What is “Do Follow”?
Do Follow is an action or a step a blogger initiates to remove the attribute rel=”nofollow” in its blog codes, either by installing a plug-in: WordPress plugin or this WordPress plugin, or manually for blogspot and for movable type. Most bloggers would refer to it as a campaign or a movement against rel=”nofollow”. The earliest initiator of the campaign is traced to Randa Clay who on her blog posted the now popular “U Comment, I Follow” design free for all to copy and place on their own blogs as long as the blog advocates Do Follow as well. (This site encourages submission of earlier campaigns to give proper and due credit.)
What is rel=”nofollow”?
rel=”nofollow” is a tag Google, Inc. formulated to prevent comment spams from being crawled by its search engine and is later on supported by other major search engines like Yahoo! and MSN search.
How does rel=”nofollow” work?
When a spammer leaves an unwanted comment on one’s blog like “Win an Apple I-pod”, “Get your free vacation packages now” or “Do you want to win 1 million dollars?” with a link to a website, the <rel=”nofollow”> tag ignores such link so that everytime a search engine updates its search ranking, that link is not included for relevance of a page. It is meant to punish spammers and hopes to deter abuse in posting unsolicited links to blog comments and any websites that accepts comments or trackbacks like guestbooks, visitor stats or referrer lists. © 2007
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January 26th, 2008 at 5:08 am
Great post. Thanks for info.
June 2nd, 2008 at 1:50 pm
Good post for newbies and every “follow” link you can get that is related to your niche does help.
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January 1st, 2009 at 10:51 pm
I too have recently removed the nofollow tags from my blog.
I’ve also modified Randa Clay’s original badge design for a 88*32 size. You can get the html code for the smaller badge at:
http://companiesactingbadly.blogspot.com/2009/01/you-comment-i-follow.html
February 13th, 2009 at 1:27 am
There are many uses for the rel=nofollow. There is nothing wrong with allowing a link to follow from your site. But if you have a common dynamic sidebar that houses your links, you might want to put a no follow in those. Not only will the multi-links not benefit you, they could hurt you in the search rankings.
February 14th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Nice, I think it could be interesting to add some more entries following this one, and probably it’s not only me having this opinion. Cheers!
April 21st, 2009 at 2:59 pm
Excellent article on describing what do follow is. I agree with Maddy Loftus though, and i also think there should be some more entries following this. I like the idea of having nofollow in links as it can be useful at times, but I can see why some people would want to remove it from their links on blogs etc.
April 23rd, 2009 at 3:39 am
Great post. Dofollow is important to get traffic to website or blog. It helps it to be placed at good SERPs.
July 17th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
now i know what do follow is.
but, i have such question like as i used the free blog right now, do i have to change my blog to pay developer ?
thank you for the answer.
best regards.
October 23rd, 2009 at 4:07 am
Dofollow blog are useful for getting quality link ALSO increase the traffic on your website.forum are also another option for getting link .nice posting…
October 30th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Very nice insight on what dofollow is-and especaillly for noobs thnx.
Precautions-While Making Backlinks
November 21st, 2009 at 5:04 pm
now, ikonow do follow. i know that do follow is very important for traffic. made the bloggers happy with trafficks and backlink
April 27th, 2010 at 4:04 pm
Just a historical note
Randa didn’t start things off, things started back in 2005 when it was introduced.
Logos were already available before Randa created her own.
NoNofollow.net provides a good Wiki resource
http://blog.blogsthatfollow.com/2007/12/what-is-do-follow/
No-Nofollow.net provides a german resource that might have some translated material from the first
I started posting on a regular basis about dofollow in Nov 2006
http://andybeard.eu/119/no-nofollow-no-nofollowcom.html
It is quite possible that real momentum started with my list of nofollow and dofollow plugins but I had already through my readers and their readers converted quite a few.
That is February 17th
http://andybeard.eu/434/ultimate-list-of-dofollow-plugins-banish-nofollow-from-comments-and-trackbacks.html
Randa & Colleen junped on the idea around the same time, Colleen had a lot of friends on the PayPerPost forums, and many of those were also my readers and had switched already.
http://geekyspeaky.com/do-follow-the-d-list/comment-page-1/#comments
Randa’s post came out Apr 11, 2007 but I am fairly sure the ideas to create lists were unconnected.
If anything, Colleen’s idea was the most viral of the 2 in many ways, Randa’s was kicked off by her leaving lots of comments on existing dofollow posts.
Teli was writing about removing Dofollow well before I had my current domain.
http://www.optiniche.com/blog/155/removing-the-nofollow-tag-in-wordpress-20/
My first dofollow blog was sometime in 2005 around the time nofollow was first introduced.
March 29th, 2011 at 6:14 am
I was searching on google for some info on this subject. well explained! thanks!