October 13, 2008 by Matt Thomas
In 2005 Google’s endorsement of the NoFollow tag messed things up nicely for SEOs. Before that, building high quality inbound links was as easy as posting a comment on a blog and dropping in a link. We were happy, our clients were ecstatic, things were just fine thank you very much. Then, of course, NoFollow came along and called time on happy hour, ending the age of straightforward link building forever… Or did it?
As if turns out, numerous bloggers were a little annoyed that Google thought they had a right to unilaterally decide how their link juice was distributed. Incensed, they modified their blogs to allow comments and track-backs to continue to bestow link juice on sites. These rebellious souls became known as DoFollow bloggers. If you know how to find these blogs, and there’s quite a few out there, you can flash back to 2005 and, up to a point, reap the benefits.
Over the next few posts I’m going to show you how to find DoFollow blogs, isolate the best posts and stop your comments getting binned by site administrators. One word of warning however, tread softly. These blogs are subverting NoFollow out of the goodness of their hearts. If you end up abusing these blogs it’ll backfire.
So where are the DoFollow blogs? Well, luckily a few kind hearted people have done our work for us here and compiled lists. You can find these lists at the following sites; Court’s D-List, Tricia’s Musings, Whydowork.com, Digital Product Review, Untwisted Vortex, The DoFollow Directory, Stephen Miller’s Ultimate DoFollow Blog List and Bumpzee.
There are also a few do follow search engines, though these vary widely in quality, the best ones are, DoFollow Diver, DoFollow.US and Dofollo.com.
Tune in tomorrow for advice on finding out if sites are using NoFollow and some posting tips…
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Thanks for the two links. No often that happens. I also own Digital Products Review.
Comment by Stephan Miller — October 13, 2008 @ 12:28 pm
No problem Stephan, if we see content worth linking to we will
Comment by James Oliver — October 13, 2008 @ 1:35 pm
Thanks for the link.
Yes please do inform your readers that if they do comment on Dofollow blogs that their comments need to add to the conversation. “Nice Post” won’t cut it – especially if they then add another link to their site in the comment and use a SEO keyword as their user name as well. On my sites that the best way to end up in the Akismet spam folder and once a blog url is in Akismet the bloggers comments will probably end up in other WP blogs spam folder automatically even if they do change their ways and start leaving decent comments.
Sorry … guess you can probably tell I’ve been hit by WAY way too much comment spam! LOL
Comment by Tricia — October 13, 2008 @ 8:29 pm
Hi Tricia,
Thanks for posting, i think Matt will be talking about the etiquette of posting in the second part to the post
Comment by James Oliver — October 14, 2008 @ 1:13 pm
I agree to the concern of No-Follow.. But i am in favour of Do Follow
Great Article.. very informative and insightful tips.
Thanks for sharing
Regards
Shabbar Suterwala
Corporate Soft Skills Trainer
Comment by Shabbar Suterwala — March 19, 2009 @ 4:57 am