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November 13, 2007

Do Follow Blogs

I would like to create a category for Do Follow Blogs. These are blogs that remove the “rel=nofollow” tag from the hypertext links in the comments section.

The advantage of the “do follow” approach is to reward contributors of comments with a link back to their site that will carry some weight in search engine ranking algorithms.

The disadvantage is that you may attract comment spam. So one defense is to moderate the first comment by a new contributor. Then all the comment spam should be blocked by you.

It’s pretty unlikely that somebody will switch from good to bad after their first comment was approved.

You can find plugins to remove the “rel=nofollow” tags if you search for “do follow plugin”.

So please submit your blogs.


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Problems Submitting Sites

I noticed that most site submissions to this directory don’t qualify since they are not following the submission procedure.

After entering your site details, I require you to email me to request inclusion. This is so I can tell if your submission has been done by a robot or a human being that took time to read the text on the submit site page.

If I don’t receive an email, I don’t know you submitted your site until I do a manual check of the database. Also, I have to wonder why you want to remain anonymous.

If there is any technical problem you found when submitting your site, please let me know in the comments.


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