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How To Find Do-Follow WordPress Blogs (Part Two)

In continuation to part one of how to find dofollow wordpress blogs, this article will suggest two ways to confirm the ‘Do-Follow’ status of a blog based on your web browser.

Internet Explorer Users

If most of your browsing is done on Internet explorer, you might have to go the ‘hard way’. Go to the comments page of the article you are interested in, select and copy the name of any commenter. Then right click on the article page and click on ‘View (page) source’ to open the page source window.

Inside the page source window, use either your keyboard to select ‘Ctrl + F’ or click ‘Edit’ on the top menu of the browser, and then ‘Find’. Finally, use the paste function or ‘Ctrl+V’ and press ‘Enter’ to find the name of the commenter in the html source code. The keyword to look out for is the “rel=’nofollow’” atribute. The blog is a ‘dofollow’ blog if ‘NoFollow’ is absent or missing anywhere near the commenter name/link.

Mozilla Firefox Users

Although the above method could also be applied to Firefox browsers, the more direct approach is to install a free Firefox plug-in such as  ‘SEO for Firefox’ and ‘SearchStatus’. Once activated, the plug-ins will highlight all ‘NoFollow’ links on a Web page thus implying that all un-highlighted links on the Web page are ‘DoFollow’ links.

Talking Point

It is being argued in some quarters that finding ‘DoFollow’ blogs is fast becoming an obsession for many bloggers which does nothing more than encourage comment/link spamming. Do you agree with this view? If not, why?

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  2. I found your site on google, great site, keep it up. Will return in the future. Submitted this post to Google News Reader.

  9. Hey – that’s a great tip – thanks! This is my first site based on WordPress but it’s taking me a while to really figure it all out… I feel like I’m drowning in a sea of options and themes and plugins! But you can totally see the power. I’m guessing that installation and setup won’t take forever next time. Anyhow, nice blog – I’m subscribed to your RSS feed now so thanks again!

  10. It does appear to enourage sp*mmy comments but I guess sp*m killers like Askimet and WP-Sp*m catch the bulk of them. One thing I’m exploring is instead of using a do-follow plugin is combining Comment Love with Intense Debate comment manager.

    CommentLuv automatically removes the no-follow attribute from the post that is displayed from your blog. I generally find that sp*mmers don’t have a sensible “latest post” on a blog, which makes it easy to see them if they somehow got through the filter. A real commenter is rewarded with a do-follow link to a relevant post.

    1. Regarding spamming and do-follow blogs. I really don’t think there is much difference as it is a problem every blogger has to deal with these days. Not surprisingly, many top blogs e.g. MSN, Yahoo, Google etc are frequently faced with the same problems even though their blogs are “no-follow”.

      CommentLuv does seem to be quite cool though. I have seen it on a few blogs and it seems to work with ease.

    2. I once made my blog a Do-follow, but I had to change back because the torrent of spam being posted by humans was much. Such actually manages to out-smart Aksimet. I use CommentLuv and I feel it is enough compensation for those who are genuine commenters. At least it picks their latest blog post and give it a do follow link. That is something the spammers cannot benefit from because they usually have scrap articles on their website. Nice tips.

  11. Great post, i never knew we could know directly from internet explorer if a blog is follow or nofollow, here is how i check from firefox. Right-click the link in the comments section to click on Properties. If the pop-up box says nofollow then that’s what it is. If it doesn’t mention nofollow, then it’s not nofollow. Hope that helps.

  12. Another good Firefox plugin that enables us to identify a do-follow blog is through NoDoFollow. After installation and activation, it will highlight all DoFollow links in blue and NoFollow links in pink. Nice, isn’t it?

      1. As far as I know the colours are the same for everyone and this is understandable because having several colours equals different standards which might just be a little confusing.

  14. Hi thanks for this very useful information. Do you think it will really make a difference to my door handles business. I am studing lots, but I find the more i learn the more i don’t know.

    Thanks
    🙂

      1. I’m in love with SEOQuake as well! Not only does it have the ability to automatically strike through nofollow links, it also has some excellent tools for keyword density and backlinks. Plus, the best of all: it’s free.

        Here’s another tip. Use LinkDiagnosis at http://www.linkdiagnosis.com. It displays ALL the backlinks your competitor has. Very useful information, with more potential backlinks for YOUR website.

  18. Thanks for this great tip. Personally I’m using a really powerful tool calle G-Lock fast Blog finder version 3. It is really great. Well worth the cost. For those who can’t afford it, I would recommend a little tool called Comment Kahuna. It’s totally free, as long as you register. Cheers. – Ray

  23. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I found your site by searching some techniques on how to find dofollow blogs.
    I don’t know that much but I guess there’s not much that’s using internet explorer for searching this days. Maybe those that do not know much. hehehe
    I was expecting to see more techniques from your blog.. I really hope to see more when I come back, I like the way you lay your idea.

