Comments on: How Your Commenters Could Be Pooping On Your Pagerank

By: Eric Sangerma

Eric Sangerma — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:42:57 +0000

Very useful program you recommend Andrew and thanks for the tips. I own a few do-follow blogs and never realised it could harm me seo-wise.

Btw, love your “no poop zone” image at the top, can I steal it!

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:32:02 +0000

Thanks for the heads up, Andrew – I know Google hate broken links so I’m sure Xenu will be a very useful little tool for many marketers.

Also, I think Steve raised an interesting point about the risks of following “bad” sites. Where do you draw the line, though? Do you follow straight away, after X number of comments, after checking out the site, or do you need to continue to monitor all the sites you follow on an ongoing basis just in case they become a “bad” site?

By: admin

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:32:25 +0000

Good to see ya here Gobala – hope ur well!

Andrew

By: Gobala@ Work from Home

Gobala@ Work from Home — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 02:51:31 +0000

Thanks for the tips, i rarely check all these things

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:15:02 +0000

Hi Andrew, good catch! I hadn’t even thought about Google punishing me for other people screwing up their own links.

I checked mine, I promise

By: Alex Newell

Alex Newell — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:22:26 +0000

Very good tip Andrew, Thanks. I often do check a commenter’s site before accepting the comment but I had no idea of this problem. I’d be interested to read your reply to Steve’s question. it is a problem that mostly affects forums but could harm a blog I guess

By: Jon

Jon — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:03:02 +0000

Thanks for anther great post and resource. If you are meaning to use dofollow, I suggest you check your plugin because all the iks n your comments are currently nofollow.

By: Joshua

Joshua — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:58:03 +0000

I had never heard of Xenu until I read this post. Does it also help identify broken links within your website? Again great post.

By: Udi

Udi — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:07:31 +0000

Huh, I didn’t even realize broken outgoing links hurt your page rank. Good to know – thanks for pointing this out to us! I deliberately use DoFollow as well… really good to keep in mind.

By: Richard W. Matthews

Richard W. Matthews — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:42:50 +0000

Hey Andrew,

This is fantastic! I didn’t know even think that commenters leaving mis-typed links would lead to poorer SEO. Since my blog is really rather new, I really know what to look for as I start to attract commenters.

Hopefully, I’ll never have to deal with ‘fixing’ this type of issue by knowing about it from the start.