Nofollow Backlink, Natural Link Building

What is Nofollow Backlink?

Blog commenting is the best way for link building. Although sometimes, blog commenting is called as blog spamming, if the comment only said Nice post, thanks., and embedded with anchor text of Buy 1 Get 1 Free Viagra below it.

In 2005, nofollow, a HTML attribute value that tells search engines to not follow the links, was assigned by Google in order to minimize blog spamming comments. Though, it definitely would not affect on stopping spamming behavior.

From its name definition, nofollow doesn't mean don't follow this link, more correctly it means don't add weight from this link. So, this rel="nofollow" attribute might still followed and indexed by some search engines including Google.

If it's true that nofollow attribute will order the search engines to not follow the links, then why the links were appeared in your Google Webmaster tools, and counted as your backlinks?

Nofollow Profile Backlinks

Have you added your links on the profile pages of high PR sites such as yahoo, facebook, twitter, youtube, flickr, etc?

Backlinks from those sites are worth a lot. Even though your links were on the PR0, or even PR N/A pages of the sites, but having backlinks from very strong sites are carried more weight than links from lower sites.

In other words, links from interior PR0 pages of PR9 sites, are better than links from interior PR0 pages of PR0 sites

Although links which are marked with nofollow won't contribute to your sites PR, you might still gain traffic from the sites. Moreover, links which are placed in viewable public profiles on High PR sites, are considered as Google Juice by many SEO experts.

Site Reputation

If your sites backlinks are only dofollow backlinks, your sites will look suspicious to Google and others search engines. As most webmasters had already known that nofollow backlinks have no SEO weight, but that was truly questionable to me.

Having many backlinks whether they are nofollow or dofollow will build your sites trustworthy and reputation. The more reputation your sites have, the more traffic will drive to your sites.

Many inbound links can help improve your rank in search engines, and can serve as a measure of a site's reputation.

Alexa Website.

Based on the statement at Alexa website above, it will look suspicious if your sites have less backlinks, whether they are dofollow or nofollow, but your Alexa traffic rank was high.

Top Sites Are Also Doing Blog Spamming

I once studied 2 sites that spamming the comments on my top blog post. Both of sites were high on Alexa rank, and already had the PR9 backlink that I described on my post. They both only promoted their own sites using anchor links.

The 1st site, let's say site A, was PR2 with Alexa rank below 100K. Site A has more than 800 inbound links. 30% of Top 100 Alexa sites linking to site A, were from edu sites, which are marked with nofollow.

The sad news was, last time I checked the site, since last May, site A admin has offered his full site for sale at $70 bid in a forum post.

The other site, site B, was PR4 with Alexa rank below 120K. Site B has more than 750 inbound links. More than 50% of Top 100 Alexa sites linking to site B, were from search engines (mostly Google), which are also marked with nofollow.

I was amazed the 1st time I saw site B inbound links. Site B was getting backlinks from major search engines, such as, google.co.in, google.com.hk, google.com.tr, bing.com, google.com.vn, google.fr, google.it, google.co.id, isearch.babylon.com, isearch.avg.com, search.mywebsearch.com, and many more, for various search queries. Alexa even counted backlinks from facebook.com and t.co (URL short from twitter.com), based on Top 20 Alexa sites linking to site B.

From certain pages on yahoo, facebook and twitter, your links might gain dofollow backlinks.

You see now.. Even the big guys (big sites) were still doing blog spamming.

Natural Link Building

Link building is not instant. I guess all instant matters will not good for us, because it will not last long. And also, instant foods are junk.

Be open minded webmasters! You should not worry about all of your sites backlinks. Whether they are dofollow or nofollow backlinks, having many inbound links will improve your sites visibility and reputation.

Write your best contents at least for your own sake, not for your readers, or even for search engines. If you love and happy with what you've written, it definitely will appear inside your post. Your readers will surely appreciate your effort, and so do the search engines.

Stop doing blog spamming! Repeating the same comments, if your 1st post on a site or blog is not published by the admin. The 2nd, 3rd, and all of your comment posts will end up in the spam junk.

References:

Official Google Blog
Preventing comment spam
https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html

Microformats Wiki
rel="nofollow"
https://microformats.org/wiki/rel-nofollow

SEOmoz
Do NOFOLLOW backlinks have ANY value? or did I waste money?
https://www.seomoz.org/q/do-nofollow-backlinks-have-any-value-or-did-i-waste-money

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow

9 Free High Quality Page Rank Backlinks

A site with high Page Rank (PR) doesn't mean that the site will be high in search ranking, or search engine result pages (SERPs). SEO methods such as, posts in forums, comments on other blogs, and link promoting on social media, will increase the site's ranking on a specific keyword's SERPs.

For a new site, having many backlinks will increase the site's visibility on search engine. Moreover, if the site's backlinks are from and to high quality related sites, it will impact on the site's PR. The more high a site's PR, the more often Googlebot crawled it, and indexed its pages.