    1. Thanks for your comment. Most times people can only comment on the browser they are most familiar with hence the very little mention of Internet explorer. However, I ll do a little research on this and see what information I can get for you. Meanwhile I’m sure other readers might as well beat me to it 🙂

  24. Hello thank you for the information. I have downloaded the “Search Status” Firefox plugin, and it is making finding “do follow” websites much more efficient.

  26. I was disappointed to find recently that BackPage has made their links “nofollow”, especially with their new record of a billion page views a month.
    Seem to be getting tougher and tougher to “get the word out” about our sites.
    .-= Sarasota Talk Forums´s last blog ..Happy Mothers Day =-.

  27. I don’t agree with the talking point. Dofollow blogs encourage discussion and the opportunity for extra information to be added to the blog page that normally wouldn’t be added. I think making your blog is a great idea if it’s managed properly. The websites that allow spam and don’t have a spam blocker are there own worst enemy.
    .-= Dofollow Blog Finder´s last blog ..Use An Up-to-date Dofollow Directory or Blog List =-.

    1. You do have a point. Spam is something every Webmaster has to deal with nowadays and the sooner you realise that the better prepared you are to deal with it.

  30. A very informative post and comments. I will become a ‘follower’ of this site.

    I have tried SEOQuake to find the Do Follow blogs but unsuccessfully. Please, can anybody tell me how to do it? Thanks.

  32. By the way, SEO Quake can now be used with Internet Explorer. This is a great and usefult tool that also shows dofollow/nofollow links.

  33. Nice trick, I know how to check for dofollow on any browser.
    .-= العاب´s last blog ..لعبة القرع الشقى =-.

  35. This is a good method. Another easy method to find a do-follow blog or forum is to install the add-on on Mozilla. The name of the add-on is Nodofollow. Once the installation is complete. Right click the mouse and select the Nofollow option. You will find 2 colors for the Name. If its a purple(or blue) it means that its a DO-FOLLOW else if its pink in color then its a NO-FOLLOW.

  36. Again, my gratitude for sharing your wonderful tips in this post. I believe that the internet has been an interactive community because of do-follow blogs. My appeal to the writers and blog owners that they should always link with responsibility and accountability. Thank you.

    1. Thanks for that comment although it is a shame that not everyone is interested in accountability. Unfortunately, the only thing some are interested in is link dropping by any means possible hence the increase in number of spam comments these days.

  39. I’ve been using SearchStatus all this time and never knew about the “Highlight Nofollow Links” option. I’ve been viewing the source every time! Thanks for the shortcut.

  40. Great post. I agree that “do-follow” is a highly overrated strategy. When blog commenting, I focus on the overall relevance and quality of the blog. I think you hit the nail on the head with this:

    “From my point of view, comments should be used holistically within a masterplan for getting what you really need: direct link recommendations from bloggers or site owners with a loyal audience, sending you high quality visitors that will convert well.”

    1. “do-follow” might be overrated but so is page rank. It’s really about people “thinking” its important that actually makes it important because of the content quality that goes along with it.

      I totally agree that relevance is very important.

      1. I find this argument quite interesting. The answer does depend on who you are dealing with. Most marketers and advertisers use the PR as a yardstick to determine if their money will be spent wisely hence some bloggers or ‘seo-crazy’ authors are obsessed with the notion of link-dropping on ‘do-follow’ sites.
        Overall, quality is better than quantity and so is relevance.

  42. Thanks for that great info, I’am newbie on internet and this information can help other newbie blogger. keep update 🙂
    .-= Kitchen Improvement´s last blog ..Refacing Kitchen Cabinets =-.

  45. Thank you for such an informative article. Appreciate the tips. I do have SEO Quake on firefox, but didn’t know I could do that. Some people will post a good comment, while others use certain software that automatically leaves comments. Thanks again for the info.

    1. Thanks for the comment John. Unfortunately, spam comments are something we all have to deal with. Hopefully, more effective ways of filtering them out can be developed in the near future.

  46. Thank you for this useful information. There is a lot of controversy of do follow and do not follow. I guess I just try to provide useful content on blogs that give you link love or not. Google may one day decide to follow those links and who knows what that could do for your rankings

  47. A very informative one. I have been using using SEO Quake Quirk Biz in determining do follow blogs.

  48. Verry userful, thanks. I search dofollow blogs free. Can you help me? p.p. Sorry for my bad english

  49. Do follow blog is very convenient in the sharing of all information such as technical, computer, education, economy, tourism. Exchange information with each other by how to have a good websites, blogs and pretty impressive. I communicate with my friends through blogging. It is very convenient. For example, I want to travel to your country, to know more about your country I have the website to find out, because I know that your site will promote the country through tourism and their customs, practices, or places of entertainment, restaurants, hotels, famous in your country. Not the famous hotel, the beautiful beaches but also romantic and very beautiful landscape . Therefore, the Do follow blog comments is how to share and communicate together.

  52. I prefer to use firefox when I am doing commenting with the search status add on. it is much easier to see a big red button on your screen to see if it is no follow

  55. I don’t believe the dofollow link highlighting leads to comment spamming. I think spammers are going to do it anyway using their own tricks-of-the-trade.

