One of the adjustments I have been recently considering is the addition of a DoFollow plugin designed to supersede the default NoFollow setting WordPress imposes on the comments visitors post to articles.

Over the last several weeks, a few friends and I have been debating the pros and cons of adding and activating a DoFollow plugin to make the blog more “visitor-friendly”.

The ultimate intent when adding this plugin, is to further enhance both traffic to the blog and blog comments since visitors that comment frequently would get reward with a DoFollow link to their site.

As of today, I located, installed and activated a DoFollow WordPress plugin to return some “link love” (backlinks) to my faithful, commenting followers.

After reviewing seven or eight WordPress DoFollow plugin contenders, I decided on “Lucia’s Linky Love” plugin, which is touted to:

1. Encourage thoughtful and respectful comments by allowing the blogger to set a minimum number of comments (mine is currently set to 4) after which links associated with future comments become DoFollow giving back a little link love;
2. Provide link love (backlinks) to regular visitors and followers as reward for being an active part of the conversation;
3. Provide a buffer to link pirates by only setting DoFollow links on posts within 14 days of when originally published;
4. Provide additional options regarding the DoFollow and NoFollow tagging if a visitor’s comments are too “spammy”.  (Of course, we always have the power as the “Moderator” and can ultimately use the delete command in extreme cases.)

As always, I strongly encourage my visitors to comeback frequently and read the current posts plus take a few moments to enter the conversation by commenting.

“Lucia’s “Linky Love” WordPress DoFollow plugin is now on duty

Within a few days, you will be rewarded with a little “link love” from me to you for your efforts …