The YesFollow Blog Meme
9 Comments Published May 1st, 2007 in SEO/Traffic/Links, blog tag, blogging, blogs, dofollow, wordpress plugins, yesfollowOh no! I’ve been tagged again. This time I was tagged by Shane of Ask Shane.org for the YesFollow Blog Meme. Shane tagged me a couple of weeks ago, but I haven’t gotten around to writing the post until now. This really isn’t a frivolous meme, either.
If you’ve been blogging or been reading blogs about blogging for a while, I’m sure you’ve seen or heard of nofollow. These are attribute within link tags that tell search engines not to follow or count a link from a blog. Usually nofollow links are found in the comments section on the links that commenters leave for their own blogs or websites. The idea behind YesFollow is that commenters should be rewarded for leaving a useful comment that adds value to the conversation.
I use the DoFollow plugin for WordPress here on FreshBlogger. For this meme, I’m supposed to copy link back to the site which tagged me (see above) and also copy a section of text giving instructions for the next tagee. Lastly, I’m supposed to tag at least one more blog that has YesFollow.
I think it’s more than appropriate for me to tag Cesar from Flee The Cube since he (and Andy Beard) were the ones who turned me on to DoFollow in the first place. Since Andy’s already been tagged and included in the list below, I’m just going to tag Cesar for starters and I’ll update this list if I can think of any others.
Continuing the Meme
***Begin to copy here***
- 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.
- 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.
- Take the adds from the blog that added you and place them in the “Originals” list.
- Add at least 1 new blog that you KNOW us 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!
- Leave relevant comments on the blogs listed and get a link back to your site thanks to Do Follow!
My Adds:
Flee The Cube
Original List:
HarpzOn.com
Just Thinkin’
IHelpYouBlog
TechTraction.com
Blogging Help
GeekySpeaky
Simple Kind Of Life
3DayMom
BuyMeBlog
The Hockey Dad
Midlife Musings
Utterly Geek
Whatever I Feel Like
My Dandelion Patch
Surviving NJ
BizMark Tech
Two Dog Zoo
TDZ Travel
Body, Mind & Solar
MidLifeMusings
HomeBizBlogger
Confessions of a Housewife
Andy Beard
Randa Clay Design
Solo Technology
Improve your Online Business
IT Infusion
FreshBlogger
Mind Petals
Erik’s Blog
still unimpressive
9 Responses to “The YesFollow Blog Meme”
- 1 Pingback on May 4th, 2007 at 6:18 am
After John’s post yesterday on how to use the top commentators plugin to your advantage I figured that finding a list of blogs that use the DoFollow plugin could help SEO rankings. I did a quick search on google and your blog happened to be at the top and gave me exactly the list I was looking for.
Now is there anything unethical about what I’ve done here? Obviously I’m trying to build links to rank at the top of the SERPs for shark fishing. Look forward to hearing how you feel about this.
Hi Nathan. That’s awesome about how you found my blog! I don’t think there’s anything unethical about it all. If you’d left a comment that didn’t add value to the discussion, then that would be another story. As it is, you’ve raised a very good question that I’m sure others will be interested in.
As for getting to the top of the search engines for shark fishing, getting links from other blogs will help, but you’ll get the most bang for your buck in getting links from other fishing type blogs. The best links are going to be the most relevant ones. They’ll be linking with words like “shark fishing” and “sharks” and “fishing” that will help you rank higher for those keywords. Ideally, the topics of those blogs will be similar to your topic, too.
I hope this information helps. Good luck!
If you had tagged me, I doubt I would have seen it among all the links I seem to get daily, mainly from all the memes I haven’t actually taken part in.
The best way to find Dofollow blogs?
Just search in Google for dofollow plus any keyword, you get thousands
The alternative is just to join my Dofollow community on Bumpzee as that will eventually bring some traffic, and give plenty of links especially if you tag your content.
Thanks for the info, Andy. I’m going to check out your Dofollow community. I haven’t used Bumpzee before, but I’m curious about it…
hi i have fav’d you.
awaiting yours.
here’s my link:
http://technorati.com/faves?add=http://indiapr.blogspot.com
Hi HH. Done. Thanks for stopping by!
So since you went dofollow do you feel that the increase in traffic and comments is substantial enough to justify the additional time spent moderating comments?
Dude you’re wrong, Flee The Cube does *not* DoFollow comment author links. Whether they changed since you posted this, I don’t know. But if you check now, they have rel=”external nofollow” on author links.