Dofollow Blogs

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-06-23T04:03:44Z in Pages, with these tags: blogging, jump to comment form. 190 words.

This is a list of blogs that don’t add the tag rel="nofollow" to your website when you make a comment. You can add your website URI in the field labeled “website,” “URL,” or “URI,” and the blog owner should have his blog set up to make your name link back to your site with no nofollow tag (i.e. “dofollow”).

Commenting on these blogs will help you to rank higher in Google and other search engines, because you’ll get credit for having other sites link to you (unlike with nofollow, where you get nothing). Thripp Photography is dofollow.

This is a good article by Search Engine Journal: 13 Reasons Why NoFollow Tags Suck. Omitting the tag doesn’t increase spam nor hurt your blog. I use the Sem Dofollow plugin to remove it from comments on all Thripp.com blogs including Brilliant Photography, as WordPress includes it by default (scroll to the bottom for the download link). If you’re using WordPress MU as I am, it’ll work for all your blogs if you put sem-dofollow.php in your mu-plugins folder.

Note: this list is a JavaScript include from here: http://courtneytuttle.com/blogs-that-follow/. I do not manage this list!

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Matt at 2011-06-15T22:47:37.
Not too sure if you know this or not, but at least half of these sites are no longer up, or no longer dofollow. But I will make the best of whats there. Thanks
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New York Photographer at 2011-06-05T06:53:11.
thanks for the list, this will really help me with in my website.
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Joel at 2011-05-08T16:46:08.
Thanks Richard for the info on Dofollow Blogs.
Many of us want and need blogs that we can post on if
we are going to succeed with our internet businesses.
I also find it very frustrating that most of the blogs have a PR0.
Look forward to checking the list out. Thanks Again.
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Catch21 online political video at 2011-05-03T22:48:12.
Richard, I think your list of dofollow blogs is down :-/
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Maria Victoria Benidorm at 2011-04-13T17:03:45.
Thanks for letting me write. Today I created a website and am trying to increase my weight in googel, the web is about tourist accommodation in Benidorm, Spain.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2011-04-13T22:05:23.
Nice website, good luck with your hotel.
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gina@ childrens birthday venue at 2011-04-10T04:48:58.
As Dave says there are a lot of supposedly dofollow which aren’t, I use SEO quake to see if they are what they say. I can understand why people do due to spam comments, but there are other ways of dealing with it.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2011-04-10T05:44:40.
I would just go to the blog, find a post with a comment in it where the commenter’s name is linkified, press Ctrl + U to view the source code of that page (Firefox), and then search using Ctrl + F for the complete name of said commenter. Then, I would examine the HTML anchor tag to observe the presence or absence of the “rel” attribute, and see whether it is set to “nofollow”, “external”, or something else. Absent is good, rel=”external” is good, rel=”nofollow” is bad.
Ideally, someone would create a WordPress plugin that allows you to set certain commenter’s links to be nofollow and others to be dofollow on a case-by-case basis. This way, commenters would have to leave good comments out of fear that their anchor tags would be made nofollow, and dofollow links would become a social bargaining tool.
Alternately, nofollow links could become a social retribution tool, but I would usually just delete those comments and block those commenters.
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Dave at 2011-03-19T13:05:43.
” I keep running into is I find blogs that claim they are dofollow, but when you review the source code that is not the case”.
A lot of blogs start out as doollow and at some point they change to a nofollow. What you can learn from this, is when building backlinks don’t just use blogs to build link building and if you do keep building them because some of them will become nofollow.
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sam at 2011-03-21T23:53:51.
Dave,where its written in the source code that its not do follow? Can you show one example please.
Thanks.
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Birth Injury Attorney at 2011-03-18T09:56:22.
Hello Richard
Great blog i like your informative and knowledgeable blog.
Thanks for sharing.
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camra at 2011-03-16T01:59:19.
overwhelmed with many do follow sites,
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Almond Digital Marketing Agency at 2011-03-11T01:45:57.
In response to Danny G’s comment, Matt Cutts has said that no follow links do not help to climb search engine rankings in Google. But…considering Google’s natural ranking algorithms change 200 to 300 times a year, I don’t see why Matt Cutts will not change what he says either.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2011-03-11T02:17:44.
