Traffic is the lifeblood of blogs and comments of visitors make them alive.
If you have some basics of SEO, then you should know that NoFollow blogs are absolutely useless for backlinking campaign, while DoFollow brings almost instant results.
In other words, the “Do Follow” makes sure that the search engine is going to crawl your blog/site linked in that page, while ”No Follow” attribute restricts search engine from crawling the link.
So my first suggestion in order to get more traffic, more readers and more comments is to transform your blog from standard NoFollow to a fantastic DoFollow : this can be done installing a plugin that remove the NoFollow tag.
Get more traffic with DoFollow
I use “SMu Manual DoFollow” plugin : you can choose between all Commenters, in order to give their link ”NoFollow” or “DoFollow” status.
I have chosen that my Blog will give regular Commenters DoFollow Status.
Once you installed this plugin, you should let blogosphere know that your blog now is DoFollow.
Check out some Directories and submit your link, like for example :
- YouDoFollow : a great DoFollow Directory.
Another one is : FollowList.
Now you should find some good DoFollow Blogs, related to your niche and leave some smart comments.
Even better, you should also look for DoFollow Blogs with CommentLuv enabled and if available, also Keyword Luv plugin, so you can receive a reward both having your last post backlinked in your comment and your keywords, after your name .
Do not abuse of this opportunity, do not spam with inappropriate comments. Be constructive and carry on your backlinking campaign in a way that seems natural.
Be consistent and in my opinion you should not buy backlinks, because ten or twenty links per week may seem natural, but a shot of 500 or a thousand links in a day, will let Google go in alert!!!
Ana Hoffman, the woman behind the popular blog TrafficGenerationCafe, created and published this awesome post : CommentLuv Enabled Blog List (my blog is also featured in the above mentioned online resources).
The article written from Ana started with the purpose of listing the blogs with the Plugin “CommentLuv” enabled, but you find also indications of a lot of Internet Marketing niche “DoFollow” blogs.
Get more comments with these plugins
You know that having a high quality blog, with interesting content is fine, but you must have comments below your posts in order to build an online community around the blog, even more engaging conversation with your readers.
My suggestion in order to get more comments is to install these free plugins (I have installed them on my blog) :
- CommentLuv : it rewards your readers by automatically placing a link to their last blog post at the end of their comment. Encourage a community and discover new posts (CommentLuv is free, but the Premium version is even more juicy, because it helps you with SEO and social media);
- Top Commentators Widget : it adds a sidebar widget to show the top commentators in your WordPress site. You can see it in my homepage.
- ReplyMe : it sends an email to author automatically while someone reply to his comment.
And of course a plugin that turn your blog into “DoFollow”. There are many available, I use ”SMu Manual DoFollow”.
I think these Plugins will definetely help you to get more comments on your blog.
I answer to all the constructive comments that I receive. I tell you more, I generally do not accept vague sentences targeted only to gain a DoFollow link.
You should then answer to all “smart comments”, in order to engage conversation. Even better, you may add sometimes a question to your readers : you should be suprised of the nice help you may receive !
Last thing : if you comment and visit other blogs (related to your niche), they may want to exchange the favour.
What do you think? Do you have any other suggestion in order to build more traffic or having more comments?
November 15, 2011 at 3:53 pm
Some good tips on getting traffic through comments Eric! I really like CommentLuv, but since I’m always testing new ideas I’ve been seeing how Facebook comments stacks up on a few of my sites. So far, my comments have literally cut in half, however my Facebook traffic has doubled and their hasn’t been one spam comment yet. I’m going to test CommentLuv on a few of my other sites. Thanks!
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November 15, 2011 at 5:20 pm
Hello Tory,
thanks for sharing your experience.
Depending on the characteristics and objectives of your blog or online business, it may be more suitable the Facebook Comments or the CommentLuv plugin.
Can you make some test and report to us?
Thanks for any other feedback !
November 16, 2011 at 1:29 am
Leaving comment on do follow blog boost your traffic amount. Do follow helps to bring loyal reader on your site. So always leave comments on do follow blogs because do follow blog are instantly aspect by google search engine. But you should comment very intelligently and wisely because these comments are taken some time for approval.
November 16, 2011 at 10:48 am
Hello,
I think that comments should always be constructive, also because the other visitors get a sense of the quality of the site both reading the contents and checking the comments …
November 16, 2011 at 3:51 am
I have no idea why so many bloggers think that they need to be nofollow to “preserve their pagerank juice”, Erik.
Will pagerank make you any money? No, your readers will. So make it dofollow to attract more readers.
Really appreciate the mention!
