Promote your blog: 250+ links to get free backlinks
Posted by Jean-Baptiste Jung on Aug 29, 2008 | 132 commentsIn your blog promotion, getting quality backlinks is really important, in order to increase your pagerank and your blog visibility. I have compiled a list a 250+ Dofollow blogs, blogs using the CommentLuv plugin and blogs using the Top Commentators widget.
What you have to know
Since this blog is in Dofollow and use the Top Commentators widget, we daily receive a lots of comments. But even if most of it are good and relevants, some people obviously leaves comments like "Wow, thanks" just to gain backlinks. Of course, we can't accept theses unusefull comments which are more spam than real comments.
So, if you want to create a real visibility for your blog and not being called a spammer, always leave relevant comments when you have something to say.
Please do not use this list for spamming.
Blogs using the Top Commentators widget
I already talked about the Wordpress Top Commentators widget last week. For those who haven't read the article, (yet!) Top Commentators displays a list of urls of the top commentators on the blog. If the website don't use the rel="nofollow" attribute, and if you manage to be a part of that list, you'll win a new backlink per blog post (assuming the widget is displayed on all posts). You guessed it, that will be very good for promoting your blog to both readers and search engines.
I first wanted to create a list of blogs using this widget, but it was already done elsewhere.
- Yan's list: 67 blogs using the Top Commentators widget
- Blog o Ninja's list: 48 blogs using the Top Commentators widget
Blogs using the CommentLuv plugin
Another great Wordpress plugin I talked about last week is CommentLuv. This plugin use RSS feeds to display a link to the commentator last post.
Once again I though about creating a list of blogs using CommentLuv, but when I was doing research I stumbled upon BloggerBarber and I saw...
Dofollow blogs
As you probably already know, if a link is tagged by the rel="nofollow" attribute, Google will not consider it and this link will not provide you any pagerank. So it can be usefull to get a list of a few dofollow blogs that you can comment and gain new backlinks.
- DoFollow Blogs List With High PR Part 1
- The Ultimate DoFollow Blog List
- DoFollow Blogs List by Nigel McLoughlin
Finding DoFollow blog with Fast Blog Finder
Some months ago, I found this interesting software called Fast Blog Finder. Sadly, it is not available on non-windows systems, and I'm a Mac and Linux user. I tested it at work and the results are great: Just type some keywords, and Fast Blog Finder will search blogs and sort the results by pagerank (Limited to 50 in the free edition). The software will also tell you if the blog is Dofollow or Nofollow.
Hope you found this list usefull. And you, do you experienced an increase of pagerank after leaving comments on Dofollow blogs, or blogs using CommentLuv/Top Commentators widget?
Do you receive more comments since you get rid of the rel="nofollow" attribute, or installed CommentLuv/Top Commentators widget? Let us know!
Awesome post I’m guessing this is your way of writing on backlinks since the dofollow, top commenters, and commentluv lists were already taken =P.
There are a number of tools that claim to do this, the last one I tried was reallinkfinder. So far have been disappointed with the results they display.
I will check it out and see how it runs.
Thanks
Again, sorry for all the comments (I’ve only just stumped onto your blog and there is great stuff!)
This is a fantastic list! Another that I’ve found comment kahuna. It’s like Fast Blog Find but free
worth a look (i have no affiliate with the programmer, just like the program 
)
This a wonderful post. And yes you are right i also used Fast Blog Finder its really great. Thanks for the post
thanks for mentioning commentluv, it’s been updated now and is better than ever!
I’m always hearing about the various comment plugins, such as TCW, DF, and CL. I use and love CL, but am weary of the other two.
However having said that i have come across many blogs that have all three, and enjoy good rank. So they can’t be all that bad.
This was an excellent round up, will save and bookmark. Thanxs!
Missy.
I have a website for moms going green so I don’t spend much time actually reading SEO or technical websites like I should. I found this post via Stumbling. Great blog. I’ve just recently changed my blog to dofollow but I’m seeming to get spam b/c of it and this bothers me. Is this an issue or no?
