Recent DoFollow Blog Directory Changes
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I have made a number of significant changes to the DoFollow Blog Directory at FollowList.com.
I have blogged about those changes as I have made them, but I thought a short summary was in order since I think a number of users of the directory have missed the recent changes.
For those who have a blog listed in the blog directory:
1. I am periodically going through blogs in the directory, in a random fashion. If I review your blog, by looking at comments to see if it is truly dofollow, and if it is family appropriate, I will send a tweet about your blog.
I am sending the tweets from http://twitter.com/dofollowblogs . This Twitter account is only a few weeks old, and it has 60 followers as of today. I have no advertising of this Twitter account, other than on this blog and on the Followlist.com front page. So, I assume the followers of the Dofollow Blogs Twitter account are looking for dofollow blogs to comment on.
I expect this account to grow in followers over the next few months, so you could get a lot of eyeballs looking at your blog.
When I review your blog, using the criteria laid out above, if it fails my review I will suspend your blog, and of course not tweet about it. Hopefully, this will encourage you to remain dofollow.
If you suddenly find your blog has disappeared from the directory, It’s probably because it has been suspended. If you choose to turn remove nofollow and become dofollow, I will un-suspend your blog after I have manually reviewed it.
2. Users of the dofollow list now have the ability to report blogs that violate the rules above (Is Dofollow and family appropriate). If your blog is reported, I will review your blog and either okay it, or suspend it.
3. I have recently added a caching feature to the directory to speed it up. One of the drawbacks of having a database driven website that gets a good amount of traffic, is that it starts to experience slow load times and database errors.
To solve this, the site now loads pages into a temporary cache, without accessing the database. This improves load speed. The only drawback, is that newly added blogs may not appear in the directory right away, it may take up to 10 minutes to appear.
For those of you using the list for finding blogs where you can leave comments:
1. You now have the ability to report blogs that are not really dofollow.
As stated above, I am also tweeting about manually reviewed dofollow blogs. You can receive 4-5 daily tweets about blogs that I have personally reviewed and verified to be dofollow. Just follow http://twitter.com/dofollowblogs
I appreciate your help in cleaning up my dofollow list, to make it the cleanest free dofollow list.
2. The site should now load faster, see point 3 above
I hope to make some enhancements soon, like allowing blog owners to have their blogs flagged as using KeywordLuv, and/or CommentLuv. As a user of the list, is this something you would like to see?
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Have subscribed to your twitter rss feed. I then use Google Reader to monitor the sites you have added on a daily basis.
Great resource!
Bill – good combination of technolgies! Easy way to store all the new dofollow blogs reported.
Thanks for updating us on these changes. I will be submitting a few blogs in the next week, I hope they pass your requirements.
Thanks a lot! And yes, tagging blogs whether they use both CommentLuv and KewywordLuv or just one of them would be of great help.
We love the new Twitter account. I’ve added as a follower and also created a list so my followers will know about it! Thanks!
Thanks for the heads-up! I’m now following your RSS feed from the dofollow blogs Twitter account!
I will be submitting a few blogs in the next week, I hope they pass your requirements.I think its a very useful post for internet users.amazing job man thanks a lot.
Hey Mike,
I am one of those (64 now!) followers on Twitter, and love your directory! It is definitely the most put together one out there, and provides good leads for people searching for Dofollow Blogs to comment on.
I really hate when people spam your directory with either non-family friendly sites, or non dofollow blogs. I press the report button and say “hooray” in my mind.
Sounds good as far as the updates go for making everything load faster. Thanks for making things even better on your site!
greenlants
It must be a lot of work to keep the directory in tip top shape. So my sincere thanks for making this resource available to so many of us.
Thanks. I’m always on the look out for quality dofollow blogs. This should help.
Great man, you are really doing a lot of great stuff to keep this dofollow directory exceptional! Really i don’t really follow list because most of the list are not usually updated and most blogs would have added the nofollow attribute.
You are doing a great job with your directory i hope you keep it going, your site rocks…
Thanks
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Awesome, the report button is a much appreciated addition, as I have come across a few sites here that have turned to the dark side and become nofollow
Hopefully with the help of other users we can weed them out.
You are doing a great service for us. I am sure going to follow you on Twitter. Thanks!
This is by far the most informative article about defollow blog directory i have ever read. so thanks for sharing it
Thanks for consistently updating the database. I will definitely keep coming back (and recommending to others).
Great work you’re doing on the site.
I appreciate your help in cleaning up my dofollow list, to make it the cleanest free dofollow list. Thanks for your work.
Love all the work that you are doing keeping your list updated.
It’s hard to find updated lists like this, most of the webmasters want to keep all this information to themselves.
Kudos to you.
You are really doing great work on yor directory, majority of this directories do not update there directory making most of the blogs on the directory nofollow.
Thanks for your input.
great blog and very helpful I Have subscribed to your twitter rss feed. I then use Google Reader to monitor the sites you have added on a daily basis thank you
Mike, I finished registration just now but I am unable to add my blog to your directory. All I can see is register again. Did I miss something?
This are some great changes…I just went over to twitter to follow you! Its nice to see you finally have that account up so people can keep track easier of your dofollow tweets.
These are some great new additions. This is most definitely the best service of its kind. There are too many outdated lists out there.
You do an amazing job of keeping your dofollow directory up to date. Blog owners change their follow status constantly and keeping up on who is dofollow can be tough.
Thanks for the hard work.
If you do install this plug in you will see an increase in comments. Of course you will get to monitor and control these as the site moderator but over time you will definitely see an increase. Good luck.
Awesome….I finished registration just now but I am unable to add my blog to your directory.So my sincere thanks for making this resource available to so many of us
wow great blog, found some handy tips.
now following on twitter looking forward to thoose tweets
A DoFollow plugin should be used along with the CommentLuv plugin. Comments are always appreciated by anyone that is involved with blogging.
I think you should also weed out blogs that although DoFollow, but they don’t approve many comments just because they want to be a little spiteful. A DoFollow blog with very low comment approval threshold is next to useless as well.
I don’t use Twitter a lot, and I am only following a few people. But you are on my follow list. I am looking forward to your tweets!
Found you through those tweets, I am sure this will give more exposure to your directory. I see you already have 159 followers – great going. Might I recommend that you ask some of your followers to retweet. (just say Please RT) at the end and see if it works.
Thanks for posting!! , I am collecting the details about do follow directory, the generic i got from your post…!!!
Thanks for making the source always available, I found you on my tweeter list. ^_^
thanks for all your hard work.. I love the twitter idea.. blogs delivered to your doorstep! thanks!
Hello Mike, you are doing wonderful job with the list of dofollow, thanks for all your effort in tweet the real doffolow blogs from your directory.
I really appreciate your dofollow list, it will be helpful to my dofollow list. I really missed the directories before, but I obtain it now. Thanks for your kindness.
I love me some Comment Luv and Do Follow Sites…. thanks for the help
Thanks. I’m always on the look out for quality dofollow blogs. This should help.
Haven’t used DoFollow as yeat, but find Keyword Luv really an excellent plugin.