Find Dofollow Blogs
June 7, 2008 By: Justin | 33 commentsThe dofollow comment movement provides a great source of links for SEO’s and internet marketers. To learn more about nofollow and dofollow links, read my post on link basics. You hear all this talk about Dofollow blogs and how they can be used to build links, but you might have a difficult time finding them. Here are a few ways to get you started on finding some links.
Reconizing Dofollow Links
Having to check the source code every time you make a comment is a pain. There is a nice Firefox add-on that will highlight Nofollow links in red. You can quickly determine what links follow or not without wasting time on the source code. Check out the SEO for Firefox add-on from SEOBook.
Dofollow Directories and Lists
There are several sites on the net which keep a list of dofollow blogs on a variety of topics.
- Do Follow Blogs Directory
- Court’s D-List (some aren’t dofollow any more)
- Do Follow Blog Directory
- Dofollow
That should get you started. I’m sure there are many many more lists and directories on the net. One of the key talents of an SEO though is finding stuff that isn’t used by everyone. You’ll want to spend time hunting and searching for sources and other dofollow blogs.
Dofollow Search Engines
I’ve never used any of these. I don’t know if they’re good or not.
The paid service on commenthunt, I don’t know anything about it. I don’t know how that falls in terms of paid links. Be careful though with services like that. I don’t trust many people enough to outsource my linking work. Its the most important part of SEO and I don’t want someone messing it up.
Wordpress Plugins
Keep on the look out for plugins with dofollow links. A few main examples: CommentLuv, Top Commenter, Recent Comments. Many of these can provide site wide links.
Hunting for Comments with Footprints
Its time to use the power of Google to find free related dofollow links. Many dofollow bloggers leave a "footprint" with the plugins or text they use on their site. These footprints are indicators that they’re dofollow blogs. Once we discover these footprints, we can search for them in combination with our keywords to find related dofollow links.
CommentLuv Footprint
The CommentLuv is a plugin for Wordpress that tries to pull your last post from your feed and links to it with your title. And it has a very obvious footprint.
When you leave a comment on a CommentLuv post, you’ll see this: "Enable CommentLuv"
That’s the footprint right there. Ever page that allows CommentLuv posts will have that footprint! (unless the blogger edits the output).
By searching for the the footprint and our keyword, we can find related CommentLuv posts. So simply search for:
Keyword(s) "Enable CommentLuv"
Top Commenters
Many sites have a Top Comments plugin installed. They’ll usually leave the heading in their side bar as "Top Commenters". That is the footprint. Simply search one of these to find blogs with top commenters in their sidebar. Search:
Keyword(s) "Top Commenters"
Keyword(s) "Top Commenter"
Commenting Tips
That should get you started. Using those tips you should be able to find a fair number of dofollow blogs. Play around and look for new footprints and new sources for links.
Before you comment, you need to know that dofollow bloggers can be picky. Please check out my post about my Progress in May to see our discussion on commenting. I discussed a couple of ways to leave good comments and ways to prevent getting sent to the spam folder. The discussion is in the comments.
Good luck commenting. Remember to leave good non spammy comments!
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That’s a nice set of sites for Do-Follow and I will use them for sure. I’ve also noticed Court’s list is no longer Do-Follow as it once was.
You may want to install Subscribe To Comments plugin, since I just wanted to ask you a question and realized I will not know if you replied or not. I guess there would be more people like me. Well, it’s just a suggestion, since there are too many good blogs to visit them all regularly.
Hadn’t thought about subscribe to comments, good idea James. I have to do some cleaning today, but will install when I hop on later today =)
I installed the plugin you suggested James. The option should show up, if you have any problems, than let me know.
Thank you for the suggestion btw =)
Yup, I see it, thanks for improving your blog for all of us ;)
No problem james
Thanks for the tip using the SEO Firefox add-on
No problem Susan
SEO Quake is another good firefox addon with some nice features.
You definitely have some great pointers on here for finding do-follow blogs. Keyword(s) “Enable CommentLuv” and Keyword(s) “Top Commenters” are some ideas I have not considered before.
I think I have the firefox add-on but like most of the firefox add-ons I probably could not figure it out.
I can make a video tutorial for the two SEO add ons I use if you’re interested.
Justin, that would be great! Thanks!
no problem Denise. Working on a quick video for SEO for Firefox right now. I’ll put it up and then I’ll do one for SEO Quake soon.
