Do Follow List Of Lists
July 2, 2009
The Do Follow List of lists have been permanently removed from this site. What is left of those lists were incorporated in this program, the 109 Day Link Building Explosion.
If you are interested in ethical link building please go to The 109 Day Link Building Explosion Coming Soon.
This free link building program will be removed from the site slowly this summer. It provided over 500 reviews of Do Follow Forums, blogs, and social media sites. All of these sites allow for user generated content.
All blog visitors will be provided two options when this occurs. Tucson SEO will be offering two different membership sites. One will be free and be exclusively for those who own active Do Follow blogs. The other site will be offering website owner the chance to be a member in a fee based Do Follow networking site.
Both of these sites will be based on our Scratch My Back Marketing program. It is centered on the belief of giving to get. Unlike other programs that merely say you must leave useful comments. With this program it will be a basic requirement. I would rather have a few hundred people that follow the rules than to have thousands who will not. Do Follow sites are a dwindling resource that must be protected.
The paid membership website with come with extremely strict guidelines on commenting behavior. If you should fortunate to become a member but you are caught leaving spam comments you will be permanently banned from the site. Any and all membership fees will be immediately forfeited. We personally use all of these sites on a regular basis. We will be monitoring them for bad behavior and I will have a core group of bloggers that are doing the same.
I have no tolerance for drive by comment spam. It only takes a little longer to leave a useful comment than it does a spammy comment.
If you are interested in becoming a member of either site then please leave a useful comment below that is 20 words in length and I will contact you when the site is launched.
The site will be launched with a current database of over 1,000 sites. These sites will be released in groups of 10 every three days. That means you will have access to 100 sites a month. It will not include any directories. It will only include websites that actually have some value for link building purposes. The site will not list directory sites other than DMOZ.
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We at Tucson SEO Solutions are officially requesting that you join the conversation here. That is, if you found that this post was at all interesting, useful, or perhaps you are just looking for a useful link. Then, I would like to entice you to comment by providing you with useful backlinks as part of what I call “Scratch My Back Marketing.”
The Scratch My Back Marketing requires you to scratch this blog by leaving a useful comment of at least 20 words or more. Your comment should be relevant to the post. My scratch is that you will receive a Do Follow anchor text link (Keyword Luv.) And if you have a blog with an RSS feed enabled you will receive an extra permalink back to your blog via Comment Luv.
It’s all about win/win marketing. I am willing to exchange page rank for the bump that a fresh comment provides.
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The whole dofollow and nofollow thing is a complete wreck. I believe that dofollow serves a very useful purpose, but people have abused the hell out of it. It is sad to see so many blogs having to switch because of spammers. Bloggers normally work on there own for little revenue. They should get to spend there time posting useful content and not being comment police.
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I’ve been following this post for a couple of months now. I must admit i started my online business earlier this year as a complete novice and i also became a comment spammer by accident. I didn’t know any better back then because i innocently thought that the only way to get ranked on the search engines was to get as many one way links pointing at my site as quickly as possible using whatever means possible. It’s not until (thank goodness!) i found this post ironically sent here by one of the frowned upon niche blue print brigade (anyone following this post will know what I’m talking about).
I’ve been thinking about this problem (as an ex-comment spammer) would it not be useful if somebody conducted a study on how many comment spammers out there fell into this trap the way i did and sort out who are the genuine people trying to grow their business’s and those that are blatantly and knowingly just trampling over other peoples hard work just to selfishly get ahead?
If the percentage of those like me out there is quite high maybe an early warning system in the form of a friendly message and advise on the errors of their ways may reduce the problem dramatically?
I for one would have benefited from such advise if i had known how much damage i was causing not only to myself but to others. The only thing i was guilty of was lack of knowledge on the subject
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Admin: Andy, on several different occasions I have admitted that I did this in the beginning as well. Usually it was when I was tired in the early morning hours. I actually like making comments but when I got tired I would get lazy. It wasn’t until I owned my own blog that I began to appreciate the importance of comments.
Having said that I am planning on launching a site in a few months that is based on Scratch My Back Marketing or ethical link building. You will be contacted when the site gets launched.
So where is the list?
Admin: I ask my readers this does this comment deserve two links. Mystery shopper uses Comment Luv. So this person wanted two links for a four word comment that indicated they did not read the post! Happens everyday folks!
The “scratch my back marketing” campaign is brilliant. This would separate the spammers from those who are at least respecting the essence of the post. Too bad that there are a lot of sites that were forced to revert to no follow because of spamming abuse. I do hope that they would take this idea of yours into consideration, and bring back the benefits of a do-follow commenting system.
By the way, Keywordluv is awesome. I think that most people, in a bid to boost their Google ranking for the specified keywords, use keywords instead of names when commenting especially on NoFollow free blogs, and I admit that I am guilty of that as well. But I’m not comfortable with doing that because I would want to at least do the decency of having my name in the “name tab”, because after all, that’s what it’s meant for. Props to Stephen Cronin for building Keywordluv and I hope that more bloggers would consider using it and share the “luv”.
