A few days back I told you how to increase traffic to your website using my blog.
The 4 point plan was to exchange links with me, comment on my posts, link from a post of yours to mine and to follow me on Twitter.
Many of you did these things and I greatly appreciate it. I’m also glad to see you’re being proactive.
But I am disappointed with 2 things.
One, no one has exchanged links with me. I know, cry me a river. But I’m really trying to make this WordPress Link Directory work. My next post will be on how to set it up on your blog just in case you’re unsure how to do it. And then hopefully you’ll exchange links.
Two, some of the comments that have appeared since I invited you to comment for SEO reasons have been, I guess predictably, skeptical. There were a couple that forced me to make a decision on whether or not they were spam or legitimate comments by a reader.
I want people to get some link love back to their sites, but I also want comments that constructively add to the conversation.
So here’s what we’re going to do.
I’ve changed the “DoFollow” plugin I’m using. It’s now Lucia’s Linky Love and it only changes your links from “nofollow” to “dofollow” after you’ve made 5 comments. This will protect the blog from drive by commenters.
At some point, I may raise the barrier to 10 comments before you receive link love from me. But for now it’s 5.
Now I don’t want you to leave a bunch of “junk” comments in order to hit the 5 comment barrier. So if you don’t have 5 comments yet, don’t worry! You can still get some link love from me by exchanging links in the link directory 🙂 It’s here: http://stephensblog.com/dir
And if you want to start boosting your comment count now, why not let me know what you think about this policy? Leave a comment 🙂