Do Follow blogs are those that allow the readers to write their comments on them. As against them, there are No Follow blogs that prevent the placement of comments.

While some blog sites allow the readers to offer their comments irrespective of their quality, there are others such as WordPress that do not allow that. This is done by appending HTML attributes called ‘Do Follow” or “No Follow” to the blogs according to their policies.

How to identify the “Do Follow” blogs?

If you want to make creative, informative and useful comments on a blog, there is a simple way to identify the “Do follow” blogs.

Just hit on the View button on the browser page of the blog post and click on the ‘source’ from the drop down menu. It will open up the source code of the blog post. Then you can use the Search or Find function to see if it has rel=’external’ term near any comment. If you find one, it is a Do Follow blog. If you find the term rel=’external nofollow’ or rel=’nofollow’, it means you cannot make any comments.

Advantages of Do Follow Blogs

There are several advantages of Do Follow blogs. When you write unique, informative and useful content in a blog, it tends to inspire admiration or disagreement in the readers who are usually impelled to express their opinions by commenting upon it.

They may make some references to other relevant content either in their own blogs or in the blogs of others by providing links for further reading. This is how it should be. This is one way to widen the area of knowledge or discussion on the subject of the blog.

Another advantage lies in the optimization of the blog from the search engine’s perspective. The comments create back links for the commentators’ blogs. This kind of inter-commenting builds up an interactive community of bloggers on a particular niche or subject and a network of connecting links that are helpful for all the participants.

Unfortunately this kind of commenting has degenerated into a kind of spamming for promoting the websites for search engine optimization. The readers of the blog, instead of making any creative and useful comments, just add some inane words followed by links to their own blogs. This may be called artificial link building.

Some webmasters have developed software that can find out the blogs of your niche. All you need to do is to fill up the search bar with the niche words or phrase and you get a list of blogs in your niche.  Some software even provide comment templates which can be filled up in the comment areas to get the back links for SEO purpose.

While the “No Follow” attribute prevents needless seoing of useless content or spamming, it also prevents the publication of genuine and creative comments. Some adventurous souls have found plugins to circumvent even WordPress HTML commands for No Follow.

What is needed, therefore, is that instead of installing No Follow attributes, the blogger community should encourage its members to desist from spamming and contributing only   informative and useful content in their comments.

At the same time, the robots of the search engines, too, have become more sensitive to link harvesting and blacklist the sites whose webmasters resort to such unhealthy practice of link building.

It is evident that quality backlinks are a key factor to the success of SEO. A more important question that now arises is what best you can do to get backlinks while avoiding getting into problems with search engines.

The purpose of having backlinks as an element of page rank algorithm is that people will want to link to pages that have quality content. The more the number of backlinks a site has, the better it is. However, practically speaking, you cannot be relying on the fact that your website content is of high quality and therefore people will link to it.

No doubt if your site has the most relevant and high quality content, you can get many quality backlinks including from websites that contain themes similar to yours. Nonetheless, getting such inbound links may not always be easy and require a lot of efforts, therefore, you may want to look out for other ways to get quality backlinks.

Ways to Build Your Backlinks
Even if you manage to get lots of backlinks in a natural way, it is never a bad idea to welcome additional quality inbound links. There are several ways for acquiring backlinks which may be ethical while other ways may be illegitimate and unacceptable and can lead to your site being penalized in the long run. The legitimate ways of getting backlinks include directory submissions, forum posting, linking to other blogs, press releases, etc. Among the unacceptable ways are linking to link farms, buying links in large quantities, getting linked to websites hosting illegal content, linking to other websites that belong to the same person, etc.

To start building backlinks, the first step would be to identify sites from where you can acquire quality backlinks. This can be done with the help of Backlink Builder tool which generates a list of websites on entering keywords. Once you get the list of potential sites where you can post messages, articles, or backlinks to your website, the choice is up to you to visit these sites and start posting your content along with an inbound link to your website in it.

You may have a question about how websites generated by the backink building tool can provide backlinks free of cost. The answer to your question simply lies in the fact that such sites need content for their site. With you posting and feeding them with content without getting paid for it, helps you to get free quality backlinks in return from them. It is like free trading where you offer something required by others for free and get what you want for free. However, this free trading lasts as long as you post your content to sites that are respected and also as long as you do not end up posting fake content.

