ibrian uses DoFollow - here’s more DoFollow blogs
So my past couple of entries were about connecting to blogs for SEO purposes, only to find that I’d been foiled by “external nofollow”, as I had forefox set to only find “nofollow”.
Well, I’ve been looking around and found a few lists online showing blogs that “dofollow” - ie, have removed nofollow to allow live links.
Here’s the thing - on the one hand, they are now up for routine targeting for blog comment spam.
On the other - people will look to comment properly, in order to have a live link.
Think about that for a moment - you become the target for traffic, seeking to leverage your presence for themselves.
Suddenly, dofollow looks like the perfect link bait - to be part of the lists of blogs that allow live links being posted around forums.
I’m in! Just installed the DoFollow plugin. :)
And it feels like reclaiming my part of the web, without being herded into a position of fear over spam - I’ve already had 150,000 spam comments on this relatively new blog, and I’ll be damned if I’ll be told not to link to people who comment, just because they commented. I’m a webmaster, an internet publisher, a forum developer - I can control my own space online, thanks.
Here’s a few other SEO’s who have also removed the nofollow from Wordpress comments:
http://fantomaster.com
http://www.davenaylor.co.uk
http://www.jimboykin.com
http://www.gregboser.com
Now here’s some compiled lists:
Esteban starts off the list of high PR blogs here: 8 no nofollow high PR blogs
Then Jon is stupid enough to list to dofollow blog lists, which includes:
click on “search” for a general list
and here’s another list - a bigger and better list
Of course, if you really want to integrate dofollow’ed blogs into your link campaigns, try a little creativity. Here’s a link to help start you off.
So what now? I’m joining in the conversation. I’ve not had much time for blogging, but now is the time to get back into the game and build some traffic, even if I have 40 websites to build next week (no auto-generated crap either - I’ll tell you more later :) ).
So, if you want to spam me - if you want to include myself in part of your conversation - I’m here and waiting for your comment. Your no nofollow comment. :)
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hummm… “Then Jon is stupid enough to list to dofollow blog lists“…? Coming from you I take that as a compliment.
Comment by Jon - SmartWealthyRich — November 9, 2007 @ 11:28 pm
Well, if you really dislike blog commenting for links, then provide full resources on how other people can do it, you’re either being a bit clever or a bit stupid. :)
It doesn’t matter whether the resources are linked to or not - it’s providing free and useful information to people whose ethics you appeared to question.
I mean, seriously, if your site had been hacked, would you then provide resources for tools on how to hack websites?
It’s not intended as a personal attack - the kind of behaviour I’m indicating is actually endemic in the blogosphere - I’m genuinely sorry if you feel like I’ve specifically targeted you for a personal attack, as that’s not the intention.
Comment by Brian Turner — November 10, 2007 @ 1:59 pm
Cheers for the tip on the dofollow plugin Brian. I realised a couple of my blogs were using nofollows (I’d not even thought about checking!) and had a quick look around the Wordpress theme editor pages to see if I could spot the offending line of code, but I couldn’t.
The plugin is a nice (and powerful) alternative and saves me from hacking any more of the code about.
Comment by Joff — November 14, 2007 @ 6:45 pm
I’ve had Dofollow enabled since April of this year, and I don’t think Spam has been at all a greater problem for me as a result (even when we were a PR 7). Akismet / Spam Karma installed, of course.
Although I decided to de-optimize the page a little so it wasn’t first for “seo dofollow” to discourage link wh*res. I don’t really shout it from the roofs I dofollow either any more - I just sort of do it.
“Think about that for a moment - you become the target for traffic, seeking to leverage your presence for themselves.” - True. I’ve seen pages generate a lot of traffic through a comment.
I am in the process of cleaning up the link profile on the site, to eliminate crap comments (which invariably lead to crap sites).
Comment by Hobo — November 17, 2007 @ 3:47 am
Its a nice concept, but it also leads to increased ’spam’ with comments like ‘Good Job’ or ‘Nice blog’ that are not actually relevant to the post, but are just there because the poster saw a ‘DoFollow’ badge on the blog and wanted a backlink.
