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Commenting Policy – DoFollow – It’s not all about you!
I haven’t posted in a while – I’ve simply been too busy, but I got one comment on my blog today that annoyed me! So I’m here for a rant!
I get a lot of comments on Skillett.com, an awful lot are filtered out without me even seeing them by WP-SpamFree:
WP-SpamFree has blocked 23,910 spam comments!
Things that get past that are still often identified as spam by WordPress and deleted… Then there’s the rest….
More often than not they fall foul of my commenting policy, I created this policy a while back for a couple of reasons – the biggest being that I’m a dofollow blog and I didn’t want my blog full of spam (who would!?).
DoFollow
DoFollow means that if a link is active for more than 24 hours on this site, then we’ll make it a DoFollow for the purposes of SEO rewarding contributors for their work. It’s that simple. Actually there’s a lot more to it, but in it’s simplest form if you contribute here it’s a little thank you!
Commenting Policy
However, the biggest reason I end up removing things is:
Comment Form Guidelines: The comment name field must be filled in with a proper or legitimate sounding name and URL. You may use a nickname or your site/blog name but any comments using keywords, spam or splog-like URLs, or suspicious information in the comment form will be edited or deleted.
And just above the comment field it says:
PLEASE: Take note of the commenting policy, using keywords instead of your name will only result in your comment being deleted or the link removed.
Use your name and actually get a ‘dofollow’ link to your site!
What’s happened?
I think this is all pretty fair as it’s my site and I make the rules 
If you comment with your website name, I’ll “probably” let it through so long as it’s a website I feel is in context and that your comment is legitimate (believe me there are a lot that aren’t!).
So here’s the comment I get today:
Hello, just to let you know as an SEO guy myself that a link using my real name plus dofollow is of absolutely no value. The only exception is if my name were to be bob smith for instance and my domain name were bobsmith.com – so otherwise there is no value to this linking policy.
I see the authors point a little, that using his real name is of little value to get SEO value for him (other than an inbound link), but he can use his website name. It’s clear he’s just here looking for SEO points rather than interested in the content. Now whilst I am a DoFollow blog, I’m not going to give away SEO points just like that….
Interestingly he did use his website name (but as two separate keywords), which I may have considered as being valid (or edited it to fit), he posted it on a youtube video about cameramen (not in context). If he’d posted it somewhere I was discussing commenting, his comment would be up by now and a DoFollow link in 2 days. Sorry – that’s the way it is…
A Reminder
The commenting field isn’t just there for you to get points for your blog/website!! It’s to engage in worthwhile conversation, if your comment adds to the discussion, provides a different viewpoint or is generally in context I’ll let it through with your name or your website name and a link that is DoFollow… Stuff it with keywords and it’s of no value to me and nothing comes for free in this life, it will be deleted.
Thank you
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Cameraman taking care of the Punters and Ronaldo!
I have a friend who’s a cameraman, his blog is always interesting but recently he posted some funny videos that really made me laugh…
First we’ve got the cameraman taking care of punters:
Then the cameraman that showed Ronaldo a thing or two!
If you want to check out some more of these video they’re on Chris’s blog here.
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50 Android Games!
Now I’ve got my nice shiny new Android phone, I’ve got it working nicely for business use, but you definitely need some games don’t you?
This video features 50 for Android (and I was only complaining last night I hadn’t seen many games for it available!).
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‘Snow Good At All!
I don’t like the stuff – I make no secret about that… OK I do – but only for photo’s, everything else about it I thoroughly dislike!
We’ve had almost a week of it now and I have some observations…
- This country will never, ever, be prepared for this. Even people from countries that are used to digging their cars out of four feet of snow say it’s difficult in this country because we are just SO unprepared.
- By law in many countries you have to clear your path and pavement in front of your home and business, doing this would reduce the risk of people slipping on pavements (they don’t grit them, so if you’ve driven to work on wonderfully gritted roads you fall over getting out of your car!).
- Weathermen either don’t know how to react when reporting a high of –1, so they either act sarcastic or smug! Neither are appropriate – where’s that “Barbecue Summer” you promised?
- Stockpiling helps nobody (except yourselves!) and if it thaws you’ll go out again and it will all go out of date – what a waste of money!
- Britain does still have a sense of community and combined whinging seems to get neighbours talking!
Rant over – I’ll leave you with a photo of an igloo I found on my way home the other morning…
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The truth about Speed Cameras
I made this post from posterous, a new service I’m testing – let me know what you think!
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This is why you don’t show off…
I made this post from posterous, a new service I’m testing – let me know what you think!
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Wanna stalk your girlfriend? There’s an app for that!
This just made me laugh today!!
I still get tempted on the iPhone as I’m running more and more of the business on the iPod Touch… That said I love my hardware keyboard on the Touch Pro (and am still tempted by the Touch Pro 2)….
If iPhone did a slider keyboard I might be sold, it’s not the keyboard exactly that’s the problem…. It’s how much screen real estate you lose when it’s up!
I downloaded the Touch Term Pro app the other day (yes there’s an app for that!) and it has a myriad of gestures and features.. But an SSH session under a transparent keyboard worries me!
Also the other big concern I have is this, I don’t want to have listened to music all day and then suddenly need to make an urgent change to a server and not have enough battery life (particularly as a spare battery is a no-no on the iPhone) – do I really need an iPod Touch and an iPhone?!?! hmmmmm
I made this post from posterous, a new service I’m testing – let me know what you think!
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