In my opinion, Dofollow o Nofollow, every blog gets spammed. In that case, let’s use Dofollow
@ Sommer-Greenandcleanmom
I had the same thing, changed my nofollow to dofollow and the spam count has shot up (not as many legit comments as i would like) keep your Akismet up to date and also do a search for MontySpam (it’s a Wordpress MU plugin but i believe it’ll be released for the Wordpress soon
very useful. thank you !
i will see every list and try all those blogs
Nice tips…..but I think all blogs dont have dofollow in Comment-luv links.
nice post JBJ, thanks for the headsa up.
I am definitely going to be check out these bad boys over the next day or two.
It does’nt help to spam comments nowadays (between Akismet and a manual review, your spam is usually toast), this stuff just helps you find conversations in would you could possibly involve yourself and thereby strenghten you position in an online community by providing useful and insightful feedback on topics and posts that you’re interested in.
@bronson: I totally agree with you about blog spam. I never saw any spam on serious blogs…
Some very nice ideas here. Just started my blog and have been looking at ways to get people to find out about it. So definitely gonna this out. Thank you
Excellent content, thanks.
Just yesterday I was reading a post that gave me a list of DoFollow blogs in various niches I have already found useful.
A bit of a bummer that Fast Blog Finder doesn’t work on the Windows platform.
@James Mann: Fast blog Finder works on Windows. It is not available on Mac and Linux platforms.
JBJ – Great info and quite an eye-opener for me. I was familiar with the standard “no-follow” setting but didn’t know that many blogs have enabled “do-follow”
I plan to visit many of the sites on your lists in the coming weeks to look for topics that might earn a spot in my RSS reader.
Cheers,
Russ
Interesting post
It’s funny that this blog does not seem to have comment luv or top commentator widget. In fact the links are no follow as well
Hmmm
@Niche Marketing Guide : You’re right about CommentLuv that we haven’t installed on this blog, but you’re wrong about Top Commentators (in the footer) and links, which are dofollow.
I am sorry, I must have got it wrong
It’s just my backlink analysis software actually has no follow on my comment link in a previous post in this blog
Must be a software glitch
Thanks for the quick response. And for not editing out my comment.
Much respect
No problem, sometimes backlink software analysis can be wrong
Commentluv has been a very tool in my blog getting a PR4 in Google.
So You Want To Be a Banquet Manager
Has anyone found a tool like Fast Blog Finder for online marketers that are using a Mac?
Very interesting. Your advice is well appreciated.
@Online Marketing Performance : I’m a Mac user too so if you ever find a similar software for the Mac, please let me know!
This post is awesome, very detailed, very informative, many will learn from this post..
I’ve noticed in my Google webmaster tools that even comments on nofollow sites show up as links in. I figured that even though it was listed in the webmaster tools it really didn’t count as a link in my google PR. But it kind of makes me wonder, how does it now it links to my site if it doesn’t follow it. I think it does. But all the “nofollow” tag does is notify google that the website really isn’t voting for the site by linking to it.
brilliant post. i might have heard of that software somewhere else, but it’s only now that i have a better idea of what it does, and how it can help. am just thankful it’ll run on my system.
This a wonderful post and very informative. i will try Fast Blog Finder. Thanks for the post
I have sites with a list of one or the other but yours is the first which has a list of every kind. Maybe add a list of social bookmarking sites too?
John
Commenting on DoFollow blogs are definitely a very good way of getting quality backlinks. But people make used of this DoFollow features to post short comments which to me are considered as spam.
It will be more recommended to post quality comments as well as on blogs of your relevant niche. This is however not applicable on blogs that talk about blogging tips etc. because their readers comes from many different blog niches. But other than this, do concentrate on commenting on blog with relevant niches.
@Wei Liang: I agree with, short unrealevant comment have to be treaten as spam
I’ve tried a couple of these tools, and they usually are a help, but you still have to do some work. For example, as mentioned above, not all commentluv blogs are followed. And Comment Kahuna definitely has to have the results filtered through human eyes. But they do give you a head start.
@Bird Bath Heaters: You’re right. I should definitely create a list of dofollow blogs using commentLuv/Top commentators!
Hey thank you for the link. I have downloaded the software and will try it out as it sounds like exactly what I need. I spend most of my day blogging and searching for new blogs (with Top commentators lists preferably) to increase my page rank and links.
Nice article, just downloaded the Fast Blog Finder and it looks like quite a handy little tool to have.
I am dofollow and have CommentLuv installed as well. Once I installed them, it immediately increased the amount of comments and interactivity on my site.
