DoFollow: Increase Your Backlinks with DoFollow Sites

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The DoFollow revolution embraces the sharing of link juice going out to other sites. Learn more about DoFollow, where you can get listed on DoFollow sites, and what it means to you as a webmaster and link builder!

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What is DoFollow? 

DoFollow is simply an internet slang term given to web pages or sites that are not utilizing NoFollow. NoFollow is a hyperlink inclusion that tells search engines not to pass on any credibility or influence to an outbound link. Originally created to help the blogging community reduce the number of inserted links into a "comment" area of a blog page, the attribute is typically standard in blog comments. It helps overwhelmed webmasters disallow spammers from gaining any kind of advantage by inserting an unwanted link on a popular page.

As a result of the implementation of NoFollow: link building has taken a massive hit, as many sites including Wikis, social bookmarking sites, corporate and private blogs, commenting plugins and many other venues and applets across the internet began implementing NoFollow. This made effective link building difficult for both honest people and spammers alike.

By the way, there's nothing wrong with getting NoFollow links. In fact, you'll want to get an equal amount of them as well. While they don't pass on link juice, they do help associate your site with anchor text (the keyword phrase that makes up the URL pointing to your site).

How Search Engines Use NoFollow 

Search engines each interpret NoFollow in their own way. Here's a list of the major search engines, and their actions when a NoFollow link is seen:
  • Google follows NoFollow links but simply does not pass on credit to an outbound link that is tagged with the attribute.
  • Yahoo follows NoFollow links and excludes the link from all ranking calculations.
  • MSN may or may not follow a NoFollow link, but it does exclude it from ranking calculations.
  • Ask.com does not adhere to NoFollow.

Finding DoFollow Sites 

With all of the above being said - it is rather difficult to find sites that are "DoFollow"...however, they are out there! Listed below for your convenience are running lists of multiple categories of sites that are DoFollow, and great candidates for your next backlink!

Don't Be A Spammer - Be A Value Provider!
Spamming Dofollow resources will not give you results...not only that, it hurts the entire community, and it persuades Dofollow providers to convert their sites to Nofollow. Be sure that all of your link-building exploits are done so tastefully and honestly. If you don't cram keywords and give an honest account of what your site is about, search engines will reward you for it!



In getting links, regardless of if they're DoFollow or not, please note that Google and other search engines are rather smart these days. If you have multiple links pointing to a page from one DoFollow source, or if that source is also linking to other places that are giving you backlinks (such as your Blogspot or Wordpress account), search engines will notice and may devalue your links to the point where they become worthless. Build links naturally and over time. Provide value and they'll be quality links. Otherwise, you'll hurt your website's link building efforts in the long-run.

By the way -- when it comes to link building, only the first link pointing to a site counts. Posting more than one hyperlink on the same page to the same source won't help in any way.

More About Dofollow 

Tips and tricks you won't want to miss, when it comes to creating that backlink pointing to your site!
Google Blog: Good times with inbound links
A lesson on creating effective backlinks, straight from the horse's mouth. An invaluable article and a must read.
SearchStatus plugin for Firefox
If you use Firefox (and chances are that you do), this plugin helps you instantly locate dofollow links on every site you visit. It has a many other great information tools, too.

DoFollow: Reader Feedback 

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Thanks for visiting my Dofollow resource. This list is not foolproof! If any of these links have become "nofollow," please let me know and I'll be sure to remove them. If you'd like to leave a link, please type it out!

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Wow, I had no idea that so many social networks were in existance. Great comprehensive list. Where would the world be without squidoo.

ReplyPosted July 07, 2009

LauraHale wrote...

http://www.fanhistory.com/ is a dofollow wiki. Links have to be on relevant pages and be entertainment, popular culture or fandom related.

ReplyPosted July 02, 2009

Artezanal wrote...

The list is very good, very usefull, thanks!

ReplyPosted July 02, 2009

warcraftgold wrote...

I would like to add onlinesocialbookmarking.com PR2 do follow bookmarking site to the list, thanks

ReplyPosted June 29, 2009

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Swran

Great work !!
Love the dofollow idea !!!! so ...
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ReplyPosted June 28, 2009

 
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