Do Follow List Of Lists Update 280 Blogs in 22 Catagories!
May 19, 2008
This is a follow up post. We wanted to explain how you can get on the list. All that is required is that you have a “Do Follow Blog” that you are actually maintaining on a regular basis. We do not list Blogger blogs, as they are useless to us. We reserve the right to deleted or reject any blog for any reason. The most common reason to be not listed is that the blog leaded to slow or was to hard to read.
Here is a follow up to some of the things that we have encountered along the way. The best thing is that we picked up a bunch of links for ourselves.
The arrogance of it all… The side effect of Link Bait
Our link bait, The “Do Follow List of Lists” Is slowly doing what we had intended. We’re not setting the world on fire and we didn’t make it the top of Digg. However, traffic is up and some of the blog posts are getting some traction in the SERP’s.
What we foolishly hadn’t anticipated was the strange and arrogant requests that we might receive. This one I thought was worth sharing.
“If you have something useful to say, and are an SEO, and your own website is well SEO’ed, please add a comment to (removed his link) I have the ability to do follow AND to allow link text, if your comment
is worth it”
He followed up with this:
“There should be do follow on this blog! Rather crazy promoting it if you don’t lead by example.” Don’t you just love it when someone you don’t know thinks nothing of telling you how to run your business?
He did bring up a point worth discussing. Why is our blog “No Follow” and yet, we have a large “Do Follow List? Too many, this writer included, it seems ironic. Well, now is a good a time as any to address this issue.
First we are doing it this way because we want to! Mostly, it’s straight up a business decision. This is a business website that depends on Google for roughly 35% of our traffic. Google is a profit center for our business and for our customers. We wouldn’t be in business if it were not for Google. We are attempting to walk a fine line here.
It seems like a perfect win, win, win, situation here. Google gets what it wants from us in the form of a “No Follow” blog. Visitors benefit from a valuable resource for obtaining links. The blogs on the list get some extra traffic and we pick up some relevant links when we build the lists.
Since, the blog is only about a month old, this is our first attempt at “link bait.” The ironic thing for me is that we are using links as our “link bait”
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