When DoFollow Blogs Can Hurt You
Being bloggers we all like good comments. A good comment adds to the conversation, provides useful information and relevant links. The commenter doesn't drop many links to his/her multiple blogs or websites in the comment text.
And we all hate spam. The owners of "DoFollow" blogs observe an explosion of borderline spam comments and moderate like crazy!
You may think you did everything right. You typed your SEO terms into the "Name" field and wrote a comment. And since the blog is "DoFollow" why not add one more link in the signature to get more backlinks and clicks?
You think this is smart. However, you hurt yourself.
Don’t think the blogger is stupid when you leave a comment. If the blogger considers your comment as spam, you just wasted your time and you will not get backlinks with your keywords as the anchor text. At best, the blogger will simply delete or edit your comment. At worse, they will report you to Akismet. In either case you won't get any link juice.
The thing to remember is that if you are reported often, you will have troubles with commenting on all blogs protected by Akismet or Spam Karma (most known anti-spam plugins for WordPress). Akismet or Spam Karma will reject you before the blogger sees your comment.
How does the plugin recognize spam comments? It analyzes the following things:
- Time between the page loading and comment submission. If the comment is posted immediately after the page is loaded, the plugin thinks this is an automated submission. It's supposed that people will take time to read the post before submitting a comment.
- Occurrence of the "stop" words in the comment text and URLs (comments containing "blacklisted" words like "porno", "viagra", etc. are automatically marked as spam)
- Quantity of URLs in the comment text. More URLs, more risks to be flagged as spam.
- The size of URLs in the comment text is compared against the text size. If the whole URLs size is bigger than the size of the text, the comment will be marked as spam.
- "Spammy" IPs are filtered (if your comments are reported as spam many times, your IP will be blacklisted).
- The plugin looks at how old the post is and how much time passed since the latest comment on the post.
In addition, some blogs can have plugins that give a "DoFollow" link after you leave several comments on the blog. So, you should not count to get a "DoFollow" link on your first visit.
Things to Avoid When Leaving a Comment
I would suggest that you remember this rule – "Don't be greedy". When you comment on a "DoFollow" blog for the first time, post a well thought comment with one link and your name as an anchor text. It's like asking for a slice of pie. The blogger won't begrudge you a slice but they won't give you a whole pie!
Well, below is a list of common things you should avoid when leaving a comment on a "DoFollow" blog:
- Many irrelevant links in the comment text. Your comment will look spammy if you insert a lot of URLs that are not related to the post or to the comment text.
- Too short answer. Some bloggers may treat your short comment like "Thank you, great post", "Thank you, I agree", or something like this as spam even if you have the proper "Name" and don’t abuse the links. Of course, you can thank the post author for a great article if you liked it. But also, think about adding some information to this, maybe share your own experience, or add some more useful resources to make your comment more valuable.
- Duplicate signature at the bottom of the comment. As you already have your signature in the "Name" and "Url" fields, there is no need to repeat it in the comment text. The readers who will want to visit your website can click on your name.
- Large number of similar comments per day (if a search engine bot finds, for example, 100 comments with the same anchor text and comment text per day, it looks a bit unnatural and your links will be devalued).
There is one more important thing to think about: SEO term in the "Name" field. Some bloggers may allow the use of the keywords in the "Name" field, others may not. Before submitting a comment, take a look at other comments (if the post has any) to find out if the keywords are allowed in the "Name". If other people submitted the comments under their names or nicknames, you should do the same. Some bloggers can let you write something like "Julia — Directory Submission". But again, look and make sure other commenters did it.
With all that said, I would highly recommend that you avoid using automated comment submission tools. Yes, you are able to submit dozens or even hundreds of comments every day using an automated tool but will those links do any good for you? I bet no. You have no control over your comments. The program just fills in the form with your name, URL, email address and writes some text it thinks appropriate. The search engines are (or will be) smart enough to recognize automated submissions and devalue your links. A hundred of comments with the same URL and anchor text per day is the first "red flag" for the search engine saying that the comments were made automatically. In addition, the submission rules differ from blog to blog. What is OK for one blog may be considered as spam on another blog. You risk to be added to the "blacklist" and won't be able to post comments anywhere. They will end up in the Akismet or Spam Karma spam folders.
In short, if you want to improve your search engine position, visit "DoFollow" blogs. Read the post, scan other comments to know what is allowed in the comments and only after that leave your well thought comment on the post. Quality over quantity – that is the rule to follow when building links from blog commenting.
