In the age of blogs, the feedback mechanism which goes hand in hand with blogging is on the brink. It is a sorry state of affair and reasons are far too many.
For starters, we have over a million blogs and users find a new blog for the unique information they may need. So, the question of loyalty withers, and so does the connection between the blogger and the reader. Even some of the top blogs, including social engines such as Digg is losing commentators fairly regularly. I am an avid reader of Digg and there used to be a time, say 4 years back when comments used to run into several hundreds, and today, the case has completely turned around.
Secondly, spamming has taken the sheen out of blog commenting. A lot of spammers, in order to get backlinks back to their site, comment on blog posts, placing links of their staked websites. This spam has brought in control measures, which avoids spammers, and at the same time some of genuine bloggers, who would like to share their websites through your website.
Google and other search engines recognize the tag no-follow, which basically tells the search engine spiders that these links need not be followed. WordPress, the world’s most popular blogging engine has enabled no-follow tags for all its comments. So, for spammers, blogs that run on WordPress don’t benefit much. And, as I said earlier, some genuine commentators who would like to have a reciprocate with a comment to a link onto their website are turned away as well.
To encourage comments on Tech Pedia, I have decided to do away with no-follow tags for all comments. With this, I would like to invite all blog commentators to read the available articles here and leave your feedback, and get a backlink to your website. That being said, there is a certain standard that we maintain here. The comment should compliment or supplement the blog post, and add value. If otherwise, I will not hesitate to dump it.
To remove the no-follow tag on WordPress, I have leveraged on Dofollow plugin by Denis de Bernardy. It is a nice little plugin which does the job for you. I would recommend other bloggers to follow suit and revive the art of commenting.
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I have a couple of blogs myself but to be honest the amount of spam that makes it through the akismat thing is just too much to handle for me. If I made my blog comments do-follow then I would have to shut down blog commenting all together because of the amount of replica bags and jordan shoes comments with links to their spam pages I would get.
By making your comment links do-follow you are just going to lure those people who are looking to get a link from your pages and not those who genuinely want to post a comment (exceptions will still be there and I am one)
My own blogs are very boring and do not get much attention on the comments department but the forums I run do get decent amount of posts and new threads… We seriously need to rethink this whole blogging scene.
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