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What is a Blog? Before follows.
A blog (shortened from the term "weblog") is a highly interactive website, usually managed by an individual with regular entries of commentary on various topics and wide varieties of subjects. Basically, a blog is an electronic diary of sorts. Posts in a blog are usually displayed in reverse-chronological order. Blogging is the verb term for the action of adding content to a blog as well as being a commentator.
Bloggers, the noun used to describe the people who provide the content and comments, were making thousands and thousands of dollars just a couple years ago. Google quickly realized that many bloggers were actually just spammers. Most bloggers were developing blogs to generate income and using tactics to manipulate Google, including excessive linking and creating countless websites. Since Google's algorithm has changed, bloggers have had no clue how to make a website successful. I laugh at all of these bloggers who are constantly posting daily blog entries, and thinking that people are actually reading their content.
NoFollow / DoFollow
NoFollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct search engines like Google that a hyperlink should not influence the link target's "page ranking" in the search engine's index. The concept for the specification of the attribute value, nofollow, was designed by Google’s head of webspam team Matt Cutts and Jason Shellen from Blogger.com in 2005. DoFollow links are links that allow PageRank and anchored keywords to pass value.
I believe the reason nofollow was implemented is because of social network websites and blogs. Since links were so valuable, it ultimately led to search engine and Google PageRank manipulation. The problem with nofollow is that WordPress implemented nofollow into their blogs and it has become increasingly hard to find relevant valuable links to exchange with other websites. Even a relevant link on a blog site immediately becomes irrelevant because comments on blogs automatically have nofollow integrated into the coding. In order to circumvent this integration into WordPress blogs, a plugin was quickly developed to allow PageRank and anchor words to pass through comment links.
Links are more valuable than ever and PageRank still dictates rankings. Google has done a great job implementing strategies to provide the most relevant search results and preventing link and PageRank manipulation. If a picture is worth 1,000 words, a high quality link is worth a million.
In a recent update to the NoFollow saga, this summer Matt Cutts noted that even "NoFollow" links are counted in the overall number of links on a page. If a page has 5 follow and 5 nofollow links, the PageRank would still be divided by 10, rendering PageRank sculpting virtually a worthless task.
Blogs, Blogging, Bloggers
Blogs have become increasingly popular options as websites. A blog is not the same as a website. They are not even remotely similar in my opinion. Creating a website takes immense skill and talent. Creating and installing a Wordpress blog takes 5 minutes. The beauty of WordPress, the most popular blog format, is that it is simple, easy to use and pretty much anyone can use it. It is virtually dummy proof.
What does that mean? How can a website an a blog possibly be that much different from each other? A website takes a lot of back-end knowledge in order to develop. Most websites are created through programs such as Adobe Dreamweaver and Microsoft Frontpage. I am not into Frontpage at all, but I believe Microsoft is now focusing on Sharepoint, a newer product to replace Frontpage with. These programs cost about $300-$600 for a copy. Adobe Dreamweaver is a complex program to edit webpages. WordPress is not a program, it is an interface. WordPress by its design allows you to not have to understand the behind the scenes mechanics.
DoFollow Blogs, DoFollow what?
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What are they? DoFollow blogs are blogs that allow Google PageRank value to be distributed through comments. Bloggers prefer to comment on DoFollow blogs because of the PageRank value involved. The funny part is that most of the pages in these blogs have a PageRank 1 or PageRank 2 score. The number of comments on each post usually number about 50. Thus the amount of PageRank that is actually distributed is miniscule at best. In theory, you would have to post 50 comments on 50 different DoFollow blogs in order to achieve 1-2 PageRank points. Bloggers who post multiple comments on the same blog but under different posts should assume that only one of the DoFollow links is actually helping their website. In theory, each comment after the first comment is only reducing the amount of PageRank that is being distributed because it is increasing the number of links on the page.
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In order to create a DoFollow blog, a blogger must install and enable the dofollow plug-in attribute in order for the blog to pass PageRank through the comments. As a general rule of thumb, most bloggers who comment on dofollow blogs run a dofollow blog. Many of these same site, also run the CommentLuv plugin. If you want a list of blogs that run the CommentLuv or DoFollow plugin, do everyone a favor and Google it. If you came to this website looking for a dofollow blog and CommentLuv to leave your comments on, you came to the wrong place.
If you Google: Keith Bloemendaal, you can find several blogs that he runs that use the CommentLuv plugin. One of those blogs Keith co-operates is called BloggerLuv, but I don't have a blog and therefore I am not feeling the love. I believe Google required or asked WordPress to implement NoFollow because they didn't want everyone to be able to pass PageRank through comments.
CommentLuv does NOT make a blog dofollow. You MUST add another plugin or enable a feature to make your blog DoFollow. Because DoFollow was designed to circumvent NoFollow blog comments, even an uneducated person can figure out that Google revamped their algorithm and devalued the value of comments on a blog. If you are looking for a list of DoFollow blogs to comment on, maybe you should better spend your time learning how to design websites and increase PageRank.
Comments Ruin Content Integrity
Why is this website not a blog? I think I covered all of that but if you are still not convinced that a website is better than a blog, here is my final point. When you read and learn about SEO and use whitehat search engine optimization to benefit your business, you read about keyword density. You write an article like this one about blogs, bloggers, and blogging. You specifically target keywords in your post, and you specifically place those keywords in certain parts of sentences and paragraphs, while not engaging in spamming or keyword spamming. Your success within Google search engine rankings is based in part on PageRank, keywords, and keyword density. When you allow commentators (bloggers) to write comments on your articles, you think you are helping yourself because you are getting FREE content.
Comments often contain spelling errors, they contain lots of words that are irrelevant and diluting your keyword density. They usually link to all kinds of other websites or blogs that are not on-topic. Why are you ruining the integrity of your own work, by allowing others to comment on it? Let's say your article on your blog had a keyword density rate of 3.0% before commenting occurred. Commenting commenced and before you know it your article contains 25 comments, many of which have misspellings and all diluted your keyword density. Now your keyword density is at a mere 0.3%. Your article just fell from the TOP 10 Google results to spot number 43. Did your comments really help contribute positively to your article?