How to find nofollow blogs and why you should avoid nofollow blogs?
Sunday, 7. February 2010
What is nofollow
Frequently blogs will receive lots of junk comments with irrelevant links and text.The purpose of these comments is to get back links to someone’s website.
To stop this spam comments sometimes blog owners will put a nofollow attribute in any links posted in comments.
An example of this:
<a href="http://www.mysite.com/" rel="nofollow">
See the part that says rel=”nofollow”?
That’s the part that tells search engines not to follow this link. When Google sees this it won’t follow this link and renders the link almost useless for search engine optimization.
So if you’re trying to get back links by posting comments on blogs your work may not get you the results you’re looking for if you post comments and links on blogs that use nofollow.
Not everyone uses nofollow
I would guess that most blogs online now use nofollow for links in their comments. But there are a few who don’t use it.
For example I don’t use no follow for comments on this blog because I think it decreases comments and I have found other ways to deal with comment spam.
So when you’re looking to leave comments on blogs make sure that they are not using nofollow.
How to find blogs that use don’t use it
These blogs can be hard to find the likely there are a couple resources that have listed several hundred of them for you.
Check out:
http://www.dofollowblogs.com/
http://courtneytuttle.com/blogs-that-follow/
Get the Firefox plug-in
It’s can be a major pain to comb through the HTML source code of a website to see if it uses nofollow or not.
Luckily there is a Firefox extension for this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5687
This extension makes it really easy to see which links are follow and which ones are nofollow. It will turn all the links that are nofollow to a pink color and all other links to a purple color on a webpage.
Please express your opinion on this topic, thanks.
This article has written and posted by our guest writter Frank Boros(SEO & SEM consultant). Frank Boros is working as an SEO expert for seven years.
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JC Says:
Thank you for all those links. I’m struggling to get started and those look to be a good first step in moving forward.
Also, do nofollow have no SEO weight and therefore only good for possible traffic or do they carry some SEO weight,not ranking weight but just not as much as follow?
Thanks again