Jacob with Online Dating Stories commented on my post Getting the Most out of Commentluv and mentioned the do-follow issue. I’ll take this opportunity to talk about the dofollow gift we give to others by becoming a do-follow blog!
In order to fight spammers, WordPress has a no follow attribute that was introduced by search engines and key blogging software in 2005 in an effort to discourage comment spam. It’s all about search engine optimization (SEO) and we want to give the gift of backlinks to the visitors and commenters on our blog and it’s simple to do.
Do Follow Plugin For WordPress
The dofollow plugin for WordPress lets you remove the evil nofollow attribute from your comments. With the dofollow plugin downloaded and activated, nofollow will not work.
You add the Do Follow plugin just like you do other plugins. When you’re on the Dashboard, on the left side about half way down you’ll see “Plugins”. Click there and the Plugins window will open and you’ll see the ‘Add New’ tab. Click and the Install Plugins page will open. You’ll see the Search box, Select TERM from the drop down menu and type in “DoFollow”. A list of plugins will appear, select the first one with a five star rating and click on install on the right side under Actions. While it’s installing the page will change where you can read more about the plugin. You’ll see ‘INSTALL NOW’ on the upper right side, click there. When it’s installed you’ll be sent to the final page where you’ll see: Action ‘Activate Plugin’ and click there.
When leaving a comment on a do-follow blog with the Commentluv plugin, you have an automatic backlink to your blog!
Dofollow and commentluv are two plugins essential for blogging success!
Tell me your experiences with commenting on Dofollow blogs!
September 23rd, 2011 at 12:18 pm
I have had dofollow for every one of my blogs for years. I love Commentluv because it gets people to participate in the blogging process, and I always reward those people. Sure, there are spammers but we deal with them.
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September 25th, 2011 at 10:17 am
Yes Mitch, we sometimes have to deal with spammers but it’s really no big deal with a good spam protection plugin!
Linda
November 3rd, 2011 at 4:22 am
Sounds great Linda..I must say to all spammer, please stop spamming..As dofollow plugin for WordPress lets you remove the evil nofollow attribute from your comments..
September 24th, 2011 at 12:28 am
Spamming has increased drastically now a days and bloggers are using different-2 commenting plugin which helps them to put away spammers and create healthy communication environment.
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September 25th, 2011 at 10:02 am
Priya,
Another piece of great advice! I’ll look into the 2 commenting plugin.
Linda
November 28th, 2011 at 3:15 am
Yeah thats right Priya spamming has increased typically now a days.Great discussion over here.
September 24th, 2011 at 8:35 am
Every SEO marketer need to know what is dofollow and what is nofollow for link buildings.you may use some directory free links for life time backlink.Thanks for your valuable information.
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September 25th, 2011 at 9:56 am
Shawon,
Thank you for the advice! I’m going to look into directory free links real soon!
Linda
September 24th, 2011 at 10:26 am
Hi I am still new to blogging and I was sort out wondering what is the difference between these two. Thanks a lot for explaining. So basically if you have a dofollow blog, this means that you have to work harder in fighting spam?
September 25th, 2011 at 9:53 am
Scott,
Not really. When you have a good spam protection plugin like Growmap Anti Spambot Plugin activated the spam rarely makes it to your dashboard. You can read about it here: http://lindagraceonline.com/stop-spam-wordpress-growmap-anti-spambot-plugin/ ~ let me know how it goes for you.
Linda
September 25th, 2011 at 1:02 am
Thus all blog with commentluv plugins has a do follow attributes? Since I’m confused with this.
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September 25th, 2011 at 9:38 am
Maxhine,
Actually you have to have the “do follow” plugin activated on your WordPress Blog and the Commentluv plugin will give your visitors the gift of a backlink!
Linda
September 25th, 2011 at 6:08 am
It does, a lot. And I agree with you, it is essential for a blog to be able to distinguish the difference between those two, and use them in a way that benefits them the most. Also commentluv premium just went on a sale recently, might be worth checking it out.
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September 25th, 2011 at 9:26 am
Dennis,
Thank you for reminding everyone to upgrade to the commentluv premium! It is the greatest!
Linda
September 26th, 2011 at 8:42 am
I think that dofollow/nofollow is the same as good/bad publicity. As long as it’s there it can’t be bad. SEO says that dofollow is the right path, but i would like to be mentioned in wikipedia even as a nofollow.
September 26th, 2011 at 6:51 pm
In the end, i don’t think it matters. Dofollow links are so rare that they get lost in the crowd, and linkbuilding for too many of them will get you penalized anyway.
