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A Fable Do Follow and Comments

By Dave Smith Friday July 20, 2007

Dinner Fork There is a story told of heaven and hell being exactly alike.

There are large banquet tables set with every kind of food and desert imaginable. Everyone has a fork in their hand that can’t be removed or repositioned. The Fork is so long you can’t put it in your mouth.

The scene in hell; everyone is stabbing food and trying to somehow feed themselves with this great food stuck on the end of a very long fork.

The scene in heaven; everyone is using their fork to get food for the person across the table from them. They can use their fork to feed others but not themselves.

In heaven everyone gets fed. In hell no matter how hard they try no one gets fed.

I wrote earlier this week about the new blog experiment I was doing in our market. To make it worth while reading I threw in some things that I thought would interest other bloggers.

gold nugget I also realize that some just won’t take the time to find the nugget of gold in the middle of the post. Here it is dusted off and shining bright. I didn’t want this to get lost.

Posts with Comments

I’ve noticed on the blogs I author and track that post without comments can move quickly to supplemental results and right out of the Google index. However, posts with comments tend to stay in the active index much longer and some almost indefinitely.

If you find a post you really like or just one you would like to see others read leave a comment. And I’m not talking about “Great Post” or “I love your blog”. Providing a good comment just might help a fellow blogger keep their post on the web. We all know we should write for our readers and not the search engines. The reality is if we aren’t indexed by the search engines our readers can’t find our posts.

Post with Contextual Links

The second thing I’ve noticed that helps keep post in the Google index are those containing links that are contextual to the post. It means you are giving away a link to another blog. It is often called link love because these contextual links are the best kind of back-link to get from another blog or website.

Share the link love and keep your posts in the index.

Do-Follow Plug-in

This plug-in It will disable the automatic rel="nofollow"attributes added to external links. Meaning when someone leaves a comment on your blog and they fill in their URL they will get a back-link from your blog post.

Of course we should all have control over the spam comments that come to our site. I still moderate all comments before they go live. Even with Askiment and a spam filter activated. I also have the do-follow plugin on all my blogs. I’ve not told anyone this until now but I think I’m going to start, Oh, I guess I just did.

Here is the link to find the do-follow plugin.

In the options panel of the plugin you can set the number of days for the comment before the no follow is removed. I personally like it set to zero, if someone takes the time to comment on the blog and provide their valid URL, I’m glad to provide them a link back to their site.

We can all help each other out.

Leave comments on others blogs
Put quality contextual links in your posts
Activate the Do-Follow plugin on your blog

Before you know it instead of all of us going hungry, we all get fed.

In case you didn’t know it. Back-links are a major part of Google PageRank. Share the Link Love, improve your PageRank, which improves your position in the organics. To borrow a phrase from Athol Kay “You’ve Been Fed”.