I was so happy to read my comments from yesterday’s post called
Do follow comment backlinks BLAST
that I wanted to let everyone know how happy and honored I’m to have some of the best bloggers/ people in the world stop by POTPOLITICS, so don’t count me out yet 
Thanks everyone I really appreciated reading them.
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It looks like I’m first so I’ll comment on every do-follow blog that comments below me. I’m subscribed so I’ll know.
All of my blogs are do-follow along with other cool things like commentluv, keywordluv, top commenters widget etc..
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Dang!
How did I get stuck going to Brian’s blog?
Oh, that’s right – it’s because he has the coolest blogs on the interwebs!
His one blog I even get to disagree with him. We don’t just talk smack, I am keeping count of how many slaps he gets when I do meet him in person *insert evil laugh*!I have the option on my blog to NoFollow or DoFollow per comment.
Yep! I have given people NoFollow because they have NoFollow.
I don’t always do this but, I was getting tired of some people wanting to suck PR off others while they never wanted to give back. To many searches coming in with “dofollow” so, I have cut out the juice suckers!
I’ve learned that the only links I want to give DoFollow are ones that are paying me. Not with cash but, with good content, ideas, or a little link luvin.
I also do not want to tell the SE’s that I approve of a site (by giving dofollow) if I do not know the person is going to be around & not turn into a scum site that I am linking to.
So that is my mini rant for this post. Hope you enjoy my PMS as much as everyone else around me. LOL
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Whoa whoa whoa…. Look at you coming with the heaters this weekend, new theme and a killer post.
I like the new theme with the exception of the comment box alignment, thats a personal preference thing so screw me on that one.
Looks like there’s going to be a lot of heat this weekend.
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Very glad to have found all these cool DoFollow bloggers! I’m DoFollow all the way.
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Wow!!! That was a nasty post. First thing first, I have a nofollow blog (you can delete my comment or attach a nofollow attribute). I’ve a question for ya. Were you a dofollow blog in the initial day of blogging? If not why? Sometime people do worry about their PR. It is always advicable to make your blog a dofollow when you get PR3 or above. Anyway I’m making my blog a dofollow this week (I’ve already announced it. Dont believe me,you can check my blog one week later). I comment only to those blogs where I think I’ve something to say. I’ve my own way to give a link love to my friends (by weekly link love party and friendship award post).
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You will find I joke around alot but I have noticed that DO FOLLOW Bloggers are cooler so welcome to the CLUB:)
Of course a person can do whatever they want with their site:)
thanks
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Woo Hoo! I agree… I don’t understand the whole “no follow” thing. I don’t even bother reading the no follow blogs… they’re generally a waste of my time.
Naya
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Now that’s whats up John, you tell em! =D I tell you what… I do agree more blogs should take on the dofollow movement =D
Till then,
Jean
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Arrrg. I am feeling like I was attacked with a machine gun lol. My blog is nofollow mostly coz most of my commentators are non-bloggers
Infact 95% of my readers are non bloggers.But also coz its a war zone there at my side lol. Many comments are either swearing the government or even Bin Laden haha. But for those who have a blog, I have the top commentators which is dofollow. And there is also commentluv plugin installed so that bloggers who comment have their last post more exposed.
I would like if there is a plugin however with which I can easily make someone comment dofollow and nofollow in one click while approving..
Any plugin developer around please?? Do it for me
This way I will be able to make bloggers and friends like you have dofollow while those using “Buy cheap viagra made in antartica” or whatever go nofollow.
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If I had a real political blog I would probably be No follow also
But this is a blog for bloggers by a wannabe blogger just having some fun:)
Thanks Kurt your a good guy to know:)
as far as the plugin not sure as every link in the comments is followed and TOP commenters Blogroll the whole sha BANG I like to take risks
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Check out “Nofollow case by case” in a Google search. That’s the one I’m currently using.
Although I usually don’t bother to make links nofollow, because if I was going to, they probably aren’t worth publishing in the first place. If I don’t want to vouch for a site to the spiders, why would I recommend it to the real human visitors!?
I gotta agree with the post here, too. Dofollow blogs have more moderation, and that means a higher quality comment experience and more interaction. Nofollow bloggers seem more likely to just approve & forget. Besides, if nofollow links aren’t conserving pagerank, who benefits from destroying that link juice? Nobody I can think of except maybe the sites who are already ranking at the top.
