pr theft
You know, when I started the D list of blogs using the dofollow plugin, maybe I was a little naive. I thought the people posting it would switch their blogs over to also use the D list, and I’ve discovered more than one blog, claiming to use dofollow, that doesn’t. I’ve also received many, many comments from the same people, daily, and weekly…and I’ve visited their blogs and found that while they’re quite willing to take advantage of my dofollow, they don’t have it on their own blog.
Cass wrote an excellent blog entry about this problem, which she calls PR Theft. I think she’s right. To me, it’s like the homeowner who won’t be home on Halloween, but they leave a basket of candy on the front porch anyway. When you come by once and take a Snickers bar, it’s cool. And you make another trip around the block and decide you want a Hershey’s bar next. Fine. But on your 15th lap around the neighborhood, you’re basically screwing me, and taking advantage of my generosity.
If you’re going to make it a point to comment on the blogs using dofollow - the least you can do is reciprocate by installing the plugin. I’m not dumb. I know who is interested in commenting strictly for the link. And those people will no doubt end up having their URL’s stripped from the comments.
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I’m still in shock that people were abusing the plugin. I bet it’s probably the same people abusing PPP and just creating blogs to make money.
I stripped their links from my comments, and I will be very diligent from here on out with people who comment on my blog just for the link.
People don’t think they can be found out…all one needs to do is look at the page source…yeesh!
Thanks for the headsup - seems like after I approve posts, I must then click the URLS and take a boo at their source codes to see if I’m getting screwed over. I may only have a PR4, but it is still theft!
Thank you for posting about this Colleen. I love the candy bowl analogy. I don’t mind someone taking a piece or two of free candy either…but there is a limit. Umm, *shaddup Cass, you wrote all that this morning*. Okay, I’ll stop. But I do appreciate your post!
I’m not really shocked by it but I do wish I could’ve took part. I even see that someone asked me to join. My only problem is I can’t seem to figure out how to put it on my blogger account.
Yeah that is just rude. I don’t comment on other blogs just to promote my site. I do it because I enjoy reading the content. Do Follow is a bonus, of course. But I do go to blogs that don’t have it because I enjoy them. Though I do sway toward the Do Follow Blogs in my RSS feed when I’m browsing blogs.
OK, since I am your Sister, I would never steal from you. But, I also do not “speaky the geeky”..and am utterly confused about how to put this in my blog. Sistah needs some PR !! And, I’ll take one of them candy bars too : )
Can I make a suggestion if you’re bein screwed over for PR? There are several different ‘dofollow ‘ plugins currently available for WordPress. At least one of them can be configured to only give link love after the reader has made a certain number of comments.
This gets rid of the likelihood of people taking too much candy - without stopping your good readers getting theirs! There’s a link here (not my blog):
http://andybeard.eu/2007/02/ultimate-list-of-dofollow-plugins-banish-nofollow-from-comments-and-trackbacks.html
Hope that helps!
This is why I never joined the D-List. I put the straight dofollow plugin in, made a cursory mention of it in a post or two, but never made it stand out. It’s also in a blurb above my comments, so it’s no secret.
Somehow, I saw this coming.
[…] Colleen over at GeekySpeaky wrote about pagerank theft. People who saw blogs on the “D-List” (bloggers who had enabled a dofollow plugin) were making multiple comments but were not installing the dofollow plugin on their own blogs. That’s just wrong and I saw it coming, so I stayed away from the D-List. It’s no secret that I have the plugin installed, but I’m not going to advertise it all over the net. […]
Amen to that! I’ll strip URL’s, because it becomes obvious.
I use the Do Follow, but haven’t talked about it a whole lot. So, not surprisingly, I don’t get that many regular comments. One the one post I did about adding the plugin, I got tons. And, from time to time I get oddball 2-word comments that I have stopped approving.
Do you take the time to look at source code for everyone, or is there an easier way?
I just installed the plugin myself and noted in my post announcing the plugin that there are likely to be some people that will try to abuse it but overall the readers of my site have been great.
Right now I am not advertising the use of the DoFollow any more than the post I just wrote about the plugin but might do more in the future.
Thanks for all of your work in this movement!