Link building is an important part of search engine optimization and some bloggers do this at all costs, even to the point of spamming on other blogs. Having quality, one-way backlinks pointing to your site does a lot in increasing your google page rank, thereby increasing the chance of your blog appearing in google search results. What most people fail to know is that only the quality of the backlinks matter, not necessarily the quantity. It’s quite possible to have just a hundred backlinks and rank higher than sites with thousands of backlinks.
Now, don’t get it twisted, a high google pagerank doesn’t always equal to your traffic but it’s still good to have it anyway. It’s one of the algorithms google checks when sorting out search results. It’s always been said that original contents matters a great deal and you must take this even more serious than link building but that is not the main topic here. There’s a more comprehensive post I recently wrote on how to increase your google page rank and alexa traffic rank, you should try reading through it.
There are several ways to get quality backlinks pointing to your blog and one of the most effective is commenting on blogs relating to your niche. I’ve seen quite a lot of bloggers commenting here even to the point of spamming but most do not realize that google will never index or follow those links because there are ways to make blog commenting work to your advantage.
DoFollow And NoFollow Backlinks
What are dofollow and nofollow links? Did you know you can comment on 100 blogs without google recognizing any of those precious backlinks you worked hard to get? In a bid to reduce spamming for the sake of SEO, google devised the nofolow and dofollow tags. A link with nofollow tag added has no SEO benefit for the destination site and a link with dofollow or none of the tags will be indexed and counted as a backlink for the destination site
By default, all comments posted on blogs hosted on blogspot are nofollow links. Google doesn’t index links on most blogger blogs, you probably would have noticed that in google webmaster tools and wondered why.
How To Differentiate Between Nofollow And Dofollow Links
Before you go about commenting on just any blog, you should know whether the blog you’re commenting on has any SEO value for you. There’s a firefox extension that highlight links in a page according to nofollow / dofollow status.
There’s an easier way to do this though, just highlight an existing comment using firefox, right click and select view selection source. Below is an example of a nofollow link as shown in page source:
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I’m not saying you should only comment on blogs with dofollow links, commenting on a few blogs with nofollow tag creates what looks like a natural profile in google’s view.
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Do follow links plays a vital role in strong baclinks. So if you will get links from a do follow site Google will consider this.
Good job, but I think it's not enough.
I agree that it's a good idea to get some nofollow comment backlinks as well. If you just comment on those blogs that you are interested in, then you're sure to get a mix of both kinds of links.
Another way to get a combination is to post free classified ads that allow backlinks. The vast majority are nofollow, although some are dofollow.
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@Perth. You're right on that one. I should also have mentioned classified ads up there. Thanks for dropping by
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Do follow links with high page rank will help to get a back link to your website and it is most important factor.
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The nofollow value was introduced in 2005 for a reason and I believe that it should be used in ares where users can post links on your site.
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Thanks for the explaination on the two and how it plays a role in the blogging world.
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Don, follow links are awesome. However if you only get follow links, paid for, and don’t equal or more nofollow links it appears unnatural to the big g and they may penalize you for doing black hat seo.
Just my two cents.
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Yes, having both makes you website profile look perfectly normal to google.
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1. Is this how we make do follow link : Do Follow This Link
2. Today i read your articles on seo building and use of forums in it. What forums do you follow
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1. The code automatically changed to a normal link but it should look like <a href="http://www.doncaprio.com" rel="dofollow">Do follot this link</a>
2. There are all sorts of forums but you have to google them out. An example of a very popular one in my country is http://www.nairaland.com
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Thank you very much for the information regarding the no follow and do follow backlinks.
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Fazer seguir links desempenha um papel vital na baclinks fortes. Então, se você vai ter links de um site do Google seguem irá considerar isso.
Muito obrigado pela informação sobre a não seguir e fazer seguir backlinks.
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Link building is one of the most effective task to uplift a site within a short period. However linkbuilding is a never eding process and do not hurry to build thousand of backlinks overnight. Dofollow blogs comment helps to earn high quyality free backlinks but you have to follow the commentatory rules. Do not spams any blog comment ares. It really harmfull for the blog.
Thank you for exploring right information regarding DoFollow and NoFollow blog link building process.
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