    But I do think it is careless to not filter comments before they are posted. There are some rude and idiotic comments made that simply have no relevance to a blogs subject

  57. Yes, search status is a good tool, and another good tool that helps you is nofollow extension in firefox. I use it and it’s great. Provide you information’s about a page, if it is dofollow or nofollow.

  58. I use SEO Quake and many other. The only good dofollow checker is Stylish extension on firefox with a custom style added. Recognizes even rel=”external nofollow” and noindex and is quick to use.
    Install Stylish and make a new style and copy paste this in it:

    a[rel~=nofollow] {
    background-color: pink !important;
    color: black !important;
    font-weight: normal !important;
    text-decoration: underline !important;
    border-style: solid !important;
    border-top-width: thin !important;
    border-bottom-width: thin !important;
    border-right-width: thin !important;
    border-left-width: thin !important;
    }
    a[rel~=noindex] {
    background-color: pink !important;
    color: black !important;
    font-weight: normal !important;
    text-decoration: underline !important;
    border-style: solid !important;
    border-top-width: thin !important;
    border-bottom-width: thin !important;
    border-right-width: thin !important;
    border-left-width: thin !important;
    }

    Hope this it will help you find the right blogs.
    And to be on the theme. If someone makes good comments to my blog why not let him/her to get a link from me. If it adds value is great for both of us.
    Cheers!

  61. I was wondering how I can be added to this really great list. Do follow blogs are a great service to all of us so thank you.

  64. I think dofollow usage on blog comments is a good way of encouraging people to add content to your web page. As long as you use a spam filter and make it clear that you only accept comments that add value to the article, as well as approving manually, it can be of benefit to both blogger and commenter IMHO. Although, being honest, I would never use dofollow on my blog, as I would not want to link out to other dodgy domains, for possible Google penalties.

    1. Having an effective spam filter is very important. I have observed that the more popular a blog is, the more it tends to attract spammers in their thousands.

  65. Hi, I am a Firefox user and thanks for sharing this tips here. I was search many plugins for easy finding do-follow blogs but i am satisfied. I will try your method for finding do-follow blogs.

  68. right now, no plugin from wp can make blog into dofollow
    i do it manually, but if you know a good plug in to do it
    tell me please , i need it 🙂

  70. I was wondering how I can be added to this really great list. Do follow blogs are a great service to all of us so thank you adding comment for Search Engine Optimization.

  72. Well… round about every blog posts online don’t have much originality as I found on yours.. Just keep updating much useful information so that reader like me would come back over and over again.

  73. If most of your browsing is done on Internet explorer, you might have to go the ‘hard way’. Go to the comments page of the article you are interested in, select and copy the name of any commenter. Then right click on the article page and click on ‘View (page) source’ to open the page source window.

  74. Although some have argued that it is a bad idea to make a blog dofollow, I would still recommend it for new bloggers who are interested in genuinely increasing Web traffic. However, you may choose to change your blog to “nofollow” once you are satisfied with the results and have a loyal readership base.

  79. Great web site. Solid, helpful advice that you can benefit from and for free, it does not get much better than that. The web needs more sites like this one, please keep it up.

  84. its very nice post, so that i can think the value of dofollow blog commenting instead of nofollow blogs

    anyway, real cheers

  85. Well, even if you do get more comment spam with a do-follow blog at least the blog gets traffic. I wouldn’t underestimate the value of the traffic just because people want to put links in. The blog is much more likely to be read and get repeat traffic than no-follow blogs. That’s just my observation though. Interesting post, thanks!

  86. I have seen a lot of spam on nofollow blogs as well so in my opinion keeping a blog dofollow is worth it for the increased traffic.

  87. I wouldn’t underestimate the value of the traffic just because people want to put links in. The blog is much more likely to be read and get repeat traffic than no-follow blogs.

  90. Excellent firefox tools. The only thing I notice about seo for firefox is if you search too fast it can stop working for a while. I think google blocks too many queries in a short amount of time. But slower searching and turning it off when not in use works good.

  91. So this is why everyone uses firefox etc.

    I am old school I guess and have been using IE forever. I did download firefox and try it out but did not notice the subtle differences like finding out the nofollow etc.

    Time to switch I guess even though I do agree with Jan that spammers will find a way to attack your blog either way.

  93. Yes, beside Internet Explorer we still have Mozilla Firefox. I think it’s more helpful. Because Firefox can highlight red color all “nofollow” links on a web page, and we can be easy to know all un-highlighted links on the web page are “dofollow” links. Hence, we should install Firefox to save time for finding dofollow wordpress blogs. Thank you for your pointed post.

  100. For DHgate, there is a Google Chrome extension call No Follow Checker. It works well. You may try.

  102. yes, dofollow is nice way to reward the comentator
    combine with SEO Quake, you can find dofollow blog with specific PR..

  105. hi i am Ravi Once activated, the plug-ins will highlight all ‘NoFollow’ links on a Web page thus implying that all un-highlighted links on the Web page are ‘DoFollow’ links.