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Give ‘em hell, damn those nofollow blogs and before anyone asks my blog is dofollow, love the new theme, wow it loaded quickly, ciao for now
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Hi me own mucker. How come you link to wiki in some of your posts for things like “Skate Park”? Who doesn’t know what a Skate Park is? Do you like wiki that much?
Giving em hell.. A lot of people have a nofollow blog for a reason or they don’t know about nofollow. It doesn’t mean they have a bad blog. Maybe their content is good still.
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Also here’s one for you. I absolutely hate blogs that don’t confirm your comment for you after you have left it. No “Thanks your comment will be moderated soon” Nothing! Which is exactly what just happened now and what will happen when I submit this comment next. Just thought you should know because it’s one of my pet hates. No ones perfect bro.
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@Sell Your Mobile: I pulled your 3 comments out of my spam folder I don’t moderate comments
I get emails when someone comments and then if necessary I go check it out
I do visit every site url on the over 3400 comments on this blog
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I think people have the wrong idea about “no follow.” They think it’s only there to gain PR and not what it’s really for which is to keep the Googlebot from following a non-relevant link (such as an affiliate link).
I think Google needs to change how it does business with no-follow links so that relevant links are followed. As it is now, they are hurting their own search engine by not discovering the true, relevant parts of the web that are hidden under no-follow.
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Man, I just don’t have any idea at this point. I have neglected my “Main” blogs for a long time now. I don’t add nofollow to my little niche blogs, but then I don’t really expect any real comments or care if i get them on those either. It’s a time thing.
My main blogs are intended to be nofollow, but I haven’t updated my code for that in so long they probably aren’t right now. And they probably won’t be for a while longer either. Will you hate me a little less if I retweet this post for ya?
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@Dane Morgan@Experimental Blogger: I’m just glad you stopped by
everyone has a reason of doing things a certain way I was really just having some fun talking smack
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It’s all good! Your attitude is what makes you good reading. I gave you a http://su.pr/19EpuD and a review.
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Wow you and Andy Beard in one day we can check stats all day long but when real top notch well known people stop by you know shit is popping
Hopefully thanks for the stumble
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I also think that it is confusing for some people to know if they have dofollow set up correctly.
There is also a growing backlash against the dofollow idea because of the scumbag spammers. There are search tools to finds dofollow blogs which the spammers then target. There are also lists of dofollow blogs that have supposedly been vetted down to sites that pretty much allow any comment to stick. So dofollow sites like mine get a LOT of borderline spam comments which require much work to either delete or de-link. I still do it because I feel as you do about dofollow, but I can understand how others might feel different. I saw a post somewhere a while ago in which someone was complaining that within a few months of making his site dofollow, spam had increased over 10 times. And the spam was of the type that filters like Akismet do not catch. I have written about these devious, human, (vs robot), spammers a few times. Here is a link to some of the examples on my site of how people try to exploit dofollow blogs.
http://willtaft.com/?s=spam
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Spam is not a problem here I check the spam folder to make sure none of my friends are in there because they used some new KEYWORD LUV name which I don’t mind then I hit
DELETE ALL SPAM
takes two seconds LOL
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You are lucky, John! Once your site gets on a few of those lists then you will start getting the real people that come and actually take the time to write a comment only to get a link to their site selling all kinds of stuff, The examples that I use in those posts are the tame ones. The bad ones I delete right away. I guess they take the time to do it because a lot of people just leave up all comments that are not captured by Akismet or whatever.
Will´s last blog ..Tired of The Health Insurance Mess?
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John I’m really proud of you.
You are doing the do and picking up where those sucky blogging networks failed bloggers.Some of these Owners who own blog directories don’t know shit about blogging.
I think its obvious to some of us.
Keep on doing man, I know you’ll make it.
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This is the reason why I love you John (no homo lol). You straight-shooting “wannabe” blogger tells it as it is. And that’s also why you “smoke the competition”.
Bloggers should remember that dofollow existed even before their blogs are created. It’s Google’s idea to add this nofollow thingy.
So if you feel like standing up against the big guy, get rid of nofollow.
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Hi John,
I loved reading this post – you’re so honest. And I’m all for the do follow movement. I love WordPress but I really think they no followed the comments automatically to kiss up to Google
(LOL)
I’m a do follow blog and soon I’ll be inaugurating a blog in my subdirectory of my main domain all about blogging tips. This new blog will also have comment luv and be do follow. The only reason I haven’t started it yet is because I can’t find the right code to put in my htaccess file for it to do the canonicalization of my url (but that’s another topic). Anyways I think people need to be more appreciative of their commenters and do follow their blogs. I know I am.
