DoFollow Lists of Blogs, Social Networking Sites and Forums; DoFollow Search Tool; Understanding Do Follow, No Follow

January 13, 2009 · 851 comments

UPDATED Sep 24, 2011

A DoFollow site is one that allows the search engines to follow a link from their site to yours. This increases the number of incoming links to your site, increases the likelihood that someone will locate you when searching, and improves your site’s position in the search engines. We all have a limited amount of time so why not make it count?

Focus your NEW community building in blogs that believe in dofollow! Read about How KeywordLuv Benefits us All

  • DoFollow blogs are more likely to have really active and loyal communities and commentators
  • Bloggers who believe in Do Follow are far more likely to visit and comment in YOUR blog
  • They have a positive effect on your blog’s position in search engines like Google

Do remember to maintain your involvement in any active communities you’re already visiting and keep an eye out for quality blogs and visit them even if they are not DoFollow. Then use the DoFollow Tools linked below to find new places to participate.

The use of DoFollow and plugins like CommentLuv, KeywordLuv, Lucia’s Linky Love (anyone have a link that works or know if the Lucia’s Linky Luv plugin still works?) and others is growing so spend some time and select blogs that you will really benefit from interacting with because the content they offer adds value to what you do. Implement plugins that encourage conversations.

WARNING: Some blogs that Use CommentLuv and/or KeywordLuv are No Follow. We use the Highlight NoFollow links function in the  SEOBook Toolbar to verify them. We also recommend adding your dofollow sites to and and using this Verify Dofollow service.

Some blogs do revert to no follow because it does take a little more time to manage SPAM. The lists below will contain some blogs that are not still DoFollow but they are still valuable for locating blogs. You can usually use the SEOBook SEO Toolbar to instantly see whether comment links in a blog are dofollow or nofollow. (Some sites do block this function).

Or use the DoFollow Blog Search Engine to quickly determine if blogs are really Do Follow. You can also use that tool directly to search by keyword. It returns only those blogs that are confirmed to be Do Follow at the time of your search.

[NOTE: Updated 01/23/10 - All links last UPDATED Aug 26, 2009 - please leave comments if any fail and we will update them.]

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HOW TO USE SEARCH ENGINES TO FIND DO FOLLOW BLOGS:

  • NEW: AbinfoTech: How to Search for DoFollow Blogs

DOFOLLOW SEARCH TOOLS:

LISTS OF DOFOLLOW, COMMENTLUV AND KEYWORDLUV BLOGS

What makes this new DoFollow Blog Directory special? Unlike most other blog directories, this one includes ways to look for DoFollow blogs with certain features such as Comment Luv, Top Commentator, keywords allowed and Keyword Luv.

If you are a DoFollow blog owner: please go by and submit your link to the DoFollow blog directory. In addition to listing the above features, you can also list your blog as not allowing keywords and DoFollow links only happen after a set number of comments.

Also, don’t miss the DoFollow blog, which covers everything you need to know about DoFollow.

DOFOLLOW SOCIAL MEDIA COMMUNITIES and SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES:

DOFOLLOW SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKS:

DOFOLLOW FORUMS:

DO FOLLOW ARTICLE DIRECTORIES:

FREE .EDU BLOG FINDER:

HIGH QUALITY RECIPROCAL LINKS:

DOFOLLOW PLUGINS:

  • Andy Beard’s Ultimate List of DoFollow and NoFollow Plugins – Includes directions on how to remove nofollow from popular blogging platforms including Blogger, Blogspot, Movable Type, Typepad and WordPress. Also how to install nofollow on these plus Drupal.

FREE ONLINE TOOLS: KEYWORD, BACKLINK, NICHE FINDERS

  • Free Online Tools: Keyword, Backlink, Niche Finders
  • SEOBook SEOToolbar – can verify dofollow or nofollow status in one click on many sites (some blogs do block this ability)

UNDERSTANDING DOFOLLOW and NOFOLLOW:

COMMENTING STRATEGIES FOR BACKLINKS:

If you know of other related tools, posts or lists please leave links to them in the comments. Periodically we will move them up into the body of this post.

The list below is of DoFollow Blogs where I manage the comments.

I approve more comments to support small businesses, good causes and bloggers than most bloggers so being active in our blogs is to your benefit. They are all 100% dofollow from the first comment and have both CommentLuv and KeywordLuv installed:

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Subnet calculator January 20, 2012 at 5:35 am

Thank you, now I understand what the difference between do and no-follow.

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January 19, 2012 at 10:57 pm

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this is a great compilation of dofollows..very effective for any link building plan

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David who writes about best mobile phone deal, best January 1, 2012 at 9:45 am

This is a very interesting site, dealing with a complex area.
I am trying to read and digest it all, so as to promote my own blog/website.
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Reiner
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December 23, 2011 at 11:57 pm

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Thanks for the interesting content here so a lot of good information and links, I have to come back.
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December 13, 2011 at 4:58 pm

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I am finding a lot of non spam interaction on ‘dofollow’ blogs. However, I would like to see a block feature for spammers.

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December 11, 2011 at 11:55 pm

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i love dofollow directories..it’s like a treasure box that are full of commentluv/keywordluv goodies

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Hi there,

DoFollow blogs are more likely to have really active and loyal communities and commentators.

