New bloggers are frequently complaining that nobody would comment on their blogs. In fact, you see that some blogs attract loads of comments and become a fun place to be while others seem so empty like an old bucket. So what is the difference? DoFollow!



Actually there is no such thing like DoFollow yet there is a URL attribute “nofollow”. For example, <a href=”http://example.com” rel=”nofollow”> will tell Google bot that the link shouldn’t be followed and counted as a “vote”. In other words it doesn’t count as a backlink :(

If you want other people to comment on your blog, you have to give them something in return. A link with no nofollow is a good way of saying thank you for a comment.

Besides, once you go DoFollow, your blog will soon be included in different dofollow blog directories and lists. So it is a good way to get extra traffic and popularity.

So, how would one remove that attribute and turn that swampy webspace into a busy DoFollow blog?

If you are using WordPress script on your own domain name, you may need to download this Dofollow Comments plugin (the download takes place straight through WordPress website, beware of plugins that are not included in WordPress plugin directory), activate it and voila! you are ready. However, I personally didn’t need to do anything. My blog has been dofollow since the very install - it depends on the WordPress version you use. Please be advised that you don’t need to use any comment management plugins - they are useless, cram your site with unnecessary JavaScript, make it harder for visitors to use, increase your blog’s load time and make NO sense!

Turn your Blogger Blog into a DoFollow blog

Log on into your Google account, click on Blogger, go to your Blog’s settings, click Layout > Edit HTML. And now pay attention, this is very important and other advisers don’t tell you this. Either they do not know this or they like to annoy you. Check the box near “Expand Widget Templates”. Otherwise you will not do it properly. Search for this line of code:

<a expr:href='data:comment.authorUrl' rel="nofollow">

delete the attribute rel=”nofollow” now the code is something like that:

<a expr:href='data:comment.authorUrl'>

This will make all the comment links in your Blogger’s Blog into DoFollow links.

How To Check Other Blogs?

Your link building strategy would work much better if you’d known which blog is a DoFollow and which one is not. In fact, if it is not, you’re just wasting your time. The easiest way now that we have SeoQuake plugin, is to use it properly and enable nofollow strikethrough via SeoQuake settings. This will work in a way that it strikes each link that is nofollow. If you browse a blog and see that the comment authors’ names are all striked through, just run away, you don’t need to comment there. It is not a friendly place, go somewhere else to search for DoFollow blogs.

Once you have removed the NoFollow, make the world to know. Go to I DoFollow grab a badge (a small .gif file) and paste it where appropriate so that your visitors know that yours is a DoFollow blog.

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