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Make Your Blog a “Dofollow” and Attract More Visitors

You may wonder why after several months of advertising and promoting your site and posting your link in many pages of blogs and forums, you still have a lower PR and few backlinks. This is because most of the sites where you posted your link does have a “nofollow” enabled.

There is a big disadvantage when linking from a “nofollow” site because search engines does not recognize your link from those sites. This is the main reason why your links cannot be seen in google or yahoo pages.

It is always advisable to post your link to blogs and forums that has “dofollow” enabled so that when a search engine crawls that certain blog or site (where your link is posted), your site will get recognized and will be indexed, especially by google.

So how to find out if the site is “nofollow” or “doffolow”?

Mozilla Firefox has a plugin where you can automatically see if the site you are browsing has a “nofollow” or dofollow” features enabled. This plugin is called Searchstatus.

Searchstatus is very useful and it automatically shows the PR and Alexa rank of the page you are browsing.  Here is an example of Searchstatus

showing PR and Alexa rank. It can be seen in your task bar and shows a lot of features. It can also show the page’s meta tags, link status, whois, and many more.

What important here is that, Searchstatus can actually detect if the page you are browsing has “nofollow” or “dofollow” enabled. It will highlight the links for “nofollow” if the blog has a “nofollow” enabled as you can see in the image below.

The image on the left shows that the posters’ links cannot be seen or followed by search engines when they crawl this page because this page has a “nofollow” enabled.

All you need to do is to right click on that @ sign of your Searchstatus firefox plugin to see the option and check the “Highlight nofollow links”.

Mine is always turned ON because every time I stumbled into a “dofollow” blog, I always leave a comment. A single comment in a “dofollow” blog means 1 backlink so it’s very useful.

The image below, on the other hand shows that the page is a “dofollow” site. You may noticed that the posters’ names are not highlighted even though your Searchstatus “nofollow” plug-in is enabled. Others needs to check the meta tags of the page header to know if the site is “nofollow” or “dofollow” but remember that not all sites show the “follow” status on meta tags.

If your Searchstatus “nofollow” is ON and you stumbled into a blog where names of the posters are not highlighted (like what we have on the image above), you may post your comment as well linking your name to your site.

How can a “Dofollow” feature can help your blog to attract more visitors?

I turned myseoblog.net to “dofollow” so that my visitors are attracted to post their comments with their links. When google or other search engines crawls myseoblog.net, their links will be seen and will be recognized as valid backlink.

Pretty simple: If your site is a “dofollow” site, many visitors wants to post their links because they know that they can have a valid backlink from your site.

Lastly, if you are running a wordpress script, it is very easy to turn your blog into “dofollow” using the “Dofollow Wordpress Plugin”

Please leave a comment below if you have any question.

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25 Responses to “Make Your Blog a “Dofollow” and Attract More Visitors”

  1. hello
    i wann know can i use this in bloggers too if yes can u tell how??

  2. Hi appu,

    Yes, you can do that. You can make your blogger a “dofollow” blog. Follow the following on how to dofollow comments on blogger.com.

    Edit the template’s HTML and remove “rel=’nofollow’” in this line:
    a expr:href='data:comment.authorUrl' rel="nofollow">

  3. All blog comments should be DoFollow. If people are willing to take the time and post a non spam comment then they should be rewarded with a little bit of link juice!

  4. you have very informative information on seo stuff, i’ll make your site as my favourite, tahnks for sharing many things:)

  5. I’m going to give that FF plugin a go. Good idea! Many blogs (like mine) advertise there dofollow status with a little gif in the sidebar, but it’s not always easy to see!

  6. It’s a nice plugin. The backlink choice is the best function i link, That’s more easily to get the page’s backlink details.

  7. Do you do DoFollow? Do you want more comments on your blog?…

    I learn a little something new every day. Today I learned, from The Frosty.com and MySEOBlog.com, that by default, WordPress enables Rel=Nofollow on all comments. Ostensibly, this was to prevent spam. It appears, according to the conventional bloggi…

  8. hi,
    Thanks to share this use full firefox addons with us.

  9. dofollow can attract visitor and spammer. But if we use captcha and/or moderate comment also use akismet I think this can make your blog safe.

  10. I am not using captchas for most capchas are weak. The preview feature not allowing spammers to penetrate the Myseoblog.

  11. Very useful links and tips. Thanks very much.

  12. Awesome! This article helped me a ton. I downloaded the firefox plugin and the wordpress plugin. ;)

  13. nice article, for those who are still confused about the nofollow/dofollow concept.

  14. Wonderful WONDERFUL blog! Never knew this about DoFollow. I also write articles on Expert Search Engine Optimization and yet, I did not know this. Thanks for a WONDERFUL article. =)

    http://thetempestproject.ipbfree.com

    Some of my articles, in my article section, are about generating traffic. I need to add this DoFollow tip in the future! Thanks again! =)

  15. Great site. Thanks for the worthwhile tips!

  16. Yes me have to dofollow our blog. i just change my blog to dofollow. but i ha little worry about it. i mean seo spam will growth, isn’t it ?

  17. Very nice and useful content, Thanks a lot for sharing and It’s my question.

    How to check any web is nofollow links?

    Thanks for answers.

  18. Keanwoo,

    Please read again the above post. If your search status firefox plug-in is installed an ON, nofollow links are highlighted.

  19. You have a great Blog. Now.. You must be called A BLOGGER.

    Too sad that your blog has fallen to PR2. But.. Never Mind.. You will reach PR4 in the next update!

    Good Luck :)

    - Asad - http://www.WebSack.net

  20. yes Asad,

    My PR before the update was 3 and it dropped to 2 for some reason I don’t know..:(.. My traffic has increased more than 200% since then… but most of my old pages got PR 1 and 2 as well (before none)…

  21. I like this. I did it on my site. Thanks!

  22. Thanks a lot, very useful information.

  23. Good to know this type of info cause I’m setting up a website. Cheers. DC

  24. Does your blog been downgraded in PR because its recently turned into do follow? Would Google punish do follow blog if nothing else just because you don’t do what they say? you know, big company mentality

    Thanks

  25. I don’t see it as a main reason.. I think the reason why my PR was downgraded is because of those reciprocal links before (from directories) which I already deleted right after I got my PR downgraded…

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