I also have a plugin enabled that I am hoping more bloggers will adopt which is KeywordLuv. This lets commentors use their real name and then their keywords as the anchor text for their links. It can be used on both dofollow and nofollow blogs.
It is much nicer to be able to reply to say Bob vs. Florida Travel Deals.
Another free way to find dofollow blogs is to search for your topic on CommentHunt.com
It is a little known search engine that finds dofollow blogs with pagerank. It’s not as powerful as FBF and you may not always find blogs on your topics, but it’s always worth a quick search.
I definitely feel it’s worth commenting on a nofollow blog with CommentLuv enabled. If it is a busy blog, you can get a lot of traffic from it. I’ll take traffic over PR any day. As well, the links still seem to count with Yahoo and MSN.
Have enjoyed your blog for a while now. Thanks so much for compiling this information.
@Melissa Eaton: I heard about KeywordLuv, and this plugin seems to be very promising. I think i’ll review it soon on Hack Wordpress
awesome dofollow resources i really appreciate the links you provided surely gona help us bloggers.
Thanks for all the useful links. Will definitely use them!
I downloaded the Fastblogfinder software, i will try it to find other dofollow blogs.
Great post. I use mac so I can’t use fastblogfinder and appriciate the list.
For windows systems you can download and use for free Commentkahuna.com to find dofollow blogs.
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I`m trying right away!
I am a big fan of all of these plugins, especially those that have commentluv enabled. The new ajax commentluv is also a huge improvement because now you can see if it will actually work properly before you post.
When Google changes the PR algorithm a lot of things will fall apart. Right now everybody is talking about backlinks, commentluv, dofollow, top commenters etc
Also when we give too much of link love, own PR (and hence search priority) will reduce for our pages…
Cheers,
Ajith
@Ajith Edassery: This is why SEO is something you need to constantly re-evaluate – it’s for ever changing
@Ajith & Jamie: Totally agree! You have to learn everyday and alwyas stay aware.
Great list of links. I’ve tried out fast blog finder myself and I love it. I also like to use footprints + google to find stuff FBF normally wouldn’t find.
I tried doing dofollow on my blog, but I was getting a large amount of low quality comments. It became a hassle, so I turned it off.
Hi,
Thanks for the information you provided.
I have the Fast Blog Finder software and I have to say it is a useful tool. However, it is far from perfect.
For example if you want to find blogs about “blue widgets” (ie blogs related to your niche) most of the time you will either go no results or results with everything from blue hair dye to blue movies.
That is why I said thanks for the lists you provided. It is still nice to look at a sheet of paper and find the blogs you want.
All the best,
Marco
Thanks for the excellent do follow blogs list.
Excellent content– would sure appreciate some articles on how to score some edu backlinks.
Holy freakin’ amazing!
One thing I do not like about CommentLuv, however, is that you have to register a new account for every new blog you want to claim. So, unfortunately for we designers, it becomes more tedious every time (because I’m obviously not going to pass off the responsibility to a client!).
Thanks for the excellent info. I’ve just downloaded the Fast Blog Finder and it seems to be quite effective at finding high PR sites to comment on.
if a website listed on a kind of dofollow, usually the blog owner receive new traffic, but then change from dofollow to nofollow, or they abandon their top commentators plugins …
folks gimme a respond bitte ..please … muchas grazias … merci beaucoup …
Wow, thanks for this article. It opens my eyes up even more to the SEO techniques and little secrets needed to get your blog moving. I’ve spent a very small amount of time writing some articles, and got some stumbleupon traffic, which alone did wonders for my site (which isn’t even that great). I can see how, with a traditional blog type site, this would be a top resource. Great lists/links.
I own this software. I can tell you that it works like a charm and it does what it says. OK,I had to pay some buck but in the end i hope to get morethan that. I consider it a nice investment!
Honestly I just posted a comment on another one of your post saying I hope I understand what backlinks are, and after reading this post I realized that backlinks are achieved by me just simply leaving a comment. So for my contribution If you want to leave comments on other blogs stay away from blogger and try to stick to wordpress blogs, wordpress blogs allow you to enter your website.
I liked the lists and plugins that you promoted but noticed that you were missing keyword luv which is my favorite plugin for encouraging comments. I first ran into it on phoenixrealestateguy.com and think it is one of the best. My reasoning is that the plugin still encourages those that comment to use their names and then they can still have their link love. I just feel like it builds more of a community when you know each others names. I personally do not like how so, many fakes run around the web annonymous. It prevents them from having to be ethical and honest.