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September 26th, 2011 at 11:06 pm
It does matter. The debate about No Follow Vs. Do Follow is still alive. My opinion is we must have a good balance between them to get good results. There are other webmasters claiming that no follow links worked for their blog.
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September 27th, 2011 at 8:36 pm
I’m with you there Allen! Do Follow is where it’s at for me!
Linda
September 27th, 2011 at 12:49 am
I am aware of DoFollow blog’s benefits in link building but is there any benefit on working on NoFollow sites? Please response. Kinda confused in DF and NF benefits in link building and traffic generation. Thanks!
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December 9th, 2011 at 1:17 pm
Hi Vhien, as someone who doesn’t worry too much about dofollow and nofollow as it pertains to my link building I can tell you that the nofollows are still important to your link building.
My percentage of NF links far outweigh my DF links 90/10, and yet my site is still a PR4 and ranking well in search engines.
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September 27th, 2011 at 8:57 am
@maxhine07: CommentLuv blogs don’t necessarily have to be dofollow, but the CommentLuv plugin also deep links to your latest blog post.
I have good experience from dofollow blogs. As long as you read the blog post and provide a useful comment, it’s all good. Some blogs have been heavily spammed which of course is bad, but most bloggers keep after their blogs.
If you take your time to read through the posts then you will stumble upon a lot of great information, some that can enrich your life and the blogger gets a lot of comments – so everybody wins!
September 27th, 2011 at 7:32 pm
Elin
Thanks for wonderful comment! You’re right about it all! Why don’t you have your blog with commentluv set up? I’d like to see what you do!
Linda
September 27th, 2011 at 12:48 pm
It’s really such a good way to encourage comments and interaction. It’s a total Win/Win.
September 27th, 2011 at 7:22 pm
Yes Annie! I love the interaction with the blogging community!
Linda
September 27th, 2011 at 7:32 pm
Hi Linda. I also have tried the DoFollow. It’s a very nice plugin, I have to say. And since the day I tried, until now I’m still using it thou.
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September 28th, 2011 at 5:20 am
Interesting post. I’ve left my blog on all its default settings. So far there’s more spam that comments coming in
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September 30th, 2011 at 3:25 pm
Darren,
Do you have a good spam protection plugin? I suggest http://lindagraceonline.com/stop-spam-wordpress-growmap-anti-spambot-plugin/
Let me know if it helps~
Linda
September 28th, 2011 at 6:00 am
A do follow link is a wonderful gift to give quality commentators. Although it admittedly means harsher moderating.
I installed the stop forum spam plugin and that had dramatic positive effects for me. Although it was initially designed for forums, it’s also great with blogs and check registrants / commentators against several spammer databases.
Anything to make our lives easier so we can concentrate on the added-value stuff
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September 28th, 2011 at 7:39 am
Do Follow is a nice thing to do with your blog, especially in terms of giving back to the blogging community. Spam might be the downside, but if we let spam make us all No Follow, in a way we’re letting them win.
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September 28th, 2011 at 11:59 am
Thanks, I’m new to the blogging world and I think this is great, I will have to install this today
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September 30th, 2011 at 3:14 pm
Tanya,
Are you having as much fun as I am? I sure hope so!!!
September 29th, 2011 at 8:44 pm
Some blogs have been heavily spammed which of course is bad, but most bloggers keep after their blogs.I have had dofollow for every one of my blogs for years.
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September 30th, 2011 at 2:35 pm
Celestine,
I know, spam can be a drag but I’ve had do follow for years too!
Linda
September 29th, 2011 at 10:49 pm
Personally, I love visiting blogs with dofollow and commentluv because it gave me a chance to introduce my sites and post. Though, I agree that some can be mistaken or can really be a spammer. However, this is given to internet world. There is always a not so good sides that you have to dealt. Thanks a lot for sharing this very interesting post.
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September 30th, 2011 at 2:34 pm
Kariesha,
I totally agree! There is good and bad everywhere! It’s fun that leaving comments is like giving a gift to the giver!
Linda
September 30th, 2011 at 9:35 am
do follow makes my alexa rank better….
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September 30th, 2011 at 3:13 pm
Parminder,
I haven’t checked my Alexa rank for a while, thanks for the reminder!
Linda
September 30th, 2011 at 9:38 am
no follow also making ur site better future …
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September 30th, 2011 at 10:07 am
Dofallow insures that you get more traffic on your blog.