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Thanks for such a great post. I asked a question on a recent post and I think it was answered here.
This post surely made me wise about blog commenting.
Thanks Julia for pointing out reasons why other comments are not being posted because of anti spam plugins. Their downside is when these plugins treat good comments as spam. I had friends who were leaving comments on my blog but then filtered out. But one good thing about Akismet is the ability to ‘tell’ it how to spot the good comments among the others.
Clearly this thread allows keywords in the name field
But I agree with your advice and the comments following, that you really need to see what the blogger allows. It also depends on your goal, if you want appropriate anchor text, then you should keep pushing your keywords — even if a good percentage of them get turned down.
There is a WP plugin that will allow individual posts that the moderator thinks is spam, to mark the post as a do not follow link, while other posts are do follow. For example, two posters wrote – “great post, very informative.” Spam? One was a friend and the other I did not know. My friend gets the dofollow backlink and the unknown person gets the nofollow treatment. Of course, I did not send the unknown person to Askimet as spam.
Julia,
I really enjoy this discussion. Its rather hard to wrap my head around.
I am thinking about this talk of leaving posts just for the purpose of a back link….
When someone does this by simply posting “great post, thank you”, does this help the site the post is made to?
For example, lets suppose I have a blog on my site that I am trying to raise the ranking for. If someone stops by and posts “great post, thank you” does this cause harm to my blog? Does this help my blog? Does this serve their purpose and help their ranking? I thought that there is an element of relevance as well. If the post has no substance, does Google use that back link as part of the ranking analysis?
I hear talk of a plugin to mark posts ‘do not follow’.
I don’t have a active blog on my site as of yet, but I have moderated some comments. I will either accept it or not. If it is relevant and not ‘buy product x’ I will approve it. If they at very least are saying ‘good job’ why block them? For what purpose?
My thought is this, if a person has actually taken the time to read my blog entry and then make a comment “great post, thank you”. Even if they just skimmed it. I don’t see the harm in allowing a follow link. They were at my site, found it somehow and must have paid at least a little attention to its content. I have left this type of brief comment a number of times, because I genuinely liked the content and want to let them know I was there and thought it was good. The comment is sometimes brief because I may be trying to pull myself away from the computer, or I have specific project going on and was sidetracked, which happens a lot online or maybe they covered it all and I really don’t have much to offer besides acknowledging they have done a great job. Does leaving that that type of comment on the blog do anything to harm the blog? If not, why not leave the back link alone?
Perhaps this type of post is intended to be self serving, or perhaps the person actually read through the post and thought it was good…..so they said so. But the owner doesn’t know what the intention of the poster was….so what do we do with this type of post? To give the visitor the benefit of a doubt, perhaps one could write a generic reply saying something to the effect;
“thank you for visiting my blog, while I appreciate your comments on my blog, I require a minimum of x sentences related to the topic of discussion. This is to facilitate a interactive and productive discussion for all visitors to benefit from. Please consider revisiting my blog and let the us know your thoughts on the topic of discussion. Do you have any questions about my blog? Do you have any additional knowledge or ideas that can elevate our understanding of the blog topic? ”
Every time you are in moderating your blog comments you can simple send this generic message to the authors of short posts, letting them know. That way they have an opportunity to come back and provide more interaction, if so inclined, but you are also acknowledging their comments as positive.
Another thought, I have scene some blogs starting to have the ‘human test’ within the submission fields. That image that shows distorted text that you need to enter. Perhaps a good plugin to find would be one that creates this extra field in your submission form to prevent automated postings. I think this is spam. leaving a comment saying “great post”, I don’t think I would call that spam.
The thing I like most about ‘DoFollowers’ is their sense of charity. Web 2.0 continues to separate itself from ‘old media,’ and DoFollow is a great example of that. How many ‘old media’ publications would allow their competition to freely advertise? None.
That’s what is so great about blogging, it’s not all about the money; people don’t mind helping each other.
Hi,
Ive started reading your blog recently and am enjoying it, I look at blog commenting as my main source of SEO. The way I have been commenting is a bit different from what you have said.
Here is what I do, I take the time to read the blog entry then I write a meaningful response, something that adds to the article or negates it in some way, then after writing a neatly written reply I also write at the end:
Check out my site [keyword] [link]
so should I stop doing this? and only rely on the link in the name field?
