Blog Link Juice

As an SEO for local business I have found blogging to be a very useful tool. Now I understand that a lot of people do not believe that “Do Follow” blogs pass much link juice and are not worth your time. I have to disagree. While it should not be the only tool in your link building tool box it can be a very useful one.

In local SEO we are not usually trying to get thousands of links from huge authority sites, while this would be nice, our clients just don’t have the budget for it.

What blogs do offer to your client is an easy way to get some link juice with minimal effort. These links are usually on pages that relate to the keyword you are going after and some even allow you to chose your anchor text. Now when your biggest competitors have under 200 links, those blog comments start looking really nice.

The biggest problem I ran into in the past was finding blogs that do not use the rel=nofollow parameter in their comments section. Luckily I have found some amazing sources that help me get the link love from some good Do Follow blogs.

Comment Hunt is one of the best sources I have found allowing you to search for any keyword and it will return blogs that are (or were) Do-Follow. Because Comment Hunt searches through Google you should double check to make sure the blogs are still Do Follow.

Followlist.com advocates the Do Follow Blog Idea.

“How do you encourage people to comment on your blog posts? You give them something in return. You give them an outgoing link to their website, when they make a quality comment on your blog”

They also have a nice list of no follow blogs.

Here is a list of other sites I have found with useful blog lists.

The success you will have with a blog comment link building strategy depends on the quality of the blogs and the competition for your keywords. While I doubt anything I have said us revolutionary I think its an important step to any local SEO campaign.

Tags: Blogging, Do Follow, Link Building, Local SEO

Link Building | Gary | October 21, 2009 1:40 pm

10 Comments

By Nick @ Nickoo Shore, October 22, 2009 @ 1:23 am

Thanks for mentioning my do follow list!

Cheers,
Nick
By admin, October 22, 2009 @ 12:10 pm

No problem Nick, I don’t know if I’m quite ready to be a Do Follow blog myself but I believe in sending the link love any way I can. We always love links back too Thanks for the good list!
By muzikshqip, October 26, 2009 @ 12:04 pm

thanks
By graduate school essay, November 2, 2009 @ 1:07 am

Took me time to read all the comments, but I enjoyed the article.
By jackie @ com, November 6, 2009 @ 5:31 am

thanks for the post!!
By admin@, November 11, 2009 @ 6:43 am

its great resource for the marketer and for the bloger

quality comments will be accepted in my dofollow blog site
By bestpricemoving, November 14, 2009 @ 10:23 am

Thank you for giving us a lot of information about do follow list. I think you should continue your writing. And defiantly your blog is going to be a warehouse. Where all of the people can get a lot of information. thanks again for for this post.
By Bürostuhl, January 9, 2010 @ 12:16 pm

thanks for the information on the dofollow blogsif you want to achieve a good and fast ranking in the most of the search engine than blog commenting is the easiest and the fast method to get a backlink from the high pr site. if you made a comment on a high pr site if that link is the dofollow one than it will give a boost in your ranking. .
By lagarconne, July 7, 2010 @ 2:41 am

Most of the peoples are going to choose do follow but still I am with no follow & also my blog is having no follow because I really hate spammers & no follow is a good for keep spammers away from you. & if any one can have no follow then he will get only real comments.
By easybreathe, July 11, 2010 @ 4:27 am

It’s good source & also your post is well written & easy to understanding, your information might be very helpful for SEO purpose.