Google doesn’t tell us the truth because they don’t want their system to be gamed… but you can figure it out if you’re tricky enough.
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stickman games at 2011-03-10T18:01:03.
OK, you are talking about the list of do follow blogs, and how good they are, but I don’t see any list. Where is it ?
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Richard X. Thripp at 2011-03-11T02:17:02.
For some reason the JavaScript include isn’t working… The list is here:
http://courtneytuttle.com/blogs-that-follow/
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Clay Toporski Photography at 2011-03-02T18:17:42.
Great little article. I never realized there was a difference between no follow and do follow for links. Thanks for the info to help clear up the differences!
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Richard X. Thripp at 2011-03-02T20:15:40.
You’re welcome! Remember that since nofollow is a new initiative, “dofollow” is the ABSENCE of a rel=”nofollow” tag on an <a href=”http://example.com/”> hyperlink, i.e., a normal link.
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AWAZ at 2011-03-09T00:04:19.
Thanks for this article! My company is just beginning the process of SEO through blogs and working to link-up with our community. Posts like this are great.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2011-03-09T00:26:37.
You’re welcome, it’s been up a long time.
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Danny g at 2011-02-28T15:20:14.
Hi Richard.
Great blog by the way!! just wanted to stick my 2 cents in. i personally like to interact with both dofollow and nofollow as i think its more natural to have a balance between the 2, as in MY OPINION to many link pointing from only dofollow sets alarms of.
regards
Danny
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Richard X. Thripp at 2011-02-28T15:46:13.
I do that! The only dofollow link is your URL link, but links written in HTML in your comment are nofollow. By default, WordPress makes them all nofollow.
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Dofollow wordpress at 2011-02-27T16:41:28.
Our webspider saw that your site is dofollow. We just made first wordpress dofollow search engine and we have also indexed your site. This will will bring some visitors. You have our url on our name on this commnent. We will be very thankful if you will also give us a hand in promoting it by adding our url somewhere on your blog.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2011-02-27T17:01:44.
No thanks, I’m not going to add your name on my blog.
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Longevity Digest at 2011-02-17T18:32:25.
Thanks! I did a Google search for dofollow blogs and yours came up!
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Night Vision at 2011-02-16T08:08:27.
Night Vision optics, gun optics, binocullars, …
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Richard X. Thripp at 2011-02-17T02:08:52.
Cool, thanks, I love fun toys like flashlights and laser pointers but those sound even better.
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service apartment at 2011-02-13T18:01:52.
thanks for this great information to get link back from dofollow blogs.
Thanks for this post
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Richard X. Thripp at 2011-02-17T02:57:17.
You’re welcome.
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Jenny Wills at 2011-02-07T11:27:52.
Thanks Richard for this informative tips. I also want to write this type of blog because i saw that this blogs gets louts of comments And I dont knoe how i identify dofollow blogs.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2011-02-09T15:43:20.
Well, you have to look at the source code of the HTML and check the links to someone else’s website in someone else’s comment on the page with the comments, to see if the a href tag includes rel=”nofollow” (nofollow blog) or does not include it at all (dofollow blog).
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eGrove Systems at 2011-01-21T09:13:04.
hi Richard,
this is nice info about the dofollow functions.
and i would like to know about the dofollow plugins.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2011-01-22T15:00:04.
Most of them just prevent WordPress from making commenters’ names nofollow links if they specify a URL. Links within their comments are still nofollow.
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mlmleadsystempro at 2011-02-11T06:16:30.
Hello Richard…Thanks for the tips, and the information what you have posted are very useful and please keep sharing these like useful information with us.
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Sam at 2011-01-21T01:24:51.
Hi Richard, Thanks for the list, I noticed you have rel=”external” , what does that do ?
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Richard X. Thripp at 2011-01-22T14:50:59.
It’s something included in WordPress that just means the link is outgoing and leaves the current website… could be used for web browsers who opt to open those links in new tabs instead of the same tab.
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rio at 2011-01-12T03:02:05.

