Get NoFollow Removed On Your Comments!

Has anyone read this article about it yet?

"There are quite a few reasons why you should not buy into this scheme. Anyone who does will just be throwing their money away. This is no more beneficial to the subscriber than tits on a boar.

Let's say you "rent" your comment link for a few months. And remember, it is rent. If you don't pay it, you get evicted and NoFollow is taking up residence on your sofa.

Links will not pick up any juice right out of the gate either. Once they "stick" for any duration, then they may give you some benefit. But looking at a page with close to 200 hardcoded links without any comments, how much value will that be? And once it does stick, it will be buried in the archives and off of page one."

http://www.webstractions.com/news/2007/05/john-cho...

I notice that I have to login for the nofollow to take effect.

Or you can spend 30 minutes and write a review of his site and save the $10/mo. :mrgreen:

Come on. Removing nofollow from a user's comments on a subscription basis is a great capitalist idea. The user is paying for the presumed value of a followed link in a comment on John's PR6 site. John Chow dot Com is about "making money online" and this is one more way for him to do it and possibly help others to do the same.

Frankly I don't know if it's really worth anything, if Google ignores comment links with or without nofollow, but at ten bucks it's a cheap experiment. I'm in and will see if it's worth it just by monitoring traffic to my site, bweaver.net.

John's certainly given me ideas that have already proven to be worth way more than $10.

John, you are a genius! Whether you hate the idea or like it, you have to admit that it's thinking outside the box.

I've also converted my site to DoFollow, removing all the no-follows on the comments.

Don

I've been teetering on the edge about this blog for some time now. To be sure, there are occasional (becoming more rare by the day) nuggets of useful and helpful information posted here.

But this scheme, John, may have just pushed me over the edge...

This idea is indeed in poor taste. I'm not sure that it can be called unethical, but certainly, it smacks of pure greed topped with an unhealthy dollop of egotism. Rather than being clever & innovative, it seems to me a manipulative & spurious plan.

I don't see what the big fuss is about. Maybe it's the way that John introduced this. If John had simply said, "I am going to give all my readers a special deal on a linkback for $10/mo.", most of you would have jumped all over it and never said a word. You would have been happy to pay it (considering what you would have to pay for a text link ad on this site)!

It's just marketing. If you don't wanna pay it, don't!

My .02

This idea is pretty poor taste John and it appears you're sacrificing the spirit and community nature of blogging itself in order to push some boundaries.

Just because you have a majority of people supporting the idea as clever and innovative does not make it ethical.

Also - I supported one of your earliest backlink review efforts. Never saw the linkback from John Chow show up on Technorati. I wonder if anyone else has noticed the same phenomenon with theirs?

I will keep my thoughts on this idea for myself. However...I'm wondering...

John, where are you? Where have you gone? Are you hiding? Why don't you comment on this?

If it were me and if someone had soo many bad comments about my idea, I would definately tell them a thing or two :razz:

hmmm,more foreign link love

Truly EVIL! You are the epitome of evil, but i love it :twisted:

Is that just a way to make more ppl comment here -_-#

Can you guys point me to the google document that says: that if it follows the link to a site, it will index it?
How do you guys know for sure that just because the link does not have the "nofollow" attribute, it will be indexed by google?

Unique idea.

So now you'll have even more comment spam from fewer people.

Fascinating that this one post has drawn so many comments.

I might get in on this...

Anyway, Mr. Chow, are you ever going to enable your email subscriptions in Feedburner?

Just for me? Pretty please?

Thanks,
Paula

You just lost a commentator.

The Top 3 commentators have been a bunch of spammers to get crazy amounts of comments (100+!!) and now it will get even worser because they'll get many do-follow links at EVERY page they comment and not only on the frontpage...

It's not evil selling the follow tags, but its evil giving those spammers another reason for spamming.

Does this have any effect on pingbacks/trackbacks?
tia, jon

I have no problem with John Chow selling no nofollow. People are saying it's evil; how so? If people do an evaluation and decide that it's worth the $10, they can order it. Otherwise not.

John Chow has not, so far as I can tell, misrepresented what he is selling.

Interesting. I will give it a try then

well done john. It's just another way to make some more bucks, we should all learn from this.

hey any one interested
non interested
visit the link
http://www.supershiva.blogspot.com

I seriously think the last few comments came from the same I.P.

Wow, some people have really taken exception to this

Come on, it's John Chow... it's part of the parcel. Don't want it, don't buy it, but it's a very entertaining blog and that's why the number of readers is so big.

Something bad is coming your way john.
Your reputation may fall or your subscriber count or even the number of comments you receive.

This is a real abuse

Oh yeah, and forgot to mention. Links coming from your blog's comment system are worthless to Google's search engine.

You should check it out, before scamming these people.

Ok, this is starting to get ridiculous. Before you know it, we'll have a Pay Per Read (PPR) feature.

Nowadays, only 1 out of 10 posts are really worth reading. I can take all the dine, car, self-promote and the spam links because that's your blog and that's what it makes unique. Even though you are gathering more bad press everyday.

However, the excessive paid reviews and overall low quality of posts are starting to really hurt this blog.

Note: Why do you have a link about penis enlargement?

I think you crossed a line with this John. From high-end blogger to low-end business.
It's a shame to see how you abuse the people that got you popular in the first place.
No doubt you will have a number of people falling for this but ask yoorself this:
The money you will make from this is peanuts compared to what you are already making. Is that really worth your online reputation?