DoFollow Blog Directory & CompendiumDoFollow blogs, social bookmarking, forums and article directories

In the 5 Reasons Series, we will review websites with dofollow blogs, including some important details about the site, how the dofollow comments work, and 5 reasons you will love them!

Millwork Architectural Mouldings
Website: Good Millwork Architectural Mouldings Twitter: @GoodMillwork
How the Dofollow Works: Good Millwork offers dofollow comments that are CommentLuv enabled. Get a dofollow link with your keywords as anchor text using the KeywordLuv system (enter Your Name@Your Keywords)..

In the 5 Reasons Series, we will review websites with dofollow blogs, including some important details about the site, how the dofollow comments work, and 5 reasons you will love them!

In the 5 Reasons Series, we will review websites with dofollow blogs, including some important details about the site, how the dofollow comments work, and 5 reasons you will love them!

Executive Gift Shoppe
Website: Executive Gifts – Business Card Holders Twitter: @ExecGifts
How the Dofollow Works: Executive Gift Shoppe’s blog offers dofollow comments that are CommentLuv enabled. Get a dofollow link with your keywords as anchor text using the KeywordLuv system (enter Your Name@Your Keywords).

In the 5 Reasons Series, we will review websites with dofollow blogs, including some important details about the site, how the dofollow comments work, and 5 reasons you will love them!

Famous Bloggers
Website: Famous Bloggers – How to Blog Owner: Hesham Zebida Twitter: @FamousBloggers
How the Dofollow Works: This blog offers dofollow, CommentLuv enabled comments to loyal commenters – you are able to get a dofollow link with your keywords as anchor text using the KeywordLuv system (enter Your Name@Your Keywords) if you have made a minimum of 10 comments on the site.

In the 5 Reasons Series, we will review websites with dofollow blogs, including some important details about the site, how the dofollow comments work, and 5 reasons you will love them!

The ComLuv Network
Website: The ComLuv Network Owner: Andy Bailey Twitter: @CommentLuv
How the Dofollow Works: The ComLuv blog uses the CommentLuv gold system – you are able to get a dofollow link with your keywords as anchor text if you have registered your blog on their network. Set up your main URL, and enter your preferred keyword anchor text as the site name.

The following are some interesting videos from the GoogleGuy himself, Matt Cutts, on the subject of dofollow and nofollow links. For those who have wondered about the advantages and disadvantages, I hope these can give some clarification. Please note, however, that this is in terms of the Google search engine only – Yahoo and Bing handle links differently.

You may be asking yourself, “What makes this high PageRank dofollow blog list different from others?”

What is including in this dofollow blog list that is not in others:

• Live links (it’s so annoying when the you have to copy and past).
• Descriptions of each site listed (because why would you go comment on a golf site to get a link to a vegetable garden – remember relevancy is highly important in link building).
• Whether sites allow keywords (if not noted, use a real name or psuedonym, or your comment may not be approved).

What some dofollow blog lists miss when researching blogs as dofollow:

• Sites that link back to the permalink to the comment itself instead of the commenter’s website.
• Sites that link to a Disqus, IntenseDebate, or other profile instead of the commenter’s website.
• Sites that require a lot of comments before links become dofollow (not 3 or 4, but some are 20+).
• Sites that never approve comments (lots of post with no comments is a clue).
• Sites that are up for sale (comments will probably go away).
• Sites with paginated comments (older comments are no longer cached).
• Site hasn’t been updated in years, comments are closed or not being approved.

Also, for those that think dofollow blog lists are wrong because they invite more spamming, please note:

• If anyone would like their blog removed from the list, just contact me.
• I wouldn’t list your site if I didn’t want my own sites to be listed, and mine is in here too!
• Lists like these build backlinks to your site (dofollow ones, not nofollow ones like other sites do).
• While you may get more spammers (see how to defend your site against spam), you will also get a lot more traffic and great comments in exchange for a link to someone’s website.

And one last note. Please, please remember that spamming blogs for links is a big no no. If you abuse the system by posting bad comments to get links, you will end up:

• Not having your comment approved, which just makes it a waste of time.
• Getting listed on the Akismet blacklist and rarely get your comments approved on WordPress blogs.
• Giving dofollow blog owners reason to switch their sites to nofollow, ruining it for everyone, including yourself.

Without further ado, here are some high PR dofollow blogs to read, contribute to, and gain backlinks from.

With all of the focus here on dofollow, I thought it would be important to remind everyone that nofollow sites still matter for the following reasons.

