Dofollow Resources

What is Dofollow?

Dofollow refers to standard anchor tags that do not have the “nofollow” tag. Blogs that without “nofollow” are called “dofollow”. Both kinds of links look identical when you view a Web site. However, when you view the code for a Web page (by viewing the text of the source file), you can observe the difference.

Dofollow beats nofollow

Not only does nofollow fail to stop spam, nofollow denies honest commenters and site participants a small but important reward. A normal dofollow link is a nice “thank you” to a person who left a carefully written comment on your site. Making your blog dofollow, telling others that it is dofollow, and rewarding commenters will inspire more surfers to spend time on your site and provide great comments.

How does commenting on a dofollow blog promote my Web site?

Most blog software creates allows you to create a link to yourself when you comment on a blog post. Links bring traffic to your site when they click the link, but each link can also count as a “vote” for your site with search engines. These backlinks increase your page rank and help your site rank closer to first in search engine results. Dofollow blogs create normal links that count as a vote for your site.

What does a Dofollow site look like?

Basically, just choose “view source” from your browser’s menu to view at the HTML. Check for anchor tags that have <a rel=”nofollow”>Joe Commenter</a>. If you catch that, the blog is nofollow (bad) not dofollow (good). There are also plenty of Firefox plugins and hacks that will show nofollow links.

Find more dofollow blogs with PageRush dofollow search.

Dofollow Blogs on the Rise

There is good reason why so many bloggers are going dofollow.

Spam Filters are Good

So long as you have a good blog spam filter, and manually approve comments on your blog, there is no need to be nofollow. In fact, your blog content will be better as moderated dofollow than as spam-filled nofollow.

Get more Content and Customers

Obviously, ultimately you want to encourage commenting because you want more commenters, content, and customers. People stopping by looking for dofollow comments could be customers you wouldn’t have seen otherwise. Their comments are text that you didn’t have to write yourself. Its a win for site owners and visitors alike.

The Compounding effect of dofollow comments

Much like compounding interest on an investment, a blog post with one comment will get two comments faster. When combined with the attraction you receive by making your blog dofollow, dofollow can be a real boon to your blog!

Further Reading

More reasons to make your blog dofollow. 

Use dofollow search to find other dofollow blogs.

High Quality Dofollow Search

Commenting on blogs is a very good strategy to tell the world about your Web site. However, most blog software puts a special “nofollow” tag on blog comments.  Here is how to use dofollow blog search to identify blog posts where comments count.

When getting backlinks to your Web site, having excellent content isn’t enough to get your site ranked in search engines. You also need quality backlinks (links to your Web site from other sites). One great technique for getting backlinks is to comment on blogs have the same subject area of your Web site. The good thing about blogs in terms of getting backlinks (each blog comment usually has a link to your site) is you usually don’t have to log in to leave a comment.

The downside with blog commenting is that often blog software uses the “nofollow” tag. The nofollow tag was created to cut down on the amount of blog comment spam received by blogs. Nofollow tells search engines not to follow links from blog comments so that spammers don’t earn page rank points for flooding blogs with comments. Unfortunately, has not slowed comment spammers. Unfortunately, nofollow also penalizes normal commenters who are not trying to spam.

The “dofollow movement” originated in opposition to the rise of nofollow. Dofollow bloggers are bloggers that moderate their blog comments by hand and do not use the nofollow tag. What this means for promoting your Web site is that you should focus on commenting on dofollow blogs. It is tough to locate dofollow blogs, they are quite rare, most blogs are nofollow by default.

Luckily, dofollow search engines have been built to fix this problem. Dofollow search engines (specifically those for blogs) allow you to search a list of only approved dofollow blogs. The ideal way to use one is to search for the keywords that you want your site rank for. Once you’ve found a good dofollow post to comment on, leave a thoughtful comment. Take time to read the original author’s post, because your comment has to be good enough to gain the blog owner’s approval. Once they have approved your comment, you will earn a dofollow link. Dofollow links signify a vote for your site to search engines and will help your Web site rank better in search results.