Do Follow, D-List, and No No-Follow
May 11th, 2007 by CourtMany of you have already found the ‘D-List‘ on this site. Lately that page, which has now turned into two pages, has been heating up like crazy. I get at least 5 new sites everyday that ask to be on it, and for the last few days that page has been hit at least a few hundred times, and rightfully so!
What The D-List Is
The D-List is a list of sites that ‘follow’. A different way to say it would be to say that the D-List is a list of sites that don’t use a ‘nofollow’ tag in their comment links.
What A NoFollow Tag Is
A nofollow tag is a piece of code that makes links invalid with Google and Technorati. Have a look at this piece of code; this code makes a valid link that will count in Google and Technorati:
Now I’ll show the code for a link that has a ‘nofollow’ tag in it:
Both codes will make the exact same link; they will both look the same anyway. The difference is that the top one will count with Google and Technorati, and the bottom one won’t. The ‘nofollow’ makes it so it won’t improve your ranking with Google and Technorati.
By default, WordPress and Blogger blogs set a ‘nofollow’ command on all of the comment links left by blog readers. This means that users that leave comments on your blog won’t get a link, and when you leave comments on other blogs you won’t get a link either.
What The Do Follow Plugin Does
The Do Follow plugin removes the ‘nofollow’ code from the comment links. This means that if you comment on blogs that are using it, you will get a link that counts with Google and Technorati. On the other hand if you are using it, you will be giving links to users that put their URLs in when they leave comments.
This means that you can use the D-List of this site to get some easy links. You can also get a lot of extra traffic for your site by installing the plugin and asking me to add you to the list.
You can also remove the ‘nofollow’ from your blogspot blog by following the instructions here.
Do Follow Guidelines
When you’re visiting a site that has the Do Follow plugin, you should leave comments that are informative and add to the discussion. If you don’t, your comment probably will be moderated. On the other hand, if you leave educated, informative comments, the blogger will likely visit your site, which can bring extra traffic to you. They may also link to posts that they like.
Many times I notice that people leave comments on this site that are obviously left just to get links. If comments don’t add to the discussion here, I moderate them. I installed the plugin to reward my readers that participate in the discussion. Those who don’t contribute don’t deserve any reward. You can read my full comment policy here.
Showing respect for those who reward you for educated comments creates the win-win situation that will keep the movement going.
Thanks To Those Who Contribute
Several people have written about the D-List that I maintain. Thanks to Kumiko, LifeLearningToday, Blogocola, Theanand, Alex Radich, 1000MileJourney, and Last Blogger, who have all talked and linked to my D-List. If you have also linked to the D-List, let me know and I would be happy to add you to the list of those I wanted to thank. If you haven’t linked to it, I’ll add you when you do.
Happy following!
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May 11th, 2007 at 11:59 am
I think this “Do Follow” is way lot better than top commentators plugin, since it only adds to more spam whores sending comments to reach the top, and it can be a trouble moderating all those comments!
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May 11th, 2007 at 12:15 pm
Thanks for the mention. You explain things so well. That, in my opinion, is a key to good blog writing.
Like you said about your cell phone site, explaining things that take time to research is something that readers find valuable and that other writers are likely to overlook.
You do it well! Consistently! Nice job!
May 11th, 2007 at 3:44 pm
Hey Court! DoFollow is positive, IMO, but you do need to do a tiny bit of moderation. Its no skin off my back, as I’ve got to moderate my comments anyway.
Nice post.
May 11th, 2007 at 6:11 pm
I had no idea about the follow and no follow terms or what they meant. I just started blogging about three months ago and am trying to find out all I can. I’ve surfed a few pages on your site today - I’m learning a boatload - thank you!!
May 11th, 2007 at 9:42 pm
Thanks for commenting on my blog. I traveled here from WP Moderate, stumbled upon your comprehensive 10-hour long blogging post, and well here I am
I have a few questions.
1. How effective is the image spam catcher at sifting about the spammers.
2. How does the DO Follow affect the PR of all your site wide links?
This is a great post. I’m considering adding No Follow to my blog, but I have to prepare for the spammers before hand.
May 11th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
It’s really effective at catching the spammers.
Dofollow could affect your PageRank slightly but you can get a lot more traffic with it and it rewards your readers. That is more important to me than PageRank.
May 12th, 2007 at 5:26 am
Thank you for this tip! I’ve heard of the nofollow before, but I never really understood what it was for.
May 12th, 2007 at 10:14 am
Court,
Is it possible to put Top Commentator or Comment Champs in Blogger.com ?
I like seeing Comment Champs..because my name is there…;D
May 12th, 2007 at 10:27 am
No follow was removed from my blog from day one. It is only fair to reward those that take the time to contribute and increase the value of your blog.