October 11th, 2011 at 9:41 pm
Yes, DoFollow gives quality backlinks but it is not required to do SEO only at DoFollow sites. Dofollow and NoFollow, both contributes in giving natural traffic in a site.
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October 13th, 2011 at 10:04 am
Dhanna,
You are so right! Thanks for taking the time to explain more!
Linda
ps, I love your Gravatar!
October 18th, 2011 at 1:13 am
I’m glad you like my gravatar, thanks!
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October 19th, 2011 at 7:59 pm
Dhanna,
Doesn’t it feel good leaving comments when people can see your face, and you have a beautiful face!?
Linda
September 30th, 2011 at 1:02 pm
I think you need backlinks from both dofollow and nofollow blogs, not just for SEO purposes but because it’s a more natural way to build links. As we grow our online businesses, we want to be involved in a community, and share our insights. Sometimes that will get you a dofollow backlink, sometimes it might lead to a guest post or a new twitter connection. I think it’s a mistake to discount NF links as useless and seek out DF links only.
September 30th, 2011 at 2:25 pm
Jamie~
Thank you for saying so!!! This is new information for me!!! I had heard Sire from Wassupblog.com mention something about exactly what you just taught! I didn’t take the time to understand what he was saying but it must have been what he was talking about! So are you saying with our do follow blog commentluv we should leave comments on no follow blogs? I’d appreciate if you’d come back and let me know if I’m understanding you correctly!
Linda
October 1st, 2011 at 12:38 pm
Ok, I think I understand this a bit better. I had heard the terminology but never really understood what the difference was between nofollow and dofollow, but it’s logical I suppose to just understand the by the name! Excellent primer Linda and I learn from your commenters also. Please keep it up!
October 2nd, 2011 at 9:15 am
Jenny,
Thank you for taking the time to comment! When I first started blogging, my mentor Jodie Thompson taught me when I learn something well, teach it. It’s taken me a long time to get it written!
Linda
October 1st, 2011 at 4:02 pm
I wouldn’t necessarily call no follow evil. In fact, many people prefer it over do follow! But what I like about do follow is that it fosters a sense of community, like we all need each other in order to rise up. Something small but has a great impact!
October 2nd, 2011 at 9:10 am
Una,
I’ve never heard that there are some that prefer no follow, well like I said before, Sire from wassupblog wrote an article about something like that, I wish there was more time in the day to read it! If you have time, come back and tell me why some don’t like the nofollow!
Linda
October 3rd, 2011 at 1:32 am
I personally think that when the no follow tag can not reduce spammers
than this no follow tag is just restricting us from commenting and back linking with each other.
The comment luv community is good and we are here because of it.
October 10th, 2011 at 6:57 am
Mith,
Yes, we’re here because of commentluv!
Linda
October 10th, 2011 at 9:07 am
Mith,
Thanks for saying so! As soon as I get home from vacation (in two days) I’ll be posting more!
Linda
October 3rd, 2011 at 7:05 am
Hi Linda,
Nice post.Do follow is good for traffic generation or backlinking and I think spam protection is good to deal with spammers in this case.
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October 3rd, 2011 at 5:34 pm
I haven’t actually done much with this, but I think it’s time to install that plugin. Good commenters should recieved some link juice from my blogs, it seems like a fair trade! Thanks for sewing the seed Linda.
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October 10th, 2011 at 7:07 am
Joe,
Yes, it is a simple gift we can give! Like you said, it’s ‘link juice’!
Linda
October 3rd, 2011 at 9:13 pm
Hi Linda…For me, it doesn’t really matter…Anyway, I thank you for sharing this post to us…
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October 10th, 2011 at 9:49 am
Helga,
I’m surprised that you don’t care about DoFollow and NoFollow~ being a blogger and all!
Linda
October 4th, 2011 at 1:01 am
Great post Linda thank you so much for sharing it.
October 10th, 2011 at 7:17 am
Jade,
I love your Gravatar!
Linda
October 4th, 2011 at 4:16 am
Hi there again!
Thanks for your article, I am interested in the DO or No Follow topic and your post is more than useful.
October 4th, 2011 at 6:26 am
Hi Linda,
Nice post. The main reason of popularity of do-follow blog is the increasing number of traffic and generation of backlinks and I think it is a good way of generating relation between marketers.I am looking forward for your more new posts.
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October 4th, 2011 at 8:27 am
nyc..post…..certainly worth sharing it!:-)
I’m always glad to see ur posts create a little conversation, so thanks for sharing your thoughts.
