How To Use The D List

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By Steve Spalding May 26th, 2007
Under: How To Hack Your Life

The D-List is a list of blogs that have removed the No Follow tag from their comments field. I have recently joined the ranks of the D-List.

What This Means To You

If you leave a comment on my site, it used to be that the only thing that you received was a metaphorical pat on the back and maybe a few additional words of wisdom from me. Now, if you leave a comment on this blog it will be as if I have given you a backlink. Backlinks are the currency that helps build Page Rank, pushing you higher up into Google’s search results and helping to secure your online empire.

It’s my little way of rewarding people who visit this site and actually contribute to the discussion of topics. The same reason I now use the Top Commenter plugin.

A Caveat

Since I have turned this handy feature on I have become a stickler for removing spam comments. Sometimes I’ll keep the comment and just remove the link. Either way, here are some example comments that will be moderated.

“LOL! Great post on that thing, keep it up!”

Far too general, what are you talking about and what was great about the post?

“I love your blog!”

That’s great, please reserve these general comments for the contact form. Now, if it is couched in terms of the article that is fine.

“afjdfldfjklfsf [link] Mesothelioma help [/link]”

Give me a break people. Do your SEO elsewhere.

Things that I will never moderate.

Criticism of the blog.
Criticism of me.
Almost anything else that doesn’t look blatantly like spam.

Some Link Love

Here is a list of a few sites that I’ve found interesting that also have Do Follow removed. Give them a visit and tell them I sent you. For the full list, visit Court’s site.

Foximus
Patrick Says 2.0
Solo Technology
TechieZone
WebStyle

Web 2.0 Roundup

If you want to be added to this list, leave a comment and I’ll get right on it.

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Dustin Brewer

I think that removing the nofollow tag is a good idea, I recently added it to my site and at this time I am not really sure why I did this. After reading this post I have decided I would like to be apart of the d-list. So I have removed the nofollow tag from my readers comments.

Now if I could only convince them of the importance in putting http in the input box so I don't have to go back and fix their links all of the time...

Ajay M

Thanks for mentioning about me. Loved the link love.
Have you read abt Viralink in my blog.
http://blog.techiezone.in/2007...

PilotJohn

Thanks for sharing your knowledge to the world about "The D-list"! :)

lakedaemon

It's quite interesting, but since I removed 'nofollow' I am automatically drawn to sites that also follow the same practices. I was just checking out truemors to see if it was anything worth looking at and came accross your link. Nice to know that there is a community of people who share the same ideas. Congrats.

Grant Thorpe.com

Congratulations on exposing this great club 'The D-List' to the world, and thanks for the bcak link too

Steve

Hey, I like the site. It was my pleasure.

Jason

Hey, thanks for the mention. we always appreciate link love :)

Steve

Exactly, I have no problem with people wanting to do a bit of SEO. All that I do care about is that they try to keep it within reason. Thanks for the visit!

Julie

Ha... don't forget the 'buy viagra' spam link! I agree about removing the no follow tag, I think it's only fair for significant contributers.

Heidi

Hi Steven,
Thank you so much, this post is really helpful. I just added the plug in. I think your guidelines for comment moderation are very fair and I will be moderating in the same fashion. Do you use Akismet for your spam filtering? I use it and I love it! I especially enjoy seeing the tally of how many spam emails have been "caught". Nope, not geeky at all. Oh and I really do love your blog. I joined your community:)

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