I suppose you could call this a double edged sword, it’d definitely get your more comments, but also increase your moderation work.
Comment by bLuefRogX — November 21, 2007 @ 10:55 am
Thanks for the comments, and terribly sorry about not being able to approve them earlier - had some awful technical problems with this site, and at present the SQL server is up and down faster than a Russian hooker’s knickers.
Still, I think dofollow is a potentially good idea, but indeed, a double-edged sword. As I have full editorial control, and have no need to approve every comment for comment’s sake, hopefully that means in the main, the comments will be decent ones. :)
Comment by Brian Turner — November 22, 2007 @ 9:22 pm
I’m another that has enabled dofollow on http://www.clicks.ws/blog/ I’m also seeing increased calls for webmasters to nofollow sites that nofollow their own links. Maybe that’s not such a bad idea ;)
Comment by Matt Sawyer — November 30, 2007 @ 10:16 pm
A lot of good and respected SEO’s are takign the dofollow path, I hope it catches on, I guess the only concern is that Google may in fact move to counter it in some way down the track. I think for comment passing some link love is a very fair price.
Comment by CBR — December 5, 2007 @ 1:23 am
I remember when nofollow was brought in I feared it could cripple the blogosphere. It hasn’t, instead just reshaping it, but I think dofollow is good practice for publishers who can tell the difference between obvious spam and potentially useful content - and not penalise the latter.
2c.
Comment by Brian Turner — December 6, 2007 @ 11:04 am
As somebody without a high PR blog, I think it is vital that I provide a followed link.
If somebody is leaving a comment on my blog it is generally because they are another blogger in the same field as I. Obviously, I’m quite capable of deleting inappropriate comments…
Google may or may not agree, but my life does not revolve around what Google prefers.
Comment by Frugal Guy — December 30, 2007 @ 3:46 pm
Indeed - it’s not about Google really - simply editorial responsibility. :)
Comment by Brian Turner — January 3, 2008 @ 10:48 pm
I agree it’s quite possible to use dofollow as link bait in the current climate. When we launch our blog, I plan to do the same!
Comment by Neil Hart — January 14, 2008 @ 1:04 am
Thanks for the information Brian. I’m going to start to use it.
Cheers
Tom
Comment by Tom Bushnell — February 5, 2008 @ 11:20 pm
whats next after dofollow ?, ive been speaking to a seo and its odd how things swing from one view to another for linking up , i will have a do follow blog soon , wee l i did say i was talking to a seo…will it work ?
Comment by van man — February 15, 2008 @ 10:11 am
Spam is something which can not be controlled by dofollow or nofollow. Basically main reason for implementing dofollow was to lower the amount of spam but nofollow failed drastically. No matter if use nofollow or not,spammer are out there to spam.Spammers do not care about nofollow,there main aim is to spam to attract few traffic and they will continue to spam.So,my point is why other genuine commentators suffer?? use dofollow
Comment by Ashish Jha — February 27, 2008 @ 4:49 am
Thanks for this information. Next time please also include their PR
Comment by rinto — March 26, 2008 @ 3:39 pm
is there any filters like this with internet explorer for no follow’s?
Comment by Matthew Smith — March 28, 2008 @ 1:31 pm
I’ve traditionally used nofollow links on the comments section of my sites because I don’t necessarily want to vouch for the links that people will put in their comments.
But I’m starting to see nofollow as an attractive tool to drive traffic and visitors, so it might be worth the tradeoff.
Comment by Wags — April 2, 2008 @ 4:43 pm
Thanks for this information.
Comment by Roberto Rocha — June 3, 2008 @ 3:54 pm
Sorry, if you look I nofollow comment links again, not least because of being inundated with crap comments for links only. :)
Comment by Brian Turner — June 3, 2008 @ 5:23 pm
no follow has largely failed in controlling spam this is what i have seen mostly in my work as an SEO. what really stops spam is moderation and filters which at the same time do not discredit genuine users
Comment by Howard White — June 3, 2008 @ 5:28 pm