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October 5th, 2011 at 10:44 am
Mr. Voltas,
I do love chatting with people on my blog, especially to those with a Gravatar!
Linda!
October 9th, 2011 at 11:10 am
thank u very much linda
and thnx for the gravatar
it’s my collage pics…….:-)
October 4th, 2011 at 9:21 am
I installed the stop forum spam plugin and that had dramatic positive effects for me.Do follow is good for traffic generation or backlinking and I think spam protection is good to deal with spammers in this case.
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October 10th, 2011 at 7:22 am
Jewel,
Yes this blogging adventure is awesome! I’m grateful that tech smart have created all these plugins!
Linda
October 4th, 2011 at 2:49 pm
Linda – Thanks for keeping your blog DoFollow, first of all! It’s obviously great for SEO purposes, but more than that I think it encourages commenters to stick around rather than move on to find another blog that doesn’t follow their comments. I’m in the process of making my own blog, and when I do I will make sure to use this plug-in!!
October 10th, 2011 at 7:24 am
Kayla,
You’ll have to be sure to share with me your blog when it’s up and running!
Linda
October 4th, 2011 at 10:41 pm
I personally leave a comment on an inspiring article no matter if it’s no-follow or do-follow. To be honest, I’ve only recently understood the difference between the two, although to my mind both types should matter to some degree. Alison
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October 5th, 2011 at 9:19 am
Alison,
Have you enjoyed your time online? Have your comments provided the success that you’re looking for?
Linda
October 4th, 2011 at 10:48 pm
Hi Linda! I love it when I notice the blog owner thought about the readers that get engaged, via offering the “do-follow” attribute for the links. It’s a win-win, isn’t it? Erica
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October 5th, 2011 at 9:17 am
Erica,
You’re right, DoFollow is a win-win! I’d love to know details of what exactly you do online!
Linda
October 4th, 2011 at 11:02 pm
Hi, Linda! I think there is a responsibility for the readers to make value-added comments and a responsibility for the blogger to reward contributors. Such approach can only lead to a positive outcome! Best, Tomek
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October 5th, 2011 at 8:59 am
Tomek,
I don’t think I’d go so far as say it’s a responsibility… but it is good form for sure!
Linda
October 5th, 2011 at 5:52 am
Enabling “do follow” is important for helping out fellow bloggers, but you must moderate your comments carefully, or you’ll be assisting the spammers instead!
I use CommentLuv premium — it’s like belonging to a club of like-minded bloggers who all want to help each other out. I have it running on several blogs, and it’s great for encouraging discussions and fostering communities.
October 5th, 2011 at 8:26 am
Bruce,
Yes, I agree, we need to moderate our comments carefully!
And Andy Bailey with CommentLuv has provided a bunch gifts for bloggers!
Linda
October 5th, 2011 at 7:59 am
Hey Linda,
Thanks for the quick history on how and why the no follow attribute came about.
I thought my wordpress blog was already do-follow but I’ll download the do follow plugin just to make sure, because I want to encourage comments on my blog.
I also like the Commentluv plugin because it gives your readers a double dose of links. Thanks again for sharing, much appreciated.
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October 5th, 2011 at 4:32 pm
Melony,
Thanks for visiting! Now you need a Gravatar! http://lindagraceonline.com/for-goodness-sake-get-a-gravatar/
Linda
October 5th, 2011 at 5:30 pm
Do follow is really necessary if you want to generate traffic on your link. I have been doing blog commenting on do follow blogs. Although spamming is already widespread on blogs, no need to worry since their are many anti spam devices or plug ins now a days.
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October 10th, 2011 at 9:54 am
Tomry,
Yes! We need to make sure the anti-spam plugins are activated on our blog!
Linda
October 5th, 2011 at 7:08 pm
Linda,
I have had a number of blogs where the comments are dofollow. I also have some that are nofollow. On blogs where you want to encourage commenting, then you are better off with the dofollow. On blogs where you want to discourage commenting without completely disabling it, then I suggest you use nofollow. It depends on the circumstances. Thanks for making yours dofollow. I appreciate it and I will certainly be back again because of it.
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October 6th, 2011 at 3:31 am
Back linking is an exciting idea and has contributed a lot to the blogging world. Dofollow and Commentluv plugin are the hot favorites and I have got them too. Dofollow, the opposite of nofollow, gives an outgoing link, when people make a quality comment on my blog and I feel that dofollow was much fruitful than nofollow.
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October 10th, 2011 at 3:33 pm
Leo,
Thank you for commenting!