Hello Faraz,
You should better stop providing your website link at the bottom of your comment text. You already have the URL that will be hyperlinked to your name or keywords you typed in the Name field and if you deliberately include the same URL one more time in the comment itself, this can become a decisive factor for the blogger to reject your comment or flag it as spam.
Long has there been a debate about nofollow dofollow blogs and comment spam so I’m not going to sound like a broken record. The reason I use this tool is to actually find content that I’m looking for, it’s better than a search engine in a way, you type out your phrase, hit enter and walk away. Then I can view some interesting sites, info, etc when I have the time to read. If I do come across something I can comment on that I think adds value to the blog, then I do. Try it our for yourself, type in a random keyword (not business related) and take a look at what you find, you’ll be suprised.
That is a great post here…and especially about the anti spam software…i did not realize that, and the akismet thing…does it ban IP or the URL i post?
hello,
looks like a good programm for blog search, cause not all interesting blogs are good listed in the big searchengines. The Spam problem is getting more and more every day but the no-following thing is not the way. I hope that the bloger scene has an open eye for spammers in their blogs, just like me ..i know its a lot of work but its necessary to keep the blogs alive. Hope my english is ok
Hi Julia,
I love your posts and find that I am learning so much from them. Yes, they are often common sense, but am so appreciating reading them. You write them in such a simple, direct, and clear way that even though I am new to blogs, it is seeming so crystal clear.
I’ve downloaded G-lock Blog Finder and giving it a try now, but I really have enjoyed reading your posts. Especially loved the post on “Can NoFollow Links Hurt You?”. It answered some questions for me. Thank you!
Sam
I feel lucky today by finding your post and interesting recommendations about how to post on DoFollow lists. As every day is more difficult to get backlinks directly from other webmasters I’m actually looking for alternatives. I think this is a great beginning for me and please share with us any other information you may have about this.
Thanks
Quite a lucky and informative find in the blogosphere jungle! There are numerous opinions on ‘do-follow’ and ‘no-follow’ though. I think the most important thing is to aim for traffic and not just ‘dropping’ links.
Mind you, SEO is just a part of website promotion. Good comments on good blogs being another.
The bottom line of what I am saying is this: Get at least a percentage (no matter how small) of the readers of your target blog post to click your link to go to your site — no-follow or do-follow immaterial!! This to me is mission accomplished as far as site promotion is concerned. In order to do this ensure that it is a win-win situation for the blog owner as well. A quality comment will always be welcomed by them.
I suppose it’s just human nature to want the biggest results with the smallest amount of effort possible. There’s nothing wrong with efficiency, but a person can take it too far. It’s always best practice to give value if you want value in return.
Dofollow is a great idea, as long as you can filter out the spam. It encourages participation and provides a benefit for both the blog and the commenter. Abusing that seems a little shortsighted, to say the least.
I was just as happy as could be when I found this do-follow tool …then I realized I really couldn’t use it the way most of us would want to use because if you stop and think about it…….What will your competition do when your site goes past theirs in the Google rankings? They will simply RIP yours apart to see where you get all of your back links from and then they will just jump on the same do-follow blogs with their sites and you then back to square (1).
NOW READ THIS !!
I’m going to share this with you all in hopes that I help someone out there to do their site RIGHT.
1st)…Write articles about your products or biz and submit them to article sites like ezinearticles dot com etc…of course with anchor text back links to your site in the Bio area etc…
2nd)….Using Fast Blog Finder – Find Blogs/Post that are somewhat relative and that allow “do-follow” then use them to casually mention a “similar article you read over at ezine bla bla bla” with a link to it…..
Now what happens is that you create Authority back links from Article Sites to -YOUR- site that are -”relative”- and -”powerful”- – YES -Powerful!!- because those articles will gain PR from your do-follow blog back links….eventually those articles that were PR-n/a will become PR-3-4-5- by just linking 4 to 6 decent do-follow back links to them.
THE BEST PART….is when you competition usually looks at what you’re up to they will only go as far as to see that there are several articles linking to you – NOT seeing the do-follow blogs…..everything becomes a WIN – WIN for YOU Because you also DON’T Risk your own urls getting black listed!!
Call me a genius now if you want to lol =)…….but this is a tried and tested method that works well for me …and now even better since I found the Blog Finder!
