DoFollow and Top Commentators – My Blog’s Birthday Gift to You

This month marks the one year anniversary of the launch of the Thor Schrock Technology Blog. In the past 12 months we have progressed from a few page views each day to more than 1000 unique daily readers (now if I could just get them all to install the Alexa Toolbar).

I work hard to bring a wide variety of content to my readers every day. This takes a lot of effort, but is totally worth it when my readers comment on the posts that I write.

To thank all of you for a great year of growth I have decided to loosen the reigns a bit by installing the dofollow and top commentators plugins. This means that when you comment on an item and include a URL with your name, that URL will now be counted by Google as a backlink.

In addition, I am including a SITE WIDE top commentators box in my sidebar that will reward my site’s top 10 commentators by giving them a free backlink as well.

Obviously, this can be an invitation for spammers, so I have also installed some counter measures to prevent the most egregious spammers. If I think you are comment stuffing, I will pull your comments, so please respect the opportunity and play by the rules.

I appreciate all of your comments (yes, even you ‘Listener’) and I am looking forward to another year of great progress to come.