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November 16, 2011 at 10:58 am
I have read about the “control of the flow of link juice”, Ana :
“Link juice partakes to the effectiveness of web content in passing through the information of a web page to other through links.
For example website A has an outbound link to website B. In this case website A has lost its link juice to website B.”
I noticed that many popular bloggers around the web went from being DoFollow to NoFollow again…
But I agree with you, Ana : it is better a lot of traffic and a nice online community around your blog, than no traffic at all and an high Pagerank…
I am glad you appreciated the mention, your content is really useful.
Have a nice day !
November 22, 2011 at 8:02 am
You are right Anna. there is no need to turn your blog into nofollow. No-follow means you don’t love your readers. if readers read your blog post then you must need to give something back in the form a do-follow link. This is called mutual love. So turn your blogs to do-follow. nice post
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November 28, 2011 at 10:28 pm
I totally agree with you Anna!!!
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November 16, 2011 at 9:34 am
Hi Erik,
Thanks for sharing this amazing plugins. It sounds like SMu Manual DoFollow is a great way to emphasize your gratitude to your loyal followers. Also, it seems like it would encourage readers to follow your blog which would then increase your site traffic. Thank you once again and I’ll definitely install this plugin.
November 16, 2011 at 11:09 am
Hello Gregg,
I think you should install all the above mentioned plugins,
I recommend to you.
Thanks for the comment !
November 16, 2011 at 9:44 am
Not to mention that the author must also be active on his blog, answering questions and inquiries. Blog commenting makes the blog post alive, only you must choose which comment are going to approve or else your blog will be plagued by auto bot commenters. You know what I mean, blog commenting automated tools can destroy your blog image and online presence.
November 16, 2011 at 11:24 am
Hello Walter,
it is important to check all the comments and above all to answer them.
The problem came may be when you have a huge amount of comments to check and answer…but this may be a nice problem to solve…;-)
I use a combination of “Akismet” and “G.A.S.P.” plugins,
to filter comments. They work fine.
Thanks for the comment !
November 17, 2011 at 8:04 am
Hi Erik,
yes I agree with you, It’s so sad to see that blogs are being plague by bots. For content base links is the most effective linkbuilding strategy after the panda strikes the web. That’s one reason I hate automated tools and I have never used one ever.
best luck,
Walter
November 17, 2011 at 10:22 am
Hello Walter,
genuineness in the blog is the best thing.
Thanks for your comment and best wishes !
November 17, 2011 at 1:32 pm
Thanks for sharing this amazing plugins. It sounds like SMu Manual DoFollow is a great way to emphasize your gratitude to your loyal followers. Also, it seems like it would encourage readers to follow your blog which would then increase your site traffic. Thank you once again and I’ll definitely install this plugin.
November 18, 2011 at 5:21 pm
Hello,
I think that it is a good plugin “SMu Manual DoFollow”,
because “DoFollow is better” !
November 18, 2011 at 9:24 am
Erik, you have mentioned that we should build only 10 to 20 links per week, don’t you think that it should be around 10 to 20 daily?
I want to know your views on this as we also have to face our competitors….if we are targeting any high searches keyword.
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November 18, 2011 at 6:31 pm
Hello Mary,
I mentioned 10 or 20 links per week just to say a number…
If you create content only for linking, you will fail and get penalized.
You should create useful content and a real user friendly environment on your site.
Don’t you think so?
November 18, 2011 at 10:20 am
I have made my Blogger blogs in blogger do follow and submitted them to some do follow blog directories. My traffic went up to a certain number but still it doesn’t convert to sales. I got a lot of comments though and I am moderating them.
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November 18, 2011 at 6:40 pm
Hello Stephen,
I think that having traffic and more comments, do not mean necessarily making more money, converting in more sales.
Of course, if you have a good product and everything is set up, more traffic may be bring more money.
I think it depends a lot also of the kind of product that you sell,
don’t you think so?
November 23, 2011 at 4:02 am
That’s right Erik. Thanks for replying.
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November 18, 2011 at 10:38 am
Thank you for recommending another useful information.Plugins really helps.Keep it up!
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November 18, 2011 at 3:16 pm
I know that nofollow blogs don’t give you any direct search engine juice. However, I do think it’s worth writing good comments on them anyway. This is because the owners of nofollow blogs might have a look at yours and link to your posts some time down the track. Then you would be getting SEO benefit.
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November 18, 2011 at 6:49 pm
Hello Matt,
I mention the reply to Ana comment,
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I have read about the “control of the flow of link juice”, Ana :
“Link juice partakes to the effectiveness of web content in passing through the information of a web page to other through links.
