Blog Marketing - To Follow or Not To Follow Comment Links?

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There are a growing number of bloggers that are joining the DoFollow or Will Follow movement. For us to understand what the DoFollow movement is we must first understand what rel=”nofollow” is . rel=”nofollow” is by default attached to most Blogger, Typepad and Wordpress comment links. Blogs that have the rel=”nofollow” attribute tell the Google bots that the link exists but is not allowed any link-juice. Link-juice is what we need to achieve higher PR score.

Just to be certain we all understand what the meaning of this type of nofollow tag is, I have included a Wikipedia definition.

nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target’s ranking in the search engine’s index. It is intended to reduce the effectiveness of certain types of spamdexing, thereby improving the quality of search engine results and preventing spamdexing from occurring in the first place. Google announced in early 2005 that hyperlinks with rel="nofollow" would not influence the link target’s attributePageRank. In addition, the Yahoo and MSN search engines also respect this tag.

rel="nofollow" actually tells a search engine “Don’t score this link” rather than “Don’t follow this link.” This differs from the meaning of nofollow as used within a robots meta tag, which does tell a search engine: “Do not follow any of the hyperlinks in the body of this document.”

The problem with the nofollow is that the links that are from legitimate contributors are also not followed. This means that your comment links (this includes the link attached to your name) are not helping increase your page rank when they could be if the rel=”nofollow” attribute was not attached.

Our main goal when commenting on another’s blog should be as valid contributor but wouldn’t it be nice if our comments could help our page rank as well? I say yes and so should you. There are a number of bloggers publishing DoFollow blog lists. The list includes bloggers that have rejected NoFollow for blog comments aka the D-List.

Some bloggers are including a button on there blogs as an advertisement for this movement.

There is even a Bumpzee community called the No NoFollow -I Follow - DoFollow Community. As far as I know there are only plugins available to Wordpress blogs. However there are a few articles available to help remove the nofollow tag from Blogger , Typepad and Movable Type (thanks to Andy Beard for these links). To join this movement download the DoFollow (WP Plugin) or follow the removal instructions. Once you have activated this plugin or removed the nofollow tage, republish this list on your own blog with your blog included.

Here is a list I acquired from There’s a Blog in My Soup. I am sure there are many more bloggers that have joined this movement but here is a start. No you can be assured that if you contribute valid comments to these blogs your links will be recognized.

Bracing Your Brand
Mother’s Home
Brian Pratt
Best Real Income
1000MileJourney
3DayMom
A Writers Words, An Editors Eye
Aaron Roselo
Advertising for Success
And to Think
Andy Beard
Ang’s Chicken Coop
Are we there yet
Army Mom:New Jersey
Art Kauffman
Article Writer, The
Ask Jason
Ask Jason Business
Axplay
BenSpark, The
BenSpark 2: Electric Boogaloo
BiggerPockets
BizMark Tech
BlogAboutMoneyOnline
BloggingForBills
BloggingTips
Blogging WV
Blogocola
Blogozine
BMonaco
BodyFitnessInfo
Body, Mind & Solar
Boston Brat
BrownSista
Buy better - Have a Better Life
BuyMeBlog
Buzz Queen, The
By the Sea
Cade’s WriteToRight
CampingCoop.org
Candid Quips
Charmed and Dangerous
Cheffin\’ It!!
Clapping Trees
Colloquium
Comedy Plus
Community Building
CourtneyTuttle.com
Curious Cat Science
Confessions of a Housewife
Confessions of an Everyday housewife
CoolAdzine for Marketers
Craftblog
Crafts 4 Dummies
David Dairey
Dont Fear the Truth
DorisGoShopping.com
Down Memory Lanes
Ecomm Tips
EMomsAtHome
EMoneyMarketing
Endangered Spaces
Fibromyalgia Experiment, The
Finding Life\’s Enchantments
FitForFreedom
Flatwater Tech
Fools Wisdom
FootPrints On the Moon
Fuzzy Future
Geek Ramblings
GeekySpeaky
genki desu yo
Genki!!
GoBackpacking
gimme a break
go get global news & views
GrokDotCom
Guitar Licks
Hockey Dad, The
Home Biz Blogger
Home Office Women
Iwebis
Jamdo
JMH Techtronics Jonlee
Jones PC
JOIN - Do Follow Bloggers **
Julies Journal
Just Not Martha
Kansha Shite
Knitting Fiend, The
Last Blogger
LeaveAmerica
Life in the Fast Lane
Life Is Risky
Life Learning Today
Life Of A School Bus Driver, The
Life Passion Travel & More
Life through eyes of Krissy
Lifecruiser
LittleAmerica.us
Live Life Organics & Your Health
Magical Rose Garden
Marketing Blagger
Master Cleanse
Midlife Musings
Mom is Nutz
MomReviews.net
Mothering Many
My Credit Group
My Dandelion Patch
My Home Recipe
My Muddled Mind
My Opinion Counts
My Thoughts, Ideas, and Ramblings
Nanashi-Inc.net
New Century Politics
No Average Mom
Odd Planet
On the Horizon
Open Road Biker
Patrick Says v2.0
Paula Mooney
PBriscoe.com
Pegs AZ Life
Pencil Thin
PimpMyPageRank
Pink Poison Store
Pond, The
Ramblings Of An Undisturbed Mind
Randa Clay Design
Raw Vegan Momma
Reasoner, The
Rotten Bananas
Sassy Southerner, The
Scribble On The Wall
Scuttlebutt Pipeline
Selena’s Travel and Culture
SelfHynosisProgram
Shopping Flavor
ShowMeHealthBiz
ShowMeMoneyBiz.com
Simple Kind Of Life
Simplify Every Obstacle
Skeets Stuff
Solo Technology
Sophistishe.Org | Personal
SQKIKs Simple Tech
Super Blogging
Sun-Flower Family, The
Table for Five
TDZ Travel
TeaScoop
TechieZone
Teenage Angst Regression
Texas RV Travel
Thermal
TimeForBlogging
Tricia\’s Musings
Two Dog Zoo
Utterly Geek
Wanders World
Web Files, The
WebStyle
Whatever I Feel Like
Wild & Crazy Ride
Winding Threads
Wired Kayaker, The
Women Mumbles
Work At Home Mom Revolution
Yoga Blog