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It's a question I want to leave open to the comments - I want to know your personal subjective, or objective if you can prove it, stance on this subject.

So, go for it, what determines influence? Is it a calculated score, fan numbers or something else?

Go ahead and use html when you make a comment, put the link to your site in, using your favoured keywords, and then state in one sentence only, the point of your website. If you have more than one website use additional comment entries.

My website does not use the no follow tag, so you gain Google Juice.