1) Google Search

The easiest way is to go out and do a google search. Just use one of your main keywords and dofollow. You can also search for “list of dofollow blogs” to find lists other people have put together already.

2) Notification Lists

There are several free and paid email notification lists that will send you several links each week or month where you can leave a comment that is followed.

A free one of these I came across a few days ago is right here: Vince’s Links

Probably the most popular paid one is “Angela’s Links” (not an affiliate link). For $5 per month you get 30 dofollow links opportunities. These are mostly profile pages you can set up and include a link back to your site. Only a few of them are blogs.

Another popular one is “Paul’s Quality Backlinks” (not an affiliate link). For $8 per month you also get a list of 30 dofollow link opportunities.

3) Lists of Other Dofollow Blogs

Many blogs that “dofollow” also have a list to other blogs that have a similar plugin installed. Take a look at What Can I Make With It for example. It’s one of my own blogs about what to make with various food items. If you look in the sidebar, you will see a link to a Dofollow List. On that list you will find quite a few other blogs on various topics that also have a dofollow plugin installed. Look through them and see what blogs apply to your own market and start commenting on them regularly.

To get the most out of your efforts, make a list of all the dofollow blogs you find that are interesting and targeted enough to be worth the effort. I like to make sure the blog has been updated in the past two weeks and that comments are approved regularly.

Keep a spreadsheet or word document with these posts handy. Then schedule some time each week to go out and comment on a few of these blogs.

Personally, I don’t use any of the paid services. I make a list of 20 to 30 good blogs that dofollow in their comment links and then spend my time commenting on them each week.

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.