rel=”dofollow” in this blog, its s good,
coz i can link building from your blog.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2011-01-12T11:58:35.
There is no rel=”dofollow”. “Dofollow” is just the absence of rel=”nofollow” in the “a href” HTML link tag.
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Ech0 Advertising at 2011-01-09T18:27:11.
I use SEO Elite to find dofollow blogs. Essentially, i look for a site that ranks well in a given keyword and then run project one which tells me which sites are linking to it, their page rank and whether the link is follow or no follow.
Its a lengthy process but i find that the lists you come across are quite old and more and more have gone nofollow because they’ve been spammed to death.
The real trick is to build your self a bunch of blogs, get some links and pagerank to them and then you can use them however you choose. Its a lengthy process though but it you built say 20 blogs that got to page rank 2,3 & 4 you’d probably be able to improve any sites search placement.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2011-01-12T13:16:56.
Hmm, well I have a hard enough time managing 4 or 5 blogs. I wouldn’t want 20. But if I could get 20 friends, that would be the way to go.
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Ech0 Advertising at 2011-01-12T13:35:32.
Lol! I’ll be your friend!
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Richard X. Thripp at 2011-01-12T13:45:27.
Wow you won’t believe this… Akismet put your comment in spam! I guess Matt Mullenweg doesn’t want me having friends?
I’ll send you an email and we could be partners.
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Victoria at 2011-01-07T20:47:08.
I’ve just enabled DoFollow, CommentLuv and Top Commenters plugins on my Wordpress blog.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2011-01-09T07:59:53.
That’s good! I’ve never tried any of the commenter plugins, but this blog has been dofollow for years.
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Mark Montana at 2011-01-07T15:30:10.
Hey Richard,
Do you know how come is that so many blogs that are do follow turn into no follow in a relatively short span of time?
Thanks
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Richard X. Thripp at 2011-01-09T08:00:38.
Yeah, the owners disable the plugin that removes the nofollow tag… I don’t know why they do it.
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IT Support at 2011-01-05T15:03:37.
These lists have been circulated around so much that almost none of the blogs are dofollow anymore. SEOs spamming does lead to that … :(. Getting a site to rank is serious work otherwise. If I said that there is a way to get PR5 within 1 week applying a small cheat … everyone would want to do it. Nobody wants to work anymore. Sad … but I guess this is what means to be competitive nowadays. Just tell us how many blogs are out there where more than 90% of the comments are nothing else but a copy and pasted “nice blog, definitely very useful”. One of our competitors dropped in less than 1 week from PR5 to PR1 because of these spamming tactics …. still on the first 10 google positions though. … Somehow “cheating does pay” I guess :).
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Richard X. Thripp at 2011-01-09T08:02:38.
Well, my home page has been PR5 for a long time, but Google hasn’t updated PageRank since April 2010 so I don’t know what it should be now… it could be lower or higher.
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Mark at 2010-12-17T17:28:05.
Thank you for the list. It’s a gem.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-12-17T22:57:56.
You’re welcome Mark!
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mandy at 2010-11-27T15:04:32.
hmmm so what ur saying is no follow links doesnt make any difference? how come i read somewhere that they count for traffic as well?
anyways thanks
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-11-28T07:53:43.
Of course they can generate traffic because people click them, but they won’t help your search engine rankings.
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Danny g at 2011-03-28T13:24:48.
Hi Richard, i heard a rumor recently that yahoo do give some relevance to nofollow, dont know how true this is? have you heard of this.
Danny
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Richard X. Thripp at 2011-03-30T07:49:46.
I honestly don’t care at this point. It sounds plausible though. The search engines have to keep changing their algorithms to provide more relevant results in the face of changing SEO techniques, better scripts and servers, and the human factor.
If you’re posting a comment on a blog, you should be focused on the traffic that comes from people directly reading the comment section on that blog post and clicking your name. Anything else is secondary, including familiarization and brand image.
