How to find do follow links

One way of promoting a website and increasing pagerank for your site is to get your site linked on other sites.

2 common ways of doing so are:

(A) Registering with a forum (preferably about a topic related to your website) and creating a link to your site in your signature. This way, everytime that you post on the forum a link is generated to your site.

(B) Commenting of other peoples blogs.

There has been a huge increase in the spamming of forums and blogs and one way that webmasters are trying to stop this is by adding a "no follow" value to any external links placed on their sites. This value tells the search engine spiders not to follow the link you place on a site. This means that you do not gain any page rank or value from the link (although you may get a little traffic from users who choose to click on the link)

Note: There is not a value called "do follow". However the term "do follow" is commonly used to describe a link that does NOT have a "no follow" value.

It is my opinion that if blog comments and forum signatures are properly moderated then there is no need to use "no follow" values. (www.boards.ie is an example of an excellently moderated and managed forum - check it out)

One way of checking whether a site is "no follow" is to view the source code. However this can be time consuming and tedious. If you are actively seeking forums and blogs where links are "do follow" I advise that you install the firefox add-on called "Nodo Follow"

This small add on can be easily activated by right clicking on a webpage and choosing "NodoFollow" No follow and do follow links are identified using different colours.

This tool is an excellent way of quickly finding out whether you can gain some link juice from a high PR site. Enjoy :)

Please Note: When posting on forums and blogs to place your link, please engage with the topic in hand and add to the topic. Spam sucks.


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