- Martin Reed
May 12th, 2007 at 10:46 am
Vedis - That’s a very good question. Unfortunately I don’t think there is a way to add them to blogger.com sites unless you did added them in manually, which would be a huge pain. Ever thought of switching to WordPress?
May 13th, 2007 at 11:23 pm
Hi Court: Thanks for stopping by the Garden a while back. Just now getting a chance to do some visiting . . . great site! Very informative.
Have resisted the whole pay per post revolution, but might have to rethink it in light of the information you have provided.
Hope you come back to the Garden for another visit soon. We’ve added you to our favorites!
May 15th, 2007 at 7:51 pm
I’ve added both Do-Follow and Top Commentators to my site. I haven’t received too many extra comments but I have noticed extra traffic coming in from the keyword “Top Commentators”. Even though we’re attracting more useless comments, I think the benefits outweight the negatives. You get fresh content - they get link love.
Thanks for your comment by the way.
May 16th, 2007 at 9:11 pm
This is brilliant!
I took out the no follow tag. How do I check to see if it worked?
The internet should be driven by the users and not big business (i.e. search engines and advertisers).
I love it!
Thank you so much!
May 16th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Hi Laurie! You can check it with the method I posted here:
http://courtneytuttle.com/2007/05/16/how-to-test-for-a-nofollow/
May 23rd, 2007 at 11:15 pm
hey want to add me to the do follow list. Thanks court. Let me know if it is a bad idea, but I think it will help me
June 6th, 2007 at 2:50 am
Hi Court-
This has been very helpful and informative. Thanks! I am another who did not fully understand the ‘nofollow / do follow’ issue. But now, thanks to you, I do. And I’ve removed the nofollow from my blog now too.
June 7th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
Thanks for this very informative post, actually i have removed my no follow on my blog now.
June 22nd, 2007 at 10:14 pm
That kind of info is really valuable. I´ll change my template right now to follow comments.
Thanks a lot and feel free to visit me any day to have some fun.
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July 14th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
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July 16th, 2007 at 6:44 am
My music blog has just gone dofollow. Will be interesting to monitor how it goes.
July 16th, 2007 at 1:34 pm
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July 20th, 2007 at 5:16 am
Hi! I am a new member of Do Follow movement as well. Can you add me to your D-list?
Thanks a lot and keep up the good work!
Best regards!
July 25th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
I have just installed the DoFollow plugin on Neomeme. Could you add me to the list?
Thanks!
July 26th, 2007 at 6:47 pm
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July 27th, 2007 at 7:31 pm
Thanks alot for this informative post about D-List. I am abit new at this, so I had no idea that by commenting on blogs can help your ranking for google and technorati. I was actually referring from other blogger who also apply “you comment, i follow” tag on his site. I was curious about the reason behind it and lucky, he had the link to your post! Thanks so much.
August 1st, 2007 at 11:52 am
That’s a great list you have there… one that I would mind appearing on. Currently I ask that people comment on five posts before the no follow tag is removed (retrospectively)to help me control some of the huge amounts of spam I get.
August 1st, 2007 at 12:01 pm
I mean ‘wouldn’t'… freudian slip? perhaps.
August 2nd, 2007 at 6:25 pm
I just joined the DoFollow movement too!
August 6th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
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October 15th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
Just took the nofollow off the comments code for my blog, and will do so for all my other blogs as well. Thanks for your list and you can add my site to your D List:
http://californiaweddings.blogspot.com
October 19th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
thanks a lot.. i got to know about this do-follow things from some webpage. but i had no clue as to how to get rid of those no follow tags from my blog. you have elucidated it so nicely. thanks you sooooooooo much. it is wonderful to see a site with loads of information about blogging.
November 2nd, 2007 at 11:56 pm
Time to update your blog list at “Blogs that follow”. All the blogs on homepage have been marked as NoFollow now. I checked it with iWebTool’s visual pagerank.
Certainly, this discourages that people first make the blogs DoFollow and when see comments pouring in, make it NoFollow.
At least, I would not follow that.
November 10th, 2007 at 9:32 pm
This is great news! I happened upon this whole concept of follow/no follow quite by chance. We travel a fair bit and often comment on some of the Travel Blogs. But we never knew about the ‘no follow’ tag… I’ll spread the word!
Barry
http://www.WeAreTraveling.com
November 18th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
This is a seriously outstanding list. It gives us webmasters an opportunity to do the best we can with link building. And it allows us to save some money, in the process making other blogs popular and making them money. A big thankyou for everything Courtney
From Rami
November 30th, 2007 at 6:15 am
Courtney:
Hi there, I’ve seen your name around the blogosphere lately and came across your “D-List” site.
While I did not download the plug-in you recommended, I did download another one (the one from Semilogic).
