Blog Comments
You may have noticed we’ve recently changed the layout of comments on the Blog – some of you may now be lucky enough to have a clean, followed link from our blog to your site.
If your URL is Green – congratulations you’ve earned a link from us by taking part in our community, otherwise your URL will be a completely unlinked in a grey colour.
We have written a custom WordPress Plugin so we can reward those who participate on the site more. In order to obtain a link you will need to have made a minimum of 10 comments (subject to change). Once you’ve reached this threshold your site will also be given an Editorial Review if your site is deemed link worthy, you will get links on all earlier posts. Our decision on whether your site is link worthy is final.
So happy commenting 
Cheers,
Anthony – Follow me on Twitter!
David Whitehouse 1428 days ago
Will you be releasing the plugin? I imagine it might be quite popular…
Shark SEO 1428 days ago
http://sharkseo.comIs this at all related to the whole change with how nofollow is dealt with? *If* nofollow now works the way Matt Cutts has hinted, then it’s nice solution to it all. If you released it as a plugin, I’d totally take it.
anthony 1428 days ago
http://www.anthonyshapley.co.ukHey Shark – Yes I believe it is, if PageRank is split up how Matt explains NoFollows are useless from an SEO’s perspective. However we’ve even been doing some testing with regards to whether GoogleBot will follow plain text URL citations as and other bits as well – we will publish all our findings when we have completed it.
We (Me & Dave) have discussed releasing it and probably will be in the not so distant future.
Allan Stewart 1428 days ago
My comments seem to be blocked
anthony 1428 days ago
http://www.anthonyshapley.co.ukNot sure I understand Allan, your comments don’t seem to be blocked to me – and your site is linking nicely
just Guido 1428 days ago
http://www.justguido.comSo… you guys don’t trust Becky? =)
anthony 1428 days ago
http://www.anthonyshapley.co.ukWould you trust Becky? =D
Chis 1428 days ago
Great news that people are not scared to using followed links when they see fit!
Quality Nonsense 1427 days ago
http://www.qualitynonsense.comGreat idea for a WP plugin, I’ll add my vote for it to get a public release.
Allan Stewart 1427 days ago
http://www.pulsestaffing.co.ukHi Antony,
Yeah, Pulse is my day job but I am more well know and prefer to be known under the Firely SEO name. Anyhow, not sure why but when ever I comment with Firefly SEO (had to add a space) of include that word, or anything to do with it, it doesn’t get through?
Many thanks,
Allan
Patrick Altoft 1427 days ago
Interesting idea, I did something similar yesterday which means only registered users get to leave a link, part of a wider plan to give links to legitimate users and not give anything (nofollow or otherwise) to people too lazy to register.
Shane 1425 days ago
http://www.shanedj.comIs this a WP plugin that you may eventually release? Very clever idea though.
richardbaxterseo 1425 days ago
http://seogadget.co.uk/Nice work Antony – looking forward to seeing the plugin released. So are you releasing it soon?
Allan Stewart 1425 days ago
Besides my personal question, sorry, great work on the plugin. Looks fantastic. This is something I remember you were first talking about some time ago, so was shoe and so was Joost. First to get it done though, thats cool. It will be interesting to see what if any effect it has on your domain trust and or traffic. Do let us all know.
Andy 1425 days ago
I can’t remember how many times I’ve commented on this blog, and I’m truthfully only posting on this article to check and see if I get a shiny green link back.
Would be really interested in the plugin if you released it though
Paul 1425 days ago
http://www.northsouthmedia.co.uk/Great idea, as for the plugin, I’d get it released asap, before someone else jumps on your idea.
rishil 1425 days ago
http://designer-watches.orgI wouldnt be surprised if I was mannually blcked off – I think Dave is still sore at me for the ketchup incident…
Andy Beard 1425 days ago
http://andybeard.euLink Lucia’s Linky Love with some added CSS, but stingy on the anchor text?
Allan Stewart 1425 days ago
http://www.fireflyseo.comCreating quite a bit of buzz, looks like this one could be quite big. I wonder what Matt’s thought on nofollowing comments will be. I suspect he might have something to say, perhaps not directly, but this is the sort of thing that might well make Google Quality teams job a little bit more difficult.
