What is nofollow
Frequently blogs will receive lots of junk comments.The purpose of these comments is to get back links to someone’s website
To combat this sometimes blog owners will put a nofollow attribute in any links posted in comments.
An example of this:
<a href="http://www.mysite.com/" rel="nofollow">
See the part that says rel=”nofollow”?
That’s the part that tells search engines not to follow this link. When Google sees this it won’t follow this link and renders the link almost useless for search engine optimization.
So if you’re trying to get back links by posting comments on blogs your work may not get you the results you’re looking for if you post comments and links on blogs that use nofollow.
Not everyone uses nofollow
I would guess that most blogs online now use nofollow for links in their comments. But there are a few who don’t use it.
For example I don’t use no follow for comments on this blog because I think it decreases comments and I have found other ways to deal with comment spam.
So when you’re looking to leave comments on blogs make sure that they are not using nofollow.
How to find blogs that use don’t use it
These blogs can be hard to find the likely there are a couple resources that have listed several hundred of them for you.
Check out:
http://www.dofollowblogs.com/
http://courtneytuttle.com/blogs-that-follow/
Get the Firefox plug-in
It’s can be a major pain to comb through the HTML source code of a website to see if it uses nofollow or not.
Luckily there is a Firefox extension for this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5687
This extension makes it really easy to see which links are follow and which ones are nofollow. It will turn all the links that are nofollow to a pink color and all other links to a purple color on a webpage.
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Nick:
Thank you for the great resources and content! I am just getting my blog going and you have been very helpful. I appreciate your expertise!
Sincerely,
Dr. Lenny
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One of the best ways to find dofollow blogs is to search for blogs with Commentluv enabled. While not all of them also have dofollow, quite a few of them do. Not sure of the fraction, but it must be about one in five or maybe even a quarter of them.
Thanks a lot for providing such a good information i had just started my website and this info is going to be really helpful for me keep up the good work
Thanks a lot. I am myself looking for some information to get my website started. The information that you have provided is very useful.
thanks for the info. I find it difficult to get visitor. uhh
Thanks for the info, I’ll start looking for those and commenting, starting right here!
There are some way to find dofollow include keywordsluv. I am using keywords ‘this site uses keywordluv’. With this keywords I got a lot of people using keywordluv.
I looked at the first link and when I went there I checked out a few blogs in the shopping category and a couple of them had no follow in the links. they should be removed from the system. Who moderates this? My online shopping site link won’t help me from those blogs. Some weren’t even blogs they were stores
It’s possible that the lists are not updated regularly.
Nick,
Slick tool! you made life easier for a lot of us marketers out there.
Cheers,
Dan
Awesome.
I have just added my ff with nodofollow plugin. And I can see now that you rewarded your commentator with backlinks. Thanks anyway for the information and backlink.
FireFox is really a browser everyone should use.
Hi Nick
Just wanted to get your opinion on backlink building with free traffic system.com. I have used the free traffic system for the past six weeks, and have via submitting articles to them, built over 60 backlinks showing on the member interface… Problem is that none of these backlinks show up anywhere else i.e. backlink checks, although links built elsewhere do show…
I realise that not all backlinks will show up but I would have expected to see a few out of the 60.
Could this be a problem of nofollow?
Have you or your readers have any experience with free traffic systems.
Thanks
Brye
I have never used free traffic system.com but it could be a problem with nofollow. Or maybe the pages that are linking to your site are not indexed.
Hey Nick,
I firmly believe that if someone takes the time and effort to leave a quality comment on my blog that the least I can do is reward them for it. My blog is a “DoFollow Blog” and I also use “CommentLuv”. I’ve been using the two plugins you’re talking about for awhile and I think they are great.
Later,
Jeff Sargent
I have also found it to be a good reward.
I strongly believe that all websites should dofollow their comments. I can only remember the days when people actually focused on creating content instead of dofollow/nofollow/pagerank and all that other stuff.
-Adam
The reason they implemented nofollow was to detour people who made lame comments solely for the backlink.
Yup! Nick I agree with you. One has to have some kind of filter to get rid of lame comments. Is this a lame comment? I hope it isn’t. :-0
Cheers! Keep up the good work!
PS I often revisit this website to learn and keep abreast with new ways to build traffic for my website.
Thanks and no it’s not lame.
