Comments on: Don’t Let Feedburner Steal Your Backlinks

By: Freelance SEO

Freelance SEO — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 13:41:22 +0000

Good point, just setting up mine now my my new SEO blog. Don’t forget to try and link back to your site too – otherwise you will get no backlinks from the syndication.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:55:38 +0000

I’m glad to see you here Joe.

By: Normal Joe

Normal Joe — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 22:14:07 +0000

Oh snap! Thanks dude! I didn’t even realize that man! I wondered why those links looked funny! I came over from Anna’ s site, and I definitely changed my settings!

By: Do Your RSS Feeds Link to Your Site or do they Link Somewhere Else?

Do Your RSS Feeds Link to Your Site or do they Link Somewhere Else? — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 21:44:13 +0000

[...] post was inspired by Don’t Let Feedburner Steal Your Backlinks at Ducedo. On that post, Stephan Nilsson specifically addresses the issue as it relates to [...]

By: Evan

Evan — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:05:45 +0000

Yikes! Thanks for the tip. I didn’t realize this could happen. I don’t use Comment Luv on my site, but I’m seeing it more and more elsewhere.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:36:32 +0000

Since I’m not using Comment Luv on this site it’s not really a method for me, but wouldn’t it be a good idea to contact your visitors and tell them what to change? By doing so your visitor most certainly will visit you again and be grateful.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:01:01 +0000

I see this a lot on my sites as well, it’s a shame to go to the work of finding a site that will give you deep links and then find they are all going back to feedburner. I used to shoot a message to anyone who commented on one of my sites where I saw this happening, but I don’t have time to keep up with every one of them now so I just let it go.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 05:18:05 +0000

You are right Anna, it’s important to write valuable comments and just not leave a short “nice post”.

By: Anna

Anna — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:02:06 +0000

That’s interesting … I didn’t know that. Of course, I always support the idea of leaving comments because you want to leave a comment or meet someone new, and not to just comment all over the place only for the links or for Page Rank. But at the same time … I can understand that it does seem silly for the link to go through Feedburner if it doesn’t have to!

I think I had noticed this before and did a double-take but then never had time to figure it out.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:34:55 +0000

You are correct that if the blog is nofollow, you will not gain any linkpower from the Comment Luv-link. On the other hand you will still gain visitors. There’s still plenty of blogs with dofollow and there you will gain linkpower. Personally I think we will see more of them in the future.

By: Lee Ka Hoong

Lee Ka Hoong — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:21:06 +0000

Hey Stefan, I never know about this before until I checked mine just now. I’ve 2 checkbox are checked, anyway I have unchecked all of them now. Thanks for telling me.
But I thought the blog which installed nofollow plugin will not follow the commentluv link as well? So it doesn’t help even though the link points to us?

Regards,
Lee

By: Chetan Gole

Chetan Gole — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:42:36 +0000

Its very nice tip, i was searching for the solution to this. But i was not aware that it will be so easy !!
Thanks a lot.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:19:45 +0000

I usually use a combination of Google Analytics and looking at the number of posts to see what’s popular. But Feedburner may be usefull for that purpose.

By: George Serradinho

George Serradinho — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:08:51 +0000

Interesting to know. I like my stats for my Feedburner so I can determine which posts my readers like.

By: Curious Little Person

Curious Little Person — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 05:44:02 +0000

Thanks for this great tip! The word should be spread on this one!

Cheers
Sandep

By: Extreme John

Extreme John — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 05:13:43 +0000

I thought for sure that I was going to need to make these changes but it turns out my boxes were already unchecked.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:32:14 +0000

To be honest, you are wrong. There’s plenty of blogs using Comment Luv without nofollow.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:30:47 +0000

Do you truly lose something? Even though I’ve been using Feedburner for several years, I’ve never used their stats. What happens to all of your redirects if your Feedburner account gets removed or Feedburner closes down?

By: Deneil Merritt

Deneil Merritt — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 18:47:18 +0000

There’s no point in doing this for backlinks because all links created by the commentluv are nofollow. So this will not help you with SEO.

By: Phil Hollows

Phil Hollows — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:37:44 +0000

Last part of last sentence might be confusing – what I mean to say is that with tracking ON you are NOT losing search engine link juice. With tracking off you lose stats and gain nothing.