  107. i currently use software to find do follow blogs. i hate all the spam software coming around its making all real marketers look bad.

  113. This is my first comment on your blog. I’ve just created my blog about Various Topics (Creating Web Site/Blog, Programming, Social Media….) and I think getting traffic needs some patient.

  116. Good tips on using SEO for Firefox and SearchStatus.

    This is still a hunt and seek game as it seems most blogs now use the nofollow tag on comments. So it will entail disqualifying more blogs than the few that are found. Is there a way to exclude nofollow blogs from search results automatically?

    Andy Perkins

    1. I have actually never thought of that. However, I would think if there was a way of doing so, it will be up to the various search engines to provide the option.

  120. Thanks for the great post. I have a do follow blog and you are right we are re fanatical about commenting, and yes this is a good thing.

  123. Yes, many thanks for the information. It really helps me a lot. I also want do follow blogs, much better. I really appreciate this blog. Thanks again.

  128. do follow blog is a great way to grab good enough traffic to our website.. but much of the websites they do have good PR, made their blogs no follow…
    you will need to enter different search queries to Google search field, through them you can find them well..i myself use queries or search phrase like, list of do follow blogs, or top 50 40 , 20 list of do follow blogs, you can make your search more simple by putting inverted comas. “list of do follow bogs”

  130. I never used to comment on other blogs because I never had the time, now it’s worth it with do follow plugins. Thank you for using them. If you have questions about solar panels, look me up.

  134. I have found over the past that quite a few blogs that state that they are dofollow turn out to be nofollow when you activate SEOQuake’s line through nofollow links. This is not a very nice practice. But over all I love to comment on dofollow blogs – it makes the time taken to comment more worth while.

  135. Finding dofollow blogs is an obsession for me and basically i use dofollow search engines to do this which usually return the same web pages over and over again.

  138. All the tips explained in this post are useful.

    One another way to get dofollow link manually is:

    “keyword”+”leave a comment”

    Replace keyword with your keyword and Search this query on google.

    Thanks

    Amit

  139. I think it really doesn’t matter *much* whether links are “do follow” or not–if you have too many backlinks that are “do follow” the SEs probably give your links less weight. Who knows?

    Personally, I don’t seek out “do follow” sites. But I will confess that when I find them, I bookmark them 🙂

  140. thanks…in addition to this there is firefox addon that allows us to know dofollow links without viewing the source.

  143. I find nofollow links helpful to keep spammers away from my own personal blogs and also allow genuine comments ot be posted. I do believe that genuine people can post genuine comments on a follow blog and that maybe this is seen almost like some sort of reward.

  144. Dofollow is a plugins which makes backlinks to blogs. I mostly used to find dofollow blogs by the search engines. Some users use to search dofollow blogs by the software but I dont have any idea about it. Well, I’ve read your post which was quite interesting and informative. Thanks for sharing it.

  147. Hi I am still confused, I hope somebody won’t get laughed with my question. I know how to check if the blog is “nofollow” but I am very confused. I am just starting to create my own blog site but I still puzzled about all this stuff. My question is, what should I will look for if I want to post comments to interact with other bloggers as well as promoting my new site web designers in Atlanta as part of an SEO campaign. Do I choose to comment site that is “nofollow” or site that is “dofollow”?

  152. Interesting stuff, For Firefox users search status is best plugin for finding dofollow blogs. I am also a Firefox user and i like to use search status.

  154. Usually you don’t have to bother for searching in the source code or using the Nofollow plugin; You can see from miles away if the blog is dofollow from the CommnenetLuv logo.

  155. This is what I was looking for, a way to find do follow blog. I have heard that when you are building links, you need to include some no follow links too. Because it looks more natural to Google. Of course, Bing and Yahoo ignore the no follow tag anyway.

    1. I’m a bit curious as to where you heard that. At the end of the day I think it’s more about the choice of the publisher.

    2. I also read this issue on some forum being discussed by the professional SEO expert. Having do-follow as backlinks without any no-follow is treated by google as a spam.

  156. it is rellly nice article. so far i have doubt to check wheather it is no follow or do follow blog. the idea is simple but i dont strike this in my mine

    1. Have you tried searching for do-follow blog directories? However, if you mean in general terms, there is probably no standardized Website although Technorati and perhaps Alexa might help.

  162. Can someone explain the commentluv logo comment please, this sounds like it might make things really simple but I haven’t heard of this befoe. Also I don’t think it is true that Bing and Yahoo ignore nofollow

  165. Firebug is a great add on for firefox. It allows you to rightclick on any element of a web page and select “inspect element”, in a window, the source for that element will appear. Easiest way I know of to check if a link is do-follow or not.

  166. Great article, I dont think this leads to spam because many people like myself try to add value to the blogs when commenting

  167. Thanks for the article. I understand why WordPress created the nofollow rule and I’m not surprised it hasn’t worked as planned. Most article spammers aren’t aware if the blog is no follow or not and are content to post regardless.

