One Way Link Building

One of the holy grail’s of online marketing and SEO is getting good incoming links to your site.  Ideally links that don’t require a link back; also known as one way links.

But, as more and more people get familiar with, and use, the nofollow tag, these quality incoming links are getting harder and harder to come by.

Let me explain.  A few years ago Google endorsed the “nofollow” tag within your links.  This meant that any link you had on your website or blog that you didn’t want Google to follow, if you simply placed the rel=”nofollow” parameter within your link tag, Google would not follow that link to its destination page.

You might wonder why a website owner would choose to do something like this.

Well, there’s a few reasons:

1. The web page that the nofollow link is located on may not want to pass link juice.  For example, if a web page has a PageRank of 6 every link located on that page gets a piece of that PageRank passed on to it and the web page owner might not want to give all links on that page a portion of its link juice instead choosing to keep all or most of the link juice for themselves.
2. The web page may have affiliate links on the page that they don’t want search engines following.  If a search engine sees that you are linking out to lots of affiliate sites, they may devalue your page.  Therefore, by using the nofollow parameter, these links don’t get followed back to the affiliate’s page.

However, there are still people online who don’t use the nofollow tag in their links.  Whether this is by design or simply not knowing any better and it’s these pages that you want to locate so that you can get a true incoming link to your site.

That being said, here’s how to find sites that do follow your link.

It’s important to note here that if you find a blog related to your site’s content that you’d like to leave a comment on, be sure that the comment holds some value.  Don’t simply post a non-sensical message just for the sake of getting a link back to your site.

Here are some dofollow blog directories that list blogs that all follow your link:

• DoFollowBlogs – http://www.dofollowblogs.com
• FollowList – http://www.followlist.com
• DoFollowDirectory – http://www.dofollowdir.com
• DoFollow Blog Directory – http://www.bigfootwebmarketing.com/dofollow/
• DoFollow – http://www.dofollow.us

And if you’re looking for a list of blogs aside from a directory that do follow, check out these resources:

• WhyDoWork.com – http://www.whydowork.com/blog/blogging-tips/558/
• BumpZee – http://www.bumpzee.com/no-nofollow/blogs/

Lastly, there are many blogs who have downloaded and used the CommentLuv Wordpress plugin.  What this means is that these people who are using this plugin have specifically chosen to follow links posted on their blog.

This source gives you a comprehensive list of blogs that are all using the CommentLuv Wordpress plugin.

And if you’re curious how you too can add the CommentLuv plugin to your Wordpress blog, visit http://www.fiddyp.co.uk/commentluv-wordpress-plugin.

And lastly, if you want to be sure that a blog or site is still following links, you’ll want to download a Firefox plugin that will highlight all of the nofollow links on a page.  This allows you to see at a glance which sites are following and which ones aren’t.  I created a video a while back to show you how this works.

Don’t be shy!  Do you know of more resources that list blogs or sites that do follow?  Let us know by commenting below.

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