Linda
October 6th, 2011 at 9:32 pm
Hello Linda I think so it does not matter a lot, but matters a bit for Google and yahoo doesn’t care about if your link is dofollow or nofollow.
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October 10th, 2011 at 10:25 am
Gold Investment,
I look forward to learning your name! Yes, DoFollow and NoFollow really does matter to Google!
Linda
October 6th, 2011 at 11:07 pm
Thank you for give me information about do follow and no follow link.This is the important point in SEO.These are recommended by Google.
October 10th, 2011 at 10:22 am
Beach Umbrellas,
I look forward to knowing your name! I am having a blast learning about SEO!
Linda
October 6th, 2011 at 11:19 pm
This plugin is really helpful.. I’ve been using this 3 months now and they are great.. Thanks for this info!
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October 10th, 2011 at 10:20 am
Raven,
I totally agree! I was blogging for months before I knew enough to understand the NoFollow attribute of WordPress!
Linda
October 7th, 2011 at 2:30 am
First there was a trend of nofollow and now dofollow plug in appears to be present in each and every website. Of course, spammers are there but there are always ways to deal with them. The dofollow plugin for WordPress just removes the evil nofollow attribute and so it may be helpful. Thanks Linda for the wonderful blog post.
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October 10th, 2011 at 10:04 am
Rosalia,
Thanks for taking the time to leave a comment!
Linda
October 7th, 2011 at 2:55 am
Thank you Linda for this eye-opening post about DoFollow and NoFollow definition, that I was a little confused about.
Nick
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October 7th, 2011 at 12:10 pm
Spammers always wants backlink but the real comments will show you a different way to think and write. It will be helpful for you as well as for your blog. Good know about Commentluv’s history. It is a good way to boost backlinks too.
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October 10th, 2011 at 3:29 pm
Denny,
And I haven’t read the history, I need to do it!
Linda
October 7th, 2011 at 1:38 pm
I have found do-follow blogs and comment luv to be great. It really does encourage you to travel to different blogs, read what people have to say, learn more, and interact. I generally find myself asking to for notification of follow up comments and end up coming back to see what others are saying.
October 10th, 2011 at 3:28 pm
Thank you Mel! I do the same thing! I don’t see a commentluv with you! Come back and visit me with with a Commentluv enabled blog!
Linda
December 21st, 2011 at 12:17 pm
We’re Commentluv enabled now, Linda!
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December 21st, 2011 at 12:23 pm
Good Job Mel!
October 8th, 2011 at 10:41 pm
To be honest, I have many blogs that use keywordluv/commentluv, which many people will say attracts a lot of spam. However, with good moderation, you can weed out all the spam and instead what you’re attracting is people who actually want to add to the conversation in a meaningful way. For these people, I have no problem giving them a dofollow backlink in exchange.
In the end, I completely agree making your blog dofollow is really great for you. Thanks for a cool post
October 9th, 2011 at 2:11 am
Commentluv is a great plugin, however. People that build links to their site should not only try to build just aim for dofollow links. A mix of both dofollow an nofollow is the most natural.
But if you want people to comment more on your own blog this is a great plugin. I don´t use it on all my sites but on some sites.
Regards.
Ylva
Sweden
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October 9th, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Thank you Linda for sharing this post with us. I have got a personal viewpoint about dofollow and nofollow links. I think nofollow links are not useless. They can send direct visitors and also get counted at least by yahoo because I have personally noticed that. Nofollow link may not be counted by Google but it is not total waste.
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October 11th, 2011 at 9:17 pm
Monahi,
Thanks for taking time to explain what the benefits are of a nofollow blog!
Linda
October 10th, 2011 at 3:28 am
Do follow and no follow are the most important links in SEo.They are very useful.Do follow links are authorized by Google but no follow links are not authorized by Google.This is most informative article.I like this.
October 10th, 2011 at 7:05 am
Thanks for your valuable information.I’ve only recently understood the difference between the two, Thanks again for sharing, much appreciated.
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October 11th, 2011 at 9:08 pm
Karen,
Isn’t it interesting that we blog for so long without really understanding!
Linda
October 11th, 2011 at 3:45 am
Linda, I like the way you think. Commentluv rocks!
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October 11th, 2011 at 8:19 pm
Hey Ana! I haven’t seen you for a while! How’s life with you?! I’ll visit your blog and check it out!
Linda
October 11th, 2011 at 10:14 am
I like to visit a blog that is a do-follow blog and that is one of the great advantage of a do-follow blog that you can get many visitors and keep visiting your blog to do comments.
