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DoFollow Blog Lists Not Always Accurate
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How accurate are dofollow blog lists?
Most dofollow blog lists contain blogs that are actually nofollow. If you check blogs on these lists using the SEO for Firefox extension before you comment on blogs you have probably already discovered this.
If you don’t check the blogs before you comment, I’ll leave it up to you to decide if it’s worth your time to check them out or not.
I’ve had a couple of people who have commented on this blog, questioning me about why some of the dofollow blog lists are so inaccurate.
Following are their comments:
“Hello there, I agree with the thing that is not all that easy finding real do follow blogs, I always try to search blogs related to my websites but most of the times this kind of blogs don’t seem to be do follow, so I have to search any type of blog and definitely that is not an easy task.”
“What I really want to know is why when sometimes I search for Do Follow blogs, then when I access to some blog I realize that is not dofollow? so why is this kind of blogs in those lists? That’s because the list is not updated? Or which is the real reason?”
There are three main reasons why some blogs on dofollow blog lists are nofollow.
1. They were dofollow when they were put on the dofollow blog list, but after receiving too much spam they go went to nofollow, and were never removed from the list. It’s very time consuming, if not impossible, to keep these lists up to date unless users of the lists are reporting the blogs as being nofollow to the owners of the lists.
There is also a lesson to be learned here - Always, always, always leave good quality comments that are relevant to the post.
2. The blog owner may be using a plugin like Lucia’s Linky Love that will turn your comments to dofollow after a certain number of your comments have been approved.
For example the blog owner may set the number of approved comments to be five. So, you may look at comments on the blog and they appear to be nofollow, but the person who made the comment may have only posted one comment so their link hasn’t been set to dofollow yet.
The blog may actually be dofollow but it doesn’t appear that it is. I would look on the blog for their dofollow rules, or look for references to comment plugins like Lucia’s Linky Love. Many comment plugins will have a little advertisement for their plugin at the top or bottom of the comments box.
3. They blog was never dofollow, and it was not checked when it was put on the list. I’m sure some blog owners have tried to get their nofollow blogs put on these dofollow lists to get more traffic. It’s important that the list owner check these blogs when they are placed on the list, but I’m sure some are not checking.
So, how accurate it my dofollow blog list? Unfortunately, I can’t guarantee that all blogs on it are dofollow. I do check the blogs when they are placed on the list, but blog owners can go back to nofollow and I will never know, unless a user let’s me know about it.
So, like all dofollow blog list owners, I need you to help me maintain an accurate list.
Mike
Askimet and Blog Comment Spam
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Blog spam is definitely a problem and I don’t want to pretend it isn’t, and anti-spam plugins like Askimet are great plugins.
But, if you are moderating comments on your blog, you need to make sure you are flagging true spam as spam with Askimet, and deleting questionable comments.
I have heard from some people that a comment of their’s was flagged as spam with Askimet because the owner didn’t approve of the content of the comment. If you don’t approve of a comment delete it, don’t flag it as spam especially with Askimet because if the comment is not true spam, you have just screwed someone.
In summary, Askimet is a Wordpress plugin that is used by thousands of bloggers. Blog comments are sent to Askimet and Askimet uses it’s rules to determine if a comment is spam or not. Of course Askimet is not going to tell us how they determine spam, which is good since the spammers would find ways around the Askimet spam rules.
So, if you flag a comment as spam, it’s flagged by Askimet as spam. Once a comment is flagged as spam by you, Askimet will flag it as spam the next time that person comments on a blog post.
I have read that URLs are sometimes flagged as spam, some keywords are flagged as spam and I suspect IP addresses may also be flagged as spam. The next time the person you flagged as spam submits a comment on another blog, Askimet may identify it as spam, and the comment will never be approved - even though it could be a perfectly valid comment.
From what I have read, from people who have ended up being flagged as a spammer by Askimet, is that you won’t even realize you were flagged as a spammer until you somehow figure out your comments on blogs never show up. Some tested by commenting on their own blog to see their comment being flagged as spam.
To get of off the Askimet spam system, I’ve seen people suggest you comment on blogs of people you know, and ask them to mark your comments as not being spam if Askimet flags them as spam. This is called a False-Positive by Askimet. As blog owners approve the comments as not being spam, Askimet is supposed to learn. So if you continue to post comments that are not flagged as spam, you should come off the list.