    I have been using SEO for Firefox for a while now and simply refuse to comment on articles unless they have a dofollow policy.

    That said, I try my best to contribute to the discussion rather than just say “great article…”

    1. Thanks for the contribution Palmdale. It’s always better to make comments when one has something to say and not just for the sake of it.

  170. There’s no mention of Chrome here. I’m finding FF slowing my machine down way too much. As for Inernet Explorer – I stopped using it years ago. I find I’ve got too many addons in FF (call it Addon bloat) and it makes my machine operate in slow motion.

    1. You are quite right about FF addons, the same goes for IE. What OS do you use? Someone did suggest upgrading one of my PCs from Vista to Windows 7 as it is much lighter. Btw..Any suggestions on finding do-follow on Chrome is welcome.
      EDIT: SEOQuake works in Google Chrome

  177. I notice that a lot of blogs nowadays set their comment as no follows :). I used to be using firefox plugins no dofollow though.

  181. I believe in this and can’t believe it is the exception and not the rule. Adding content to someone else’s blog should be worth a little link juice.

  184. I don’t think adding dofollow to my site has made any difference to the amount of spam I receive. The spam just seems to increase as new posts are added because I think they are keyword related. So the more posts that have the keyword in that the auto commenter that they are using can pick up the better for them. I’d rather spend my time doing other things but if it takes 10 mins per day to trash the spam then so be it. Trashing just gets quicker and quicker the more you do it lol!
    I do believe that a little commentluv and linkluv goes a long way in showing appreciation to your commenters tho. And I’m sure many people take time to read comments as well as the main posts and sometimes they even click through to the other site. So commenting on sites without dofollow is still worthwhile. It just depends if the post is of interest that’s all and if you have something to say that will add value to it.

    1. Thanks Karen. It’s true that most spam comments are automated. Its quite hard to imagine some bloke sat on his PC for 24hrs writing spam comments, unless of course he is paid a fortune. However, there is still the possibility of attracting the odd commenter who is only there for the link juice and will not bother to make relevant contributions.

      1. Yes I agree some people will add comments just to get the link juice. But its hardly likely that anyone will see their comment and then bob over to check their site out if the comment isn’t interesting. It’s often what I do. I read through the comments (as much as time allows) and if it looks like the commenter is interesting I generally pay them a visit and hopefully make a quick comment on their site too if I find something of interest. ( I swear one day I will pay somebody to do this hahaha )

  189. Nice post about wordpress blogs. Every one looking for dofollow blogs me too. So your post is really helpful for me.

  191. I just installed SEO quake and SEO for Firefox today so I can see both pagerank and nofollow links. I did find some high PR and dofollow blogs but they are all moderated. I guess that’s the tradeoff.

  192. incidently… probably over half of your comments on this great post are auto spam. I’m not saying which but if you copy the text from the short comments and paste into google you will see that some the sites in question are getting thousands of backlinks. I’m not sure if the auto programs can get past your tick/check boxes… but at the end of the day some commenters paste the same simple comment which could be relevent to thousands of blogs just by paste paste paste. I reckon they could paste 200 blogs in an hour? ah well… we have lots to learn haven’t we?

  193. Not only Firefox user get some nice plugins! I am using Google Chrome and the Seo plugin SEO Site Tool! You should check this because it offers some additional information on the website…for example the amount of backlinks.

  194. The article is very good. I have tried it and I thin it’s useful. I have to say that comments here are helpful to. And I want to say that it is not an auto spam Karen.

  195. It was really interesting, i love to work with both the browsers but thanks for providing the information about both of them.

  199. Backlinks are so much important for every website to get good rank.But this is more important how they backlinks have quality?Because only quality backlink does help to get high rank.Now we have to understand about which backlinks are quality backlinks.Quality backlinks are those backlinks who are relevant to our website niche,less outbond links and must be do follow.Now,How to find Do follow backlinks.There is one way to get do follow backlink is do follow blogs.How to find do follow blogs……very well explained in this article.I ll recommend this article to all webmasters and link builders.
    Thanks a lot for share this very helpful article with us.

  202. This blog explains it all. A blog post about how bloggers go crazy for dofollow blogs and look at all of the crazy bloggers fling to this site to paste their preset phrases. Thought I would put mine in too 🙂 As if it will do any good now with the page rank juice diluted to hell.

    On a serious note yes i agree it is becoming a big problem. I’m sure google knows about some default phrases these spamming bloggers use and gives them next to no page rank juice. It would make sense for them to do that.

    2. Links from this site help me rank on a daily basis for keywords that make me a lot of money…

      But I think that people under value no-follow links, I take links where I can get them and have had great results with no follow links.

    3. Personally I will use either do follow or no follow as long as the PR is 3 or above. I have great results with both

    4. I have never experienced diluted page rank no matter how many comments on a blog the backlink has still helped me rank. Just my personal opinion.

