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Do Follow Blogs: Altruism Online
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Sometimes you’ll hear me mention that Aibal is a Do Follow blog. What does that mean exactly? A Do Follow blog allows commenters to drop a link pointing back to their own website when they comment on mine. In addition, a Do follow blog permits such links to be fully recognized by the major search engines, such as Google, Yahoo and MSN Live. This benefits the target website, as search engines are able to identify the connection (link) between my site and theirs which helps promote the commenter’s website on these services.
The way this works – and bare with me for this is a gross simplification — is that all modern search engines count the amount of links pointing to a particular website to gauge its importance. There are many other factors besides this, but generally speaking, the more links that point to a particular website, the more traffic that site will receive from the various search engines.
The alternative to Do Follow blogs are sites that have No Follow links in their comments section. This style of linking forbids search engines from recognizing (following) the links posted by commenters. Using No Follow links, blog visitors can still see and click on a commenter’s link, but search engines pretend that it’s not really there.
Currently, the vast majority of blogs out there are set to No Follow by default, as this prevents helping spammers to promote their shady websites on unassuming blogs. Unfortunately, legit bloggers aren’t able to fully promote their websites when commenting on these sites. The best solution, if you’re a blogger like myself and want to support the community, is to set your blog to Do Follow and implement a decent captcha filter.
If you’re thinking of joining the Do Follow movement, you can request to get your site added to Tucson SEO Solutions Do Follow List – a growing compilation of quality sites that are set to Do Follow.
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May 5, 2009 at 12:40 am
This corroborates a suspicion I’ve had for some time that altruism is contagious. But it was only a suspicion until I saw your post.I don’t think it’s wise to act altruistically in the expectation that your actions will be contagious, though. Sometimes they might not be.
May 5, 2009 at 7:11 am
Well, in either case, you can still call it spam. Whether the visitor IS interested in your blog/post and comments with interest or not and just wants a link. In other words, it depends on the blog owner himself/herself whether (s)he is willing to appreciate the comments and accepting the links in exchange or just as a sign of appreciation, simple as that. If not, then by all means, removing the ‘URL’ field takes 2 seconds! Google that out. Don’t leave the URL and then judging people for spamming, most are not spamming, they post with interest and once they see the option of leaving their website URL, why not?
I’m all for DOFOLLOW or just remove the URL field! Don’t leave it with nofollow, that’s more a trick in making some people comment without interest. So anyway, all for dofollow,
Cheers!
May 7, 2009 at 1:42 am
I want to know why vast majority of blogs out there are set to No Follow by default???? the more links that point to a particular website, the more traffic that site will receive from the various search engines.
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May 7, 2009 at 6:38 am
Thanks for the great information. Do-follows does generate traffic and results to a website. The downside to it are spammers.
May 25, 2009 at 10:56 pm
Nice post… Just out of curiosity, what the heck is that intro graphic on this post and what’s the pun I’m missing relating it to the do-follow topic? Yikes! Nice work though.
May 29, 2009 at 8:45 pm
It is nice to know that you are explaining about do follow, which focuses on your website. This information is useful to people who wants to learn more about do follow.
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June 13, 2009 at 12:28 am
Nice article. a great way to show repsect to your readers and to encourage a bit of debate…sometimes people need a bit of a push/incentive to do so! I’m sure you’ll have seen traffic increase significantly though as a result, at least I hope so!
June 14, 2009 at 3:48 pm
I think that dofollow is a brilliant way to show how much you value your readers. I’m so glad that someone with a decent site has had the foresight to get rid of the nofollow attribute. Thanks for explaining it in such a easy to understand way too.
June 16, 2009 at 11:14 am
dofollow is really good to entice readers but it is more good news to those spammers. If we could do something about the problems of spamming.