Comments on: Using do-follow to encourage reader participation and conversation http://www.adamjctaylor.com/using-do-follow-to-encourage-reader-participation-and-conversation Software Engineering, Marketing & Business. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 03:19:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0-alpha hourly 1 By: Adam http://www.adamjctaylor.com/using-do-follow-to-encourage-reader-participation-and-conversation/comment-page-1#comment-257 Adam Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:53:06 +0000 http://www.adamjctaylor.com/using-do-follow-to-encourage-reader-participation-and-conversation#comment-257 No follow isn't going to hurt your position in the SERPs or PR and removing no follow is also unlikely to have any effect, however, what it does do is provide no reward for people who are contributing to your site - so in some sense there's less reason for readers to participate in the conversation. Having said that, I doubt many people have time to check if each comment they leave is no followed or not, so it probably doesn't make a huge amount of difference either way. No follow isn’t going to hurt your position in the SERPs or PR and removing no follow is also unlikely to have any effect, however, what it does do is provide no reward for people who are contributing to your site – so in some sense there’s less reason for readers to participate in the conversation.

Having said that, I doubt many people have time to check if each comment they leave is no followed or not, so it probably doesn’t make a huge amount of difference either way.

]]> By: mlankton http://www.adamjctaylor.com/using-do-follow-to-encourage-reader-participation-and-conversation/comment-page-1#comment-256 mlankton Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:07:02 +0000 http://www.adamjctaylor.com/using-do-follow-to-encourage-reader-participation-and-conversation#comment-256 Since my site is a portal, I really don't care too much about comments. People are free to comment, and I will participate, but I'm not using comments to drive traffic. I was actually advised to use nofollow. Was this bad advice? In your opinion, can using either no or do hurt serps and pagerank? Thanks Since my site is a portal, I really don’t care too much about comments. People are free to comment, and I will participate, but I’m not using comments to drive traffic.

I was actually advised to use nofollow. Was this bad advice? In your opinion, can using either no or do hurt serps and pagerank? Thanks

]]> By: Adam http://www.adamjctaylor.com/using-do-follow-to-encourage-reader-participation-and-conversation/comment-page-1#comment-255 Adam Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:11:42 +0000 http://www.adamjctaylor.com/using-do-follow-to-encourage-reader-participation-and-conversation#comment-255 Yeh I used top commentators once but it was at a time when I had very little commentators and it was a bit lame then. Yeh I used top commentators once but it was at a time when I had very little commentators and it was a bit lame then.

]]> By: Steven Snell http://www.adamjctaylor.com/using-do-follow-to-encourage-reader-participation-and-conversation/comment-page-1#comment-254 Steven Snell Fri, 14 Sep 2007 00:48:45 +0000 http://www.adamjctaylor.com/using-do-follow-to-encourage-reader-participation-and-conversation#comment-254 I agree. I use the DoFollow plugin on my blog. I also like the show top commentators plugin. I agree. I use the DoFollow plugin on my blog. I also like the show top commentators plugin.

]]> By: Web Community Tips Roundup @ chrisg.com http://www.adamjctaylor.com/using-do-follow-to-encourage-reader-participation-and-conversation/comment-page-1#comment-253 Web Community Tips Roundup @ chrisg.com Thu, 13 Sep 2007 10:59:56 +0000 http://www.adamjctaylor.com/using-do-follow-to-encourage-reader-participation-and-conversation#comment-253 [...] Interact. Make it easy to comment. Encourage comments by interacting, nurturing, incentivising, rewarding. When you have a good number of comments then you can consider a [...] [...] Interact. Make it easy to comment. Encourage comments by interacting, nurturing, incentivising, rewarding. When you have a good number of comments then you can consider a [...]

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