I decided I’d like to have something in my sidebar indicating to my future readers that I’ve turned off the nofollow in my comments, and I thought others might be interested as well. So, I’ve set up a page that has the little logo you see to the right in several different colors and some CSS code that would work well if you weren’t interested in a graphic. What do you think? I think if you Digg this post, we could spread the “movement” to more than just the small (but growing) list of bloggers who are already on board*:
- Wendy Piersall of eMoms at Home
- David Airey of Creative Design
- Ben Yoskovitz of Instigator Blog
- Dawud Miracle at dmiracle.com
- Chris Cree of SuccessCREEations
- Char of Essential Keystroke
- Chris Garrett of chrisg.com
- Andy Beard of AndyBeard.eu
- David Paul Robinson of davidpaulrobinson.com
- Lars-Christian of Lars-Christian.com
- Char also of Casual Keystrokes
- Michelle of Scribbit
- Ponn Sabra of Empower Women Now
- Jason of Webomatica
- Robert Hruzek of Middle Zone Musings
- Mario of mariosalexandrou.com
- Lisa Mills of Work at Home Revolution
- Aaron Potts of Today is That Day
- Heather of Home Ec 101
- Laura Spencer of Writing Thoughts
- Kirk of JustThinkin
- Gayla of MomGadget
- Alister Cameron- Blogologist
- Karen of The Pond
- Jonathan Phillips of SmartWealthyRich
- Susan of Life Is Risky
- Vin of Dummies Guide to Blogger
- René of ProBlogger World
- Elaine’s Place
- Aaron at Foobr
- Julie Bonner
- Ryan at BloggingForBills
- BobMeetsWorld
- The Fibromyalgia Experiment
- B.J. at 2Perfect
- Niki at The A Team
- Gilda at Holiday in the Sun
- Johnny Fuery
- Jo’s Web
UPDATE: I appreciate all who have requested to be added to this list, but the list is now closed and I will be making no more additions to it. Thanks!
*Naturally, this list is too large to be kept up to date as to who has continued to follow comments.
Thank you for the Logo. Got the white one Love it!
The Orange and Black logo is my fave! Thanks so much!
Sounds like a good idea, but I think that a Web 2.0 style logo would be the tip of the iceberg for this movement! I wonder whether that could be arranged?
ok let’s follow
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Well Randa,
Did you ever think when you first came up with your logo’s that they things would go this far. Since I left my comment on April 14th (the fourth one from th top) I’ve gotten anywhere from 4-8 comment notifications a day since then.
You’re turning into a regular “IFollow” legend around here.
@ Kirk – I never thought it would be this widespread, no. My page rank is up to 5 and my Technorati rank jumped by 100,000 almost. That’s not all due to I Follow, but a lot of it is. Makes me want to come up with another idea!
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This was a fantastic idea. I’m glad to see so many people are doing what WordPress didn’t do. DoFollow is such a great way to encourage people to post comments on your site. Why wouldn’t you do this? Sign me up. I’m on board. http://jasonaclark.com/2007/05/18/u-comment-i-follow-dofollow-wordpress-plugin/
New set of WordPress plugins…
I have just recently installed a whole new set of WordPress plugins to this blog:
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Thank you. I added your logo and a plugin that disables nofollow after 10 comments. You can read my policy at
http://www.shainemata.net/2007/05/29/you-comment-i-follow/
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Wow – I really gotta hop on board this. That said, might it not just encourage spammers to target DoFollow blogs more specifically?
- David
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i just hopped in and used your badge. Thanks!
I have installed the no follow plugin a while ago and have your logo displayed in my sidebar as well. Thank you!
Thank you I hate all no follow
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Awesome!!! I follow, too. Grabbing the img.
Hi I meant to say “Do Follow” not no follow. Sorry about that!
I should be on board too. I have decided to remove my nofollow tag….check it out here
http://techathand.blogspot.com/2007/06/deleted-comment-no-follow-attribute.html
Please append me to the list as well — at your convenience, of course.
Love the logos, Randa!
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Hi I’ve added it to my blog also could you add me to your list please. I was also wnodering what I set the options to? I noticed that you said that you set yours to 1day do you recommend me doing the same?
@Jo – you can set the options to whatever works for you. I usually moderate my comments within a day of them being left, so that works for me.
I actually jumped on the I Follow bandwagon several months ago… and I was looking for a graphic to display that fact… So, thanks for creating these badges.
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Great idea adding an icon! I’m going to add this to mine very soon. Amazing response here to I wish I got this many comments.
hiya! i’ve nipped 2 of your logos. great idea. thanks a lot!
I have turned off the nofollow a while ago, but just added you logo on my sidebar. I like the idea of sharing Google juice.
I think this is a great idea, not that I don’t see the merits in nofollow – but it is not a “silver bullet” and should only be used on untrusted links. Hence my 24hrs period when all new links have nofollow applied (long enough for me to check for obvious spam!)
I’ve heard of this movement before but just now implemented it on my blogs.
This is a great way to reward people who actually take the time to write a comment. Great work.
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