The best way to stay out of the Askimet spam system is to provide good comments. But someone having a bad day could decide to flag you as spam for no good reason. You wouldn’t want someone doing that to you, so be careful when flagging comments as spam when they really aren’t.
If you have questionable comments on your blog, go ahead and delete them, just make sure you delete bad comments, and flag true spam as spam. I delete far more comments than I flag as spam. A blog comment has to clearly be spam before I will mark it as such, and Askimet catches most of those for me already.
I also encourage you to periodically look at comments Askimet flags as spam on your blog. If you find comments that are clearly not spam, remove the spam flag. You would appreciate if someone did that for you, so do the right thing for them.
Askimet is a great plugin for controlling comment spam on your blog, but be careful how you use it.
Disclaimer: I am not an expert on Askimet, but I did some research on it to better understand how it works. If you have more information on how Askimet works, I would appreciate your comments below.
Mike
VIP Essentials Special Bonus
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I’ve been using the VIP Essentials blog review template program for a few months now, and I love it. I like it so much I have spent time improving the standard VIP Essentials template, to improve the review template SEO, and to social bookmark enable it.
When you buy the VIP Essentials from me you will get my special VIP Essentials Special Bonus for free. The bonus includes all of the improvements I made to my blog review site.
I don’t normally promote someone else’s products on my blogs, but this is a great product to help you get started making money with Wordpress blogs.
The VIP Essentials Blog strategy involves using a simple review type of site to promote affiliate programs. The developer of this system, calls his review type sites - conduit sites.
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The best part of this system, is it uses Wordpress, so it’s easy to create new pages and,as you know, the search engines love these types of pages.
This complete “VIP Essentials package”, gives you the templates and instructions for building Conduit sites.
I put together my first Conduit site using the VIP Essentials blog template a few weeks ago, and have already made a few sales - from just one site.
Here is my Quick Review Of site, that uses the VIP Essentials Wordpress Review Template.
I love this concept of building affiliate review sites within Wordpress. It’s really just a matter of gathering information about products you want to promote, and then copying and pasting the product information into the appropriate fields in Wordpress.
You don’t have to know HTML and create, modify or update static HTML web pages. This Wordpress Review site system makes creating review pages very easy.
Like I stated earlier, the search engines love blogs. With a few pings and a little social bookmarking, there’s no reason your blog shouldn’t be indexed in Google in a day - meaning you could start receiving traffic in a day - like I did.
Just spend about an hour a day adding a new page a day, and watch your paydays grow as your website grows. Okay, I haven’t been very good about adding pages every day, but surprisingly, I have some high search engine positions for the keywords I am targeting with my niche review blog posts.
The VIP Essentials Wordpress template is great, and works well out of the box. However, it wasn’t setup to use some of the Wordpress plugins that I like. So, I had to make a few changes to the template to use my favorite plugins properly.
I also improved the search engine optimization of the template, and added an RSS feed button and social bookmarking buttons.
If you are interested in easily creating an affiliate product review site, this is something you need to check out.
I love this Wordpress review site builder, so here’s what I’ll do for you. When you purchase the VIP Essentials through me, I’ll give you the changes I made to the templates - the VIP Essentials Bonus.
You’ll just need to copy the files I changed to your web host (If you don’t have your own web host, website, see below for a special deal).
I’ll also provide you with my favorite plugins, and some information on how to use them properly. Again, you’ll just need to copy the plugins to your Wordpress plugin folder, turn them on and make a few changes to the settings.
These templates and plugins will make your review site a lean, mean, easy to use, SEO machine.
I’ll also provide you with any help you need getting your first VIP Essentials Review site setup and running properly.
So, it’s time to get your VIP Essentials Review Site Builder and get started.
Here’s what you need to do:
1. Purchase VIP Essentials.
2. Contact my Helpdesk and give me your Paypal receipt number
I’ll then be in touch and let you know how to get the files I modified to enhance the review system.
Special Deal:
If you don’t have a web host, I will buy you a domain, give you a free months web hosting ($5.95 a month after your first month) and setup your first affiliate review site, with a review already installed for only $35.
