The backlinks you gain from Dofollow blogs should be one of several backlinking strategies. To ensure you gain the backlink you seek and don’t just get deleted as a spammer – I suggest you take this simple test before you submit each comment.
1. Is your comment on topic?
Nothing annoys a blog owner more than a comment that pushes their own agenda while completely ignoring the original topic. If a post is about I-phones than don’t make a cookie cutter post about mortgage rates.
2. Do you add something useful to the conversation?
Do NOT post “thanks”, “good post”, or “Interesting”. In addition, do more than just restate what has already been said. If you are truly commenting on an area of interest you should have something meaningful to add. Comments that add to the conversation are not only likely to be approved but also will create additional traffic from future readers clicking through to your site wanting to see what else you have to say.
3. Are you using a friendly and polite tone?
If you disagree with a post you must be very diplomatic. Remember you are on their turf. It’s their house. However, if you have a valid counter-point must good bloggers actually want debate. I suggest you stick to the facts, leave emotions out of your argument, and never post anything that you wouldn’t tell the person to their face.
4. Would you want someone leaving this comment on your blog?
This is a good final “red face” test. If you would delete the comment if it came on your blog than don’t leave it on someone elses.
By asking yourself these questions each time you will almost always get your backlink and you will have also added value to someone’s blog. Remember the Dofollow movement is a two way street. If you only take and don’t give then the movement will die.
Posting Tips
DoFollow Comments
I’ve put my Dofollow search engine up tonight. I’ve taken a great deal of time to screen hundreds of blogs to ensure everyone gets useful Dofollow results. I look forward to everyone’s feedback.
Search Engine Update
dofollow search engine
Over the past several months, I’ve seen great improvements in my web traffic from posting quality comments on relevant DoFollow blogs. While I’ve had great success, it’s also been very frustrating. The lists of DoFollow blogs that I find posted on various forums are littered with Nofollow blogs! This wastes my time and annoys me.
For example – One of the most popular lists (http://courtneytuttle.com/blogs-that-follow) is only 51% Dofollow as of January 1st, 2009. This is not surprising given that many of these blogs didn’t know they were published on the list and weren’t prepared for the traffic onslaught that can be generated.
So on January 1st (while nursing a hangover from new year’s eve) I decided to verify as many Dofollow blogs as possible. At the end of the day I had screened several hundred sites and found that only about 50% of the Dofollow blogs were in fact Dofollow.
Over the past few days, I’ve continued to screen blogs with similar results.
I’ve also decide to open up my little “New Year’s Day Project” and make it into a tool others can use.
Stay tuned… Update: Check out the Search Engine.
DoFollow Lists
DoFollow Lists
The key to a good Dofollow search engine is routine maintenance to ensure all your indexed pages are actually Dofollow. It seems so simple but still appears to be the major shortcoming of most current dofollow lists, directories, and search engines.
My plan is stupidly simple:
- I will audit a set of 20 indexed sites each week.
- 19 of the 20 sites must pass inspection.
- If they don’t I will repeat the process until 19 of 20 sites pass.
This process should guarantee at least 95% of indexed sites meet my standards.
I will post my weekly results under the Quality Control category.
Quality Control
dofollow search engine, maintenance
Here are my initial standards for blogs. If your site doesn’t meet all 5 requirements don’t bother. Repeat offenders will have their IP banned.
- It must be a blog. Sorry no websites.
- Dofollow comments are enabled. (Kinda obvious!)
- The blog must have at least 6 dofollow comments in the last 5 blog entries. This is an attempt to validate that blog owners actually want meaningful comments. Many blogs listed as Dofollow simply delete all comments.
- Blogs must have at least 10 blog entries.
- Blogs may use Lucia’s Linky Love. User comments must be set at 5 or lower.
- Blogs can not be offensive or illegal. IE- Porn, gambling, piracy. (I’m the lone judge)
I reserve the right to modify my standards at anytime but will update this post to keep it transparent.
Quality Control
DoFollow Blog Standards, DoFollow Comments