Justin, I finally got a chance to use this Keyword(s) “Enable CommentLuv” and it is great!
I have Fast Blog Finder and I should have saved my money.This works way better. I can get really targeted blogs with this and I hope the links will get more authority.
I haven’t paid for the full version of Fast Blog Finder yet, but I do use the free version. I think the biggest benefit that it provides is the sorting features.
I also use the “Enable CommentLuv” trick but I have the free version of Fast Blog Finder too. I was thinking about purchasing the full version since it is not so expensive. Am I mistaking or is it possible to find targeted/relevant blogs with FBF too?
Yeah, I use FBF. I have the paid version. It basically does the same thing but automates it for you. It can return 100 to 200 blogs for some keywords.
if you are looking for a good do-follow blog then check out digital forums,
i use them regularly there aren’t many spammers which is a bonus.
Also if anyone is looking for do-follow sites just Google it, works for me.
Rob at alpha seo firm
I personally use a program that searches for them for me. A search on a popular keyword usually pulls in about 50 to 150 posts that are dofollow and related to the the keyword I searched.
care to share the name of the program Justin?
G-Lock Blog Finder / Fast Blog Finder
It cost money, but returns a lot of blogs
Just an observation …
lol, I always find it funny when people do a post like this, and share links to dofollow lists, then “nofollow” the links.
… even more ironic, some of these lists (such as Court’s) actually no follow the links to the blogs that they are encouraging people to visit for “good” backlinks.
:-)
I see it as smart SEO. At this point in my site’s growth, I don’t have a lot of authority to share. If I dofollowed all these links, that’s 8 out going links I’d leak juice to. I’d rather pass the little authority this page has to other internal pages than pass it to other sites.
And I don’t know the linking methods of all those sites or what neighborhoods they could be linked with. I may have no desired to associate myself with them.
It’s a personal choice. This blog use to be dofollow, but I didn’t like the spam, so I went back to nofollow.
And look at Court’s list. It has massive authority and great rankings…
And Court knows a thing or two about SEO…
And if Court uses those dofollow blogs for one way links, than he’d be shotting himself in the foot by linking to them.
Thanks for trolling my comments though =P
lol .. I wasn’t meaning to troll your comments … and I do understand why the links are nofollow … honestly, it’s just the irony of it that sometimes makes me laugh.
Todd :-)
np, I understand. =) I honestly wish Google had never developed the nofollow. I hate you have to jump through hoops to make Google happy. Personally I think nofollow destroys the concept of links and the internet. But since Google is so big, we have to bend over backward =(
Interesting!
CommentLuv helps you reward your commentators by separating their name from their keywords in the link to their site. This gives them improved anchor text, which can help their site rank higher in the search engine results.
You can now leave a comment with your name as well as a keyword of your choice here and get a PR5 link back to your site! How cool is that? People pay big bucks for that and all you have to do is comment here.
I just want to know that how can we make our blog no-follow free. I am an aspiring SEO and want some information regarding this.
First of all thanks to the author for posting a nice and informative article on do-follow comments. I am continuously looking for information on dofollow blogs. This article is different from other dofollow articles on other blogs as they just repeat same thing again and again, found all over the net. This one is unique and good.
The first site I encountered on this topic was this blog. This is also the place where “real money games” can learn about how to make make a blog NoFollow free.
I continually use his tips to find a dofollow blog, even so to just check pagerank of sites I visit.
forgot to add, now yours is bookmarked too :D
Very informative post, finding dofollow blogs manually is really a pain, the adds on is really helpful it highlights the Links red if its nofollow.
Thanks again.
thanks
Hi Jason!
You said, “If I dofollowed all these links, that’s 8 out going links I’d leak juice to. I’d rather pass the little authority this page has to other internal pages than pass it to other sites.”
Isn’t that a bit selfish? I suspect that if we all followed that thinking there would be nothing but nofollow links on the web!
I like to reward commentators with well anchored back links and I believe it benefits me as well, not in the least because I get some customer loyalty as well. I think the term Link Luv as used by Andy Bailey is very appropriate.
I know you are on the fast track to the top, but I want to suggest that there is a lot of wisdom in the practice of spreading ground bait!
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Thanks for the list. My blog is also a DoFollow Blog regarding web marketing. It has Top Commentator and Comment Luv plugins enabled as well. Be sure and stop by and subscribe! Thanks!!