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Sam at 2010-11-03T10:18:26.
I used a tool called Market Samurai (I’m not affiliated with them) to research blogs/forums which are DoFollow. For what it does, its relatively good value.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-11-03T10:21:51.
Cool, sounds useful. Someone should write a WordPress plugin to explore other WordPress blogs and find the dofollow ones.
Many spammers get confused about what the dofollow plugin does. It only removes the nofollow tag from your comment’s website URL. If you include HTML links in the text of the comment, they are still nofollow.
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Nick Hurst at 2010-09-23T10:46:21.
I know what you mean, its a shame but most blogs do use the no-follow tag.. look forward to seeing your list online. Also… my blog is do follow, click my name if you want to post.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-09-23T11:13:18.
Yes, that’s because WordPress enables it by default.
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Simon Bunting at 2010-09-11T15:09:46.
Thanks i was looking for some dofollow photography blogs and found some !
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-09-12T01:30:46.
You’re welcome.
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nurse outfits at 2010-09-07T08:06:44.
Hi, thx a lot for the huge list but I have one question though, do these blogs have a high Page Rank? because I want to comment on high PR sites in order to be more efficient. Seo Quake tells me that most of these sites have PR 0 It would be great if we had a list where all the sites would be sorted from highest PR to lowest PR
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-09-07T17:42:21.
No, it doesn’t, but you can install the Google Toolbar to see PageRank. Also get the Alexa Toolbar to see Alexa rank as that is a useful metric too. Any blog with PageRank above 3 and Alexa Rank below 100,000 is worth commenting on.
Apparently the creator of this list is attaching ads in an iFrame to every blog on this list, so you will have to disable that iFrame for the toolbars to work.
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Stainless Steel Gifts at 2010-09-02T15:34:32.
Thanks for providing such a massive list! The first four results on google lead to some sh¡tty lists
~Dave
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-09-02T15:46:43.
Thanks. Maybe this page will move up… currently it has no PageRank even though my homepage is 5/10.
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Panda Marketer at 2010-09-02T19:05:34.
Well, you’re under 65,000 in Alexa, so that’s something.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-09-02T21:06:21.
Yeah, that used to be a lot higher… like 50,000.
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Thina Doukas - Wedding Photographer at 2010-02-24T22:07:16.
This is a massive list. Also when you link to dofollow links the higher the PR ranking the better the quality of the link. Google picks up quality as opposed to volume cheers
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-08-31T12:09:09.
Yes, I believe it also helps if you link to websites that have high PageRank. Maybe it shows Google that you aren’t spamming links to your own sites.
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Angie@Fresh Step Crystals at 2010-01-22T19:58:00.
I use the CommentLuv plug-in and it can be a great addition for my blogs. Link building is definitely a huge part of building up your blog online, and I’m personally of the opinion that Google tends to show a little bit more favor to blogs that have comments and conversations going on.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2010-08-31T12:10:12.
I never liked that plugin… Seems slow, buggy, and pointless.
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Matt McGuire at 2009-02-20T00:00:27.
Great list. This is probably the largest list of dofollow blogs I have found. The one problem I keep running into is I find blogs that claim they are dofollow, but when you review the source coude that is not the case.
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-02-21T06:43:03.
Hopefully these are all dofollow.
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A Love for Horses - Joni Solis at 2009-01-09T00:08:19.
I am using: Do Follow - http://www.semiologic.com/software/wp-tweaks/dofollow/
Could you let us know why you choose: Sem Dofollow ? Thanks!
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Richard X. Thripp at 2009-01-09T02:35:12.
That’s the same one, it’s called Sem Dofollow, see where it says “sem-dofollow (zip)”? The title at the top just says Do Follow though.
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