Do Follow Blogs: Everything You Need To Know About Do Follow And Then Some

The “do follow” revolution is upon us.  If you own a blog and you’re not familiar with do follow and no follow, get educated by reading this post about why you should make your blog “do follow”.

If you found this blog post, then you may be doing exactly what I’ve been doing off and on for awhile now: searching for do follow blogs so you can post relevant comments on do follow blogs and get a link back to your blog.  Below is some information that I’ve compiled while researching this subject.  No doubt it’ll save you at least the amount of time I’ve spent putting this together.

How To Change Your Blog From No Follow To Do Follow

Check out Ben’s blog post about making your blog a do follow blog here: http://www.seohorror.com/make-your-blog-a-do-follow-blog/

You can download the Do Follow WordPress Plugin for free at:
http://www.semiologic.com/software/wp-tweaks/dofollow 

Check out this new plug-in I just found: Lucia’s Linky Love.

As per Lucia, here’s what this WordPress plugin will do:

Here are the features, as quoted on Lucia’s website:

1. Encourages good comments: Dofollows are added to the author “name” and links in comment text after a commenter leaves some minimum number of comments. The blogger can set this minimum number to anything between 3 and 10. This encourages regular visitors to comment, but discourages spammers by forcing them to visit your blog many times before they get “dofollows”.

2. Encourages links. Dofollows are added to trackbacks and pingbacks only after the blog author has left some minimum number of comments, trackbacks or pingbacks. This discourages scrapper sites from sending you spammy trackbacks but rewards real bloggers for linking you.

3. Gives peace of mind. Dofollows will not be added to comments left more than 14 days after you published your most recent post. This is a safety feature that prevents your blog from becoming a link farm should you ever be unexpectedly absent from your blog due to illness or any other major life event.

4. Thwarts overly aggressive SEO types. The blogger may refuse “dofollows” to “names” that contain too many characters. This can be used to avoid giving “dofollows” to commenters who claim their name is “cashmere dog sweater”.

5. Gives you more control over dofollow / nofollow options. As is always the case, the blogger can also delete the comment, report the comment to Akismet or delete the name or url. That’s good for truly spammy comments. But with Lucia’s Linky Love, you get another, less drastic, option. You manually prevent “dofollow” but still show the comment url and name by deleting the user email address when editing the comment. This lets you permit borderline visitors continue to comment, but deprive them of “dofollows” until they behave the way you like visitors to behave.

I am currently looking into this plug-in.  Lucia did a great job with this and there’s a great chance I’ll be making the switch to this WordPress plugin. 

I am currently looking into this plug-in.  Lucia did a great job with this and there’s a great chance I’ll be making the switch to this WordPress plugin. 

How to find a list of blogs that use “Do Follow”

1. http://tucsonseosolutions.com/dofollowlistoflists

If you have a do follow blog, you really should consider adding your blog to this ever-growing list of do follow blogs.

2. http://www.dofollowblogs.com

On the Do Follow Blogs website, you can add your blog to their directory.  Note: you will need to link back to their blog in order for your submission to be validated.

3. http://www.squidoo.com/dofollowblogslist

You will need to have a Squidoo account in order to post your do follow blog on this list.  As of this writing, there are very few do follow blogs listed here.

4. http://riseabovedirectory.com

The RIse Above Directory is a do follow blog directory.  As of this writing there aren’t too many blogs listed.

5. http://www.feverishthoughts.com/do-follow-bloggers/

Make sure you read all of the rules before submitting your blog.  Note: Tricia uses the Lucia’s Linky Love WordPress plugin.

6. http://www.dofollowdirectory.com/

To list your dofollow blog on this site, it’s going to cost you anywhere from $10 to $2, depending on the placement you want.

7. http://nicusor.com/do-follow-list/

List of more than 350 do follow blogs.  I don’t believe that there is any way to sort the do follow blogs or view categories.

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No Follow Do Follow, Do We All Follow?

If I posted everything I found during my research, the only thing you’d be following is the path to hit the back button to get away from this post.  Everything above was added with saving time in mind.

While searching through too many pages in Google using many different search terms, I found at least 30-40 other lists of do follow blogs.  However, I did not post those here because the list was in no order.  You’d spend your whole weekend trying to find relevant blogs to comment on - and I’m sure you have better things to do with your time.