The disadvantage is the spammers but it can be fix, as an owner of the blog, you can make your blog enable for moderation when they do a comment.
I rather have a do-follow blog that a no-follow blog.
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October 11th, 2011 at 8:17 pm
Tracker,
I couldn’t agree with you more! I like giving my guests the link juice and I can choose not to approve a comment!
Linda
October 13th, 2011 at 7:46 am
Yup! And that is why many are visiting your blog. Like me!
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October 13th, 2011 at 8:46 am
You got it!
October 12th, 2011 at 5:57 am
Hi Linda! You’re awesome! You have broad minded and open ideas. I love to read everything in your post! Spammer – He who sends a message by the hand of a fool. Cuts off his own feet and drinks violence.
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October 13th, 2011 at 9:45 am
Maia,
That’s a pretty strong quote about spammers! Cracks me up!
Linda
October 12th, 2011 at 6:48 am
I love to comment on dofollow blog in that way i get link juice . I think dofollow matters if you want you want to rank well on google .
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October 13th, 2011 at 9:44 am
Aatif,
I agree! I also Comment Luv and I need to get a post up about that one too! Maybe I’ll get that one up today~
Linda
October 12th, 2011 at 11:04 am
That was pretty easy actually. Your instructions, with how easy wordpress is, is good enough to get it done. Thanks Linda! It will be interesting to watch what effect this has on traffic….
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October 13th, 2011 at 9:39 am
Jenny,
Learning ‘tracking’ is another skill for me to learn! I like to post about what I learn and I’m learning faster than I have time to post, tracking isn’t something I’ve tackled yet!
Linda
October 13th, 2011 at 7:13 am
I don’t understand why some people are still worried about no-follow tags. In my opinion, when we place a link in comment or elsewhere, then we need to consider it as an advertisement of products & services not for any kind of optimization. And nofollow links are not totally useless. According to my experience, my website & blog receives a targeted traffic mostly from those websites where I placed link but tags is nofollow.
October 13th, 2011 at 8:49 am
Paul,
I agree, linking back is the way to go! Why don’t you have a Gravatar? And Commentluv for that matter!
Linda
October 13th, 2011 at 9:20 am
You will laugh on me but honestly I don’t know how to add Gravatar and even don’t know its importance
.
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October 13th, 2011 at 9:59 am
Paul,
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Linda
October 13th, 2011 at 11:11 pm
I like this post very much. I want to know about do follow and no follow because i m working in a SEO Company from 1 month but till now i have no knowledge of do follow and no follow.I have read this with very interest but i want some more information.
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October 15th, 2011 at 7:37 pm
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October 16th, 2011 at 6:07 pm
Of course it really matters…At first we have to know what is dofollow and nofollow so that we know what we exactly need and want…
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October 16th, 2011 at 6:10 pm
It is important to know what are the nofollow and dofollow sites so that we know what we really want and need for our blogs…
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October 16th, 2011 at 11:43 pm
The only blog i found that the owner is so active and replying all the comments. about the article, i must say it’s awesome. but what i know about the dofollow is the blogs which allow comments to publish and nofollow does not allow. commentluv is just an incredible add on to have in wordpress. Thanks for the distinguished.
October 21st, 2011 at 5:32 pm
Online Florist,
I am a social animal by nature and I like conversations with the readers of my blog! I love it when I can learn commentators real names and get to know them! So visit me again!
Linda
October 20th, 2011 at 2:36 am
The comment luv plugin is really useful.
The auto generated back link for our blog is truly nice.Its spam protection also give me a chance to make my blog do follow.
October 21st, 2011 at 5:06 pm
Joe,
We just need to make sure we have a spam-protection plugin activated also!
Linda
October 20th, 2011 at 11:15 am
Very well explained, you’ve streamlined the difference between do follow and no follow attribute in a very easy way. Even a person who ain’t part of blogging would easily understand the difference
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October 21st, 2011 at 7:23 am
Kokz,
I’m glad what I wrote would make sense to even the beginning blogger!
Linda
October 26th, 2011 at 1:40 am
i am always love sites with comluv plugin due to dofollow links…….nice share……..
October 27th, 2011 at 8:28 pm
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October 30th, 2011 at 1:56 pm
I’m stoked I found this blog! I have spent the past 4 hours reading online to find the difference between DF and NF, so I very greatly appreciate the clarification in your blog. Not too advanced, but just advanced enough for someone like me, with some IM experience!