The other thing is that we don’t loose page rank when we give out a link we share that page rank. Page rank is only lost when the links pointing to a page lose their strength not when you link out. Therefore there really is NO reason to be no follow. But people don’t know SEO therefore they don’t know this information therefore they are sacred to be do follow. (Did I say to may therefores? LOL)
Anywyas I might do a podacts to explain all of this some day to convert more bloggers inot becoming do follow. Go Do Follow Movement- woohoo!
All the best,
Eren Mckay
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Hey John,
You’re one great blogger and I admire your being straightforward. Having my blog switched to “dofollow” definitely provides favorable results.
I just came to a WordCamp and it’s quite surprising why most bloggers I’ve met simply don’t embrace the idea of “dofollow” in comments but anyway it’s their choice.
Now, I only concentrate on commenting on “dofollow” blogs because I think “dofollow” bloggers are more friendly and sincere.
However, there’s an instance when I joined a “dofollow” blog directory and find out that some of the sites listed are “nofollow” so I reported them to the site’s admin. Not a good way to advertise your site as “dofollow” but does otherwise.
I normally use Firefox when leaving a blog my first comment because I utilize the “no nofollow” add-on to verify if the comments section of a blog is really “dofollow” so I can tell who’s lying.
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Do you get good comments on your blog ? There were times when I would of quit if it wasn’t for some good blogging friends I have. But remember it takes time. I had to go through a 1000 to get one. When your new they may come by fast and not last. I guess by trying to just be myself and being honest about how I saw things will attract REAL people and to me that’s where it is at.
Awesome and thanks for helping me get another post off LOL
Now since the latest fad is to do round up of best links etc to share on one’s blog I’m going to add the best comments of the week every Sunday night so think of something witty to say LOL
To much FUN
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hello John
read comments?yes !some are very interesting and others are a great source of information and sometimes inspiration.Thank you
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I said I would comment on every comment below mine on that post and your popularity is keeping me very busy. Great stuff, I love reading comments and meeting new friends.
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You have a fantastic website here and filled with good mood…
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You know I read my comments, but do you read your Twitter replies
Click the comment luv link meng
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Now I feel some pressure to write something informative and witty. I guess i’ll have to start on the next post….
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Heh… not only do I read the comments on my own blogs, but I love to read the comments on other people’s blogs too. It’s incredible how many different opinions there can be on one subject… especially the controversial ones.
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I try to do what I can to encourage comments. The spam sucks, but a blog without comments is useless to me.
Hey john, i know this is off topic but i have a dofollow blog now. I usually read all the comments at my blog and try to reply them all. But as a part time blogger i hate to reply them as it takes lots of time. I am a lazzy ass.
@ Ricky I think me and ExtremeJohn are starting to like you
I know I’m thanks for stopping by I will go check your blog now thanks 
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Hehe, I couldn’t figure out what was going on with all the comments inside this post, but I assume you copy/pasted them or something, to include them in the post?
Personally, I read *all* comments that I receive, also to “screen” for new commentators that might link to crap that I don’t want to *do follow*. I don’t always have time to reply to all comments and some comments doesn’t really need a reply either, but I read’em all.
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I read all the comments in my blog, there really ain’t many. I am new here but I do subscribe to DoFollow principle. In my blog, I set my NOFF plugin to make the signature and last blog’s title of my commenters to become DoFollow after 3 comments. I just want make sure that they sweat it out a little.
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Yes John you said it as it is. The man has class and is working hard to turn this country around from 8 years of abuse. Unfortunately I was not able to watch the show yesterday but I have recorded in my DVR and looking forward to enjoying it sometime this week during a long coofee break.
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I agree that you should read all your comments. You wouldn’t publish without reading what you said, now would you? Plus a lot of comments are very entertaining. Staying current is the hard part.
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How many comments have you got this time John? Busy busy busy. All the Best to You!
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Yes, one should read all the comments what meaning they keep while posting. I really agree with this thing.
Hi John!
You’re such a sweetheart- putting everyone’s comments in the post section. That’s really nice of you. Thanks for that =)
I’m so excited to get my blog going about blogging. Now that I got the techie part out of the way I just need to write some high quality content for it.
Hope we can still get on skype sometime. Please add me there. I DMd you on twitter my id
All the best,
Eren Mckay
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