Cmore OK you’re a genius!! That is a great idea. I think you might be giving your competitors too much credit though. Are they really going to research your backlinks that much? I suppose maybe as everyone is clawing to get to the top of the search ranking and playing the game, it’s possible. Your idea is definitely a great way to get around some sneaky competitors.
C’mon, that is a great way to work it. Although, I agree with Steve, I don’t think your “good” competitors are going to go to quite that effort, not the good ones anyway, they got er’ figured out already.
But for back links that Google will like….between blogs and quality articles to your site, that is a good system. I have just began to do that myself. Not on purpose at first, I have a Squidoo lens that I felt was valuable to a discussion I was reading, so I directed traffic to it. Now I need to do the same again and again. But the KEY is you MUST have useful content or you just won’t last. It is probably better to build slow and well, than fast and reckless…. The tools, like this software….golden.
@ Mark Re: akismet it is a free Word Press plugin that you can download from their site (WP). I don’t think it Bans their IP, although that would be nice as I do seem to notice repeat spammers. Right now it blocks about 50+ per day.
A question I would like to post… Juli, with the new version of Word Press, is it necessary to use a “do Follow” plugin? I thought it was automatic unless you told the system not to allow follow links. May you please explain this. I personally would prefer to allow follow on my site, I just review the post before I approve it, if its spam free to me, then its good to stay. Akismet seems to grab most of the major spam.
Thanks so much Juli!
Cheers,
Jeromy
@ Jeromy. Yes, you need to use a “dofollow” plugin with the new version of WordPress. By default all links are “nofollow”.
Thanks Julia,
I feel silly promoting dofollow and inadvertently blocking on my own site. I found the plugin and have already installed.
Glad I found your blog, I have learned quite a lot here.
Regards,
Jeromy
Great info – I agree with what you are saying. You need to act as if you are the blog owner and think: “Would I let this comment get posted on my site?” If the answer is no, don’t waste your time.
I think posting blog comments from people who happen to be called ‘Web Design Devon’ or ‘SEO’ is the worst thing since sliced bread.
Totally devalues the comment, no matter how good, and also makes the blog look real tacky.
On my blog i just remove the name and link and put in ‘Joe blogs’ or somthing as the name instead.
Hi Julia, this is a great community you have here with great input and comments from your readers. I guess that is the secret… great informative content that people want to read and come back to. That is the challenge for everyone else, be an authority in their chosen market. Julie is a great example!
Best wishes,
Mike
Good Information there. I think generally speaking commenting is one of alot of ways to help maximise search engine rankings, but if you are commenting using spammy ways which you have listed, than your ranking will go know where, commenting in blogs need to be done in an honest way, if you are not being honest in your posts people can see your cheating, and search engines can too, they are not stupid.
Thanks for writing this article Julia.
It certainly cleared up a lot of the confusion I had in regards to the best way to leave blog comments without being too much of a pest about it.
This article has been extremely helpful for me, I had just asked the question regarding whether using keywords in the name field would tick off certain bloggers, and as I read, I can now see when I get to a blog whether it is appropriate or not. I was wondering if there is any truth to the need to post to blogs relevant to your sites content, or if Google just looks at the page rank?
I have been very diligent to organically build links, and so I want to know whether this is really an issue or not. For example, I post on a PR7 SEO forum, and I wondered whether this would hurt my relevancy in Google’s eyes?
Lots of questions! Thanks for a great article.
i agree with the dofollow, my site is also dofollow, i don’t use any spam plugins, i manually look at the comments myself before approval, i will not tolerate spam, i liked your post it was very informative as to how people should behave when posting on peoples blogs, thanks mick..
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Yes in deed. Blog commenting is very risky to be done automatically. The best way to go is to do them semi-automatically, where perhaps a free software like comment kahuna locates some related blogs (it’s not that great at finding them, but it tries, lol), and then you go in and comment it according to what the post was about. Anything more automated than that will run into the moderator giving you problems and I personally would not risk that.
In regards to Dofollow blogs, it’s actually introduced me to some interesting writers. No one wants spam but being allowed a dofollow link is a bit of a reward for taking an interest in someones writings.
Google has made a catch 22 situation for itself, to do well you need to understand the rules of the game, they don’t disclose the rules, so you’ve just got to do the best you can.
This is such a great discussion!
Is there anyway to know, when you are on a blog, if do follow is active? I am pretty sure mine is….
I agree with you Alexis, one should most certainly NOT auto blog. This software is very good at finding blogs, but that actual comments should be individual to the site and relevant/contributory to the discussion.
