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The dofollow movement happened a long time ago where bloggers decided to make every comment on their blog search engine friendly to the person who left the comment. The idea was to increase comment participation by rewarding those who left comments. The idea has had both a lot of good and bad coverage. I personally do not use dofollow links because I get so many low quality comments that are made purely for promotional purposes and I believe comments should be made for participation of the blog posts. That is why I reward my top commentators with dofollow site-wide links on every page of my blog, rather than on every blog comment.
At any rate, there are still hundreds of blogs using dofollow comments, and my friend from the Link Building Bible blog has created his own dofollow search engine which he has dubbed the dofollow diver. The dofollow diver is a hand edited custom google search engine that allows you to search for a keyword you are trying to rank on, and it will find related blog posts that you can leave a comment on for an anchor text related backlink to your site.
The dofollow diver is clearly not the first search engine of its kind, considering I have even made a blog post about one back in November called commenthunt. The difference however, is that nearly all of the dofollow search engines take huge lists of blogs, create the search engine, and then market it. The problem with that is many of these blogs turn off dofollow later on and so the search engines are giving links to blogs that are not dofollow. The dofollow diver is a constantly updated list that purges blogs that are no longer dofollow.
Aside from just finding dofollow blogs, the dofollow diver goes above and beyond by also listing blogs that have top commentator status (like mine), as well as those running the comment luv plugin.
If you are looking for some free easy links that come from a related niche to you, the dofollow diver is the place to go!
This is part 30 of my series called the link building cookbook that aims to be the ultimate untapped link building resource on the web.
Good search engine.. But the only feeling i get is that these kind of search engines help in making more spam through comments!
Anyways it is helpful for those who are not really spammers, and know the correct way of commenting.
Hi Collin - I’ve just very recently found your blog, and it is so full of great info, just the kind I’ve been looking for to help me with my own sites.
I’ve now read several posts in your cookbook series, and will be starting it from the beginning to really get the full advantage of all the information you shared in those posts.
Thanks!
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I’m the part of dofollow movement with my local blog, but I don’t use dofollow plugin on my english blog. I really don’t write blog to get tons of ‘I like your post’ comments, but on local market I have started DoFollow movement and than it goes viral and I got many new subscribers.
I think the Do Follow movement is great. Whilst I accept that it can encourage spam comments, I think that it has realised helped website and blog owners to increase taffic to their sites. At the end of the day if I get another 100 spam comments a day, but generate a few extra thousand visitors, it’s a small price to pay.
I think that the dofollow movement is just something that people had made up just for fun. Really, I don’t care very much for it. I had a dofollow blog, but after the first month my akismit had blocked over 2000 spam comments. After that, no more dofollow for me. I even wrote a blog post on my new site about the cons of dofollow.
I believe the DoFollow is a tradeoff and is up to the Bloggger to make the choice. One one hand you get a lot of comments and so your blog is seen to have a very active community. On the other hand is the time consuming akismet wading spam deletion that tends to suck up quite a lot of time.
Without dofollow I found a lack of participation from my readers.
my blog has dofollow blog now. and my PR still increase from PR2 to PR3
Do Follow Diver is a great tool and should be added to anyone’s link building campaign. Try it out!
Love the site have been following this series with vigour. Love the links.
CHEERS