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November 3rd, 2011 at 6:33 pm
This is solid advice for anyone looking for advice about nofollow and dofollow for beginning bloggers. It covers all the basics without getting too in-depth about any one thing.
November 3rd, 2011 at 8:26 pm
This is very useful article for me because i don’t know what is dofollow and nofollow but this article provide information about dofollow and nofollow. Every SEO marketer need to know what is dofollow and what is nofollow for link buildings.you may use some directory free links for life time backlink.Thanks for your valuable information.
November 5th, 2011 at 10:37 am
Yes for sure back link attribute matters a lot in SEO and website ranking. Do follow are the best to get then of NO follow back link. So we must try to get the Do follow all the time then of No follow. But in case of link exchange try to give no follow link to other’s. And why do we need to do such is already discussed in the article in details.
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November 7th, 2011 at 12:56 am
Yeah it is really matter, no follow sites is like ignored by google for search engins.
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November 28th, 2011 at 12:52 am
Sometime Nofollow sites also gives traffic but Dofollow sites are best to improve google ranking.
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November 7th, 2011 at 7:17 am
Hi Linda, and everyone else.
For those who are a bit confused to what no-follow and do-follow actually do for your site:
Dofollow html attributes state that you allow the search engine bots to follow and pass link juice (page rank) to the link’s target page.
Nofollow html attributes state that you do not allow search engine bots to follow a link or pass link juice (page rank) to the link’s target page.
November 8th, 2011 at 7:30 am
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November 8th, 2011 at 10:38 am
I love commentluv blogs so much I am tempted to use them on my site. I just worry sometimes about the blatant spam it may encourage.
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November 11th, 2011 at 5:29 am
It has been interesting to follow your discussion about spammers. I am trying to filter out all spammers from my personal blog, but in some cases I am not sure who is a spammer and who is “real”. My conclusion, after many years of blogging, is that there is no clear border between spammers and real users. I therefore accept all comments that don’t hurt the discussion. Intelligent spamming is all fine
November 12th, 2011 at 5:50 pm
I just got dofollow on several of my blog and it has given many more comments.
what is spam and can not be discussed, but I do so that it is a good comment retain the link. a bad comment I delete completely.
but it is an interesting topic, I am nevertheless of the view that the comments gives life to the blog and therefore a positive thing if the comments are not always on top.
November 15th, 2011 at 9:57 pm
Thanks for this tips Sha.
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November 19th, 2011 at 9:51 am
Dofollow and Nofollow are two important factors among many SEO Ranking Factors that influence the ranking of a particular blog/site in search engines. Let’s see some areas where these dofollow and nofollow tags/links are highly applicable.
November 19th, 2011 at 9:53 am
Many use the Page rank of a website to estimate the value of that particular site when buying/selling links. Google mainly provides good page rank for the websites that have quality incoming links (back-links) from another site. The more back-links you have (quality), the higher the pagerank you will receive from Google.
November 20th, 2011 at 8:35 pm
I think it’s funny that you refer to the nofollow attribute as “evil”. Surely it set out to accomplish something useful, even if users twisted it for other purposes. That’s like calling baseball evil ’cause you could beat someone with the bat.
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November 20th, 2011 at 9:38 pm
Thanks, for discussing. It is so much benifited for me. I get much information about your discussion i have another topics pregnancy at 40. I thing it is very important for us. If don’t mind discuss about this topics.
November 21st, 2011 at 2:37 am
Commentluv new platform for commenting and gaining backlinks simultaneously.by default,all blogs follow Dofollow or Nofollow ?
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November 23rd, 2011 at 7:13 pm
I’m sorry to say I need to do research for the new CommentLuv! I simply don’t have time! If anyone wants to be a guest author, just let me know in the contact button above!
Linda
November 21st, 2011 at 5:08 pm
I much prefer DoFollow, because I think the whole concept of NoFollow is half-baked. However, a little test I conducted shows that there might not be as much a difference as most people think between NoFollow and DoFollow. See the post that CommentLuv adds to my comment for the details.
December 6th, 2011 at 10:26 pm
Yes do follow sites are good but if there is a site which is nofollow and having high Page rank than that will be useful too.
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November 25th, 2011 at 3:50 am
really an useful post every site promoters must know what is dofollow and nofollow link and your article about this catchy topic is really interesting and i am sure it will a great article to all the seo workers who actually doesn’t know the difference between the two . such an useful and informative post . thanks a lot for the good one. your blogs are really interesting Linda . keep doing the good work
December 2nd, 2011 at 9:06 pm
Nice post. I learn something more challenging on different blogs everyday. It will always be stimulating to read content from other writers and practice a little something from their store. . Natually I’ll give you a link on your web blog. Thanks for sharing.