You can have your first affiliate promotion website, and not have to do any work getting it setup - and you can have it in a few days!
This additional fee is for purchasing you a domain name, and my time to setup your site. This is in addition to the VIP Essentials package which you will need to purchase. Your site would be similar to http://quickreviewof.com
Here is what you need to do:
1. Purchase the Blog Review Template
2. Contact my Helpdesk, give me your Paypal receipt number, and let me know you want the “Special Install Deal”.
Okay, grab your VIP Essentials bonus and get started using this simple blog money making strategy today.
Mike
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Blogging is Dead
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Did you hear the news? Blogging is dead!
The revelation that blogging is so 2004 and not worth doing any longer was sure news to me.
Paul Boutin over at Wired.com States “Thinking about launching your own blog? Here’s some friendly advice: Don’t. And if you’ve already got one, pull the plug.”
Paul is right, that the top blogs on Tecnorati are no longer the personal blogs written by the individual, they are now the blogs of corporations and political heavy weights. The small time blogger like you and I no longer have a chance to reach the top of the blog directories.
So you need to stop blogging today. Do you hear me? Everyone stop blogging - please.
According to the above article, some bloggers are moving over to Twitter and Facebook. Yes, Twitter and Facebook are great services and I think all blog owners should use those services and just stop blogging - blogging is just a waste of time.
There are just too many blogs today, too much competition to make it worth while.
I guess the ease of use of blogging platforms, like Wordpress, has doomed all of us in the blogging world. Now virtually anyone, without technical expertise can blog, and blogging is no longer the darling of the technically skilled.
The blogosphere has created it’s own demise since it is so easy to do, and there are so many people teaching others how to blog.
With the millions of blogs out there, how will your blog ever get noticed? It won’t - so stop already, pull the plug, go Twitter everyone and let them know you will be using Twitter to communicate with them, because you are pulling the plug on your blog.
Let’s start a “pull the plug on your blog” movement, and spread the word to everyone we know.
Wait a minute….what are you doing here? How come you are reading this? Don’t you know blogs are dead?
Seriously, even though it has become tougher to compete in the blogging arena, there are still plenty of benefits to blogging. The internet is still all about content, and blogs are content. Plus, the search engines still love blogs and content and always will.
If some find blogging no longer worth doing, and turn off their blogs, great - that just leaves more potential visitors to our blogs.
The real key to blogging today, is to find niches to blog about.
For example, if you try to get traffic to a general political blog today, you will have a hard time competing with the big boys. But, if you decided to blog about something like politics from a Christian’s prospective, or from a lawyer’s perspective, or an internet marketer’s perspective, you should be able to find an audience.
Blogging is dead - NOT! It’s just like everything else on the internet, you just need to adapt to the times and competition.
Blog on!
Mike
DoFollow Blog Comment Spam
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As this blog becomes more popular I am seeing more comments that, though not obviously spam, add no value to the post or comments of others. Therefore, these comments are seen by me to be spam comments.
I hate to see people go through the work of adding a comment only to have it deleted by me, but I will not allow comments that do not add to the value of the post.
Comments like “This is great info, I now understand this better. I like your blog and layout and will be returning often”.
Although this is a nice, complimentary comment, it does not pass my “smell test”. Compliments don’t necessarily add to the post discussion and this type of comment makes me think it’s a standard comment probably being used across several dofollow blogs.
If you are not going to read my blog post, and comment on the content, I will remove your comment. I don’t mind taking the time to do that, but hate to see people waste their time.
So, to get the most out of commenting on blogs and avoiding being seen as contributing blog spam, I suggest you read my dofollow blog comment rules.
Dofollow blog comment spam has caused popular dofollow blogs to turn nofollow on again. Please do the right thing and contribute quality comments on dofollow blogs.
Mike
Dofollow Blog Incoming Links
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Do dofollow blog incoming links from bad neighborhoods negatively affect page rank?
This is a really a follow up to my last post about Dofollow Blogs and Page Rank.
One thing that was mentioned on the blog I refer to in that post, was that page rank may have been negatively affected because of incoming links from other websites that Google may not like - many times called “links from bad neighborhoods”.
