Do Follow

December 4, 2008 by Mark
Filed under: Tactic

NoFollow attribute

If you haven’t learnt by now - Google introduced a tag on links called ‘nofollow’ and got pretty much all of the blog software developers to turn it on for links by default. This stops Google from indexing the backlink and did put a huge dent in the number of spam comments that were being created on blogs. All the social bookmarking and image sharing sites also use the nofollow attribute.

Here is an example of the nofollow attribute in use for this site :

<a href="http://backlinktactics.com" rel="nofollow">Backlink Tactics</a>

It seems that things have quietened down a little bit on the blog comment spam arena - especially because most blogs are comment moderated and have spam detection plugins.

Getting backlinks to your site that are nofollow is still valuable for generating traffic and also for Yahoo searches, but doesn’t help your Google Page Rank. Saying that generic traffic can help boost your visitors and in turn potentially create better organic traffic and valuable backlinks.

Do Follow

“Do Follow” is referring to a site that doesn’t use the nofollow tag. This blog is one. Why have I done this? Well because the value of the links on my site are high (if I end up with a good Page Rank) without the nofollow links then it will drive traffic. How will it drive traffic? Webmasters actively search for Do Follow blogs and there seems to be movements out there promoting them. There are even search engines out there specifically looking for them.

Here are a list of Do Follow Directories:

There are also search engines dedicated to finding Do Follow blogs too :

Remember to check the Page Rank of the site - especially where the comment is going to appear. This could create some very good backlinks if you can find high page rank keyword targeted blogs to comment on.

There is a trade off here though. If too many low page rank sites backlink to your site too quickly then it could negatively affect your page rank.

Low Page Rank Sites

There may be future value in low page rank sites. If you think the site is good it might increase in Page Rank and then your backlink will be worth more to your own Page Rank.

Link to Different Pages on your Site

Don’t keep backlinking to your home page - choose different individual pages on your site and link to those - much better for making more of your site have a good page rank - not just one page.

WordPress Do Follow Plugin

I’ve overwritten the default WordPress nofollow status with a plugin called No Follow Free. It’s worth checking out if you have a Wordpress blog and are interested in generating traffic purely because your blog is giving valuable Google backlink comments.

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Comments

13 Comments on Do Follow

Forest@Acoustic Guitar On Ebay (1 comments) on Thu, 4th Dec 2008 2:19 pm

Hey,

Thanks for the tips and especially the dofollow lists. I need to get commenting with my new blog to get some decent backlinks.

Forest.

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Storbyferie Miniferie (1 comments) on Mon, 15th Dec 2008 7:12 pm

Thank you for the lists. It is not that easy to find by yourself…

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http://teenjobscene.com (1 comments) on Sat, 10th Jan 2009 2:21 am

Thanks my friend i just downloaded your plugin

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Robert Goulet (2 comments) on Sun, 11th Jan 2009 12:27 am

An even better search engine for finding sites without the nofollow tag is http://www.followtopia.com. The problem with comment hunt and do follow diver is that they are based off a list of blogs and not the entire internet, so you get less results. The other problem with being based on a list is that sometimes blogs will switch their do follow/nofollow status after they have been added to the list, so you still have to check the results to see if they are nofollow. (Same can happen with the directories unless they check often). With Followtopia it shows you whether each page in the results of your search have the nofollow tag or not right then, and it has the whole internet. This does mean that you have to make special searches to find blogs or places to comment. For instance you may have to add the word “comments” to the end of your search query, or “add url” or something. I’ve had the best luck by following this guide:

http://blog.followtopia.com/2009/01/how-to-find-blogs-without-nofollow.html

You can come up with your own ideas too.

The only bad part is that the site is a little slow, but definitely faster than opening all the pages yourself and checking for the nofollow tag yourself.

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Hans @ tjen penge online (1 comments) on Mon, 12th Jan 2009 10:09 am

Thanks for the directories and search engines.

Regarding blog spam, you are right that things are a bit more quiet now. I pay homage to Akismet for that. That tools is blocking spam comments left and right on my blogs.

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aliasibro (1 comments) on Tue, 24th Mar 2009 6:05 am