James Wheelock
Hi,
thanks for this nice lists of dofollow blogs and how to find them. I downloaded the fast blogfinder demo version yesterday and it works fine for me as i am looking for german blogs and in preferences you can select your prefered language, thats a great tool.
I am currently using http://www.semiologic.com/software/wp-tweaks/dofollow to make my blog do follow. Also I am using the comment luv plugin which I find to be really cool. I’m curious if a blog is no follow and they are using comment luv plugin do you get credit for the comment love link anyways? I’m thinking yes but I’m not sure. Thanks.
I just posted about the DoFollow, Top Commentators and CommentLuv plugins in another comment and then found the link here. I’ve added all of these within the last week and hope to add value to my visitors. It’s also nice to find a way to locate other blogs that use similar plugins so I can gain backlinks myself. The more backlinks I get, the more value I can provide to visitors who comment on my site. Thanks for the tips!
waw, great software to find blog with pagerank, I always find this software and now i got it. thankz
regard me,
amanda.
I like Fast blog Finder. It is a very good piece of software. Thanks Greg Ellison
Interesting tips, i just wonder how powerful are blog’s comment links.
Thanks for the tips and this software tip “Fast Blog Finder”. I will definitely try that out. You’ve provided a great list of content and tips here for promoting this technique. I was just starting to find it myself and will need to consider it for my own site.
Do you think that you get useful comments from everyone or are there a lot more comments with simple responses without any content just because they want the back links? I’ve also read that it’s good to turn off comments on old posts, what do you think of that?
It really helped me to get my web higher pagerank. Now I have a better PR due to this information. Just want to say thanks..
I use Fast Blog finder as well and have found it to be an excellent tool. After using it for a couple of hours, it was an easy decision to spend the $50 to get the Gold version.
Thanks for these additional lists.
Thank you for “Fast Blog Finder” it’s a very useful tool
Just Got Fast blog finder, and used it and actually found this site! Works like a charm!
Sharon
Very nice article and it should really help boosting rank and inlinks. There is one catch, if you are banned in Akismet then your comments won’t appear. Site admin’s manually have to edit your comments and mark them as “Not Spam” in order to display on their site. Initially when i added comments on my friends site and for reference i gave them a url to visit. I was banned by Akismet after that. I wrote an article over my experiences with Akismet here http://www.hurricanesoftwares.com/are-you-banned-by-akismet-for-spaming/
I hope if people manually make false positives then inlinks via comments is possible.
I am unable to understand this post. But well some points are useful for me.
Thanks for the resources mentioned here. Just downloaded fastblogfinder, the free version and already testing to see how usefull it is. The free version can only provide 50 blogs though. Will see how it compares to comment kahuna.
good ideas, I have never heard of fast blog finder before, gonna have to give it a try!
Saw your mention of fastblogfinder.
I am affiliated with them, but I just bought it. The paid version is definitely better then the free. The 50 blogs it finds are dofollow and nofollow. Which means that there are only 5 – 10 dofollow blogs for each search. With the searches I have gotten on the paid version. It is 100-200 dofollow blogs per search.
I have been using this to find interesting blogs and leaving comments where i have something to say. It is still to early to tell if it has made a difference. I will get back to you on that.
I think that commenting on do-follow blogs only could be a mistake. We all know that Google is no fool and if they see that there are 100 do-follow blog links pointing to your site and 0 no-follow blog links, they’ll know that this is not natural and you will get punished.
The Top Commentator is a great widget. There are a number of ways to locate these blogs that are dofollow that use CommentLuv and even KeywordLuv. The best tool that I have used so far is the one you mentioned, Fast Blog Finder. I love it.
Fast Blog Finder is one of the best tools I’ve ever used – it’s how I found your site. The software actually runs ok in Wine (ok, I had to make a couple of tweaks to the dll’s and registry but now it’s fine).
Wow. This is an awesome post! How did I not see this one before? Love Fast Blog Finder.
I’ve had a great up tick in traffic since changing to dofollow. I recommend adding Akismet to help filter out the spam.
I utilize comment luv and keyword luv on all my blogs that work well hand in hand and helps make the comments look less spammy.