Most lame comments have some boilerplate text like “I found your article interestiung but confusing, not all make sense. visit my prostate enhancement site…”
Thanks for the info. I’ll be sure to comment on those types of sites, and this will be my first. Thanks
Thanks George.
Nick,
I found this page on google searching for “how to get indexed by google fast”. Google did a good job with it’s relevancy on that search, because I landed here and this is exactly what I was looking for.
Thanks!
Greg
Steelersgear.net
I’m a donkey because I didn’t land on this page, but I did land on 11 tips on how to get indexed by google super fast, then I clicked over to this page. LOL.
I am back and forth on dofollow or nofollow. I found this post helpful, but I still need to do some homework before I make my mind up. Thanks again for your help.
thanks for the links! Sweet ‘fox tool too – I only hope there’s someone out there building a similar tool for Chrome
A tool for chrome would be spiffy. Until then I’m sticking with firefox.
Nice idea on nofollow links and the way find new dofollow blogs. Those blogs with dofollow have to face another big problem, that is spam comments.
Yes they do. There are few things you can do like using a simple number captcha.
Thanks for the great info. Nick. I was just wondering why you have some links which turn pink in this particular blog? Most of them are purple anyways. I checked this page’s source code and it did not have , so that’s the good bit.
Is there a plugin to check this same feature in Google Chrome?
Thanks
I think pink & purple coloring is the dofollow plugin for Firefox showing which links are dofollow.
I don’t know if there is a plugin like that fir chrome.
Isn’t pink colouring telling the search engine not to follow a particular link. which in turn means that posting on blog which turn your links to pink doesn’t help improve ranking? And when your link is purpled on a blog, it means that the search engine is allowed to follow it and this helps you move up the page rankings?
Do i understand the concept of nofollow correctly or is there something else to it?
I believe you are correct.
Yeah its true that it is difficult to find blogs and forums that do follow. But there are directories that help you in your search. Uncle Google is also very kind to search it for you. Also the plug-in for firefox helps you to determine whether the site you are viewing is do follow or not.
Thanks so much for this great info! It really helps a lot!
An excellent source…..
thanks for sharing this informative post.
Is there another tool besides the one for firefox above. If you have the newest version of firefox, its not available for download. I’ve been searching for the answer to this all day. I don’t truly understand the nofollow, or why people put it on the blogs. Wordpress also has a plugin called Keyword Luv. It helps so that you actual keyword becomes relevant to your posting.
Bummer. Looks like Firefox is 3.6 and the plugin is only compatible up to 3.5.
I looked around and didn’t see any way to download a previous version of Firefox. I guess you’ll just have to wait until the plug-in owner updates it for the newest version of Firefox.
Great Post. I think this topic about building back links is one of the most frustrating things to do for new internet marketers.
All anyone has to do is understand that this takes time to do, and not expect too much right from the start, and over time they will start to receive traffic from the search engines by getting some great quality back links to their site.
Good advice. You’re not going to generate 10 billion links overnight.
One thing I would add is that you should focus as much on creating awesome content as you do on building back links.
Im using this for getting my website index faster nick thanks alot!
Glad I could help.
Just stumbled across your blog. thanks for this great post, you got a new fan,
I love getting new fans.
Every post I find on this blog is packed full of useful information Nick, thank you so much for taking the time to put it down online for us all. The No Follow problem is one that I seem to run into quite a lot. I spent ages trying to build links before I realised about it! Only to find a little article about it, checking and discovering that it was all for (nearly) nothing, quite a depressing day!! Still, you live and learn! I’m going to try out that Firefox plugin to make my life a bit easier in discovering the websites where my links can be more effective. I think I might also go and remove the No Follow thing from my own blog; might as well give my viewers some benefit after all (even if my website is only PR0 at the moment!!).
I think many of your visitors would appreciate you removing the no follow.
No Follow blogs are not popular for example.
-Problogger
-John Chow
-Copyblogger
are all dofollow
You’ve cited a few examples of dofollow blogs that are popular but that doesn’t mean that nofollow blogs cannot be popular.
Re-reading this for the n-th time. In part because I have had some luck with do-follow links of a few websites. The tick is to find something relevant where you can comment.
Another site which may be useful: http://www.followtopia.com/
Thanks Dave! I’ll have to check out that site.
Some of the blogs on the list are no follow blogs. All the links turn pink when you use the firefox plugin.
I don’t think the list owners keep it as up to date as they should.
Both the links take to the same page!
Got it fixed. Thanks for telling me.
Sure!