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DoFollow Blogs

Many people expect any blog they comment to give them a high-pr back link. The truth is, not all blogs have DoFollow activated, and that means that the link back won’t do anything for your page rank. You can find a directory of blogs that have DoFollow enabled Here. As long as the blog you’re posting on has DoFollow enabled, your link will be tracked by google, and will help to boost your SEO ratings.

There is a mozilla firefox plugin called Searchstatus which allows you to see if a blog is ‘dofollow‘ or ‘nofollow‘. The search status plugin shows much more than just if the blog you’re reading is ‘dofollow’ or ‘nofollow’. The plugin also shows the pagerank, meta tags, link status, whois, and other stuff.

The most important feature of Search Status, is that it highlights the nofollow links in light bright pink. If the blog is DoFollow, the links won’t be highlighted.

I always leave my plugin on, because if I find any blogs that have Dofollow turned on, I can leave a comment and get a useful backlink or two. Most popular blogs have DoFollow enabled because they’ve realized the importance to other bloggers.

To Make Your Blog DoFollow:

Making your blog a DoFollow blog is probably the easiest thing you could do on your blog. All you have to do is go to semiologic and download the plugin. Once you have it downloaded you just upload it to your blog like any other and activate it from the admin control panel.

Now your links will be worth something to other bloggers!

In case anyone was wondering, I have DoFollow enabled as well.

Tags: backlinks, blog, blogging, building, dofollow, links, pagerank, PR, seo

Search Engine Traffic ~Trendy~

Ok, so my last post was basically just a test for methods of bringing in search engine traffic. I read off of some blog, that if you post about things that are being searched for a lot, you’ll get more hits. Which is actually pretty obvious if you think about it for a second.

You can go to site’s like google.com/trends and find one of the top searched terms on google for the day. After you find the top searched term, you do a bit of research about what you’ll be writing about (which takes maybe 10 minutes). Then you whip up a quick post and call it quits for the day. Searching for popular terms can usually bring you to something really easy to write about. After all, its popular for a reason right? Most likely, you’re already going to know about what you’re writing about. Maybe the horrible earthquake in China, with 900 students trapped in the rubble of a school. Or News on Yahoo turning down Microsoft, and Microsoft eventually giving up.

What your writing on will always depend on the niche of your blog though. If own a site/blog that has content on breakfast cereals, you aren’t going to want to suddenly create an article on how Britney Spears Vagina was got on camera when she got out of her car. (sorry for that reference, it was the only thing that came to mind at the moment).

Anyways, My previous post was about American Idol, clearly.. or not clearly. My blog is not about American Idol, so I’m not going to pull in a bunch of traffic from the post, and it was by no means an act of SEO genius. Alas, being the writer of a blog that just blogs about everything, I could care less what kind of genius I was showing when I made that post a few moments ago. But it spurred my mind into creating this maybe-useful guide on trendy posting.

With that tongue twister of a good-read, good as I would classify it. I do say, good night.

Good Night

Tags: adsense, american, blogging, idol, money, search, seo, terms, trendy