Andy Beard 1425 days ago
http://andybeard.euNow all you need to add is Ajax Edit Comments so idiots like me who make a typo can fix them before someone else gets to read them.
richardbaxterseo 1425 days ago
http://seogadget.co.uk/smiles @rishil – the ketchup incident?
Gregor 1425 days ago
http://www.massmediadesign.co.ukBrilliant stuff. Perhaps this is the first sign of the nofollow changes actually helping those bloggers that enter into regular debates and comments with the blogs that the usually read.
Much more sensible than a blanket nofollow.
Having said that, it does encourage spammers to target lots of pages on your blog – but WP shows new comments in such a way that it’s easy to delete those comments.
Nice work.
DaveN 1425 days ago
@ andy think about it when you comment on my blog it says name not what anchor text would you like to get from me, I want to promote people not keywords,I might had a tagline link later where you could get link equity, but at the moment you are going to have to stick with what you get, and it’s easier for to control i can see spammers trending and resetting is just one click away
Darrell Freeman 1425 days ago
http://www.darrellfreeman.co.ukGreat solution, bit like SEOmoz links on profile of those active participants.
DaveN 1425 days ago
@Darrell Freeman
kinda but I hand checker a lot of the sites
BFG 9000 1424 days ago
http://blog.bfg9000.co.uk/What’s the betting that this (& subsequent) post(s) get more comments than you’ve ever had before?
TTFN
BFG
Janilink 1424 days ago
http://www.janilink.com/I would love to see the plugin for this great idea!
Vancouver Web Design 1424 days ago
http://www.build1.caVery cool idea. Did you write that in, or was it available in a pre-existing plugin ?
Allan Stewart 1424 days ago
http://www.fireflyseo.comHobo have an offering.
Justin 1423 days ago
http://www.emarketing-newsletter.comVery cool idea. I just recently started following your blog, but I look forward to contributing more in the future.
Dan Thies 1406 days ago
http://www.seofaststart.com/Dave, Anthony – this is outstanding. I have long wanted some way to do exactly this – “your name is your name and not the keywords you want to stuff in.” So, when does the plug-in go on sale?
BFG 9000 1406 days ago
http://blog.bfg9000.co.uk/” So, when does the plug-in go on sale? ”
On Sale? – surely these very altrustic guys will be giving it away in exchange for a “Thank You”…..
TTFN
BFG
george 1404 days ago
http://www.seotalk.grThe irony here is that the author of this post doesn’t have a highlighted link for his comments…yet!
Cutts said that the way google handles no follow has changed a long time ago but it went public recently.
Since then all the SEO’s are trying to think of a new way to handle the changes….
I am sure Cutts will come up with something else about it in a few months so as to keep us all busy
Efusjon 1404 days ago
I love the idea. My only problem would be on my own blog I wouldn’t have time to do that. I suppose if you have a really popular blog you can get volunteers.
Tony Murphy 1404 days ago
http://www.webbusinessarchitecture.comI think the hyper-focus on comments based on a few remarks from a Google employee is quiet amazing. I would say that Google already take into account the low value of comment links on blogs – particularly as it is so easy to spam comments – so I’m not going to worry about it
ElenaLisvato 1389 days ago
Hi, I can’t understand how to add your site in my rss reader. Can you Help me, please
Sandip 1384 days ago
http://www.makemylink.comBack links has become very important for google page rank. This idea of providing links through comment is very good. Great idea.
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Bill Bartmann- 1349 days ago
This blog rocks! I gotta say, that I read a lot of blogs on a daily basis and for the most part, people lack substance but, I just wanted to make a quick comment to say I’m glad I found your blog. Thanks,
A definite great read…
- Bill Bartmann
Justine 1311 days ago
http://www.mesrianilaw.comNice idea and good I’m following this blog now. I’m now discovering the benefits from this blog aside from the informative and up to date posts. Thank you.
john 1249 days ago
http://www.lc32-lcdtv.com/Thanks for the hint, I was looking for sth. like that for months
Joshua Dorkin @ BiggerPockets 1237 days ago
http://www.biggerpockets.comAnthony/Dave –
This seems like a fantastic idea/policy to implement. How are you finding the results? Is it leading to more/better comments? What about the SEO perks?
Turgs 868 days ago
Hey Dave – I’ve just stumbled across your blog post on this today for the first time. Have you released this plugin to the public? Do you have plans to at this stage?