Jun
25

Commenting on Dofollow (Non-nofollow) Blogs

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I’d like to talk a bit about posting comments on dofollow blogs as a backlink strategy, as well as how to find them versus nofollow blogs. Typically, I don’t do much of the "commenting on blogs for fun and backlinks" type of thing, as I usually prefer to repurpose my content for article marketing and Web 2.0 properties. But, I know that a lot of people have questions about it, and it does offer a way to get some good backlinks fairly quickly.

In case you’re not aware, nofollow links have ‘rel="nofollow"’ in the link code and do not pass Google PageRank. They are therefore seen to have less value than dofollow links for SEO purposes. The term dofollow was coined to indicate a non-nofollow link (in other words, the absence of the nofollow in the link code).

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Apr
21

Blog Comments - More Traffic, or a Waste of Time?

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Do blog comments bring more website traffic? In this era of Web 2.0, user generated content, a blog on every corner, and so on, does one need to have comments enabled in order to be considered a serious blogger?

Steve Pavlina disabled blog comments on his highly successful personal development blog some time ago. He posted about it and listed his reasons. Among those reasons were some interesting points, as well as some interesting data after the fact as far as the effect on website traffic.

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