I’ve been using a plugin called Do Follow on my blogs for months. You may not know that when you leave a comment on a WordPress blog, a “no follow” tag is automatically inserted so that the link is NOT spidered by search engines. I know a lot of people out there love to leave comments in hopes of increasing backlinks, but you’re spinning your wheels if you’re doing it on blogs that aren’t using Do Follow yet.

When you add a Do Follow plugin (there are few different ones to choose from!) to your site, it strips the nofollow attribute from your comments, so you’re giving link love to each person who comments on your site. Since I moderate my comments and don’t allow dirty spammers to get through, this is a neat way to thank people for commenting on your blog, by giving them some extra exposure for their links.

To make it easier for all of YOU to find blogs that are using Do Follow, I’m officially starting the “D List“. Not only can you visit the blogs on this list, leave a comment, and get a REAL link back to your site (because they’re all using Do Follow), you’ll increase links to your blog by adding your blog to the D list. I believe Michael Scott would call that “Win – Win – Win”.

(Note: Any blog using any Do Follow is welcome – not just the one I linked above!)

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1. Write a short paragraph at the beginning of your post and link back to the blog that put you on the list in the paragraph. This isn’t a suggestion. You need to break up the duplicate content. Someone took the time to add you so the least you can do is give them an extra link back.

2. Copy the list of originals below COMPLETELY and add it to your blog. If you would like a different keyword for your blog then change it when you do your post and it should pass to most blogs with that keyword.

3. Take the adds from the blog that added you and place them in the “Originals” list.

4. Add at least 1 new blog that you KNOW is using the DO FOLLOW plugin to the list in the “My Adds” section. (Add no more than 5!) Let the people you’ve added know, so that they can keep the list going! (Link all the blogs in your post too!)

5. Leave relevant comments on the blogs listed and get a link back to your site thanks to Do Follow!

My Adds:

Midlife Musings
Utterly Geek
Whatever I Feel Like
My Dandelion Patch
Surviving NJ

The Originals:

GeekySpeaky
Simple Kind Of Life
3DayMom
BuyMeBlog
The Hockey Dad

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