1. There are important social networking sites that are nofollow.

Think about the most popular social networks – Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Myspace, and so on. While all of these networks are nofollow, they do provide a lot of other benefits, including making social connections and building an online presence and reputation.

Submissions for the Dofollow directory have been increasing as time goes on, which is a great thing. But it also means that I have a little less time getting back to bad submissions. So I wanted to write a list of reasons why your site may have not been included in the directory.

1. Your site is not a blog.

To be in the dofollow blog directory, your site must be a blog where you post regular articles that people can comment on. If I can’t find the link to your blog from the URL you sent me, then potential readers and commenters will not be able to find it either, which defeats the purpose of having the listing in the directory. If your submission is an article directory, social bookmarking site, social networking, or forum, simply state so in the description and you will be added to the appropriate listing.

Dofollow forum postings with signature links is a great way to build links to your website. But your link building campaign will go awry if you are banned from the forum and your posts are removed because you are deemed a spammer. So how do you avoid being labeled as a spammer?

1. Fill Out Your Profile

One of the first signs of a hit and run forum spammer is a user without a profile. So don’t just fill out your link – give your profile some personal touches like filling in your location, hobbies, bio, and adding a photo / avatar.

2. Follow the Rules

Get familiar with the rules of the forum. Some forums allow things that others don’t, like a certain amount of posts before adding links and so on. Also, browse through some of the longer threads – there you will see how the majority of the forum operates, and you will get a better idea of what is and is not allowed.

The DoFollow Blog Directory has made some great achievements and milestones in its first three months.

PageRank Updates

DoFollow received its first Google ranking during the recent updates and came in at a PageRank of 4! Thanks to everyone who linked to the dofollow directory and bookmarked articles and resources as well.

Resource pages that received Google love include:

• DoFollow Article Directories received a PR 3.
• DoFollow Forums received a PR 3.
• DoFollow Social Bookmarking received a PR 3.
• DoFollow Social Networks received a PR 2.

One of the benefits to commenting on dofollow blogs with Comment Luv as a blogger is the dofollow link back to one of your most recent blog articles in addition to the dofollow link back to your main site. What this does is help build links to internal pages, thus helping some of your articles get a PageRank of their own.

So what do you need to do to get the most from blog commenting with Comment Luv?

Register
Register your blog at ComLuv. This will allow you (on most sites with Comment Luv enabled) to select from a dropdown of your most recent posts, as opposed to always having to go with your latest one.

Whenever you are commenting on a blog, you probably see that some people have their photo by their comment, whereas others have a grey default avatar.

Gravatar is a site that is plugged into most blogging platforms – it attaches an image to commenters via their email. When you register with a particular email address and upload a photo, it will post that photo next to any comments you make on blogs supporting Gravatar images using that email.

One great way for bloggers to get more comments is by becoming a DoFollow blog. But how do you get recognized for being DoFollow?

Aside from submitting your site to a DoFollow blog directory, you can also put images on your site to let new visitors know that their comment links will be DoFollow.

Extreme John recently published some great DoFollow images that would fit perfectly in your sidebar, in 125×125, 130×50, 130×150 or 250×250 sizes. The following are just a few of the many designs:

You can also use the following chicklets to identify your blog as being DoFollow. They can be displayed with your other chicklets in your sidebar or footer, or added next to your blog commenting area. You can right click and save them to your hard drive, or use the code below each chicklet to add them to your site.

What does becoming DoFollow mean? It simply means that you are allowing each commenter’s links in your comments section to be nofollow free. It is like a reward to the people who take the time to leave a comment on your website, allowing their links to be fully useful when search engines crawl your post.

So how do you make your blog DoFollow?

One great way of keeping track of DoFollow blogs that you would like to regularly comment on (especially beneficial if they have Top Commentator lists that will get your link right on their homepage) is to subscribe to those blogs. Most RSS subscription services, such as Google Reader, will allow you to create folders / groups. You can simply create a group that is DoFollow, DoFollow with Comment Luv, etc.

So now that you know what DoFollow means, how do you go about building DoFollow links?

Many website owners, designers, optimizers, and bloggers have heard of and search for DoFollow blogs, DoFollow social bookmarking, DoFollow forums, and DoFollow directories in their link building quests.

Would you be surprised to know that, with all the talk about DoFollow, that it is not a tag in a website’s code? DoFollow is, in fact, a term that represents something that is not present on a link to a specific URL – the “nofollow” tag.