How to find dofollow blogs
One of the traditional boons of blogging is the whole comment thingy. Meaning leaving a comment and having the possibility of getting extra visitors to your blog, or receiving comments, and therefore not feeling like it’s just a one sided conversation. I wouldn’t think of any blogger who wouldn’t appreciate comments on their blog.
The problem with comments, is comment spam. It’s the primary reason why most blog software have the “nofollow” tag on by default. This command confers a zero link strength value on the link, and will not pass link value and Page Rank at all.
From a blogger’s viewpoint, leaving comments on other blogs does two things:
- Get traffic back to their blogs
- Get link juice back to their blogs
The first reason makes sense; many people follow links from your comments to arrive at your site. If you post comments on hight traffic sites, it can result in some visitors going back to your site. Then again, too many comments on a page will drown out your comments. So, that’s one of the drawbacks of commenting on popular blogs - You won’t get noticed!
The second reason is about SEO. Most blogs have “nofollow” on by default, but some blogs are “dofollow.” Posting comments on these blogs can get you some link benefits, but these have to be blogs who have opted for “dofollow.” The problem is, these blogs are rare.
Here are four good tips on finding blogs with “dofollow.” The other resources I’ve found so far, haven’t lived up to their claims.
- There are some blogs that have posted lists of “dofollow” blogs. One of these would be Courtney Tuttle’s list.
- Check out this directory featuring “dofollow” blogs only. It’s a great resource.
- Finding the badges of dofollow blogs via image search.
- The most basic way of finding a “dofollow” blog is to take a look at the HTML source code of the posts. If the comment URLs do not have a tag called rel=”nofollow”, then it indicates a “dofollow” blog.
Ultimately, you have to bear in mind that “dofollow” blogs are greatly outnumbered by “nofollow” blogs, and the very few that are, will not tolerate spammy comments, and they are all heavily moderated. So, if you are going to make a comment at all, do make it a comment of quality!
Thank you very much. This is the easiest way for get backlink for bloger. but most of people just miss it.
Thank you very much for providing the links to those tools and lists. It’s a bit difficult finding dofollow blogs. They are not as visible as the nofollow ones.
You are right in saying the NF blogs outnumber the DF ones. They don’t get noticed at all, though for link building they should be more valuable as resources than the popular NF blogs.
Thank you very much, this is what I have been looking for and a successful Google search found your site and so here I am.
- Dwayne Charrington.
http://www.dwaynecharrington.com
Hi Darrin,
I’m glad i found your blog and this posting. I’ve searching around using Google to find out more information about DO-Follow blogs that leads me here. The 3 tools/sites you have shared are very relevant to me. Many thanks to you.
I was also contemplating about buying software which can serve the purpose of finding relevant blogs with Do-follow feature. Do u know of any good one to recommend?
To all the commentators on this post,
There are a few free tools that can find do follow blogs, but they are not really efficient. You may have heard of Comment Kahuna, but it’s far from effective in finding just do follow blogs.
Here is a better one by Neil Shearing.
http://tinyurl.com/2tk8hf
Do remember,
The bottom line is just leaving a good, useful comment each time you comment. Comment wisely, and you should have no problems with search engines, blog owners, and other blog readers.
Great post, Comment Kahuna is good, however it’s limited to 50 blogs per search and it can be unstable sometimes.
I don’t know if I have been doing things wrong, but I only ended up getting NoFollow links anyway with both Comment Kahuna and Real Link Finder. At the moment I’m using Fast Blog Finder, which seems to work better (or at least for me). The free version searches up to 50 blogs. Works better than the other one’s, but I still won’t upgrade to the ‘Gold’ version.
Can others share their experience on CK and RLF finding only NoFollow blogs?
Thanks for the directory link! I have tried software but your right the are almost 100% nofollow links. I actually found this site by searching “dofollow blog software”. I wish I could find such software. Until then I guess I’ll use directories. Thanks again.
I have found many inconsistancies using commentkahuna, comment hunt, and other custom Google searches. The best thing that I have found thus far is a program called Fast Blog Finder. It has a free version and works well.
You are free to comment on this blog, but please make sure your site is indexed, developed, and best of all, similarly themed. Spammy looking sites, or new, poor quality sites will likely not be approved. Thanks
Thank you for the list !
Thanks
I hope we will all find good blogs to comment on. I am trying to convince my husband to make my blog dofollow too. But he is afraid that with too many backlinks the value of my site will drop. Do you guys have any experience with this?
The software mentioned is fine if it’s not used to spam Dofollow blogs. Unfortunately there are always people who abuse it.