I also use these tools in promoting my site. promoting a site can be time consuming but the help of these tools, it became much easier.
Excellent article, going to give the fast blog finder a try! Thanks again
Couple of days ago I found some search engine that only find dofollow blog with our keyword. But not much blog we can find with certain keyword, and sometimes the posts is not even match with the keyword. Check it out here : http://www.inlineseo.com/dofollowdiver/
Hi
I use Comment Kahuna for that …
Cumps,
Nice post, you have just reminded me about how important design principles are.
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
wow great blog you sure provided a ton of useful information as far as dofollow goes
Very nice information. Thanks for this.
Thanks for this post, it’s very helpful to a lot of people as we can see from all the comments. I have heard good things about FBF and I also downloaded Comment Kahuna but have not tried it yet. After your endorsement I think I will give FBF a try. Thanks!
Nice writing style. Looking forward to reading more from you
Very nice information. Thanks for this.
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
Thank you, I really need to know this especially at this time. Hopefully I will be able to make more money from the help of you
I’m so glad someone came out with CommentLuv and KeyworkLuv. These are the two best plugins, ever. I can’t imagine blogging without them.
I haven’t try the top commentators and commenting on dofollow blogs for now. Will try it out and check the next page rank changes. Thanks for sharing this valuable resources of dofollow blogs.
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.
I have to say that I am really impressed by it is to go through your blogand getting things rolling, this is an excellent site.
Hi! Your article really makes sense to me. Thanks so much for sharing!
nice post
Everyone has the freedom to express their own opinion. I think it’s just fair enough to make all the blogs a “do follow”. Maybe spammers just drop by to leave a link but they take time to read the blogs and gives a relative comment which I think is something that attract others to read on.
Thanks for the post, and the site, it’s amazing.
My blog is DoFollow now!!
Thank you for this list. I am developing a new site in the hair loss niche and the links will come in handy
Just scrolling through looking at some of the comments and one in particular caught my eye – regarding Fast Blog Finder on Linux. You can get this to work with Wine. Ok, it needs a little tweaking but it runs ok for me. Hope that helps.
That list is a lot! I have to bookmark this to come back for more. I really appreciate the time you spent doing this.
Cheers for this.
Even more sources to add to an ever growing list.
I’ve been using fast blog finder for a while.
Your site contain a many useful information. I look for a lot of this experience. Thanks! for backlings.
HI,
Thanks for the list of the dofollow blog.
It is very useful.
I am also using fast blog finder but limited addition where only 50 blogs are searchable.But even its limited addition it seems great software.
Think you for your information. It is relay good
great information thanks for it.
Thanks for your kind information. But, one thing i just want to know is that, will reciprocal links enhances our page rank!
Can i get included in Google search engine if i put those images in my blog?
Hi,
Do follow blog are very important for SEO.
We got the advantage from only do follow blog.
Thanks for the sharing.
Receiving comments, even if they are spam, is still considered an update to your webpage. And Google likes constant updates.
am also using fast blog finder but limited addition where only 50 blogs are searchable.But even its limited addition it seems great software
I’d recommend G-lock Blog FInder for finding dofollow blogs! Its pretty good, and if you’re skint they do offer a free demo which gives a reduced output, but still very useful. I will check out your other useful lists too.
BY THE WAY!! If we (those who leave comments here with linkbacks) all promote this blog in high value social networks we will help ourselves… – Promote not just your own pages, but also those that link to yours!!!
Hi,
Thank you for this list.
Do follow blog are very important for SEO.
We got the advantage from only do follow blog.
Thanks for sharing.
Hi,
I haven’t try the top commentators and commenting on dofollow blogs for now.Well i am a big fan of all of these plugins, especially those that have commentluv and keywordluv enabled on any blog.
Thanks for sharing information.
if i should have let me say 250 back links from “do follow” blogs, will google give me a pagerank, say like pr 3 ?
Hi,
Very nice post.It is great tool.
Thanks for the sharing.
I’m always hearing about the various comment plugins, such as TCW, DF, and CL. I use and love CL, but am weary of the other two. I will still give it a try. Thanks for sharing the info.
Have you heard about “The Autority Loophole”?
It is a piece of software which finds blogs with “Top Commenters”-plugin installed.
It is very easy to use.