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I DoFollow Genius

By Tinu Abayomi-Paul on April 1st, 2006

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Some people say I use the word Genius too liberally. I admit I use it a lot, but I also believe that there are many different ways to be brilliant.

I was reading the Pearsonified Blog, (by another brilliant blogger) on the 14 day anniversary of the Indie Virus. He commented on a post by Cesar Gonzalez on why he decided to use the DoFollow plug-in for WordPress on his Blog. Chris Pearson made such a compelling argument for this, in line with his Indie Virus project that I had to go read what Cesar said.

From his post at Flee the Cube:

Basically, the â€œrel=nofollowâ€ tag was intended to fight comment spam (which it hasnâ€™t) but it has instead hurt the blogosphere by not giving search engine credit (ie. Google Juice) to thoughtful commentersâ€¦ok, so maybe not all of them are thoughtful, but thatâ€™s besides the point.

So I installed the DoFollow plugin to fix the problem. What this change means for you is that leaving a [thoughtful] comment or pingback on Flee The Cube will contribute to your PageRank. Ever so slightly. So you get the Google Juice and I get more comments. Are you starting to see how this is a win-win situation for bloggers?

He goes on to humbly state that he didn’t originate this idea and attributed the original bloggers who inspired him.

What’s interesting about DoFollow is that if a spam comment slips through before you have the chance to moderate it, it doesn’t matter. You can set it not to disable nofollow until a comment reaches a certain age.

I will be offline for a day and a half from the time that this post is made, but I’ll answer your comments when I get back in.

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DoFollow Search Tool 08/03/2007 03:28 PM 1 point
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I love your post and agree that DoFollow entices users to leave constructive comment by giving them a much better incentive. If you want even more incentive, check out my DoFollow Search Tool that lets you search only websites that have the DoFollow enabled, this means that you can search for your targeted keywords, and only DoFollow sites will show up, so you can get extreme link juice.

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Tinu Abayomi-Paul 08/03/2007 03:49 PM 1 point
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Awesome, what's your real name? It makes it a lot easier to decide whose tool to review when you use your real name instead of some anchor text.

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