      Berry

  203. Does outgoing links ‘dilute your page rank juice’? It should not, really, as in that case SEO guys will make all links and sites nofollow by default and the whole pagerank algorithm will come crashing down. It makes sense for some specific sites like wikipedia to discourage spammers, but overall nofollow does nothing to boost your ranking. In fact, it may lower your ranking as you have no internal links followed and crawled.

      1. I agree, I actually use no follow tags on all of my niche sites to keep the link juice on my site… I even go to the extent of no following every link even to other pages on my site… The results, number one rankings for KW’s that have tons of competition

  204. I have heard so many conflicting view on the topic. Truth be told there are thousands of ways to improve your search ranking by the looks of it and trying new things; as long as they are credible: is always worth a try for someone that is not too familiar with the topic. Now as far as outoging links hurting your link juice… I think it depends on the quality and structure of the outgoing links.

    Ideally, these links would be related and keywords were used as anchor text for the links. From the mouth of Matt Bacak ladies and gentlemen.

    Thanks,

    Nick

    1. Also I think domain age has a lot to do with the effect of out going links.

      If your site is 1 month old and you have 2 thousand out going links… Probably not a good thing

  205. Very nice article, it explains a lot but i think installing ‘SEO for Firefox’ and ‘SearchStatus’ and activating highlighting isn’t good idea. I think it is a little irritating when you don’t search for do-follow blogs. Firefox plug-in firebug is good for that it allows you to check a single link that you are interested in. Although I think that searching for do-follow blogs only to put a link there is a waste of time. But maybe it won’t be bad idea to spend time on making a list of good professional blogs where You can regularly put a good valuable comment.

  206. You can also use the NoDoFollow plugin for firefox.

    It’s true that ‘DoFollow’ blogs are becoming an obsession for most bloggers, but there are plugins to keep them in check. Akismet?

    1. Akismet is THE greatest plugin ever invented. I run 2 WP blogs; and yesterday in 24 hours it had caught over 1000 spam comments in one of them. One “delete” button and they are all out of my life.

    2. Akismet is good for cutting out the spam bots, but not always so great at getting rid of human commenters who may be linking to bad parts of the web (and thus causing google to tar you with the same brush.

      Sometimes it is better just to go with nofollow.

  207. Yes, I agree with you. The target of most of the commentator is to spam any Dofollow blog that is good and approve comment once. On the other hand, there is lots of good commentator as well,
    who cam make nice and good contributions to a post. But with anti spam plugin, it is easy to detect a spammer from a good comment.

    1. Tomas makes a good point though. Whilst I agree that it might become a little bit of an obsession for some, searching for dofollow blogs just for link spamming is not particularly a good idea.

  210. Until reading this post I didn’t know there were such things an do-follow and no-follow, I was under the impression that a link was a link, it didn’t realise that it made that much of a difference. Now that I am aware I think I would agree with you that I could see how people might get obsessed with searching for do-follow lists. Maybe i should check out the plugin and go looking.

  211. I tried SEO for firefox and seoquake plugins before and it was good. I also use “nodollow” firefox plugin though and it was of great relief to me.

    Ward

  212. Sometimes we could not really blame webmasters or bloggers getting obsessed with looking for do-follow sites. this thing is fueled by no less than Google. You know, backlinks, backlinks and more backlinks to increase PR.

  215. I don’t think that using dofollow increases comment spamming. In my view it invites quality comments related to the the blog post. To eliminate spammers, there are captcha controls and also the blogger has the option to moderate. Only quality comments have the chance to get published. Also, it’s a way for the blogger to popularize his blog. He gets right comments for his blog, no matter who writes them.

  217. Thanks for those posts where you write how to find do-follow blogs, they are very helpful, right now i mucg more efficient when i’m trying to find something like this!

  218. good plug in i have used it and explore much batter result most of the popular and high pr blogs are no follow links. is there any search engine that find only do follow blogs against spacific keywords?

  219. Thank you! Very helpful post for link builders. I will try these plugins today. I am really fan of your blog. Keep up the great work! Gator

  224. I’ve been using the do-follow plugin for several months now. I even look at the comments on other blogs to see if their comments have a do-follow tag. If they don’t allow the search engines to follow my link to my site, it does me no good to leave a comment there from an SEO perspective.

    Good post,
    Mike

  225. Quality content will always outlive any spam content.

    Google will eventually changes their rules to something else and this issue will become obsolete.

  227. Intresting about the no follow and do follow links. Whilst I was/am fully aware of them I never knew that how you found out about the tag. Will keep an eye out for that now as i use firefox as my main browser.

  228. Great Blog! This post is very informative and interesting as well. Thanks for sharing that kind of post with all of us.

  231. I do agree with Huck, dofollow blog invites quality comments related to the the blog post. For me, it’s seem like a new post on my blog.

  234. I’ve read a lot of posts here and elsewhere that say that nofollow blogs are just as good as dofollow blogs. But I personally look primarily for dofollow ones and I’m glad that there’s a good chance that there will be more dofollow blogs in the future.

