Why I Converted my Blog to ‘DoFollow’
As a relatively new blog, I’m always looking for ways to bring in legitimate traffic and reward contributors for thought-out comments. Now, the opportunity is built in to this blog. I’ll describe how the nofollow process works in my next post…
I had been tossing around the idea for a while, considering the downside of losing my stellar pagerank - this blog is currently not ranked :). I read up on the topic and decided to join the growing community of ‘dofollowers.’ There are quite a few reasons, many of which are summarized in PixelHead’s article: 10 Reasons to go Dofollow.
There are tons of time-consuming ways to get traffic to your site, and creating a dofollow hub is the quickest white-hat method I’ve come across. The part that will take the longest is getting the blog published in dofollow lists, which can’t take more than a day or two to find and submit to most all of the popular ones.
I would like this business marketing blog to become a nexus for marketing information, so I have no problem encouraging visitors with a valid and constructive comment by sending them a link back for their contribution.
As a favor to me, please digg any article you post on. I’ll follow your link back and comment on your site as well. Let’s get this nofollow snowball rolling downhill!
Tags: dofollow, seo, blog, comments, link building
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Tony Kau is co-founder of Portland web design and Internet marketing company Vanivo. For service inquiries, you can contact him directly at tony -at- vanivo.com.
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Has the DoFollow plug-in brought you more traffic? I’m at this crossroads right now, wondering if I should enable it.
Not as much as I was expecting, but there is still a bit of an increase. My Spam increased considerably, but I have Askimet Spam Filter turned on and it does an excellent job. It’s hardly any work for a bit more traffic, so I would still recommend it.
Let me know what you decide and how that turns out.
Cheers!
I’m with you Tony, people are more likely to contribute if they know they get a little in return… that is the beauty of business blog websites and link building!
That is what you need in SEO, give and take and you can have anything mutually.
I used to be dofollow, but I recently changed to nofollow because of all of the comments that I received that were clearly spam and not even a coherent sentence. I should try the Askimet service and see if I’ll get more comment love.