Lucia’s Linky Love

Eric Bramlett
September 5, 2007

I’ve installed Lucia’s Linky Love plug-in to manage my do-follow settings. It’s a fantastic plug-in & I highly recommend it. There are a lot of bloggers/SEO’s out there that have “SEO Tunnel Vision” and just spam the crap out of blogs to geta link. Lucia’s Linky Love let’s you set the following rules to combat human spam:

  • The # of times a blogger must comment before the author links become do follow: LLL permits 3 through 10.
  • The # of times a blogger must comment before the comment links become do follow.
  • How long a comment must be posted before it becomes do follow.
  • Keep specific names no-follow. For instance, it might benefit to keep your own comments no-follow, so it doesn’t look like you’re google bombing your own name.
  • Keep the no-follow attribute on any name with more characters than a specific setting. This is to combat spammy names. ex. “Austin Texas Real Estate”

So…that’s what I’m playing with now! Here are my current settings. Let me know what you guys think!

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Geedos
September 6, 2007

This is a good idea and it seems simple enough to install and use – do you get any conflict with any existing slam filters you run though?

I get hundreds of spam comments a day and so would be nervous about installing anything that may affect my filter.

eb
September 6, 2007

Geedos –

Check out the plug-in Did You Pass Math. It should take care of 99% of your spam problems.

Dave
September 9, 2007

I have “do follow” set up on my GoBackpacking blog, however I don’t publicize it, so it’s interesting and easy to pick out the random person that finds my site on Courtney Tuttle’s D-List because I hear from them once and then they’re gone (ironically, like you’ll see with me and this comment!). I feel as though I’m thus rewarding my readers who are there for the content, vs the link, with little maintenance.

This approach might not get me a lot of comments as a result of the “do follow” community, however for some reason that doesn’t seem to bother me. I think of the plugin as a reward for loyal readers instead.

Eric Blackwell
September 9, 2007

Eric;

I meant to post my other comment over here! Yeah, it takes care of almost all of it. I still hand moderate (on my ericonsearc blog) and I PUBLICIZE the fact that I hand moderate. This (hopefully) helps ward off those that would think that they can “slip” something in.

Great plug in though!

Eric

Ann@Las Vegas Home Mortgage
April 11, 2009

This is the plugin I’ve been looking for. I was about to go onto the forum and ask for this plugin, but now I guess I don’t have to . Thanks for providing this info for us blogging newbies.

Ferra
April 18, 2009

This plugin will change rel=”nofollow external” into rel=”external”.
Am wondering if “external” is still needed. Might affect Google’s pagerank as well.

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