Cheers all!
Jeromy AKA Hillbilly
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Very solid advice here. In response to one of the above comments, while some people are paranoid with comment spam, I think dofollow will get your blog more traffic and exposure. It’s kind of a trade of, you turn people away with nofollow, they will probably not coming back anymore, you attract people with dofollow, they may just want a couple of free links at first, then they may fell love with your blog(if you do have some good content) and will come back again and again with more meaningful comments.
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I just found your site on Google while searching for information on “nofollow” links. I find myself opening about 20 taps worth of your articles. I especially like this one. I too run a blog and was getting a lot of comments, but they were all spam. Unfortunately I had to add the “nofollow” tag. It simply took to much time to go through real comments and spam comments.
But anyways, back on topic. I found this article very helpful. I never really thought about being black listed. I don’t spam others blogs, but what worries me is could someone else spam under my name and have my stuff black listed? Do they go by email address? Just a thought. Thanks for the good advice though, I’ve bookmarked your site for further reading.
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Good article. Using some automatic blogging is stupid in my opinion. It’s just as bad as spamming people’s blog just for some links. It causes more bloggers to change their blogs into “no follow” links and hurting everyone else.
If you want some backlinks, of course, add some value into the comments you’re going to post. If you can’t find anything else to say about the topic, besides, “Hey, good post, thanks!” or “Yeah, thanks for the info!”, than it’s best ot move on and find another topic that you can comment on. After all, something that’s relevance and add some value to the topic.
I was recommended to this site after watching a Youtube tutorial on ways of building links to boost your websites search traffic. Being new to the SEO game, I found this information to be invaluable.
When I first heard of posting on dofollow blogs, I thought it was as bad as spamming.Now, I am trying my best to actually read through the article, read the comments, and actually try to add something new. I am glad to see the posts on here from bloggers who say they moderate out the spam on there blogs…good for them. Let’s not ruin dofollow blogs, scratch their back and they’ll scratch yours.
Hello,
I am a little bit confuse about do follow.. The PR just update. I have a blog with a dofollow. And it have PR4 now.
I just searching on the google Reasons DoFollow Can Hurt Your Blog. And i found a post that said
“In simple math terms, the more external links you have on each page the less authority your blog has. If you have 100 blog posts with 5 dofollow comments each, you have 500 links that are leeching your pagerank. By removing those 500 and only keeping the 50 that you write about truthfully in your blog posts you will rank higher and give a lot more benefit to the actual blog posts.”
Its that true? How your blog doing on serp? I found this blog a do follow too. I got less visitor comment on my blog so i can’t really said that the post is true. Do you have any idea?
I totally agree with your article. I feel that there are many bloggers out that are happy to enable one of the follow plugins to gain extra traffic, but forget that even if you use things like Askimet and other plugins to block the extra spam, spammers still get through. Using plugins to combat all of your spam only helps if you are still there to read the comments and make the right decision. The same goes for commenters. They should be aware that a responsible blog owner will still go through their comments and make the final cut. All of the points in this article are spot on for proper commenting etiquette to avoid any devaluing of your comment’s link, or the blog owners article for spam. If everyone play’s by the rules, it’s a win/win situation for all.
I find that Akishment is too sensitive and blocks some of my legitimate post. What trips me up is the blocked keyword list. Especially if the topic of the post is controversial. I think Akishment should re-evaluate their list of blocked keywords.
This is a very interesting discussion. There’s not much more I can add that hasn’t already been mentioned apart from stating that playing by the rules is alien to a large number of people on the internet which is probably why No Follow came about. The internet was meant to be open but has been used and abused so much it is in danger of becoming regulated.
Good advice. If a page has particular value, and the previous comments just have actual people names like “Paul”, “Sarah” etc, I just my name in too because even though my name (Mark) is a useless for anchor text, I know that the page has value anyway, so search engines will see the link passes *overall* value to my website – i.e. my site gains a tiny bit more trust even though the anchor text is rubbish. The other reason is I don’t stick out like a sore thumb.
This was a great post and worth reading for me, as I am new to this whole do follow comment thingy. I have a question… This is the first blog I have seen with the name@keywords option… Does this work for most blogs even if they don’t say it does?
One more question… Do the links count as backlinks if they aren’t in the actual comment section? Meaning you only put your website in the address field? Thanks again for the great post!
