How to Find Blogs Using “Dofollow” Links in Comments
*The following tip was shared by Eric Gesinski who runs a Tulsa SEO company*
Note from Ann: please don’t spam 
Only comment when you have anything worth saying!
One of the most well-known methods of off-site linking for SEO is blog commenting. However, to really get a solid boost in SEO, there’s one detail that is not always mentioned when this SEO tactic is shared: most blogs are nofollow. That is, they have the “nofollow” tag for the link from each commenter’s name. This fact means that the anchor text used (in the name) is not usually going to help raise your ranking for that keyword.
Because of this, if you’re interested in making sure your blog commenting will help raise keyword rankings, it’s better to find “dofollow” blogs, or blogs that do not have the “nofollow” tag. Here are two ways to do this:
- Find a directory of dofollow blogs. There are a few of these out there, and not all of them are updated regularly (or have high quality blogs available), but an easy way to find them is to simply type in “follow blogs” or “do follow blogs” into Google. Many of these results will list blogs that do not have the “nofollow” tag, and can be used to rank for your keywords with anchor text by commenting on these blogs. My recommendation is to make sure you keep relevant to the blogs you comment on for your keywords, as it’s easier to have comments accepted for keyword names that fit with the blog you comment on, although some SEOs will comment on any follow blog they can find.
- Manually check for the nofollow tag. This can take some time, so my recommendation is to install a good tool such as SEO for Firefox that can let you see nofollow links immediately, without needing to view the code source. There is an option in SEO for Firefox that will actually highlight all nofollow links in red when you have it active. This can save you a lot of time when you’re checking blog comments to see if they are nofollow. (You can find more tools to see nofollow links on this earlier post by Ann.)
Remember, if you are commenting on nofollow blogs, your anchor text will not have the boost that it could if you comment on dofollow blogs. If your intent is to build SEO for specific keywords by blog commenting, it’ll help the time you spend to find dofollow blogs for the SEO for your anchor text, as opposed to putting anchor text into comments on nofollow blogs that will not help your listings.
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Rahul Reply:
January 11th, 2011 at 2:35 pm
Yah its really difficult to find dofollow blogs.
But it doesn’t matter even when blogs are dofollow or nofollow as best practice is to make friends and give your opinion.
Yepi Reply:
July 28th, 2011 at 3:40 pm
Optimizing search engines as a way for you to promote your site, but we want your page really have a place in the top of google is not a simple matter
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I was a webmaster much remains unknown with his real seo’s still something quite new, while you?
Good tip. But shouldn’t a person reading this blog know how to do a simple search in Google for finding dofollow blogs? I don’t know if this blog is a dofollow, nofollow, allfollow neverfollow sometimefollow, or what follow. But I like commenting on blogs when I want to opine on something. Thanks. By the way, I like most of your blog posts.
Eric Reply:
January 26th, 2010 at 6:18 am
I personally like commenting on blogs when I want to make a comment, regardless of whether or not it’s a nofollow blog. But this is more for those out there who actively search for blogs to comment on for SEO purposes – hopefully they still contribute something worthwhile and don’t just spam (like Ann said). And thanks for your comment!
Irvan Reply:
February 12th, 2010 at 2:10 am
Need hard jobs to find dofollow blog i think. I agree with you
I dont really care dofollow or not, i just like to leave comment in other blog. Sorry for bad language.
dallas video production Reply:
January 5th, 2011 at 1:25 pm
I agree with you Mr. Eric, each SEO blog commenter should be responsible with their comments. They should comment not only for the purpose of increasing their traffics bu alsot to contribute information for the benefit of the readers.
Hello Ann
I’ve been reading your blogs for a long time and never had a chance to say your seo tips are always great & insightful so thanks very much for that!
I’m currently applying the technique specified above and it works fine but i have one question.
What if the links you find (e.g this one: http://goo.gl/Yv0e) doesn’t have any comments yet and that you can’t find any other articles with comments on the site. Is there a way to know if the hypothetical links in a future comment would be do followed or not?
Info about no follows are usually hosted within the php, which is not viewable in the page source so i was wondering whether there was a workaround?
It wouldn’t be worth it spending e.g 20 minutes to request a link for a client if we realize afterwards that the links were no-followed!
Hope it makes sense
Charly
I like the suggestion to search in Google. Too many times we complicate things only to have a “duh” moment when we think about typing it into Google and searching. One thing I’d like to point out, though, is that this is not really a good strategy for building SEO, particularly for large companies. It’s time consuming with sometimes very little (if any) return. It’s better to spend time building your own linkworthy content and developing relationships with blog owners – particularly blog owners in your space – than spending time potentially spamming the few dofollow blogs.
Eric Reply:
January 26th, 2010 at 10:11 pm
Shari – great comment. I completely agree with you on this. However, as time-consuming as it is, some people still use blog commenting as a main SEO tactic. This post is for those people who prefer that as a tactic, since it’s relatively easy to do and doesn’t take the time that relationship-building takes. I agree with you, though – good SEO does take time, especially for larger companies (and more difficult keyword phrase targets).
really thanks! great for link building!
