Why You Change Your Blog to DoFollow
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?
Popularity: 37%
Related posts:
- High PR 6 Dofollow Blog List There are always a shortcut to wherever we want...
- How To Check Dofollow Nofollow Blog There are still many bloggers don’t know how to...
- The Disaster Of Auto Approved Dofollow Blogs There was a time where most bloggers and link...
- How To Find High PR .Edu and .Gov Dofollow Blogs If you are on mission to build backlinks for...
- Best Way To Find Dofollow Blogs I don’t rely on anyone’s dofollow blog list to...
January 30th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
I don’t usually hunt down “dofollow” blogs, I just comment on something I find interesting, since I made my blog dofollow, spam comments have been coming in, but Akismet is great a blocking the pesky critters!
Reply
Atniz Reply:
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:01 pm
It is a good way to do comments. I gotta agree with you on Akismet is a great partner for dofollow blogs.
Reply
Atniz Reply:
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Hi.. i just checked again your blog. It is nofollow now. Is your dofollow plugin working? Maybe, you need to recheck again.
Reply
Blazing Minds Reply:
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:09 pm
It’s been updated so that comments are dofollow after a set amount of comments, it’s an incentive for people to make good constructive comments!
Reply
Atniz Reply:
February 8th, 2009 at 6:06 am
Oic..
Good application there.
January 30th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
I still have nofollow in my blogs but am considering joining the dofollow movement soon. My question is does it attract the right kind of traffic?
Reply
Atniz Reply:
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:04 pm
Right kind of traffic? I don’t think so. But, it help you to get more spam comments. That is for sure.
Reply
January 31st, 2009 at 4:41 am
“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.”
You’re wrong here. Google views a large amount of outgoing links to top level domains as a spam again and it is evident from its penalization latest on all those web directories. So be careful. Google also is happy if the link is from the contents section of your blog so as to benefit the readers (and not from comments section and sidebars).
And another reason why you should dofollow your blog: Because that made me, a fencesitter, comment here multiple times.
Reply
Atniz Reply:
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Hi Fencesitter,
I love to see negative comments. It creates conversation and discussions. Do you know why I reply all my comments in the pages? I’m getting a backlink too. It is considered as internal backlinks to mainpage. I know the value is not as much as outgoing links, but it helps me to gain some backlinks too. Maybe, this help us to get more incoming links too.
What do you think about this?
Reply
Medical Transcriptionist Reply:
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Thank you for perceiving the negative comments in its true sense. Apart from that, your reply to every comment brings in a personal touch while on your blog and makes anyone to comment further on your blog, leave aside the link obtained so.
You’re right, linking to your own home page has no value at all.
Reply
January 31st, 2009 at 6:47 am
Congratulations on going dofollow. I just converted my blog to dofollow a few weeks ago and I’ve noticed a nice increase in commenters. Fundamentally, I think dofollow comments is a fair exchange of links for content.
Reply
Atniz Reply:
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:12 pm
Good to hear that Adam. Comments is the gas that move our blog. No comments means, we can’t move further. Wish you all the best!
Reply
January 31st, 2009 at 10:53 pm
I think that you should do a post where you make a list of DoFollow/High PR blogs.
Reply
Atniz Reply:
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:19 pm
On the way Tom. It is on the way. If you notice, there is a page of “1000 Links” in my blog. I’m creating a custom search engine for more than 1000 verified dofollow blog list. Most of the custom dofollow search engine are full of nofollow because of no continuous support or verifying on dofollow blogs in the list. I have been working on this for more than 2 months now. Most probably, I will open it to public in a few more weeks.
Reply
February 1st, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Will dofollow decrease your PR, cause you are giving backlink?
Reply
Atniz Reply:
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Yes my friend. It is a tiny little small hole in our PR bucket. It is good if you get more incoming PR to equate this force. Sounds like Newton to me.
Reply
February 1st, 2009 at 6:27 pm
Like Karen I will comment either way if I think the post is interesting. Personally, I keep my blogs do-follow and see no reason to be selfish with the search engines.
Comment spam is a lame excuse. Most comment spam are from online bots that can’t tell if a blog is no-follow or not. There are many options and tools to prevent or at least slow the spam down a little. Hogging link juice, if there is such a thing, isn’t a way to reduce comment spam. The only ones saying it is are those that don’t want to change.
Reply
Atniz Reply:
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:33 pm
It is good to have both nofollow and dofollow backlinks as there are not only google search engine there. As long as we read and comment will definitely put a smile on the blog owners face.
Reply
February 1st, 2009 at 9:53 pm
I switched to dofollow a few months back. I’m glad that I did.
Reply
Atniz Reply:
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Glad to hear you joined dofollow move too.
Reply
February 2nd, 2009 at 4:39 am
Hello,
I also post at NoFollow blogs if I have something to say about the post.
I do not run WP so, my blogs have the option of Do or No Follow on a per comment bases. I do moderate my comments and taking the time to click DoFollow adds to my ‘huge’ work load. LOL!
I have had people do a search that contains the terms ‘comments DoFollow’ not sure how that works but, you could tell it was someone searching just to spam. Other than those few times, I have had no problems.
I just always thought it was nice to give DoFollow if someone is taking the time to read and comment.
Reply
Atniz Reply:
February 2nd, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Hi Sheryl,
Can I know your blog is running under which platform? It doesn’t look like Drupal too.
Moderating manually on dofollow or nofollow will take a lot of time. Good to see you are doing good on that issue. Not many will manually edit dofollow and nofollow attribute in comments section.
Reply
Sheryl Loch Reply:
February 2nd, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Atniz,
I run on a B2Evolution script.
I could turn the moderation off and it would automatically post the comment as a NoFollow. Very possible that I could even get that to post them as DoFollow, I just have not looked. I like the moderation so, I can post and answer the commentor before I forget. LOL!
Reply
Atniz Reply:
February 6th, 2009 at 5:00 am
It is good to have full control over our comments section. I just practice to reply all my commentators too. It brings me close to my visitors and I able to make a few good friends too.
February 2nd, 2009 at 3:19 pm
I think it’s a really interesting point. I think what is interesting about DoFollow is that it can really encourage interaction between people online. If tabs are kept on spam comments, what DoFollow does is give people an active interest in really addressing the issues of a blog.
Reply
Atniz Reply:
February 6th, 2009 at 5:07 am
Agree! We are fighting spam not genuine comments. However, measurements need to take on dofollow blogs too. Most of the dofollow blogs will turned to nofollow within few weeks or months because of spam comments. Aksiment is a good start.
Reply
February 5th, 2009 at 2:19 am
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.
Reply
Atniz Reply:
February 6th, 2009 at 5:11 am
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.
Reply
February 5th, 2009 at 10:29 am
Can any one suggest how can we find Do-follow blogs
Reply
Atniz Reply:
February 6th, 2009 at 5:17 am
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!
Reply
March 1st, 2009 at 1:47 pm
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.
Reply
September 23rd, 2009 at 7:13 am
Change to do follow is double edge. You gain benefit, but you must deal with more spammer.
Reply
Atniz Reply:
September 26th, 2009 at 9:20 am
Yes, dofollow got advantage and disadvantages. Hope we all know how to deal with it.
Reply
October 8th, 2009 at 5:14 am
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?
Reply
Atniz Reply:
October 9th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
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
Reply