In my opinion backlink spammers are rather stupid. By reading at least the article they would learn surely more than all their time wasted posting comments! As you said having a dofollow blog can create some issues. Meanwhile you have to see that having a dofollow blog can be good as it motivates the reader to leave a message on your blog. What is important is that its a win-win for everyone. Regarding myself its rather easy, I am rather lazy for posting comments. So to see me writing one, is that i clearly read the article because it interested me. Furthemore if it can bring me a backlink then i wont say no, but thats not so important
I have wondered what the dividing line was. I know it’s all arbitrary from one blog to another, so I hope that most people are using your rules of thumb, if only because I’ve been following them.
What I want to know is (and I know this is unrelated) how do we get Wordpress to allow WP-hosted blogs to have Do Follow, Keyword Luv and Comment Luv?
As page rank of a any website plays an important role in order to allow more and more people to come at our site and post a blog there but if your website doesn’t contain any page rank than people or visitor wont consider your Do Follow blogs. This is the stage when Do Follow hurts you.
Nice post there, some great tips. I can’t stand it when people just put a list of backlinks in comments on my blog…i mean really, do they think i’m gonna accept that? Not a chance.
I agree with you Leather Stools – if someone just lists a bunch of links, it is obvious spam. I’ve been doing this for a while now and I usually have a really good approval rate but lately not so much. I do everything just as Julia suggested – make relevant comments, make them a good length, and don’t load them up with backlinks, yet they are still not approved. Is it just that some moderators are on vacation, or do some dofollow blogs just not want any comments, period? A lot of times there are no comments there to begin with; I don’t understand why the blog owner would not want a comment to give it credibility? Any thoughts?
KeywordLuv does help the comment section of your blog look alot less spammy, but taking out the No Follow tag more people will want to comment on your blog – and find it for that matter because alot of people do search for nofollow blogs. KeywordLuv + NoFollow = link builders dream.
All this dofollow, commentluv, keywordluv and lucia’s linkylove (allows dofollow after 3 comments) plugins are definitely leaving footprints that Google will detect and discount later on. How do we take advantage of these plugins so that when the inevitable algo. change comes we will not be left crashing to to the bottom of the serps.
Some have advised that it is better to mix dofollow and nofollow. How about commenting on blogs that have just the dofollow without the other plugins. I guess it is the best way to go, it’s just that they are not that many. Especially those with high PR.
And there is no setting on Fastblogfinder that allows me to find ONLY dofollow blogs without the commnetluv and keywordluv plugins.
Nice guide and pointing the good and bad thing about the dofollow blogging way. And do agree on your method. I have a few blogs which is dofollow too, but not all comment I will approve, cos some really use spammy word which I think most of you will not even approve them.
Well i must say that is a very interesting article. I’m currently researching reviews on fast blog finder as i’m debating whether to buy it or not after being impressed with how the demo worked in terms of interface etc. Just wondering whether or not it does actually return the results i need for do follow blogs related to my niche. Some useful tips there to bare in mind so i’m bookmarking this page just incase i do follow up and purchase the software. Thanks
That was some great tips there you wrote in your post..
But now there is one big problem, visitors to your blog just visit your dofollow blogs to comment on it and have backlinks.
Many just leave your blog by seeing your blog having no pagerank, without even looking at the content. And many just consider reading your blog posts ,leaving conmment in order just to have backlinks if you have good pagerank blog even if they have no interest on your blog.
That has made our dofollow blog visitors just fake kind and not genuine.
A good insight there into the workings of Askimet. Although I have no intention of going on a spamming frenzy it is still interesting to know how the technology works so that you can be aware of any pitfalls. Fast blog finder look like it could be a very useful piece of software as well. I’m struggling finding dofollow blogs with similar topics to my site so I’m going to give the trial a try.
Great to know about the info that one of the signs for blog commenting spamming is the time of commenting before the page loads. Sounds good to hear this info, at least I have to be guided. I found your post worth to re-read because of it’s straightforward content. And I consider to publish this to my business blog.
Useful post. I do agree and want to emphasize that it’s all about not being greedy with getting links all at once. The best way to do it really is to have a consistent plan of locating quality sites and posts, writing quality posts, not trying to get too many urls than the blog prefers, and just do a couple of those a day, consistently, and before you know it, you’ll have 500 QUALITY links in 6 months! Consistency is the key to link building in my opinion. Most people will not do it consistently…and if you do, you will beat them. =)