You Comment, We Follow!
Thursday, March 26th, 2009
It seems to be apparent that the newest trend in blogging is the idea of Do Follow. Do Follow blogs are blogs that allow the website links within the comments of the post to be crawled by the bots and allow google to index those pages as incoming links. This can help raise people PR (Page Ranks) as well as help generate a great backlink campaign, but it can also cause trouble.
The best thing about do follow is it brings back that old feeling of letting peoplehelp themselves by helping you. You see when people comment on a blog, they are commenting because not only they like the information you are giving them, but because you also are giving them a link to their site which will help both of you in the long run. Where this gets shady is when people can not be trusted anymore with do follow, and SPAM bots take over the game.
The downside of do follow blogs, is that many people only use them for SEO ranking and PR boosters, where as they should be viewed as a community service, give and take sort of deal. Do follow blogs have been abused in the past and that is why people seem reluctant to allow do follow, but I think the opposite. Look at do follow blogs as open source, you can come in, get some information, leave a comment and get a link back to your site. Win Win right?
People who do not participate in do follow are not wrong and I am not here to pass judgement on these people, but they are cutting themselves short in the long run because lets face it, do follow blogs are much, much more popular right now. So I am here to tell you, make a comment on this blog, as long as it is not spam and it holds some meaning, and I will reward you with an incoming link. You comment, I follow, thats my motto!
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I think blog commenting definitely has it’s place in the SEO mix, so you might as well participate in Do follow blogs – like this one.
I’m just wondering what the true value is of the backlink is when the post you are commenting on has an unranked PR. Any idea?
Do follow blogs and forums are really a big help to online marketers, but just constantly posting links is just not going to get the job done when it comes to getting high page ranks, especially in google.
I like to compare it to Tiger Woods. He’s an amazing golfer, and he’s that way because he puts in the effort, going through rigorous training and practice techniques. If other golfers, or normal people like you and me, would put ourselves through those same rigorous training practices, we’d become very good at golf as well. My point is this: Just because it can be done doesn’t mean people will put out the necessary effort to get it done.
@Richard:
As I just commented on another blog which the page ranked but the comments end up on a separate page that doesn’t so I’m not sure that there is any value in an unranked page at least that is what I’ve heard.
I agree DKurv. Just because a blog or forum has a high PR, doesn’t necessarily mean the backlink is going to help your ranking.
Nice theme, Do follow blogs and forums are really a big help to online marketers, but just constantly posting links is just not going to get the job done when it comes to getting high page ranks, especially in google. thanks for posting.
How to know that a site is do follow ?
thanks
If you are using firefox, then there is an addon to check the dofollow links.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5687
Or
You can just right click on any browser and chose “source”, it will show the html source, find the link you want to check using the “Fnd” tool, and see whether a “nofollow” is used in the link structure. If you don’t see a nofollow, than its dofollow.
If you still have doubts, reply here .
I will be writing a detailed post on this.
Do follow blogs and forums are really a big help to online marketers
You see, that’s why I make it a point to at least read what people write about before commenting. This is the first post I’ve read from someone who just came out and said to comment for the link. A lot of times, for some reason, I just think the blog owner didn’t know they dofollow. Maybe I’m just a noob. Thanks for the post.
Yes, I think internet is a place for sharing. In the past, there wasn’t all this egoism, today, you can look for days before found a do follow blog or forum. Did they know that it exists a lot of solution to avoid Spam today ?
Most of my bogs are do follow as well but there are so many spammers it really is a pain. I use comment moderation so the spam never does make it onto my pages
Shame because it would be great to be able to write a blog post and only have interested people who have some useful information to share comment
I like your analogy about open-source. It sets the right tone.
I also think that the counter argument about do follow blogs creating a load of spam comments can be tested through trial and error – only you can determine whether your particular tolerance for spam comments is exceeded.
Look, link is a link. Forget about no follow and following or whatever. Nofollow was made in order to specify when for example you sell a link from your site to some other site, and you want to say to Google and other engines: “Hey look – this link is paid link, therefore don’t pass it any link juice, because I have no interest in that link, except money”.
Makes sense.
Those who make their blog dofollow must be aware of spammers who just want shortcuts. Read before giving comment, that applies anywhere. My blog is nofollow, and it’s even painful when people just leave “chit-chat” comment. We can feel that, you know..
Thanks for this do follow comment!! BTW are you not worried about this, because some people say that do follow blog/sites can cause your Page Rank down!!
If it helps people to increase their pr, i am happy.
And about my pagerank, if the content is good, PR doesn’t matter for me.
Thanks for helping people here. Dofollow blogs are a rare thing today.
thanks for the firefox link for nofollow check
Do follow blogs and forums are really a big help to online marketers, but just constantly posting links is just not going to get the job.
Well, however you look at it, do-follow is better than no-follow. Do follow builds networks and supports bloggers as a whole. It didn’t used to be this way, but things are changing all the time and you have to find ways to stay on top…
This is nice feature but now you will have a lot of comments to moderate.
Yes, there are a lot of comments to moderate now. But as its helping some people, i am happy to continue this
Hey thats a gr8 news dude.. mine is also a Do Follow blog…because I love my commentators !
Cheers !
HellBound Bloggers
I’m glad to see you’re dofollow.
Agree with your views on dofollow blogs – “they should be viewed as a community service, give and take sort of deal”.
I see going do follow as being part of the social networking movement. You encourage comments by being dofollow, and those who comment get a link back in return. Hopefully you get to know some of those commenting and build relationships.
Of course comment spammers are a problem. You absolutely have to use a spam prevention plugin like Spam Karma or Askimet, plus you have to monitor comments and allow only those that are quality comments. It’s a little work, but the increase in visitors makes it worth while.
thanks for your tips. Nice post..
it is really useful “You comment we follow”. We can do it as simple as possible to get some market in internet for our website.
Hope you want to visit my blog also..I do not know is my comment valid or not..thank you.
As long as the comments are not spammy, i approve them.
what is correct, make a blog with dofollow we will not reduce the PageRank?
Some people say that if the blog has so many links with lower pr, it will reduce the pagerank. But i don’t know how much its true, lets wait and see…
This is a right motto. To have a moderated blog cuts out the chances of having spam and increases chances of having quality comment. Those who’ve nofollow blog may be just afraid of trying to contain too much spam and deleting spam out of quality comments is a hassle because you’ve to go through each and every comment then.
Although I am new to this I understand the concept of Dofollow an Nofollow. The thing is that most people only want to promote their websites – if they where honest about it. But what is considered Spam and what is not? How many blogs can you comment on before you will be accused of Spamming?
yeah it’s rightway to do with
DO FOLLOW.
page rank also got increased with these things?
any other method to increase page ranks?
Its seem like a fresh debate on whether do follow helps or harms more than no follow.
Having a ‘dofollow’ backlink following a relevant comment will look natural to the human eye & most probably the same to the search engine bot. Link building is evolving all the time & I feel that non-spammy dofollow blogs can be very useful resources.
Do follow blogs always help to other bloggers and site owners to promote their sites/blogs, even helps to getting referral traffic.
You can get away with a do follow blog with good captchas or adding a referrer list, people underestimate how much spam is referred from the same source. But big ups on having a do follow blog.
Do-follow blogs are an excellent way to show your readers you appreciate them and allow them to build up their own sites as well. Even better than standard link exchanges that don’t contribute any valuable content to your blog. Good work! I like that you also have captchas to minimize automated spam.
It very dificult to make blog comments as most people if they are being honest only want to promote their sites. And commentors are unfairly labeled as spammers.