It appears the her dofollow blog ended up on some forums, and on some blogs, in dofollow blog lists. You can do a search on Google and find a number of blogs and forums that contains lists of dofollow blogs. You receive a link back to your blog, which you would think is a good thing.
And it probably is a good thing unless Google sees this a something like a link farm, or a site that sells links - something bad that Google doesn’t like. This could result in a link to your blog that is not desirable.
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Side Note:
Many times there lists are not accurate regarding nofollow vs dofollow. Plus, you did not request to have your blog be put on these lists, and it may be difficult getting of the list if you wanted to.
With my DoFollow Blog Directory you place your blog in the directory, I don’t search for dofollow blogs and add them to the directory. The only way you can get in the directory is to initiate it yourself.
You also get to choose your desired link text, you give your blog a description and you choose a category for you blog. This adds much more value to your blog than just some link on a blog or forum.
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So, could being on these lists negatively affect your Google page rank? Good question, and I don’t know.
I have heard that links from bad neighborhoods to your site will not count against you, and also not count for you. This would make the most sense and I hope that’s how Google handles these situations.
If Google counted these bad neighborhood links against you, that could cause some real problems. For example, let’s say you are a devious low life scoundrel - I know this is not true, but the is a hypothetical “what if”.
YOu have a website related to Golf Clubs and you are number 5 on the first page of Google. Of course you want the number one spot, so you devise a devious plan to get that coveted spot.
So, you find a number of bad neighborhood spots on the internet, and you start placing links to your top 4 competitors sites on those websites. Google starts noticing all these bad incoming links and starts dropping your competitors. Your site rises to the number one spot on Google for golf clubs and you win.
But wait, another devious scoundrel knows the same low life strategy that you do, and starts placing links to you on bad sites and knocks you out of the game.
As you can see, this would create a lot of chaos. So, even though bad incoming links won’t help you, I don’t believe they will hurt you either.
I don’t think you need to be concerned about dofollow blog incoming links from bad neighborhoods. But, why not get incoming links from good neighborhoods like the Dofolow Blog Directory.
Mike
Dofollow Blogs and Page Rank
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Well, it appears Google has done another page rank update. So, how did your dofollow blog Page Rank do? Does having a dofollow blog affect your page rank?
Honestly, I don’t know. My page ranks have not changed at all - up or down, so I don’t know how they would have been ranked if they were not dofollow.
There are some who believe that your page rank will drop if you are a dofollow blog. Since you will have more out going links, you will be losing some link juice. There is probably some truth to that.
I came across Melissa Eaton’s Niche Website Building Tips blog, and she made a post claiming dofollow blogging affected her page rank negatively. Her PR did drop, and it could have been related to dofollow, or it could be related to some other factors she mentions in her post.
She has turned dofollow off and is going to use a different plugin, that allows you to give your commentors dofollow links after a certain number of posts.
So, you if your PR is negatively affected by dofollow outgoing links, should you turn off dofollow? Of course that is for you to decide, but here is my view.
Since going dofollow on 4 of my blogs, the page rank has not changed on any of them. I would have thought that since the last Google update their PR would have increased since they are older, have more incoming links, have more content and have more traffic.
I think there is a strong possibility that my PR could have gone up on at least two of them if they were not dofollow. So, I have to decide what I would rather have - a better PR, or more traffic.
Since going dofollow on my blogs my traffic has gone up and my Alexa rank has steadily improved on all the blogs. I really don’t think my traffic would have increased if my blogs were nofollow.
I know that Google PR is important, but I really wonder if it’s as important as it used to be and as important as people believe it is.
I have seen websites with a PR3 or PR4 that I suspect received a high PR because they were ranked on obscure keywords that no one searches for, and they probably don’t have much traffic. I have seen these sites with an Alexa rank of over 3 million in popularity, when my blogs are steadily dropping to the low 200K in popularity. FYI, with Alexa lower is better.
I have also seen sites under 50K in Alexa with no PR, or a PR of zero.
So, my belief is - PR, though nice, is not as good as more traffic with a low, or no, PR. Of course, ideally you would like to have both high PR and a lot of traffic.
I will continue to have dofollow blogs until I have strong evidence that it’s hurting my blogs to the point of costing me traffic.
Mike
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