For example website A has an outbound link to website B. In this case website A has lost its link juice to website B.”
I noticed that many popular bloggers around the web went from being DoFollow to NoFollow again…
But I agree with you, Ana : it is better a lot of traffic and a nice online community around your blog, than no traffic at all and an high Pagerank…
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November 18, 2011 at 6:01 pm
DoFollow site is sharing what you have on your followers. It is just being a generous..
November 18, 2011 at 6:50 pm
Thanks for the comment, Joseph,
I think so too : DoFollow blogs owners, but even more, high quality and high PageRank DoFollow Blogs Owners are really generous !!!
November 18, 2011 at 7:11 pm
I wonder why they make site as nofollow, when you create a site, you’re supposed to be sharing with your followers and fans. And a dofollow site is a wy of sharing as well..
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November 18, 2011 at 8:26 pm
Well, Isabella, as “default” the blogs are NoFollow,
this is why there are such nice plugins to turn your site into
“DoFollow”…
In a “perfect online world” without SPAM or SCAM, all sites should be DoFollow…an utopia .
Thanks for your comment !
November 21, 2011 at 4:30 am
Hey,
It cost me few days in searching for an article that gives utmost tips and guides about getting your traffic go high and also letting the comments to to it’s highest. And this is the one I am searching for. Gonna sneak for your future posts.
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November 22, 2011 at 10:23 am
To increase the chance of traffic, we can also submit our blog to do follow blog directories. There are a lot out there and I’ve found two directories that sent me traffic. We also want to brag that our blog is do follow. So sharing it to social networking sites or groups can attract commentators attention.
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November 22, 2011 at 10:48 am
Hello James,
“YouDoFollow.com” is a great DoFollow Directory,
another one is “FollowList.com”.
Do you know some others?
I agree with you, if you decide to turn your blog “DoFollow”,
then you should let it know to as more people as you can…
Thanks for the comment !
November 23, 2011 at 4:04 am
I’ve found FollowList and Dofollow.info working for me. Never knew about YouDoFollow.
November 23, 2011 at 11:37 am
Hello James,
thanks for adding “DoFollow.info”,
nice resource !
I appreciate the comment.
November 23, 2011 at 4:11 am
While there are no direct SEO benifits to commentluv that I know of it really does encourage interaction (commenting and coming back!)
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November 23, 2011 at 11:56 am
Hello Lassa,
actually what you said is not completely correct,
because the Blog Owner with CommentLuv Plugin enabled may decide
“Whose links should be dofollow”, if :
- Only Registered Members Links ;
- Everybody gets dofollow links;
- Nobody gets dofollow links.
I have choosen to give to every comment the DoFollow link,
in the CommentLuv options : so this count as SEO Benefit.
Did you know this?
November 23, 2011 at 11:02 pm
Thanks for replying! I do know what you mean but I think my comment was not clear – I was meaning that as a person who installed commentluv on their blog there is no direct SEO benifit to that blog owner (am I right?)
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November 24, 2011 at 9:10 pm
Link building is one of best SEO techniques that we can apply to increase the popularity of websites or blog on the search engine. Although there are many SEO techniques besides link building, link building but it is still a major activity in the SEO. Thank you for this, your post is very helpful.
November 26, 2011 at 10:49 pm
SEO is important in increasing site traffic, seo techniques of the most famous is the backlink. However the algorithm pandas at the moment, many people assume that the backlink is not important. Indeed we can not deny that the giant search engine crawler algorithm starts increasing the ability to not pegged in the backlinks. But according to my backlinks is still something very important in improving the quality of the site. I am very grateful for your post, because this is very useful.
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November 27, 2011 at 11:21 pm
DoFollow is an effective way to generate traffic to your blog. It’s a good way of giving back the love to the people who takes time to comment and read your blog. I believe that these comments should still be constructive and relevant and people shouldn’t just post comments for the sake of posting comments or generating traffic to their sites.
November 28, 2011 at 12:44 pm
Hello Mitch,
I completely agree with you.
I think that it is very important that comments should be relevant,
in order to build a conversation and not just for have a “DoFollow” BackLink !
November 28, 2011 at 5:06 am
Hi Eric,
Wonderful post. Many website owner really wants traffic in their site. I love commentluv but this the web owner and the visitors can benefit from the site. I have heard about livefyre but I still don’t have idea how to use it. do you have any info about it?
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November 28, 2011 at 12:59 pm
Hello Suzanne,
I personally never used “Livefyre” : I know about it, but at the moment
I am fine with the system I am using …
There are so many options and plugins around, that each of us have the embarrassing wealth of options !!!
Thanks for your comment.