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Thanks for the great comment, but I don’t allow links to sex toy sites.
Wow, I am surprised to hear that blog owners actually claim that their blogs are dofollow when they aren’t. That is beyond petty. Sorry to hear that your work has been marginalized. It has always suck when a few ruin the fun for many. If you are still list building, my site at (Link Deleted)is still dofollow.
Admin: This is a good example of why the Do Follow lists were removed your comment links are No Follow.
I like your take. I think nofollow and dofollow have become a big headache for both webmasters and Google alike.
Remember that their algorithm is always changing, I wouldn’t be surprised if they eventually scrapped the whole nofollow/dofollow or heavily modified that algorithm, because its intended purpose and how they are being used today is ridiculous.
I am also thinking about making my blog comments dofollow, after all if someone provides a comment that adds value to my blog, why shouldn’t they be rewarded?
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Admin: Seems like a sales pitch to me!
I certainly believe in the do follow thing, but it is crazy because if Google and others change their algorithms all your set up and spam fighting is diminished. Seems soon as you find ways to spread the word about your blog, the rules get changed and your back to square one. (Sales pitch deleted)
“I would prefer to be part of the solution.” I can almost feel your frustration… dofollow/nofollow what could be the better choice? Hmm… I think it’s just a matter of educating people of doing the right thing. Do not discourage people from commenting but instead encourage, but also teach them how to comment it the right way. People have the technology and power but they are relatively like savages who are always hungry to spam.
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Hi, I’m sorry for commenting on this post because I have no idea for contacting you. Can you tell me where you got the template in this blog because it’s very interesting and nice. If you’re gonna answer my question I will be so grateful to you and recognize my friends about this blog.
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When the do follow thing started it was an awesome idea. Exactly “Scratch My Back Marketing” system. But shame to black hatters and to those people who just write “Thanks”, “Nice Post” etc… for the sake of backlink. It would have been a very fruitful.
I’m sure google will soon handle the do follow links specially from blog comments though I’m sure it will still help for SEO like reciprocal links. They do carry some weight.
By the way, I too have a do follow blog untill this day and I don’t have much problem approving comments. Most of the spamming tactics is handled by “akismet” plugin and I only approve them once a week.
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There is an SEO tool to indicate if a certain blog is ‘do follow’ or ‘no follow’. Once the commenters will be highlighted in red then it means it is a no follow blog, so in short.. no highlight means ‘do follow’. Oh yeah BTW, it only applies fo moziila fx.
I completely agree with you about hating the fact that blog owners will advertise their blogs to be Do Follow when they are actually No Follow. I think it’s awesome that you are so vocal about using keyword luv, and then actually following through with it.
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Well I have to say SEO is just evolving with each passing day and there is a sea of information and techniques to be mastered to do it right. The issue of do-follow and no-follow commenting has really been a matter of debate for a loong time now and link buiding it is said is not complete without a good number of do-follow blog commenting. But as far as getting traffic to a website is concerned, do-follow links should not really be a very important issue.
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Thanks for cleaning up the list. I maintain my own list which powers a paid search engine and find that the turnover of dofollow is very high. I noticed a couple of nofollows have crept into this list. You should add a form or tell people how to give you updates.
Admin: This comment has been making the rounds now for several weeks!
All this internet marketing stuff can be so boring when you have to deal with other marketers out there. In fact everyone is looking for a backlink to their website/blog.
Could this be Google’s fault? I don’t know. But one thing is sure: as long as Nofollow tag exist on a blog I will refuse to comment. Because of the question “What’s in it for me”.
As you see, I will not deny that I look for backlinks too. Otherwise how will I get my website ranked?
The fact that so many people get this wrongly and try to spam everything and anything their eyes touches is the real problem. Not the fact that you get a backlink (which as a sole link means not much).
How negatively can a nofollow tag can affect your website is obvious. Look for the numbers of comments and activity on these nofollow websites.
There is another way around this mister. People tend to grow a blog to a certain PR and only then change it to a nofollow blog. But they immediately see a decrease in traffic and overall activity because comments are the heart of content, which in turn brings more visitors.
Hi,
Nofollow blogs instructs search engines that a hyperlink does not influence the target’s link during search engine indexing.dofollow blogs are those which do not follow nofollow. You have shared nice information. I am really appreciated with you.
Thanks for sharing such a valuable information.
It’s a tough situation to describe, but one I frequently go through with clients.
Making comment posts on any blog is beneficial IF the blog is topic-relevant, and your comment is meaningful (ideally it should be insightful, or at least describe a valid opinion). If you get a follow-link out of it - bonus. If not, nevermind.
People still click no-follow links, and as long as the blog doesn’t have too much comment traffic, a really good comment will normally get you a visit - and for smaller clients, every visit (literally) counts!
That said, there has always been a buzz about nofollow/dofollow (since it all began) - you have to remember though - that the internet is about links. If noone shares the “juice”, I suspect things will flip back to the pre-nofollow days, where “juice” is shared by default. To some extent, thats how it should be!
