Do Follow Blogs

Long ago and far away, when programmers began writing the code which enables those of us who are coding illiterate to easily get our thoughts onto the internet via blogging, they worried about evil spammers leaving comments with the sole purpose of getting link juice. So, in their wisdom, they built “no follow” into their blog coding so that the search engines wouldn’t follow comments on blogs.

Years later, when blog owners became ravenously hungry for comments, some ingenious programmers wrote code which disabled the no-follow tag. The result was that comments could actually be followed by the search engines on blogs with that plug in installed.

In a nutshell, if you are leaving comments on blogs hoping to get credit for incoming links to your blog - you’ll only get that kind of action with Do Follow blogs.

There are two ways to find Do Follow blogs. First, you can find them yourself. To do this, you can install the SEO Tools Toolbar for Firefox. When you have this tool installed and “turned on”, comment links will be highlighted when the no-follow tag has been removed.

The second way to find Do-Follow Blogs is to find one of the many lists available. However, since Do-follow is something you have to actively “turn on”, sometimes blogs on these lists will have turned off the do follow element. So the SEO Tools Toolbar is still a good tool to have.

Here are a few Do-Follow Blog Resources! (These are not individual Do-Follow Blogs but rather blogs with Do-Follow Blog listings.)

• My SeoBlog has a list of over 120 Do-follow blogs
• Bloggers Director has a Dofollow list
• Courtney Tuttle has his “D-List” with over 200 Do-follow blogs

If you’ve got a Do-follow list you’d like to see featured here, contact me using the form below: