This is part of my 30 Days To More Traffic Series
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 a pain to find so I have made a list of them here: Huge List Of DoFollow Blogs
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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Nice info about nofollow. Sometimes they are surely important.
# This is a firefox addon (a must have), to find dofollow/nofollow links (+ a lot of other features including Alexa rank, google page rank, metatags, keyword density etc.)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/searchstatus/
Also, having firebug is important. Here you can actually view which links have these “rel” attribute relation & what values they have – nofollow, dofollow, etc.
Thanks a lot for the link!
I wish i had read this article before posting my comments on different blogs for backlink purposes.
Thanks for explaining it in simple to understand terms so I can figure it out! Even the firefox add on didnt say what color was what!
Yah, the addon’s instructions were lacking.
Thank you for the explanation. This whole “Do Follow”/”No Follow” thing was confusing me.
I wanted to add that the SEOQuake add-on also has an option to show “No Follow” links. They display with a strikethrough (crossed out). I really don’t understand a lot of what SEOQuake does but turning that option on last night was a real eye-opener for me. And I was using it with article directories.
Awesome. I didn’t know about that. Thanks Meg.
Thanks for the post, it would be useful if there was a directory of blogs that follow as a resource for those looking to build genuine links
Try this:
http://nickstraffictricks.com/3931_huge-list-of-dofollow-blogs/
Thank you for your explanation about Do-follow links now i understand how it’s works
Great explanation, there is nothing wrong with nofollow as long it helps but I do most prefer to dofollow because it is much contribute greater help to have more traffic to your site.
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Thanks a ton. I’m just getting back into blogging and I was looking for a way to find do-follow blogs. I think Wordpress makes comments no-follow by default, but I never thought of changing that to get more comments like you said. That’s actually a great idea.
Isn’t there a way to do a search in google for find do-follow blogs also? I remember reading that somewhere, but I can’t find the bookmark.
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I don’t know of any simple ways.
Hey Nick,
Thanks so much for posting this info, it’s just about the best explanation I’ve seen on nofollow links. I think I’d have to agree with you on the way you control your commenting, because having nofollow does not prevent comment spam & prevents the Web from being a web! I’m using SEOQuake toolbar with Google Chrome to see which are nofollow and follow links, really liking it so far!
I’ve been checking out some of your other content, really great stuff, keep up the awesome work! :^)
All my best,
Darren
Thanks Darren! I will checkout SEOQuake toolbar with Google Chrome.
Thanks for the info, usually I find blogs that try to explain the doFollow and noFollow do a horrible job. This was clear and straight to the point!
Nick, I see that some of the blog sites already changed to nofollow. can i just list it out in the comment column?
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Go for it.
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