It is difficult to get advertisers for those bloggers who uses nofollow on paid links and paid posts. This is the main reason of why most bloggers still gives dofollow to paid links and paid posts. In selling links and advertisement space, I prefer to follow google’s rules as I don’t want to get any penalty. I had bad experience of losing PR3 to PR0 for my earlier blog which never able to get PR even after 1 year. Page rank system gives credit to my commentators because this is a keywordluv dofollow blog. Comments are the fuel for our blog.
To support this blog, I just need $10/month to pay my hosting bills and another $10/year for domain. Whenever we see other blogger’s monthly earning summary, it motivates us to further monetize our site. In desperate situation we tend to give dofollow link to advertisers. Personally, I suggest don’t give dofollow link to advertiser. There are plenty of ways to get high PR dofollow backlink.
Advertiser’s main concern is to bring targeted traffic. If your blog stays in your niche and have good traffic, I’m sure it will be easier for you to find advertisers. So, try to increase your traffic. It is the only way to attract nofollow advertisers. Do more search engine optimization, link building, reduce bounce rate and increase all type of traffics (search engine, direct, referral). Search engine traffic commonly referred as best free traffic. Provide more keyword rich contents in your blog consistently. This will do some SEO magic on low or unique keyword search traffics.
There is no penalty when links comes with a lot of unique content. So with 3 or 5 dofollow keylinks there shound be no harm in Your PR.
I can show you pages that lots of WOW gold spam links but still maintain PR 5. This mean there are more factors that affect our PR and not just about links juice reason only.
You must be lucky to pass trough google scan on giving dofollow link. I still will be a rule follower in this case.
How come you don’t use google adsense on your blog?
Now I’m using. I was showing some private ads on that spot. Back to adsense now.
I accept do follow links but limits them to 3-5 links. That way I can preserve my PR>
That is truly individual’s choice. Personally, I won’t go for dofollow.
Very good article….seems to be one of those big paradoxes, because without Do Follow– advertisers would be reluctant to pay for those links (I know that my first reaction is to avoid No Follow links).
Looking from advertiser’s point of view, I would definitely say no to nofollow. There will be only one reason that can compromise to dofollow, that is the traffic (In my opinion)
Some webmaster had suggested that before Google update you can automatically turn all post links to nofollow tag using some wordpress plugin. But I didn’t remember what the name of the plugins because I just manually change the attribute and it seems a little bit true..or maybe just my luck?
I never heard of this plugin before. BTW, how the developers know Google update dates?
Usually when you heard other webmaster complaining or cheering about their PR changing on Twitter or in webmaster forum then you should start do the action that I post above. That is the safest ways.
But, isn’t it too late to give nofollow after the google update. By this time, google spider have already crawled and evaluate our site and give some ranking for all those internal pages.
Great incite on this ongoing problem. Work Smart not Hard!
Thanks. Hope you enjoy my other posts too.
The main problem with advertisers is that they’re effectively looking for PR juice directed to their pages, and not for traffic =( Actually, the ones who look for traffic and product promotion are quite a few.. I’m going to write something about this in the next days, mainly directed to advertisers but to bloggers as well. Anyway, sites like reviewme, b-vertise and spon.reviews only require a 30 days presence of the links; I usually nofollow them after 2 months for those sites. Never got a problem with that these last months; and usually paid links work better if mingled with personal content, so that they become integral part of the website content. Personally, a few social network sites and webmaster tools I wrote about in the past for paid links, have become some of my most favourite sites now =) I usually prefer the nofollow ones though, like on socialspark. I also hope that Alexa ranking is going to get more popular between advertisers, and a measure to judge a blog’s traffic, because at least it’s not penalizing to either advertisers nor blogger. Anyway, I believe it’s important to play smart when it comes to these things.
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Wow Luana! You have great knowledge in dofollow nofollow advertising. However, I would not take such risk of giving 30-60 days dofollow link for paid posts. All my paid posts from sponsoredreview and other channels are nofollow from the first day itself. It is hard to get nofollow advertisers but if we can get good traffic, there are some still tend to advertise on us. I wish alexa take into account by many advertisers too.
Wise words indeed, the nofollow/dofollow predicament on paid advertisers has always been a dilemma, I’ve personally started removing those links which will not allow nofollow, it’s just not worth it at the end of the day, we have to pay for our hosting somehow and why not be smart about keeping funds from the blogs to cover the costs..
I agree with you. However, it is a hard lesson to learn for many. I feel pity for those who are not aware of this issue selling links, which commonly are new bloggers.
wow, so you lost $10 for each mounth!!!..
that’s to hard to me!!..
and I will tray to Increase My traffic, thank you for your information!!!……..
I think it is worth for what I’m getting for $10/monthly. I’m sure you will do better sooner.