  235. Hi there. I generally use Internet Explorer, but when I do blog commenting I use Firefox. The ‘SEO for Firefox’ plugin works perfect. Sometimes a certain format is “DoFollow” and another at the same blog “NoFollow”. Just check out the comments before doing your own and you’ll see which format to use.
    I think that owners of blogs should lift the standard of approval of comments. This way spammers could be flushed out and only comments really contributing to the discussion will be approved.
    If I do come across a blog which relates to my website, I like to leave a comment, whether it’s doFolllow or not. This way you can build a good credibility concerning the particular topic and get some traffic from interested people in any case.

  236. Thanks for sharing this information on how to find do-follow blogs, but there are some plugin that one can install that will tell you if a blog is do-follow or no-follow.

  240. The guys from Google say this: “In general, we don’t follow them. This means that Google does not transfer PageRank or anchor text across these links.” But I think that nofollow links can appear in the index if somebody else links to you with dofollow.

    Good post. Thanks!

  241. Wow! Thanks for sharing this. It’s my first time to know about this SEO for firefox dofollow checker. I will have a try of it.

    How could I download this? is this for free? Have tried clicking your link but I didn’t see the download link.

  242. Simply go to the website: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nodofollow/
    click on the “add to firefox” button.
    restart the firefox after completing the installation.
    right click on page where you want to view the nofollow/dofollow attribute, and click to the nodofollow option. All nofollow links will be highlighted in orange colour and dofollow will be in purple blue colored.
    It’s completely and successfull tool. You can find it under firefox’s tool button.
    tools–>Add-ons
    you can simply enable/disable the addon anytime.

  243. I believe lot of people ll have visited this blog post and got good knowledge about this add on,which is very helpful to find out do follow as well as no follow backlinks.
    But I want to know can we compare chrome with Firefox for add ons.because we all know Firefox has so many add ons which makes our seo work more easy.What you say guys?

  246. Right click the shortcut that launches Chrome. Go to properties. In the Target textbox “add –enable-extensions” following chrome.exe. Remember to have a space after chrome.exe. Now start Chrome with this shortcut. Extensions should be enabled.

    you can find more extensions for google chrome simply follow by this is link:
    http://www.mychromeaddons.com/

  248. SEOQUAKE is also a good seo tool for mozilla.It helps to know PR of exact page when listing throuh google.I has a little problem because google detects a lot of traffic and start anti spam check.

  249. This whole dofollow nofollow issue is a mine field which can get your site penalised. If Google is told by one of your competitors (or their black hat SEOs) that you are selling text links to pass Page Rank, and you have dofollow links on your site, they may well assume you are selling links and delist your pages.

    My site http:/telecomsadvice.org.uk/ has carried ads with dofollow links since we started 11 years ago – in fact all our links, ads or editorial have always been dofollow – and that is how Google built their algorithm in the first place.

    I suspect that a rival alerted Google that we had ads with dofollow links and suddenly the PR reported in the browser dropped on several pages from 4 to NA. Even our free ICT Directory pages lost their PR – note these are free links for bone fide ICT suppliers. However, our search positions don’t seem to have been affected so much as a drop in PR would suggest – we are still top for ‘small business telecoms’ for example.

    Only Google know how their ranking system works – but they appear to be a bit tyranical and randomly hand out summary penalties without looking at the detail. All our ad links are identified as such and link to bone fide relevant sites. I have contarcts with advertisers for 12 month placements I can’t just take them down or even make them all nofollow. If all links are to be made nofollow what happens to Google’s algorithm then?

    I am going to look at making our WordPress blog pages dofollow – I always manually publish posts and comments and delete spam in any case, so only quality posts will be published.

  250. Thanks for the information you imparted, as I am not completely aware of this. It will be very valuable to people who are tempted to engage with SEO

  251. I am not sure if nofollow links give you and help in rankings. My site had over 300 nofollow links from various torrent sites pointing to our URL and we haven’t seen any rise in position on the SE’s. Google has been aggressively targeting the torrents and now it’s down to 145. I would assume that if nofollow had an effect on your ranking we would have dropped significantly with the loss of over 150 links.

    1. @Marry, I dont believe in this ‘google conspiracy’, if it would be true it would mean that Company A could get links from bad blogs to the website of Company B, to make the website of Company B a bad site. So if you get some links from bad blogs it probably not gonna help nor hurt you, but if you only got links from bad blogs it could hurt you.

    1. Well, if you like to have a numerous comments and readers such as the owner of this blog, you need to have a eye catching posts and also use a commentluv plugin or keywordluv like this.

  254. Thanks for this. A few months back, I started using chrome, and was looking for chrome’s version of no-follow plugin. I found ‘No-Follow Simple’ plugin; fairly simple and easy to use

    Thanks
    Kevin Rudd

  255. Thanks for this information, it’s going to be very useful for me. Prior to finding this article I was relying on dofollow directories, which at times I’ve find a bit limiting. Now things will be a whole lot easier.