Below are some of the most successful methods that can be used to build backlinks.

Directory Submission
Getting your site listed in various directories is one of the basic steps that you should start with in your efforts to build backlinks. It may be unlikely to get any significant traffic through directories; however, the idea here is to get backlinks to improve your page ranking.

There are several directories to which your site can be submitted. These can range from general directories, blog directories, SEO friendly directories to non-reciprocal directories (directories that allow you to list your website in their directory even if you do not link back to them). Additionally, it is important that you submit your site to only those directories that have a high page rank.

It is also important to know that listing a site in directories is a time consuming process as it requires you to first find out quality directories to which you want to submit your site. Once this is done, you have to search through the categories and sub categories in these directories to find out the specific category to which your website belongs. Therefore, keeping the time constraint in mind, it is a good idea to hire a professional SEO company that provides directory submission services so that you can save time and concentrate your efforts and resources on your other core business functions.

Forum or Blog Posting and Article Directories
Forum posting and Blog posting is another way of getting quality backlinks to your site because search engines usually index forums as well. Getting backlinks from blogs or forums that are reputed can be very helpful. However, at times there could be a possibility of your post being edited or deleted by the forum administrator if they find that your posting does not adhere to the forum policy. Moreover, there may be times when the administrators may not allow any links in posts until they are totally relevant.

While posting in forums and blogs can be done faster and require lesser efforts, submission of articles to various directories can take a very long time since articles are longer when compared to posts and also involve a though process to write them. However, it would still be worth the time and effort in the long run.

Press Releases and News Announcements
Though this is not a day to day practice to build quality backlinks, it does fetch good results if done the right way. There are several websites out there which publish press releases or news announcements free of cost or may charge a fee. A press release that is well written can boost visitor traffic to your site and also a backlink from a reputed site to your site is a value addition to your entire SEO efforts. However, a press release can be used as a medium only if there is something newsworthy. That is the reason why press releases and news announcements do not factor in as a daily way to build backlinks.

Content Exchange
Content exchange can also be very helpful in getting you quality backlinks. For example, you can provide free RSS feeds to websites that are interested in them. When your RSS feed gets published by the other site, you will get an inbound link to your website. This will also drive a lot of visitor traffic that will visit your website to get more details on the headlines and abstract they read on this other site.

Creating Quality Content
Creating professional and quality content is also very important to get more backlinks to your site. This is because content that is well written is always noticeable and there would be more number of people who would want to link to it.

Leaving Comments
To create awareness and get visibility for your site, you can also leave comments on others blogs. Leaving comments that are appealing to read will always have a good chance of drawing the attention of more people to your site.

Practices to Avoid While Building Backlinks
There are several ways in which links can be built, however, it is important to realize that certain link building ways can ruin your SEO efforts. One such practice to avoid is link exchange, wherein, when you place a link on another website, that website in return will place a backlink to your website. There are a few things to be considered with this concept of link exchanging. First is the ratio between inbound and outbound links. Having more outbound links than inbound links is not good. Second, there could be a possibility of your link partner being a link farm. In this case, your site can get penalized or banned by search engines as link farms are considered as unethical SEO practice.

Additionally, you must also be careful about linking to sites that are suspicious or host illegal content. Though search engines will not penalize you for having backlinks from such websites, since you do not have control over what they link to, linking with such sites can ruin your SEO efforts.

What to do to succeed in the internet business

 

Every blogger or webmaster knows that the first obstacle to earn money from a blog or website is to drive enough traffic that become into adsense earnings.

I am going to show you the right way to build that traffic needed to succed in the internet business.

I am not going to talk about ads placement or high paying keywords, this is about key strategies to start and keep the cash flowing from your adsense account.

 

 

“Work is the master key that opens the door to all opportunities”

 

Hard work!!! First of all you have to realize that nothing is for free in this life, you have to do a lot of hard work before you can see serious earnings from your blog.

Many people like to hear about those stories where the bloger start posting and then “pop” out of nowhere the traffic came out and a few weeks later the bloger is earning a five figure income from adsense. Yeah…right…  Come on! This happens one in a million!