Thanks,
Maria.
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vince who writes about webdesign November 17, 2011 at 8:37 am

Dofollow links may be a good idea for a blog, but what would you do with spammers (like me now :) ) who post there message just to post it (not like me though). So, can one make a dofollow blog but not spend too much time on moderation in order to get rid of spammers.

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growmap
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November 17, 2011 at 3:37 pm

Twitter: @GrowMap

Hi Vince,

I do my best to convert spammers to blog readers who leave valuable comments so that they benefit both the blogger and their blog, site or business.
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alan November 16, 2011 at 5:44 am

thanx for sharing the list
its time for making some backlinks!!!
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Alan | Life's Too Good
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November 12, 2011 at 4:15 pm

Twitter: @LTGMonkey

Wow thank you so much for putting together such a great article so packed with resources.

I have one curiosity about dofollow that I haven’t been able to answer yet – somebody on Ana Hofmans (great) blog said something like ‘I don’t mind giving away some link juice to someone who comments on my site’ which to me implies that by making your site dofollow you are therefore ‘losing’ some link juice (whatever link juice is).

Does it basically mean when your site is being crawled that the crawler leaves your site and goes off somewhere else? Sorry for the naiivete of the question but I am a little confused by it.

I love the idea of sharing, have ccommentluv (which I really like) and always give credit where cerdit is due but our site is very new and I’m trying to build ranking and traffic, I’m considering making it dofollow (though I don’t acctually know how yet) but I’m also worried that if I do so it may slow my own progress in terms of rankings/traffic (or how much ‘juice’ I get??)

Not sure if that’s an easy one to answer but I’m goiing to take a look bacck over this article a few times when I have a little more time (you have crammed it so paccked with info it will take me a while!!)

p.s. one thing we do focus on on our site is really great quality content which I heard is the main thing for ranking now these days anyway, right?

many thanks for your help & best wishes,
Alan
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growmap
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November 13, 2011 at 1:21 am

Twitter: @GrowMap

Hi Alan and welcome to GrowMap,

When people talk about link juice they are referring to Google PageRank and the theory that the amount of “juice” a particular page has is divided among the outgoing links on that page so the more dofollow links there are the less “juice” that page keeps and each other link gets.

I am not certain that anyone REALLY knows for sure exactly how PageRank is calculated and it could change at any time so even if you devised a way to test it the results might not be true for long; however, there are many who believe they know:

How is PageRank calculated

Google page ranking algorithm

Because Google has a monopoly on search many obsess over search engine traffic but focusing on that is going to lead to a dead end as they first send less targeted traffic and then less and less traffic.

It is much wiser to focus on real people instead and to use links for their original purpose: an easy way to get to additional information. Bloggers who collaborate provide an alternate path for visitors and there are separate communities of bloggers that exist primarily because of a difference in ethical positions.

You can see what I mean by that in my post on Blogging Ethics.
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Alan | Life's Too Good
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November 13, 2011 at 9:33 am

Twitter: @LTGMonkey

Thanks for the response, I figured it’s a bit like that – i.e. something that a lot of people comment on (pardon the pun) but no-one really knows.

Whenever people talk about ‘tactics’ for traffic that always seems like a bad approach anyway. The fact that Google are so good at what they do kind of dictates to me that the best way is to simply write good comments and make everything genuine including the links in your articles. That’s what I feel most comfortable with in any case!

Doesn’t stop me trying to learn what everyone is on about with these various terms (link juice, outgoing, ingoing, shake it all about going, on page, off page, backlinks, one-way, do-follow, no-follow, keywords, meta data, long tail keywords…) all of these were completely alien to me not so long ago but I’m getting there – thanks for helping me to understand one more term in your alien language ;-)

Alan
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debt settlement companies November 10, 2011 at 11:46 pm

I have started using commentluv to so some link building and web seo. With no previous experience I have had great results. We done to blogs using keywordluv / commetluv as it rewards bloggers for their hard work.

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Dave Steffens who writes about Dating Advice
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October 30, 2011 at 2:29 am

Twitter: @dave_steffens

Look it’s not like links from blog commenting will ever be rated as highly as say links seeded into article content. That said, blog commenting does provide a great way to improve your sites exposure over time.

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Chris Lee who writes about Income Tax Prep Fillmore October 28, 2011 at 2:55 pm

I have been submitting comments on blogs to increase my SEO juice
Live in the big City

Chris
Owner
CEL Financial Service

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yazmin who writes about scrap car london October 26, 2011 at 9:38 am

I swear by kewordluv it have made a huge differance to my rankings!

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I have started using commentluv to so some link building and web seo. With no previous experiance I have had great results. We done to blogs using keywordluv / commetluv as it rewards bloggers for their hard work.

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Ruby October 18, 2011 at 6:35 am

All of you so rejoice to sites dofollow/And whether costs? More truly to you foreign ??? to masters it is good. And you try to find sites with dofollow in the Russian Internet! Yes… The Russian Internet just as a germ! There is at us nothing good! And not soon will appear!

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October 17, 2011 at 8:27 pm

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Commenting on sites with DoFollow links are indeed very helpful to our site’s ranking. This is also another way of gaining more traffic. By the way, thanks for sharing the above information. I really found this very helpful.

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