Photographing the Photographer
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Note to commenters who are here ONLY for link love … YOU ARE IN THE ARCHIVES PAGES. Spread the love at … Uncommon Photographers MAIN SITE. But remember, like here, comments are moderated and have to be related to the posts. Comments such as awesome, good picture etc. do not cut it. Be reasonable.
And please link back if you can. Thanks!
Uncommon Photographers used to be popular with quite a high ranking at Technocrati, but since I turned the comments off (due to spam) and also since I moved servers several times, necessitating it to be offline several times, its popularity plummeted. It’s getting hits, but when I look at the log, the hits are mostly from robots who are crawling the pages.
A few months ago, i almost stopped publishing Uncommon Photographers and wanted to make it to a different photo site because I felt that I was just repeating myself. There are a lot of photographers now out there, I don’t even have to look for them anymore, so they are no longer novel. But a contributor told me not to …
Recently, I got energized again to work on Uncommon because of the Entrecard movement. It’s basically a nice way to popularize your blog by ‘dropping’ your Entrecard to other blogs that are members of the Entrecard network – when you do that, they usually reciprocate the gesture. They may or may not read your blog as many power droppers just want to drop the maximum drops (300) in a short period of time.
But some are like me, taking time to drop (about 50 drops a day) and also reading the blogs that I drop on, blogs that normally would not even spark an interest from me. Many blogs are basically MFAs (made for adsense or other advertising networks) to make extra money, but many more are gems. Lots of stay at home moms whiling their time away on the computer and connecting with like minded moms. Lots of expatriates trying to connect with their homelands. Lots of wanna-be photographers trying to exhibit their works of art (or not). The blogosphere is totally a different world now.
In order for Uncommon to be popular again, I am trying my best to become a member of various blog networks and participate in them (as you can see now in the preponderance of widgets and small banners on the right side bar).
But mostly, I am getting into the ‘U Comment I Follow‘ movement started by Randa Clay and advocated by several other top bloggers. I am latching on to this movement a little bit late, but if it makes Uncommon popular again, why not?
What it is, is, blogging platforms usually have a ‘no follow’ rule embedded in them. Whenever there is a link in the comments, search engines do not follow that link. Supposedly, these ‘back links’ are important to raise your rankings in the search engines, but if they are not followed by the search engines, adding links defeats the purpose. The reason for this was that spams usually have links and the platforms were designed not to follow those spam links. But that also removes the incentive for commenters to comment and contribute something of value to your blog.
So now there is a huge movement to turn off the “no follow” rule and spread the love for linking. So I turned mine off (although comments are still moderated) to spread the love.
Please comment, comments nourish.
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It is so hard to find do follow blogs these days!. The spammers killed the golden goose. I just hope that the do-follow movement takes off and we can live in a world where we can get a lot of link love and blog owners can get a lot of good comments on their posts.
It is so hard to find do follow blogs these days!.
The spammers killed the golden goose.
thanks for giveing me do follow blog…
thanks for this do follow link, also you have a great shot here
Awesome post. Thanks for sharing
I think you are doing a great job and a service to all bloggers.
I also publish websites that are dofollow, and give them a free link from my directory of dofollow blogs.
.-= mike´s last blog ..5 PR3 Dofollow Blogs =-.
It is so hard to find do follow blogs these days!.
I agree Mr. Ramirez. It’s very hard to find do follow blogs these days. It takes alot of time and patience
yes, it takes a lot of time to have do-follow links now
Great indeed. I think DoFollow is one of the best things for comments.
I agree, my favourite thing about the dofollow movement is that it encourages community and people comment on other peoples blogs.
thanks for this do follow link, also you have a great shot here
I always in search of do follow blogs as they become direct back link for our website.I appreciate your effort to make the blog do follow.
WordPress by default is setup with a No Follow comment system. Meaning you don’t get Google link love for commenting on blogs and linking back to your site. I believe the reason for this was to cut back on comment spam. But by using anti-spam plugins and moderating comments, spam can pretty much be avoided.
It’s really hard to look for dofollow blogs these days but we all know that those websites really helps us.
I like the fact that you’ve made your site do follow and I’m sure a lot of commentators appreciate your effort to make your site do-follow. Many blogs seem to die off when nobody can post comments, I notice. Blogs are better when comments are at least enabled (I think).
This is a wonderful movement. It is hard to find dofollow blogs. Hopefully the link love will begin to spread again soon!
Its a give and take relationship, good and informative content from the blogger, and an active participation from the community that rewards a link back to their own blogs at the same time.
Spread the LOVWE!!!!!!!
Its great to see another blog following the dofollow movement. Have you seen more posts as a result of making your blog dofollow?
yeah thats true wordpress is configured like this, but you can change it and prottect against spam
Bollard: certainly! It helps that I am listed on a list of high PR blogs circulated around the web. My hits are definitely up and people do comment and follow or check in once in a while what’s new … and comment! The downside is, there are still TONS of paid commenters with canned comments – sometimes the comments ARE NOT even remotely related to the post, it’s laughable. They think that we don’t moderate the comments, so they just cut and paste away. But what do they care? They’re paid … I guess by the number of comments that include their clients’ they paste on blogs.
Having a blog with dofollow is the generous thing to do, but the argument that having nofollow breaks the internet is false. The links still exists for readers to click on it’s just the false page rank spamming that’s being affected.
thanks buddy..its hard to find dofollow blogs nowsaday
I am starting to think that I am the only twit that doesnt know the difference between do and dont follow links. Someone help me out!
yes, it takes a lot of time to have do-follow links now
thanks for this do follow link, also you have a great shot here
Thank you for sharing the great info. I raelly love the ‘I heart you’ photo on the top of this page.
Your picture is heart warming.
I’m having fun putting this principle of sowing and reaping into action.
This is a wonderful movement. It is hard to find dofollow blogs. Hopefully the link love will begin to spread again soon!
I love the shot. I have a similar one that I took at the zoo by my school. Also dofollow blogs are almost non existent now.
Hello there Ken, I’m also interested in this. (Take a look at the most recent blog post on my website.) Your article is a really thought-provoking read; you’ve most definitely given me some food for thought.
Best wishes
, multiplumb
It’s really hard to look for dofollow blogs these days but we all know that those websites really helps us.The links still exists for readers to click on it’s just the false page rank spamming that’s being affected.
True about dropped traffic, but it takes time to moderate posts, I’m still thinking of it
yes, it takes a lot of time to have do-follow links now
thanks for making interactive community..
Great blog – thanks for the info. I didn’t know about ‘u comment I follow’ until I stumbled upon your site
Share d luv mon! I’m so happy to hear there’s actually a DoFollow movement! Let’s all join in sharing the link luv!
Perfect Picture, thanks
Queen Elizabeth park has saline lakes where you can find flamingos. If you go on a Uganda Safari it one of the best destination. They look awesome in real life.
Remind me of Lake Naivasha in Kenya.
hey, you got that bird shot, it’s really cute that it formed a heart shape design. Love that
Way to go, great idea for developers and SEO guru we should all join in.
Once I saw these birds on a Uganda Safari around the crater lakes in Eastern Uganda.
I’m glad you’re back.
Awesome Pic ! Love is everywhere ! U captured it amidst nature too good !
luv… it.. liked it
To post comments with do follow attributes is really a great help to boost one sites ranking in search engine but there are so many spammers who abused this opportunity. It is better that there is always a moderator in every comment that will be posted in a blog.