    Thanks again

  256. I’m a Firefox user and i never knew that there’s a plugin which could identify do follow blogs. This would come very handy. Thank you very much. In my point of view, posting relevant comments on blogs is not comment spamming. As long as the comment contributes to the blog, it’s fine with me.

  257. Hey, you can simply add a firefox add-on to find no-follow or do-follow,
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nodofollow/
    visit the link and download the addon, restart your firefox browser and then right click on the page where you want to find the no-follow or do-follow, and click on nodofollow option.
    All dofollow links will be blue colored and nofollow links will be of orange colored.
    You can disable this feature by right clicking on any pages and uncheck the nodofollow option.
    You can simply remove this addon from your browser by doing these steps:
    Tools—> Add-Ons—> disable/uninstall
    Thanks

  258. I personally just use the “see source” and then look for the nofollow attribute-way.
    I used to use nodofollow plugin for firefox but after updating to ff 5 and now 6 that stuff doesn’t work anymore. I liked that plugin more because it didn’t just show nofollow it also showed when a link was “dofollow”. That makes it more clear.

    I personally like commentLUV a lot. Because it helps to make the blog comments look less spammy. But still you have to be very alert for spammers. People just thanking you for your blog or saying things that could be posted under any blog.

    Good tips though!

  260. Thanks for this information, it’s really a big help. I’m a Firefox user and I already install a free Firefox plug-in such as ‘SEO for Firefox’ and ‘SearchStatus’ to know if it is NoFollow and DoFollow links. Thanks for the posts.

  261. It is a rather difficult question to answer if it does encourage spamming.. at some cases, if the blog has enough restrictions to hinder any spam then it isn’t..

  263. I guess SEO for me is a bit of a game. I enjoy the challenge. But for someone for whom PageRank equates to money, I guess a plugin like this might be justified. For everyone else, such as me, learning all you can about robots.txt and sitemap.xml plus the All-in-One SEO is more than enough.

  264. Forum spam is a pain in the back side and has caused many people to simply turn off comments or auto put in ‘no follow’ attributes BUT if you do want comments to start a debtate, surely the best policy is moderate comments that contribute to the post in and offer a genuine opinion?

    Those posting comments and then sharing the post via Social Media will be more inclined to share and post relevant opinion if they get some minor credit for it.

    Obviously autobots from mad domains like adofaohgf@sdsfoshfosdoh dot com saying “nice post” wouldnt degrade the original post if the moderators filtered them?

    will check out that mozilla add on as I too just view source….thanks for the heads up

  266. “NoFollow Simple” extensions for chrome is good.i install it a moment ago .it really work.

    thank you kevin

  269. Thanks for the infomation sharing

    I was not aware that there were some firefox plugins helping to find do follow blogs.
    This is really usefull and i ‘n giving a try just after this comment 🙂

    Regards

  270. Thanks for making search for do-follow blogs very easy. It we help lots of us on how to search for do-follow blogs, the firewfox plugin and search status are some of the best tool available to detect do-follow blogs.

  272. I use Firefox and I have an add-on installed. I don’t recall its name. All I remember is that it does a similar job. I just click on Tools and then NoDoFollow and it highlight DoFollow links with a purple color and NoDoFollow with a red color.

    Thanks a lot for sharing the aforesaid tips.

    Mouh
    🙂

  283. I use SearchStatus for a couple of years now and I recommend it. I don’t know if do-follow links in comments encourage spammers, but here’s what I thought when I created some of my projects: what do I like, so I could offer to others something useful. I help others and they help me back (directly or indirectly). I needed do-follow links, I created such an option on my websites. I needed a social community, I created one. Bottom of line is, when you need something and you get it, try to offer at least the same thing to other people so you can get what you want from now on too.

  289. The no do follow plugin for Firefox is one of the most reliable I have found for highlighting do-follow links. It stays up to date with Firefox revisions which are numerous.

  292. WordPress users may install and switch between themes. Themes allow users to change the look and functionality of a WordPress website or installation without altering the informational content. Themes may be installed by using the WordPress dashboard administration tool, or by uploading theme folders via FTP. The PHP and HTML code in themes can also be edited for more advanced customizations. Thanks for sharing.

  293. There is great fight of do follow and no follow links. This post is very helpful in making clarity between no follow and no follow blogs

  298. Thanks for this. I find that using the SEOmoz toolbar gives you a good idea of the ratio follow vs nofollow on a specific page. Although, sometimes it would flag a link in greenn (meaning follow) even thougj it actually is nofollow. I am not quite sure why this happens but you can check the source code and find that in the header there is a tag that might clash with a local ahref nofollow tag. This is something worth checking out as it would be reported in a Linkscape scraping in a similar fashion.

    Has anyone noticed the same?

  299. Do follow blogs have their benefits in my opinion. They do encourage users to post there which makes the website look more active which seems like a win-win situation to me.

  302. This is such a useful article to find some do follow blogs according to relevant topic because if we just comments on many blogs which does not related to our website topic then i think it’s worthless and just waste of time and if we comments on few blogs which is relevant to our topic than it’s much better to get some good results. Great article to learn

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