do follow blogs = easy links?
I saw a referral link in my dashboard over at Simple Kind Of Life, entitled Dofollow blogs complete list - of course, I clicked it to see what kind of list my blog was on for being a do-follow blog.
(A do follow blog is one that gives a “do follow” link to people who live a URL in the comments field. By leaving a comment on a do-follow blog, you’re getting another link to your site or blog counted by the search engines.)
The instructions on this forum for using this list were as follows:
well einstein it is very simple by posting your site name and keywords with some relevant text on all these pages and even more as you find them googling this is only a handfull , and then building some very easy google pages and throwing in an adsense advert a bit of text and link to my page and all these blogs , hope you get the idea , its a bit of work but it is solid
Sounds like a lot of work, and for practically NO reward. Do these people think bloggers are stupid? I moderate my comments, and if I don’t know you, and you haven’t commented before, I may or may not allow your comment. Most of the comments I get from people attempting to get a do follow link look something like this:
Name: Silly Keyword here
URL: http://www.KeywordsInYourURLhere.com
Comment: Ha, great post
(Or some variation of “great post” - like “nice blog”, “good idea”, etc, but usually, something completely lame, offering no opinion at all, and as easy to spot as an elephant sitting in the corner of my living room.
So you can comment all you want, attempting to get a do follow link from one of MY blogs, but it isn’t going to happen. If your comment is worthy, I’ll allow it and strip your URL from the comment. If it’s unworthy, I’ll mark it as spam, making it quite unlikely that your future comments will ever be seen again.
Do you really think bloggers are that stupid?
I know exactly what you mean. I tend to be rather lenient for my approval rate of comments without links.
However, once a url is put into a comment, I suddenly turn on the spam-approval-mode of my brain.
(Basically, that post is getting deleted/edited unless the rest of the comment is good and the link adds to the conversation).
I only have one blog where I don’t moderate comments..and that’s because it’s an unadvertised personal blog, so for a spammer to come across it would be unlikely.
Ha, great post!
Sorry couldn’t resist
I hate it when they give it no effort at all and then they add at the end of the comment “don’t forget to look at my site too at fullofspam.com”
Haha - Retta’s funny! It is so funny to me, that this crap is still going around and being ‘taught’ as an easy way to get links. Come on, people - this is so two months ago! (Even though it wasn’t right then, either!) It’s just interesting, how it seems to go in waves - different waves of different groups of people catching on to it. It’s like the difference in music or fashion trends between, say, Dallas - and an itty bitty town in Alabama! Ha!
well said…sometimes on things like that…i strip all the links, or i do move the “spam link” around a little just to play with them…typo it up a bit…so they go, ahh, darn, got my comment in, but the link is wrong! really? what a shame.
seriously, tired of spam!!!