Since 2005, our big brother GOOGLE advices all blogging platform to practice nofollow idea. The concept is simple: Dofollow link will makes google bot to crawl and index in their server whereas nofollow links will not be indexed in google. Of course, nofollow link will not give any value to page rank (google’s way of ranking sites and pages). Also, selling any links with dofollow attribute can get the website or blog’s domain to get page rank penalized. One of my blog slammed to PR0 from PR3 for doing that.
By default wordpress and blogspot comment section will be nofollow. We need to install certain plugin and insert the codes in the correct .php to get it dofollow. Why we want to all this extra work? What we gain from giving our earned page rank to our commentators? What is the main reason you convert your blog from nofollow (default) to dofollow? Well, below is some of my reasons to change my blog to dofollow.
1. Getting Addicted With DoFollow Blog Commenting
I was seriously in link building work for this blog and getting nofollow links from higher PR pages does not give any value to my PR. So, I decided to concentrate more on dofollow links. So, I comment more frequent on dofollow blogs. Searching for dofollow blogs is not so easy. I will feel so happy everytime I find a dofollow blog. The happiness convince me to change my blog to dofollow too. I’m earning some page rank juice from dofollow blogs that I’m commenting on. Why not I do the same and share the green juice with blog my commentators.
2. Traffic
There are a lot of SEO people who are collecting and making lists of dofollow blogs. Getting listed in their platform will get us more spam comments. I’m looking at the positive side here which will bring more traffic to our site simply because of blog is dofollow. Make sure you install Akismet plugin. Very helpful for dofollow blogs to catch spam comments. Look at the numbers of spam fishes on Akisment net.
3. Makes my blog look active in google’s eye
Some webmasters claim that you must have moderate number of outgoing links as well as incoming links to show your site is active in google’s eye. We have ways to earn backlinks, but how about giving links? It is better to give to our commentators that doing some link exchange with other who might remove our link within weeks.
Well, these are my reason to change my blog to dofollow. What are yours?
I’m interested in changing my blog to do follow to get more comments and traffic but is it really the type of comments I want, I mean the people comming probably are going to ignore all ads and posts just to get their links on as many blogs as possible.
Anyways my question is what application on blogger is needed to change my blog to dofollow?
It’s good to see you are interested in joining dofollow movement. Definitely it will increase your traffic and comments. You can have full control of all comments by moderating. If you can’t handle spam comments anymore, then turn back to nofollow. I would suggest dofollow for new blogs to get established.
Here is some good guides that can help your blogspot to dofollow http://web-site-tutorial.blogspot.com/2009/04/how-to-make-dofollow-at-blogspot.html
Change to do follow is double edge. You gain benefit, but you must deal with more spammer.
Yes, dofollow got advantage and disadvantages. Hope we all know how to deal with it.
Atniz
Great point about making your blog active in Google’s eyes. I’ve done and learned a lot about search engine methodology recently and you are right. Each time a post gets a new comment search engines respider it and note the new content.
Can any one suggest how can we find Do-follow blogs
You can try searching in google itself. Just type “dofollow blogs” and you will get tons of list of blogs of dofollow.
Most of the list are not checked or updated and (some of the blogs in dofollow lists are nofollow now). So, verify it by going to any post that have comments (with hyperlink name, right click on it and click properties). If you could see “nofollow” or “external nofollow”, the blog has switched to nofollow. Any link without this attribute is dofollow. I think this is just a basic way that we can find dofollow blogs. All the best to you!
We know blog commenting can turn into spamming, but if done right and respectfully, commenting can be a good addition to a link building strategy as you know. So we have tweaked a custom google search to search for specific keywords and only return blog posts and web pages built on a popular open source CMS that all allow dofollow links in comments.
Agree to that. I think, most of the bloggers choose blog commenting as a link building activity that helps to build PR (on dofollow blogs) and traffic.