Market your do follow blog.
You may have noticed the ‘u comment, I follow” badge in the sidebar, that’s right SJL have joined the do follow movement inspired by Randa Clay and have removed the ‘no follow’ attribute from the SJL blog.
The ‘no follow’ tag was created by Google as a way of cutting down on comment spam, it basically removes all relevancy, page rank, site’s status etc from the link. Google hoped that by implementing the ‘no follow’ tag into major blogging platforms such as WordPress, that spammers would move away from posting spam filled comments on blogs. However, in the time I have had this blog as well as other web design and logo design blogs, I still receive hundreds of comments advertising ‘penis enlargement pills’ as well as other crazy things.
The way I see it, is that as long as you have a good spam plugin installed, why not reward your reader’s loyalty? It will also help bring a lot more people to your blog, maybe the majority being SEO companies trying to build links for their clients, but at least your articles will be reaching a wider audience.
Advice for WordPress owner
Install the Akismet spam filter
Make you blog ‘do follow‘, I recommend the Semiologic WordPress Do Follow Plugin
Now market your blog…
There are loads of do follow directories and search engines for you to submit your blog to, this will bring a huge amount traffic towards your blog and your post will soon start to pick up a page rank.
I have listed a bunch of do follow directories and search engines below…
http://www.inlineseo.com/dofollowdiver/
http://www.dofollowforums.com/
Doing this may feel like the people posting on your articles, don’t care about your thoughts, just the link you are providing. This is half true, but most self respecting SEO firms take the time to read and comment appropriately
Article written by Sam Logan, SEO Consultant at SJL Web Design.
January 15th, 2009 at 9:18 am
Very interesting read.