New commenting rules

I’ve turned “nofollow” back on for links in comments. If I can find a good WordPress plugin that allows me to disable this on a per-comment basis, I will manually remove that on comments I think deserve it.

Use your name, nickname, pseudonym, handle, or other personally-relevant identifier in the “Name” field. Your name is not “Miami Attorneys” or “Solar Panels” or “Bingo Games”. If you use a product or site name as your own name and it makes it through the spam filters, I will manually delete it. This applies to obvious keyword linking, too. The keyword you’re trying to boost is not your name. If you use it as your name, I will remove your comment. Use your own name, or something reasonably name-like.

Linking to the site you’re promoting is fine, as long as it’s relevant to the post or other comments in the thread. If I feel it is spammy, I may delete the link or the whole comment, depending on my mood. Your link will have rel=”nofollow” applied, unless I think it deserves otherwise.

If you are not a spammer or SEO practitioner, you probably don’t know what any of that meant. Don’t worry about it; it doesn’t apply to you.

16 thoughts on “New commenting rules”

  1. Hey read few post
    all the links are no followed I thought I was do follow for a while and found that some plugins would bang heads every link on my whole site is followed. I just think it’s alot easier and we shall see on the nest update if that was a good move or not :) I think sculpting page rank is lame and makes the person sound like a damn snob :)
    Page rank is free what difference does it make ?
    I wrote about it and people can google
    Do follow maybe not ?
    Stumbled nice blog thanks

  2. I also made my blog a dofollow but spam and nonsense comments are really annoying however still I want to give rewards to my commenters.

  3. Would you happen to know how I could turn my blog into a do follow?
    If you have any ideas for me please let me know!
    thanx

  4. WoW Really nice Text, i am from Germany and my English is not the best, but i like what you wirte!

  5. Nah, if DS3M is what you go by, then that’s cool. I go by RJL20 sometimes, so handles like that aren’t a problem in and of themselves. If you were also linking to some kind of “DS3M Best Insurance” all the time, it’d be less ok.

  6. I am totally new to blogging so any website I go to I try to see if there are rules and how to blog there. Now the rules are a little scary when you got to be a technology guy just to understand the rules. I bought a webname so far but does one have to own their own blog to blog here, is this the requirement for a do follow???

  7. What if i use my website name with a proper keyword after any comment i made for the post i read and like to give my suggestions as a comment as you said it’s fine for you under my name as a signature (sigs are allow and valid everywhere). What do you suggest on this regard. Thanks

    Muqtada Khalid

  8. It probably depends on what the site in your signature does. If it’s selling viagra or SEO services, I’ll probably delete it. Other stuff might get a pass. You won’t be getting any google juice from it, though, since I’m using rel=”nofollow” in comment links.

  9. Hi, I left a relevant comment on the Web Based Recipe Software thread days ago, and it hasn’t appeared. Was there a problem?

  10. Weird, it looks like the spam filter caught it for some reason. I’ve gone in and pulled it back out. Thanks for the note!

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