Comments on: Why I NoFollow The DoFollow Movement

By: Patrick Burt

Patrick Burt — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:42:51 +0000

Thanks SaxC. I think I took care of it. Much appreciated for the comment.

By: sacx from dofollow.us

sacx from dofollow.us — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:37:27 +0000

Hey, your site was hacked. Just look on footer of your every page and you will see something like: eval(unescape(”%64%6

probably they changed your wordpress template. I thing you will find it on wp-content/themes/your theme/foother.php

My antivirus reports
Malware: HTML:Iframe-inf
Filename: http://greenlpl.com/in.php\{gzip}
Virus/Worm

Regards

By: Sohbet

Sohbet — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:30:30 +0000

thanks

By: Patrick Burt

Patrick Burt — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:49:02 +0000

No problem at all Rose. Thank you.

By: » NoFollow vs DoFollow by Rose DesRochers - World Outside my Window

» NoFollow vs DoFollow by Rose DesRochers - World Outside my Window — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 23:27:15 +0000

[…] Before you join the movement drop by Patrick Burt’s blog and see why he has chosen not to join the Dofollow movement. Patrick makes some valuable points. “Why I NoFollow The DoFollow Movement.” […]

By: Rose

Rose — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:48:27 +0000

Patrick I think your reasons for not joining the movement are excellent. I hope you don’t mind my linking to this post?

By: Patrick Burt

Patrick Burt — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:12:22 +0000

Thanks My. I see we see it the same way. This just may be the subject of my new Devil’s Advocate series.

By: My

My — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 21:46:14 +0000

I’ve just downloaded a dofollow plugin, but had second thoughts installing it. I searched for nofollow or dofollow, instead, i found this site. Like you, i’ve been thinking, too, that having this dofollow is just for the benefit of others. Most of my commenters have this nofollow on their blogs, anyway, why should I have this dofollow on mine. Thanks for this post!

By: Sutocu

Sutocu — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 21:31:11 +0000

Interesting read. Some valid points, but I’m not convinced.

As another comment above said, thinking “Google may not like it” puts the search engine before the community. I like search engine traffic, but I like my regular visitors more.

I don’t see any other problems with dofollow. The amount of extra moderation is very small. Akismet takes care of 99% of the spam comments left on my blog, and most of those would be posted regardless of whether I used nofollow or not. A site with more traffic might get more dofollow spam, but then again, they’d get more spam anyway.

I believe the use of nofollow is unnatural, and I like to vote for my readers site.

By: EA

EA — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 02:35:40 +0000

I don’t know Pat, but I think search engines don’t mind the link texts as they are arbitrary and optional. Searchbots mostly take into account the content of the href attribute which is the URL and that’s it. For example, I can use “Google” as a text link but the href directs instead to “Pat-burt.com”.

Am I reading you wrong?