To be frank - I am here for link ! Yeah but after reading the story & real dilemma - Yes people leave the very bad comments - “thank you for great post” , “loved it so much” , “useful tip” etc etc… they dont think doesnt modereator have some other work - Do follow is to help people not to annoy moderator.
Its sad to scratching the back for the good cause. I understand your pain.
Blogger is not asking for money but he doesn’t expects spams too. Award his story by useful reviews.
In my opinion blog spam is done mostly by automated bots. So it does not matter if it is set to follow or nofollow. You get the posts either way. Nobody is there to say darn, it’s a nofollow, maybe we should stop doing this.
Admin: I guess you don’t have a blog!
I completely agree with you and even did a whole interview with an SEO about the no follow. Matt Cutts has already said that no follow links do not give you any kind of SEO points for ranking purposes.
I also use do follow on my main blog and when I start my wahm blog I will definitely use comment luv too. I think it’s a great way to help each other out.
All the best,
Eren
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do follow websites are great …. I don’t understand why more sites aren’t… I know you get more spam, but that can be managed….
I think people really don’t like helping others, even when it doesn’t cause them to go out of their way! We are all trying to establish a recognizable web presence and do follow sites can help that …. people just rather not… we live in a ME society, so helping others is an after thought at best.
Hi, I think that dofollow blogs offer a win-win for both parties. The webmaster gets additional content that they can edit and vet as they see fit. The blogger gets the opportunity to get a link if they add something of value to the blog. Its great to see that the nofollow craze has finally started to give way to some common sense. I also think that in the future we may see alterations in the big G’s algorithm that make all of our hard work null and void. But only time will tell until then ‘bloggers keep on blogging’ and ‘webmasters keep on looking for ways to reward your contributors’.
All of the commenters about me have stressed the same thing. It is sad to see that many people have abused the do follow blogs. i know a lot of people have done to these blogs and posted a bunch of comments, just to embed their links in that site.
The idea of linking building should only be done with a good comment. A lot of people are also paid to comment. I really like the Scratch My back Marketing. i think it will have a huge amount of potential. Good Luck with that!
Admin: Richard you spammed me with the same comment three times so I think you should look in a mirror!
I find it very interesting that this commenter finds the article interesting, especially since I eliminated what was in the post… The Do Follow Blogs.
Morgan,
I could not disagree with you more. Your spam comments will likely be deleted… And it has the effect of reducing the pool of blogs that are willing to be Do Follow. You have a short term strategy that hurts us all for your gain.
You are a classic example of what I am talking about. You visit my site and never made a comment until it has too late to make a difference. You then went and about destroying a very nice project and I am supposed it sit back and continue to allow this to happen… I have finally said I will no longer to part of this.
I will gladly accept the 40% drop in traffic from you and those like you. All you ever did was take! I wish to focus on a smaller pool of business owners who understand the concept of Scratch My Back Marketing.
Yes,
I have considered a membership. However, charging someone is what others did and they sent people to my site. I didn’t much like that idea.
The problem is if I charge people I still encourage bad behavior. I don’t want to be part of the problem. I would prefer to be part of the solution.
Meka,
It is a shame that nice people like yourself loose in the process. I thought the idea was a good one but comment spammers ruined a good thing. We had put over 1,000 hours in the project!
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Good question Wayne… The comment spammers gain because they play the numbers game. When I was a No Follow blog I ignored them. But when I went Do Follow I cleaned up my comments and dumped 300 or so comments.
Comment spammers play the numbers game. They would not do it if it didn’t work. The scrapper is a whole different story. They have the potential to really hurt your rankings. Google says they do a good job of handling duplicate content but I don’t believe them.
Last year someone copied our Do Follow list onto another site. Our page droped from the # 5 position to page # 7. After the content was removed our rankings was restored.
For me I don’t much care if my blog posts get copied but our static pages are a different story. Many of those pages rank on the first page in Google for the services that we sell. So we could suffer when these get ripped off!
I use a site called Copyscape to check for problems and I have found two occasions where we have been scrapped this year. I had one site taken down.
I guess one person blunt is another persons hostile. I didn’t see your comment as supportive the way you did… Oh, well!
Niche Blueprint is a paid service that how they make money. They glean the work of others and repackage it and sell it. Then the guy comes here and tells me how he encourages people to leave useful comments but they didn’t. They used my resources and never said thanks. We are talking thousands of visitors and only a handful of comments.
But to be fair the same thing was being done by others that were not using the program. Blog owners eventually decided to drove to switch back.
Now, I to encouraged people to leave useful comments but these greedy me first folks didn’t care. They though saying “nice list” should qualify them to get a link.
Originally I didn’t care because the blog was No Follow. When I went Do Follow I began to care a whole bunch. Now, it takes a 20 word comment to get a link.
Even with this policy noted at the end of each post I still get short comments, even from other bloggers.