December 5th, 2011 at 2:32 am
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December 12th, 2011 at 4:05 am
I agree that it’s a good idea to get some nofollow comment backlinks as well. If you just comment on those blogs that you are interested in, then you’re sure to get a mix of both kinds of links.
Another way to get a combination is to post free classified ads that allow backlinks. The vast majority are nofollow, although some are dofollow.
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December 13th, 2011 at 7:15 pm
Hi,
Great short post on how to make your blog have dofollow links. I have to say that after I learned about dofollow and nofollow links, I started to give blogs that have a good amount of dofollow links a longer look and I am a lot more likely to read there posts on a regular basis.
Thanks,
Jonathan
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December 20th, 2011 at 10:33 pm
I do agree. The dofollow blogs are so rare that most of the time , I am just fed up of searching them for so long. The dofollow and nofollow blogs matter a lot in blog commenting. Thanks to those who have these sites with dofollow blogs. Secondly, I love the Comment Luv.
December 21st, 2011 at 12:14 pm
Valentino,
Tell me about what you do with commenting! I’m seeing a ton of people commenting on this do-follow blog but no one is answering back about what is actually being done
Linda
December 25th, 2011 at 9:55 am
Dofollow blogs encourage commenting, so does the commentluv and KeywordLuv enabled blogs. Truly these 2 plugins are essential for success, moreover if you have a relatively new blog.
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December 29th, 2011 at 7:15 pm
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January 9th, 2012 at 5:53 am
I agree with the prior comment as to the do-follow blogs. They are rare these days but are still there; the problem is that too much spamming eventaully had most blog owners turn the comment feature off alltogether. I review baby-strollers on my site, for example the mini city jogger stroller and turned commenting off on my blog.
January 10th, 2012 at 7:26 am
I absolutely believe that do follow links are much more important than no follow links but I still believe their is some value in no follow. I believe there is seo value because it is still a signal even if a search engine does not trace the link completely.
The no follow link can also be clicked on as well and drive traffic.
January 10th, 2012 at 9:53 pm
A DoFollow link option simply means that a link placed on a page or a site will be recognised by Google and used to assess ranking. It can then be evaluated from a value perspective. Placing this kind of link to one of your own pages from an external reputable website can have a good impact on how it is viewed by search engines.
A NoFollow link, however, may be seen by Google but it will not then be used as a factor when it ranks a page. Basically, DoFollows can add value; NoFollows are ignored.
January 20th, 2012 at 8:58 pm
I think this is nice idea. I love Commentluv because it gets people to participate in the blogging process, and I always reward those people. Thank you.
January 24th, 2012 at 6:12 am
I think that dofollow/nofollow is the same as good/bad publicity. As long as it’s there it can’t be bad. SEO says that dofollow is the right path, but i would like to be mentioned in wikipedia even as a nofollow. Thank you.
January 26th, 2012 at 4:13 am
I absolutely believe that do follow links are much more important than no follow links but I still believe their is some value in no follow. I believe there is seo value because it is still a signal even if a search engine does not trace the link completely.
January 31st, 2012 at 8:39 pm
When there is a comparison between dofollow and nofollow Definitely the best of it will be dofollow ..Both are in terms of bringing Traffic but dofollow helps us to get more Backlinks ..and The topic is really catchy …Nice Article Linda
February 1st, 2012 at 3:31 am
A dofollow link helps a new website to raise the PR and also the reputation. This is a very good technique to promote your site and attract the customers and search engines to your website.
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February 5th, 2012 at 9:06 am
Yeah, I’m also agree here, Dofollow links play a great role in increasing website traffic. We should take dofollow links with high page rank.
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February 7th, 2012 at 3:27 am
The Do Follow is that link which is read by Search engine and we get backlink,But in the case of no follow link we do not get backlinks.
February 7th, 2012 at 12:53 pm
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February 11th, 2012 at 12:18 am
Hi,
According to me, We have to consider both dofollow and nofollow. If we consider only dofollow then it will look like spammy. Let see what other say..
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February 13th, 2012 at 10:29 am
Excellent info. I was wondering what the difference was.
February 15th, 2012 at 1:55 pm
Hey Linda,
Thanks for the do follow plugin. I’ve been looking for it as the link accompanying the keyword plugin is broken.
Thanks again,
~Jeremy
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April 12th, 2012 at 10:31 pm
Hi..which keyword plugin you are using?
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