However, there’s more than enough for your to get started using the links I provided you with above.

The Do Follow Comment Posting Attack Plan

I’d imagine if you’re reading this, you’re someone who is truly trying to build a great blog and you value your reputation.  Meaning, you’re not a comment spammer and your blog actually has some content instead of 523,392 affiliate links for penis enlargement pills.

Now I haven’t read this anywhere, but based on everything that I’ve been reading and learning about over the last several months, you need a long-term plan for your blog.

A long-term plan will help not only motivate to keep your blog updated (a blog without a post for a week or more tends to get dusty), but it’ll also help you stick to your do follow comment posting plan.

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been collecting the links to relevant blogs that I like that are also do follow.  I also make sure that the blogs relate to my blog in some sort of way, whether it’s about Internet Marketing, Affiliate Marketing, SEO, crazy marketing ideas, publicity, and all the other marketing-related terms.

My plan is to spend just 10-20 minutes a day cycling through the list I’m creating.  Meaning, while I’m drinking my coffee in the morning, I’ll pull up the list of the blogs I like and see where I left off the day before.  I’ll then pull up the next 5 blogs and see what new blogs posts they’ve written over the last week or so.  

If they’ve posted something cool, something that I want to comment on, or link to, I’ll READ THEIR BLOG POST and try to add some value, or if I have a question about the subject they’re talking about, I’ll post my question in the comment section.  Note: Spammers don’t read blog posts.  They’ll usually write something like:

Nice post you have here. Me like your blog and will link. Thanks

And of course, they’ll link to their affiliate link to some penis or boob enlargement pill or potion.  So make sure if you post a comment on someone else’s blog, you actually read what they wrote and write a great comment.  Most do follow blogs will be heavily moderated.  So you can bet the blog owners will be combing through the comments to their posts at least once a day and deleting the spam comments.  So make 100% sure that your post doesn’t look or smell like a spam comment.

Back to my plan… I figure if I just spend 10-20 minutes a day posting GOOD comments on 5 relevant do follow blogs, the search engine fairy will sprinkle a little dust on my blog.  And within the next month or two, I’ll start to see the rewards.

If you can post on 5 blogs a day for 30 days, that’s 150 comments you’re leaving per month.  And if you can find at least 75 blogs that are in your industry, you’ll be leaving comments on each one twice per month.  But what happens if a blog uses Linky Love?  Well, check this out:

Linky Love Domination Method

If a blog uses the Lucia’s Linky Love WordPress plugin, then you may want to create a different category in your Excel spreadsheet, or however you’re keeping track of all this.  

Why?  Because if a blog uses this plugin, the administrator can set the number of approved comments you must leave before your links become do follow.  That number can be between 3 and 10.

So for those blogs, I may try my best to comment on posts every week, or at the least, every 10 days.  Some administrators may have it set to 3 in order for you to get some do follow love, while others may go as high as 10.  By setting up a plan - and sticking to it, you’ll be much further along than most other bloggers.

People are lazy.

Some bloggers may spend a day or two (or less) each month to post comments on do follow blogs.  Others may do so every day, but may not have an actual plan that they follow.  By making note of which blogs you’re posting to who use the Linky Love WordPress plugin, you’ll know for sure that the link to your blog will be followed within the next few weeks, or couple of months if they have the number of posts set as high as 10.

So take some time and go through all of the links above and copy the links to blogs in your industry that are do follow blogs.  Then, create a plan of when you’ll spend just 10-15 minutes a day posting great comments on these blogs.  In time all of the work will  begin to pay off.

Think of it like starting a new blog.  Heck, let’s use this one for example.  As of this writing, there are only a few subscribers to my RSS feed.  I’m not getting much love from the search engines right now because the domain and blog is so new.  So often times it feels like I’m writing posts that no one in the world will ever see. 

This is why most bloggers give up within the first 15-30 days.  They’ll write a ton of posts, see no traffic coming in and lose interest.  It pays to keep writing great content - just not as fast as we all want it to.  But, if you stick to your commenting plan above, you’ll surely speed up the process!

Good luck and feel free to comment on the above.  And again, this is a do follow blog.