November 28, 2011 at 9:34 am
NoFollows aren’t really that useless. It can show that you’re actively participating in blogs, whether they’re nofollow, or dofollow. It can also show that you have an online presence and that you’re not picky with the places where you leave comments. Well, minus the link farms, of course.
November 28, 2011 at 6:41 pm
Hi Man Ray,
I think that a DoFollow blog is a good start if you want to
begin having good traffic.
I see a lot of high PR Blogs or with huge traffic, that are
actually NoFollow.
I think it is a choice…
A part of link farming, a good comment on a NoFollow blog can bring you a nice amount of visitors from that link.
Thanks for the comment !
December 7, 2011 at 8:48 pm
Thank you once again and I’ll definitely install this plugin. Have a nice day ! another one is “FollowList.com”. Do follow helps to bring loyal reader on your site.
December 9, 2011 at 8:13 pm
Hello Victoria,
thanks for the comment !
December 14, 2011 at 4:51 am
do follow blogs get a pretty good amount of traffic to their site, but sometimes it could attract the spammers as well.
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December 14, 2011 at 10:08 am
Hello Ana,
most part of the spammers can be avoided using plugins like “G.A.S.P.” and “Akismet” (I use both).
Then of course some comments are focused to just have a backlink from a “DoFollow” site…just accept the constructive comments.
January 25, 2012 at 1:40 pm
My blog is a do follow one i believe, but just learned how to get more commentators and i will add a top commentators widget. Thanks for the information.
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January 25, 2012 at 5:14 pm
Hello AnnaDamaris,
some specific WP Plugins really help us a lot !
Thanks for the comment.
January 30, 2012 at 7:10 pm
Hi. Thanks for the article.
I’m assuming, based on this article, that installing Disqus 5 minutes maybe shouldn’t have been the best idea?
Thanks!
Niall
January 30, 2012 at 7:12 pm
My bad, I meant 5 minutes ago lol
January 31, 2012 at 10:12 am
Well, depends on the point of view, perhaps the social work more, what do you say?
(Disqus network consists of millions of communities, over 60 million community profiles, and billions of conversations)…
January 31, 2012 at 10:34 pm
I’m happy with Disqus for the moment. I am following links on my site manually as you suggested in an article somewhere else on your site but it would be great to combine Disqus and CommentLuv together.
February 1, 2012 at 12:30 pm
I think that CommentLuv will help you a lot, if you want more commenters/readers/visitors…
Try it and you will see !
February 1, 2012 at 5:26 pm
Hi Erik
I’m still writing articles and building more backlinks at the moment. If you think it’ll help I will definitely give it a try. I prefer the style of Disqus but I could also restyle CommentLuv using CSS anyway I guess.
Thanks for the advice. Really helps a lot!
February 1, 2012 at 5:34 pm
Well, Niall, you can always test which one will fit better with your blog style and readers…
You can check the results and then you may always come back to the system that you like more or that gives you better results !
Let me know…
February 1, 2012 at 11:04 pm
Thanks Erik. I’m still learning SEO so we’ll see how it goes!
I’ll definitely let you know!
February 8, 2012 at 12:18 pm
Commentluv and keywordluv are both very helpful plugins to generate huge traffic on blogs.The only we need to take care from spammers when we use these plugins on our website.But,now a days there are lot of spam filters are available which can help us to protect our blogs from spanners.So we should use these plugins on our blogs and also encourage other people to use it.
Thanks
February 8, 2012 at 4:46 pm
Hi Amit,
I love CommentLuv and KeywordLuv enabled blogs, actually I really
look for them when I make comments, in order to build backlinks.
Regarding the SPAM, I use a combination of Akismet and G.A.S.P. plugins,
they really help me a lot to prevent many unwanted comments.
Thanks for your visit !
February 8, 2012 at 8:09 pm
And what about KeywordLuv? I see it less and less on blogs.
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February 9, 2012 at 11:58 am
Hi Lily Rose,
I wish that more blogs should use KeywordLuv and CommentLuv plugins, together with the DoFollow tag in their comments.
This should be possible in a “perfect blogosphere”, but unfortunately
we all know about all the SPAM around…
March 16, 2012 at 7:57 am
By doing some advertisement of your blog, you will get a good traffic and if your blog is having a good content then definitely you will get comments also.
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April 30, 2012 at 3:50 pm
Fantastic tips – we’re always looking for new ways to increase traffic to our website and to engage with our readers more. Keep up the good work.
May 17, 2012 at 11:38 am
There are some people talking about PR here, and they shouldn’t forget that like we earn money because of our visitors, others earn money selling links
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