I agree do follow blog comments are really helpful and checking is necessary because no follow commenting is useless.
Do-Follow blogs are seems to be more index able rather than no-follow. But no follow links also have some potential. I always keep balance do follow and no follow so that it make some sense
Do you know about Google actively trying to penalyze people who do comments spam?
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/11/hard-facts-about-comment-spam.html
And I think it will get even worse, so commenting on dofollow blogs just for link juice is a no-no in my opinion.
I have a requirement to highlight the dofollowlink in my webpage automatically. meaning, when i (admin) open the site, i want to find if there is any dofollow link in my own page.
i used seo quake firefox plugin, it is helpful, however, it is cached and not updating on refresh. Is there any other way?
thanks
See this:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5687
well good posting, dofollow blog comments are good way to improve your backlinks also get some visits to your site, but if you post on nofollow blog comments, its not bad lil traffic somes to your site i think am not wrong ?
its nice to see there are stilla lot of do-follow links out there. a lot of site now are stopping the do-follow unless you pay for them. so thank you to all the sites still leaving a do-follow link available. and a very nice informational post. thank you again
Eric Reply:
March 1st, 2010 at 7:59 pm
I do love that you left a comment about praising do-follow blogs with a keyword anchor text name in a nofollow comment. The irony is thick and both entertaining and confusing. Thanks!
Actually i do care that is it dofollow or not because it is very important to get higher page rank.
dofollow is better than nofollow, but nofollow links is better than none~
its really good and informative site. thanks
Great post! This is the first time I am visiting your site… Its cool and I like your template. More over, the quality of your posts are just awesome! You really put a lot of effort into it, Don’t you?
I use Fast Blog Finder though. It automates the same thing!
thanks a lot being a newbie , its really help me this kind of information, thanks a lot
I turned them off on my blog …cause I want others to do the same. … Cheers..and thanks for writing this
I’m just learning about all this stuff and I’m so grateful to people like you who share this information freely.
Thank you.
I will have to figure out how to turn it off on my blog as well.
Lynda
u pleased me for sharing these valuable information. i was searching these one thanks
thanks a lot for ur great information for find out do follow link……
Thanks folk very useful information.
Thanks for sharing such a valuable information, from now I will search for do follow links and can improve my site.
Thanks I am looking for some Do-follloow phootgraphy blogs atm
Dofollow blogs are great, however you end up chewing up a fair chunk of time finding them. Personally I comment either way and to be honest I get decent traffic from the readership of the nofollow blogs that I leave comments on.
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Very nice share
Thanks for sharing
But the problem is not all dofollow blogs allow us to comment using achor / keyword
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Thanks for the post. Now we just need to persuade more people to leave their comments on follow:)
Hi Eric, I think yours is one of the most useful sites about SEO. I really learnt a lot from the comments and replies that followed. I am ahead in my SEO learning by at least four steps now.
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I heard there is a program which you can download for free called Fast Blog Finder. It goes and finds dofollow blogs to comment on. Have you used it?
Contributing to the blog or forum community should be the only incentive to comment. I realize many individuals want to comment only for the reason of obtaining a link yet It takes so much away from the blogger themselves by inputting spam onto their blog. If it’s not worth sharing, then don’t.
love to read ur articles, thanks for sharing
Thanks for sharing Useful information..
Agree with you for no.2, it is easier for us to find dofollow sites.
I don’t understand…The article here is to help people get nofollow comment backlinks by showing them how to find blogs that don’t use the nofollow tag…yet this site nofollows it comments. Lame. :/
I’m looking to find the words that I’d type into google to do a search that will find me blogs to follow in my niche.
Does anyone know?
Chris
MOhammed Suhaib Reply:
May 27th, 2011 at 6:23 am
Hey Chris
Use
intitle:your keywords
This way you can find pages related to your niche. However you will still have to check if they are dofollow or nofollow. Hope this helps
BTW the comluv links in this blog are DoFollow. Thanks DailySEOTip
Thanks for posting this information. It helps me to find dofollow links information related to my blog.
I really hate no follow blogs what is the purpose to write a comment.
Do-Follow blogs/website are effective for your website/blog.Do-Follow links are easy index rathar than No-Follow Links but No-Follow links also has vlaue.Remember it about Do-Follow link importants
I’ve actually had trouble finding directories of dofollow blogs. Links would be appreciated!
I have a no follow link tool that I use, but what I am finding is that some of these so called “no follow” links are actually being counted as do follow links. Most all of the article directories that I submit to say that the links are no follow, however when I check my sites on yahoo site explorer or market samurai, sure enough those links are counting for something. You should check it out on yahoo site explorer and see how many links you have! just my two cents
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How does one manually find dofollow blogs if they don’t use Firefox or the suggested plugins for it?
Thanks for this helpful post. I wish I would have found it earlier! I enjoy reading other peoples blogs especially related to my Sites Niche (investing and Stock Trading) but I didn’t realize some comments help with SEO while others do not. I know now! Thanks so much.
- David
At least there are still some places for dofollow links since nofollow is pretty useless
dofollow links are really cool,..
thanks,..
hi
nice blog