 

Ok, there is one this I definitely agree, we all wanted to this happen to our blog or website, but lets be realistic, if you don’t put hard work before, you will never see a constant big income from your site.

 

In this knol I´m going to show you the right way to have a great income from a blog.

 

“Content is King”

 

I´m sure you’ve heard this before, Content is King. Your website or blog needs good unique quality content to show the world that is worth to take a look into it.

 

Again, work hard. To build good unique quality content you have to add new posts, articles or pages to our site every single day. The more content you add to your site the more chances that your site appears on the web. So don’t settle, keep working, keep adding content every day and someday, not far from today, you will see the results.

 

“Influence the Influencers”

 

There are some Big Fish in the business, always in every niche. You have to identify who these Big Fish are and make them to influence others that your site has great content about your niche and is worth the visit.  For example, if your site is a travel related site, find top travel forums and blogs and look for the top reviewers and influence them to write a good review about your site. By doing this, the people who read their reviews will visit your site and you will have targeted traffic that are more likely to click your adsense ads.

 

Post comments on blogs, give your valuable opinion in related forums, Influence the Influencers!!!

 

“Most things still remain to be done”

 

The internet has change a lot from its release to these days. This is a constant change business, so you have to take advance of what is happening today. In the internet business not all has been said and done, today is facebook, twitter and google, but tomorrow I’m sure there will be a lot of new players. Take advance every day of the top players in the business.

 

Everybody knows that social bookmarking sites are very popular today, so you have to take advance of these sites to promote yours. You have to bookmark on these sites every single post or page you add to your site or blog.

By doing this your site will have big exposure, back links references in the internet and people interest in your niche will visit your site. Think about this for a moment, thousands of people visits this sites they are probably interest in your site’s niche. Here are some popular sites:

 

 

Myweb.yahoo.com

Google.com/Bookmarks

Myspace.com

Facebook.com

Blogger.com

Multiply.com

Digg.com

Myjeeves.ask.com

Stumbleupon.com

Del.icio.us

Technorati.com

Twitter.com

Squidoo.com

Reddit.com

Slashdot.org

Propeller.com

Fark.com

Tumblr.com

Blinklist.com

Indianpad.com

Furl.net

Newsvine.com

Mixx.com

Dzone.com

Swik.net

Ma.gnolia.com

Simpy.com

Shoutwire.com

Megite.com/discover/

Blinkbits.com

Thisnext.com

Mister-wong.com

Netvouz.com

Diigo.com

Spurl.net

Corank.com

 

“Patience Pays”

 

As I mentioned before, those stories where a site receive thousands of unique visitors from one day to another are fantastic but they aren’t the reality.

 

If you really want to have success with your website or blog you must be patient. Search engines take time to index a new website and domain. They need time to index all of your new content.

In the meantime keep adding good quality content yo your website.

 

Remember, Don’t settle and keep working hard.

It hardly needs to be mentioned that you succeed or fail in your marketing by the amount of trust you generate among your target audience in your brand name. A slight chink in the trust may tell adversely on your reputation as an honest businessman and your sales will start falling immediately.

Another reason for a fall in your reputation may be the smear campaign launched by your competitors against you. They may tarnish your name and your business without any valid reason or fault on your part.

This kind of injustice is a common phenomenon in the internet marketing. Your competitor writes just one article against you and submits it to hundreds of directories.

Alternately, your adversary sponsors AdWords ads against your site on the first page of some popular search engine. The ad may be somewhat like this: Be Careful Of This Fraud (keyword). This is sufficient to annul years of hard work put in by you to bring your business to its present level.

Taking steps to maintain and further boost your reputation as an honest businessman in such circumstances is called online reputation management.

One way to persuade your competitor is to request him politely to remove the offending comments and then threaten him with legal action if he still persists. If this tactic also fails, it would be better to fight him out at his own ground, that is, by playing the SEO game with him.

You can try to push the page/site with offensive comments to the second results page of search engine, for example, Google.  This can be achieved through several steps;

1. Push other sites that have lower rank than your competitor’s site above it on the Google research page. Assuming the site with the negative comments against you ranks fourth on Google page, you should try to boost the rank of the sites below it to supersede it to a higher rank.

