobo. I have always thought and continue to say that NO FOLLOW is a total load of hogwash. Its google’s job not ours and now they are doing a reversal. Clock links that are pants and do follow links that are good. Be part of the internet, thats what G always say, no follow is just a mecanism that serves to confuse thing more.
Hopelly V2 is out shortly - It’s in development, 2 clear new functions.
Great idea! Was it necessary to put a non-alpha character in front of the plugin name which results in incorrect sorting in the plugin list?
@Marios - I will have removed in the next version. The next version does a few things that I think most bloggers will like :) It’s out very soon if we can get a bug ironed out! If we can’t do that fast, I’ll get it removed from this version.Thanks for the Sphinns :)
Interesting - although I have a couple of doubts:1) I’m not sure about the usability of not providing a link (I like to see where people are from). Perhaps the URL could be displayed as text somehow.2) I recently turned off my DoFollow plugin because I get hit my spammers in a major way. They come and drop 10 or 12 comments across my site in one sitting. The new plugin won’t protect against this, because they’ll pass the limit.Still we have to do something and this is a good start!In related news, Vladimir Prelovac, WordPress plugin rockstar, has announced that he is working on a plugin (SEO Super Comments) that will create dynamic pages for each comment, with comment author links on the blog post pointing to the dynamic pages. That should also be of interest to people reading this. I’ve sphinned it over here.
"2) I recently turned off my DoFollow plugin because I get hit my spammers in a major way. They come and drop 10 or 12 comments across my site in one sitting. The new plugin won’t protect against this, because they’ll pass the limit."Thats why I moderate all comments first and so should everybody running a blog - I’m also considering aggressively outing spammers by feeding their emails to the bots :)