CornerScribe changing to Dofollow

Posted by Jo | Filed under Weblogs

Do you know what do-follow means, in terms of your blog and comments you leave elsewhere?

Usually, blogs default to no-follow in their comments. That is, links in comments are not treated as “real” links, meaning you get no credit for them in google. So, commenting isn’t going to do much for your google page rank because you’re not really creating links back to your site.

Except… If the blog you comment on has the comments set to do-follow, then you DO get credit for a link when you comment on the blog.

Wondering where you can comment on such blogs? Frank over at TechJaws has a great article on this topic, A list of Dofollow blogs to Improve Your Pagerank, and a list of PR 4, 5 and 6 blogs that are do-follow.

I had wondered whether changing my own comments to dofollow would have an adverse effect on my google pagerank, but Frank assures me it will not. One word or warning though, you’ll want to run something like Akismet and watch your comments so that spammers don’t take advantage of you. You don’t want to provide links back to disreputable sites.

So, CornerScribe is changing to dofollow, tonight if I can do it easily, so come back and comment often.

Thanks, Frank!

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Comments (2) | June 25, 2009

2 Responses to “CornerScribe changing to Dofollow”

  1. David Says:
    July 10th, 2009 at 7:44 pm

    Prepare for more comment spam :P There are quite a lot of Indian SEOs selling keyword-rich blog comment links, which tend to come complete with vague, broken comments.

  2. Frank J Says:
    July 20th, 2009 at 5:01 pm

    Let me be the first to say “Way to Go!”

    Good move, but make sure you have comments set for moderation and you have Akismet installed.

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