You can do so by applying SEO techniques. You can, for example, add favorable comments on this site. Book mark it in as many social media sites such as Technocrati, Digg, Delicious etc as possible. You may even write positive reviews about it on the home page of your site by placing links at suitable places.

2. Ask someone you know who commands authority for his site to write a good review for your site and publish the same on your home page saying: What others are saying about us.

3. Create new content and syndicate it through articles, blogs, newsletters, etc for seoing your own site. You may also submit the content for syndication through RSS feeds. In this way you can indirectly persuade the audience to ignore the comments against your site.

4. Create new sub-domains or sister domains of your site. Google often considers the sub-domains as different sites, but they command the same authority as the primary domain. Post preferably new content on the sub-domain site. You need not fill it with hundreds of pages. Just 10-12 pages should suffice.

Reputation management basically involves delivering (sometimes over-delivering) what you promise in terms of quality and quantity. Once this trust is built up, it is difficult for your adversaries to shake it.

The internet is surely a wonderful media to enahance customer base around the globe. A majority of the websites are trying to grab attention and get real people to their web site, but with the assistance of tried and tested formulas you can increase the possibility to leave behind your rivals. With tools like Search Engine Optimization and SEO content you can enhance the traffic you get. Most search engines carry unique protocols with which they allot rank to the different websites for keywords. A very significant element is the content on the internet site, if your internet site has noteworthy and fresh unique content there are higher chances that the web page will get greater readers. In fact for each bit of marketing message that you would position any where on the internet you have to be sure that the article has good quality unique content. Such an approach and you’ll be able to build up effective stuff to help your site place on top. All SEO articles will become extremely functional incoming connects for your web site and may help you with the search engine placings. Many of the article domains carry valuable web page ranks which well be a special matter for your website. Also do consider the choice of relegatting content to news publishing web pages, these web pages are well viewed and can push a good amount of viewers to your web site. When submitting SEO content or writing SEO articles be particular that you must push ahead the key words and use them in important locations. Ensure that the key words you apply are bold, secondly seek to see that you use search terms in various tags, alt tags and image tags as well. Moreover the function of keywords in the web link can also make the procedure very efficient and will help you get efficient rating for the important words you need. The thriving windup of a peculiar web promotion plan will also depend on the form of web content that you’ve produced. While effective search engine frinedly articles that will be of high relevance to the viwers as well as the search spiders can gain your project fame, poor SEO articles will put you into a problem. Therefore enjoy the glory by utilizing the good concepts aptly!

The internet is surely a wonderful media to enahance customer base around the globe. A majority of the websites are trying to grab attention and get real people to their web site, but with the assistance of tried and tested formulas you can increase the possibility to leave behind your rivals. With tools like Search Engine Optimization and SEO content you can enhance the traffic you get.

Most search engines carry unique protocols with which they allot rank to the different websites for keywords. A very significant element is the content on the internet site, if your internet site has noteworthy and fresh unique content there are higher chances that the web page will get greater readers. In fact for each bit of marketing message that you would position any where on the internet you have to be sure that the article has good quality unique content. Such an approach and you’ll be able to build up effective stuff to help your site place on top.

All SEO articles will become extremely functional incoming connects for your web site and may help you with the search engine placings. Many of the article domains carry valuable web page ranks which well be a special matter for your website. Also do consider the choice of relegatting content to news publishing web pages, these web pages are well viewed and can push a good amount of viewers to your web site.

When submitting SEO content or writing SEO articles be particular that you must push ahead the key words and use them in important locations. Ensure that the key words you apply are bold, secondly seek to see that you use search terms in various tags, alt tags and image tags as well. Moreover the function of keywords in the web link can also make the procedure very efficient and will help you get efficient rating for the important words you need.

The thriving windup of a peculiar web promotion plan will also depend on the form of web content that you’ve produced. While effective search engine frinedly articles that will be of high relevance to the viwers as well as the search spiders can gain your project fame, poor SEO articles will put you into a problem. Therefore enjoy the glory by utilizing the good concepts aptly!