Blog Commenting

Blog Commenting – NoFollow vs. DoFollow

The big debate when you’re talking about blog commenting is NoFollow versus DoFollow. Let me explain.

When blogs first came out and you were able to leave comments that included a link, people used it as a way to create lots of incoming links to their own webpages to increase rankings. Of course this was quickly abused and Comment Spam was born. If you have a blog of your own, I’m sure you’ve seen your share of this.

To help combat comment spam and make sure all these spammy links did not count, the big search engines implemented a new tag called “nofollow”. As the search engine spiders crawled the web, this little tag would tell them to ignore a link in all search engine calculations. The bottom line is that most blogging platforms adopted this “nofollow” tag and implemented it in the comments section.

Of course there are also blogs (including my Affiliate Treasure Chest Blog) that don’t mind sharing some link juice provided readers leave valuable comments. There are various plugins to allow you to turn the no-follow feature off on your blog.

The big question then becomes should you focus on blogs that have one of these plugins installed or not when you are commenting on blogs. This depends on what your end goal is with your commenting.

If you are following the beginner strategy in one of my affiliate niche packs, your main goal is to send traffic to your affiliate link. In this case, any blog will work. Focus on those that seem to get a lot of traffic and have active commenters.

If you are tyring to improve the ranking of an article on an article directory, one of your social media pages (i.e. a squidoo lense, or a hub page etc.), or if you set up your own site using the advanced marketing strategy and are working on incoming links, you do want to post on dofollow blogs as often as you can.

P.S. Tomorrow I’ll share how to find those do-follow blogs.