DoFollow bloggers are usually quite savvy and watch comment patterns carefully so using Comment Kahuna and the like to post the same comment over and over - which it is capable of doing, will usually result in bloggers marking your comment as spam through services like Akismet and that is not where you want to end up.
Joining the DoFollow community at Bumpzee will not only help you find a lot of DoFollow blogs, it will also give you a grounding in what it’s all about and the “netiquette” involved
Also recommend readers check out Andy Beard’s blog at andybeard.eu who owns the community and has answers to many questions and concerns about DoFollow and SEO.
Thanks for providing a few pointers –highly appreciated! BTW, there seems to be a recent trend (?) that I find somewhat annoying: blogs that use *both* moderation *and* nofollow… After all, if a webmaster thinks that a comment is good enough to be published, shouldn’t he/she give the author of that comment some “credit” in the form of link juice?!
I am using Fast Blog Finder. It is a FREE Do-Follow Blog Finder that comes in FREE however it only display 50 results max. To have unlimited display, You need to purchase the premium version.
So I have been using it and find it rather reliable. Anybody reading this comment I encourage you to download and try it.
There are tons of dofollow directories out there now. Courtney Tuttle’s D-List is probably one of the biggest (and one of the oldest as well), but Nickoo Shore has quite a list on his blog as well. You guys might want to check out his site (jsut google his name) because you can never have enough dofollow lists :p
Hello friend,
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Thanks.
Am just doing a bit of research in order to put together a list of sites that provide dofollow blog lists - a meta dofollow blog list if you like - so watch this space!
I also recommend the Search Status Firefox pluggin for quickly picking up nofollow blogs without having to explore source code - much quicker.
Just wondering - how long will a blog link last?
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I think do follow is a way forward but now a couple of really decent plugins have come about called commentluv and keywordluv - they are better for traffic and SEO purposes and they bring in a load more decent commenters.
Well worth looking into if you are a blog owner
Blog commenting is a very important part of my linkbuilding strategy, but I go out of my way to make sure my comments provide value.
I also use Fast Blog Finder and I bought the paid version which provides a lot more relevant results. You can also look for blogs with CommentLuv to double the value of your comments. I have even found myself clicking on other people’s blog posts on CommentLuv sites just because I thought the post sounded interesting.
I am new to blogging and really appreciated your post and the tips you handed out, for finding do follow blogs.
Thanks!
It’s nice to see that comments on a post such as this about do-follow are actualy do-follow. It’s funny - I was just on a page with the theme along the lines of ‘join the do-follow revolution - let’s all install do-follow plugins to get more comments’ yet that page itself was no-follow - how ironic.
Another good resource for bloggers ca be http://www.dofollow.us. Is very hard to maintain a dofollow blog list … because these blogs can became blogs over the night !
Nice to see you practise what you preach, there are plenty of sites that talk about the benefit of dropping the no follow tag and still have it on the comments on their own site…
And the directory online of do follow blogs seems to be full of sites that have probably upgraded to a newer version of the blog CMS and haven’t fixed the no follow issue in the latest version.
@Gotham,
Yeah, but I have to contend with A LOT of spammy comments linking to low quality sites - It’s giving me second thoughts, these days.
I will have to look at the dofollow directories you mentioned. I have tried some directories and they are full of nofollow blogs. I don’t know if it has already been mentioned in your posts but I have found the Firefox plugin “Stylish” with a certain “style” loaded to be useful. You can find it at http://linkbuildingbible.com/2008/06/10/how-to-easily-spot-nofollow-links/. Note I am not associated with this site. Once you have it working and you go to comment on a site, any prior links left by commenters show up in a pink box if they are.
There’s another way to check if a blog is dofollow. It’s a pretty quick and dirty way.
If you look at the comments already made on a post, and you right-click on the commenter’s name (which is a link), then click on properties. A little box pops up and the very bottom thing in that box should say something like relation. If a blog is dofollow, the relation will be “external.” If a blog is nofollow, the relation will be “external nofollow.”
Just another way to do it. A little less comprehensive, but pretty efficient.
But anyway, nice post. Thanks.
Hey, thanks so much for that great article. I have been searching for a quality DoFollow article for a while now. I appreciate it! Those directories are incredible. Have a good one!
a great article you are so true there are not much dofollow blogs so one should not pollute the blogosphere with spam and lost this opportunity too. i am messed with some dofollow blogs
if you can answer this question then please have your place.
when i am commenting here on your blog your main page is pr4 so i am getting a pr4 backlink?
@ Moin,
I believe the PR of the particular page is more relevant than the main site’s PR.