Will that still get me on your D-List? If not, I understand.
On the other hand, if it does, that’s wonderful! One thing I need to figure out is how to get the DoFollow badge into a sidebar widget. I’m no techie. Any clue on how to do this?
Thanks for your time!
December 11th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
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January 7th, 2008 at 5:34 am
Awesome list, highly appreciated.
It maybe a bit annoying to moderate huge ammounts of spam comments, but from my experience on my own blogs, the overall length and quality of comments improves alot with dofollow.
The idea of blogs is interacting with your visitors and I really hope the success of bloggers fighting for dofollow will help to recruit new followers for this idea.
February 10th, 2008 at 10:38 am
good post
February 22nd, 2008 at 10:40 pm
Great site, I’ve been reading it for a few months. I just added the “do follow” plugin to my site and would love it if you could add my site to your D-List.
(http://www.celebuwreck.com)
Thanks!
February 26th, 2008 at 1:21 pm
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May 13th, 2008 at 9:21 am
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June 6th, 2008 at 12:58 am
thanks …. for your share about do follow site…. it make me dizzy…. befor I read your articles above… getting site with do follow is my problem….thank for info
August 14th, 2008 at 4:30 pm
According to SEG, Search Engine Genie: “I have seen many people ask in forums what’s the difference between rel=external nofollow and rel=nofollow,
“Nofollow is a co-ordinated efforts from Google, yahoo , MSN to stop crawling links that are considered not trustworthy or spammy. Today many blogs, message boards, forums, news sites use nofollow tag to prevent spam in their comments or other areas of the blogs or forums. Now there is a new tag that is similiar to rel=nofollow that is rel=external nofollow, external nofollow works the same as nofollow tag but this tag opens links in a new window instead of the same window. If you want to try just add rel=”external” it will open the link in a new window. it sort of works like target=_blank. Target blank opens all hypertext links in the new window and rel=external nofollow, blocks all link juice and opens the link in a new window.
“So if you find a blog that uses this dont get too excited, links from these blogs don’t count. Move on and better luck next time.”
Court, every comment here and on your site uses “re=external nofollow” which means…
August 17th, 2008 at 11:29 am
I’ve been all over your blog for the past two hours. Lots of useful articles. I also notice that there are a lot of comments that, as the gentleman at the top says, were left by “blog whores.”
However, I haven’t seen any articles on the idea of using bookmarking sites to build traffic. One very slick trick I picked up from John Reese is monitoring the top bookmarking sites on a regular basis to get a feel for what topics get the most “traction”. Then writing posts that relate that subject to your business or blog using the same keywords.
have you tried anything like this and, if so, have you had any success with it?
August 17th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Quick note…I just clicked on the “No Follow” link to the plugIn and got a DNS error. However, I Googled no follow plugin for Wordpress and got this website:
http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/wordpress-15-plugin-strip-nofollow-tag-from-comment-urls/2/
The link to the plug in is older than dirt but the plugin is still good.
August 17th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
Ho Court!
I don’t know if you’re still honoring the offer to add people to the Dlist and thank them on your blog but I just did a blog entry about your list and linked to the Dlist page. I’d appreciate a little mention of some kind and a link.
Thanks and wishing you continued success!
Bob
http://wordsmithbob.com/blog/get-links-to-your-blog-by-commenting-on-the-right-blogs
August 23rd, 2008 at 12:55 am
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However, I haven’t seen any articles on the idea of using bookmarking sites to build traffic. One very slick trick I picked up from John Reese is monitoring the top bookmarking sites on a regular basis to get a feel for what topics get the most “traction”. Then writing posts that relate that subject to your business or blog using the same keywords.
have you tried anything like this and, if so, have you had any success with it?
December 8th, 2008 at 5:54 am
I never pay any attention to whether blog is no follow, I guess it just seems less calculated if and when I leave a comment.
January 20th, 2009 at 12:56 am
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January 21st, 2009 at 4:24 am
My Site is a blog-based site. but the problem is, Im not using any service like Wordpress or Blogger. So maybe I’m doing something wrong? What makes Wordpress Blog-Entries popular?
When I publish an article in a wordpress blog, few minutes later I get it on google. but it seems not to happen with my own blog then :S i also used the xfn friends network or some rel values but seems not to work.
please help me!
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I heard that Google is taking action to correct that difference, but so far I would still use a 301 redirect to be sure!
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July 25th, 2009 at 5:16 am
A FireFox plugin that scans the source for ‘nofollow’ would be good. Then you can see at a glance which blogs have it or not.
Now, who’s gonna build it?
July 25th, 2009 at 5:18 am
OKay, so it’s already been done:
http://www.zacharyfox.com/blog/free-tools/nodofollow-a-firefox-extension
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