List of 65 DoFollow Social Bookmarking Sites with High PR
What is DoFollow?
The term that doesn't really exist :)
Understanding DoFollow
DoFollow is simply an internet slang term given to web pages or sites that are not utilizing "NoFollow." NoFollow is a hyperlink value that tells search engines not to pass on any credibility or influence to an outbound link. Originally created to help the blogging community reduce the number of inserted links into a "comment" area of a blog page, the attribute is typically standard in blog comments. It helps overwhelmed webmasters disallow spammers from gaining any kind of advantage by inserting an unwanted link on a popular page.
How DoFollow & NoFollow Have Affected Link Building
As a result of the implementation of NoFollow, the process of building links has taken a steep turn. Many sites, including wikis, social bookmarking sites, corporate and private blogs, commenting plug-ins and many other venues and applets across the internet began implementing NoFollow. This made effective link building difficult for both honest people and spammers alike. It also made DoFollow links become the "Holy Grail" of SEOs everywhere, who seek them out as expensive collections to their off-site optimization repertoire.
NoFollow Isn't Bad
There's nothing wrong with getting NoFollow links. In fact, you'll want to get an equal amount of them as well. While they don't pass on link juice, they do help associate your site with anchor text (the keyword phrase that makes up the URL pointing to your site). They also increase the exposure of your site, overall, which may eventually lead to you getting more mentions via DoFollow links!
DoFollow is simply an internet slang term given to web pages or sites that are not utilizing "NoFollow." NoFollow is a hyperlink value that tells search engines not to pass on any credibility or influence to an outbound link. Originally created to help the blogging community reduce the number of inserted links into a "comment" area of a blog page, the attribute is typically standard in blog comments. It helps overwhelmed webmasters disallow spammers from gaining any kind of advantage by inserting an unwanted link on a popular page.
How DoFollow & NoFollow Have Affected Link Building
As a result of the implementation of NoFollow, the process of building links has taken a steep turn. Many sites, including wikis, social bookmarking sites, corporate and private blogs, commenting plug-ins and many other venues and applets across the internet began implementing NoFollow. This made effective link building difficult for both honest people and spammers alike. It also made DoFollow links become the "Holy Grail" of SEOs everywhere, who seek them out as expensive collections to their off-site optimization repertoire.
NoFollow Isn't Bad
There's nothing wrong with getting NoFollow links. In fact, you'll want to get an equal amount of them as well. While they don't pass on link juice, they do help associate your site with anchor text (the keyword phrase that makes up the URL pointing to your site). They also increase the exposure of your site, overall, which may eventually lead to you getting more mentions via DoFollow links!
How Search Engines Use NoFollow
DoFollow's impact on the web
Search engines each interpret NoFollow in their own way. Here's a list of the major search engines with a short description about how they handle DoFollow and NoFollow:
- Google follows NoFollow links but simply does not pass on credit [page rank] to an outbound link that is tagged with the value.
- Yahoo follows NoFollow links, and excludes the link from all ranking calculations.
- Bing may or may not follow a NoFollow link, but it does exclude it from ranking calculations.
- Ask.com never adhered to NoFollow. It's not a search engine anymore, per se...so, who cares!
Harnessing DoFollow Links
Part of your link building strategy
With all of the above being said - it is rather difficult to find sites that have sections enabled for "DoFollow"...however, they're out there! Listed below for your convenience are running lists of multiple categories of sites that are DoFollow, and great candidates for your next backlink.Don't Be A Spammer - Be A Value Provider!
Spamming Dofollow resources will not give you results...not only that, it hurts the entire community, and it persuades Dofollow providers to convert their sites to Nofollow. Be sure that all of your link-building exploits are done so tastefully and honestly. If you don't cram keywords and give an honest account of what your site is about, search engines will reward you for it!
Multiple DoFollow Links from One Source
In getting links, regardless of if they're DoFollow or not, please note that Google and other search engines are rather smart these days. If you have multiple links pointing to a page from one DoFollow source, or if that source is also linking to other places that are giving you backlinks (such as your Blogspot or Wordpress account), search engines will notice and may devalue your links to the point where they become worthless. Build links naturally and over time. Provide value and they'll be quality links. Otherwise, you'll hurt your website's link building efforts in the long-run. By the way -- when it comes to link building, only the first link pointing to a site counts. Posting more than one hyperlink on the same page to the same source won't help in any way.
Passing On Too Much Link Juice
When the glass has too many holes in it
You may have heard of the slang term "link juice," when the topic of Page Rank or Trust Rank is being discussed. Basically, every link on your page passes on some of the "juice" of that page. So, a highly credible web page that has a lot of great content, credibility and links pointing to it will "leak" some "juice" on to whatever other pages it is linking to, both internal and external (unless those links are marked as NoFollow links).
This is why it's recommended not to have too many links on a single page. More links = more juice going out of the page. Lose too much juice, and you're left with an empty glass.
When you set up your site, be sure to make absolutely sure which links should remain "DoFollow." Make sure they're used sparingly. It's always safe to leave internal links as "DoFollow" if they are pointing to something relevant to the topic of that page (such as a breadcrumb link, external link to a trusted/authority site, or to related articles). Everything else - including header & footer links, affiliate links, banner ads and other worthless stuff should be marked as "NoFollow," which effectively plugs up the holes in your juice glass.
This is why it's recommended not to have too many links on a single page. More links = more juice going out of the page. Lose too much juice, and you're left with an empty glass.
When you set up your site, be sure to make absolutely sure which links should remain "DoFollow." Make sure they're used sparingly. It's always safe to leave internal links as "DoFollow" if they are pointing to something relevant to the topic of that page (such as a breadcrumb link, external link to a trusted/authority site, or to related articles). Everything else - including header & footer links, affiliate links, banner ads and other worthless stuff should be marked as "NoFollow," which effectively plugs up the holes in your juice glass.
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