Find Dofollow Blogs

by Justin on June 7, 2008

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The 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.

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. 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. Every 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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{ 84 comments }

James June 7, 2008 at 11:28 pm

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.

Justin Briggs June 8, 2008 at 1:39 pm

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 =)

Justin June 9, 2008 at 1:00 am

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 =)

James June 9, 2008 at 3:10 pm

Yup, I see it, thanks for improving your blog for all of us ;)

Justin July 3, 2008 at 1:04 am: No problem james

Susan June 8, 2008 at 2:08 am

Thanks for the tip using the SEO Firefox add-on

Justin Briggs June 8, 2008 at 1:40 pm: No problem Susan
SEO Quake is another good firefox addon with some nice features.

Denise June 8, 2008 at 3:01 pm

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.

Justin June 8, 2008 at 4:47 pm: I can make a video tutorial for the two SEO add ons I use if you’re interested.

Denise June 9, 2008 at 2:12 am

Justin, that would be great! Thanks!

Justin June 9, 2008 at 5:49 am: 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.

Denise June 10, 2008 at 11:51 pm

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.

Justin June 11, 2008 at 6:00 am

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.

SEO at Metjuz July 2, 2008 at 9:21 pm

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?

Justin July 3, 2008 at 1:05 am: 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.

seo firm June 19, 2008 at 3:20 pm

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

Justin June 19, 2008 at 7:58 pm: 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.

jack7 July 11, 2008 at 11:44 pm

care to share the name of the program Justin?

Justin July 12, 2008 at 12:20 am: G-Lock Blog Finder / Fast Blog Finder
It cost money, but returns a lot of blogs

Todd August 12, 2008 at 5:42 am

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.

:-)

Justin August 12, 2008 at 7:42 am

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

Todd August 12, 2008 at 9:21 am

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 :-)

Justin August 12, 2008 at 7:16 pm: 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 =(

JS@BusbySeoChallenge August 18, 2008 at 4:18 am

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.

real money games online August 21, 2008 at 5:44 am

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.

Whizkid@Funniest YouTube Videos August 30, 2008 at 4:33 am: 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.

Whizkid@Funniest YouTube Videos August 30, 2008 at 4:35 am

forgot to add, now yours is bookmarked too :D

Jacob October 3, 2008 at 12:56 am

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.

sohbet October 7, 2008 at 10:31 pm

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Rhys@monetize your site November 8, 2008 at 6:17 am

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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Web Marketing November 13, 2008 at 1:18 am

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!!

MWYS Strategies November 22, 2008 at 8:04 am

Ah now this is a nice list. Sweet. :)

Here’s another “footprint” for you. Do a google image search for “U comment I follow” or “You comment I follow” to find blogs that are supporters of the do follow movement.

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Myron Tay December 30, 2008 at 1:12 am

Funny how sites that promote dofollow blogs are by themselves nofollow.

Blogger Tips January 2, 2009 at 7:19 am

I just posted some new Free U Comment I Follow Buttons & Badges on my blog for anyone who wants a dofollow badge that’s a little more Web 2.0

saving my money January 2, 2009 at 7:21 am

Thanks for the info, I was looking for a better way to find dofollow blogs. My old tool doesn’t check for nofollow tags, and the new tool I downloaded I can’t seem to get to do anything at all so this info is welcomed. I am going to start playing with the footprint/keyword searches and see what happens. Thanks again.

do follow blogs January 11, 2009 at 1:55 am

Remember that all dofollow lists and search engines get dated very quickly if they aren’t maintained. They usually aren’t! :(

Personal Finance Blog January 12, 2009 at 7:05 pm

Cool thanks

Dofollow Search Engine January 15, 2009 at 10:59 am

I think dofollow should be allowed, provided people make constructive comments.

Its a small incentive for people to blog, they get something back out of it.

I do agree spammers ruin it all. When I comment I try my best to get my views across and help keep the conversation flowing

I created a here

SEO Strategies January 18, 2009 at 9:49 am

Most of the dofollow search engines shows nofollow blogs can any one tell me where we can get actual dofollow blogs.

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The Malaysian Life February 3, 2009 at 6:26 pm

Hi Justin,

Thanks for the post.

I’ve installed the firefox add-on. The funny thing is that it works on some sites and don’t on others. For instance goarticles and hubpages have dofollow links but the firefox SEO add-on doesn’t show it.

How reliable is this add-on ?

Deric February 5, 2009 at 2:06 pm

This is what I am looking for, I am in search of good dofollow blogs and your tactics are definitely going to help me. Thanks man

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Jason @ Make money using Paypal February 26, 2009 at 9:44 pm

For many months I didn’t knew about this very handy thing of Commentluv. In fact, I didn’t even know about what backlinks were nevermind “do-follow” backlinks. But now you see (I’m quite a newbie to the internet!), once I started to know all these stuff, I saw it as a way that my site could get ranked higher . . . Guess what? My new site just got Google sandboxed. I only learned what this was after it got sandboxed. I still have lots and lots to learn. Thanks for the advice and tips, Commentluv is something very great.

Jack Clarke March 3, 2009 at 3:21 pm

I have been using do follow on all my blogs and have seen a dramatic increase in spam. Still, it’s worth it if it contributes to the community. :)

- Jack

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I use comment luv but the problem is getting people to comment. I tried various techniques but they are not working. I saw some other sites do a contest. I guess I will try that. Great post!

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