You can check how many pages that Google had indexed your sites by googling it. For instance: site:verdilaurent.blogspot.com, or inurl:verdilaurent.blogspot.com. Change verdilaurent.blogspot.com with your sites URL.

Based on this blog backlinks, here are my top 9 high PR sites that you should try to join with:

Last.fm
PR8, Alexa Rank 1,317. A music community site which had lots of forums or groups for you to join with. Sign up as new member. Update your profile and add your site URL. Fill your signature with your anchor text and URL, using BBCode, here's mine for example, [url=https://verdilaurent.blogspot.com/]V for Value[/url]. Join with some of the groups, and post your messages, or comments. You will get nofollow backlinks from the groups.

Flagcounter Forum
PR8, Alexa Rank 16,580. Flag collector forum site, where you can exchange your flag with other members. Read the forum rule before you joined! Your site must have a web counter from flagcounter. Here's rule #5 of the forum: All links added to your signature must lead to a page that contains a Flag Counter. All backlinks you get in the forum are dofollow.

Technorati
PR7, Alexa Rank 9,891. An internet search engine for searching blogs, or you might say, blog search engine. When your sites are listed in Tecnorati directory, your sites will get 2 nofollow backlinks from technorati.com and pingerati.net.

Feedage
PR6, Alexa Rank 18,375. RSS feeder where you can promote your sites feeds. The backlink is nofollow.

Identi.ca
PR6, Alexa Rank 120,254. An open source social networking and micro-blogging service, similar to twitter. The backlink is nofollow.

Bloggers
PR5, Alexa Rank 144,459. New bloggers.com is intended to be a place where, bloggers find works, and companies meet marketing partners. I'm not sure about the backlink, because my new bloggers profile, that I had just submit, was still in progress.

Site Connect
PR5, Alexa Rank 338,787. A free service for getting site reviews from other members and increasing your website traffic. The higher your rank, the more traffic you get from other member reviews. Backlink is nofollow.

Warrior Forum
PR4, Alexa Rank 699. An internet marketing forum. The best place to find and learn on how to make money on the internet. There're lots of useful informations, that you can learn from lots of senior members, or so called as SEO's guru. You'll get dofollow backlinks.

W3 Directory
PR4, Alexa Rank 114,931. A website directory. Add your site by filling out the form, your blog name, blog description, and keywords which describe your blog niche. You'll get many dofollow backlinks.

Other things that you should know, after you join with 9 high PR sites above, and edit your profile page with your link. The link from your profile page, will be on a new page with no PR at all. You will gain high PR backlinks, if you place your link (on your signature) on the sites's pages that having high PR, such as, 5 star forum posts which had commented and viewed by lots of other members, or guests. The 5 star forum post is the one that ranked high on SERPs for certain keywords.

But still, having backlinks from high quality (high PR) sites will impact on your site's PR, whether it's dofollow or nofollow. Backlinks in which many SEO experts called them as the Google Juice, links that are placed in publicly viewable profiles on high PR sites. Tell me what do you think by commenting below!

Note:
The PR and Alexa Rank info of the 9 sites above are taken a day before the post is published. Image is courtesy of blaugh.com.

Update: January 1, 2015.

How To Find Quality Dofollow Backlink As Many As You Can

Backlinks can help improve your website rank in search engines result pages, and the more sites are linking to yours, your site's reputation will also increasing. Most webmasters are in quest to find as many as possible dofollow backlink for their site, especially from the high quality, or high PR sites. For most webmasters, dofollow backlink is worth a lot than nofollow backlink.

But I'm disagree with that, in my own perception, your nofollow backlinks are worth as your dofollow backlinks. Just like nofollow backlinks that you've got, by placing your website URL on social media profiles, such as Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Flickr, and etc. Though it's possible get dofollow backlinks from those social media, if you can manage to gain lots of traffic from them (as referring site).

The difference is that your nofollow backlinks may not all appear on your Alexa's Sites Linking to your site pages.

But, all of them are appeared on your Google Webmaster Tools Links to Your Site pages. Alexa counts all your backlinks, eventhough the links (the pages) have been removed from the sites, or the sites were no longer exist (dead links), but Google doesn't.

Compared to Alexa, Google counts the links that still alive or exist, and didn't describe the pages URL that linked to your site like Alexa did, only number of links and linked pages. Google counts only domain name, for example, blogspot and wordpress blogs are only counted by its domain name.

I once wrote about the strange of backlinks on Alexa. In my previous post Backlink from Your Own Blog, I described that you can get dofollow backlink from your blogs. So far, I only got 1 backlink from my blog, but I saw another blogger's blog got 5 multiple backlinks from his own blog URL.

But wait..!

Have you add your site to Google Webmaster and claim your site on Alexa? You must have done it first, in order that Google and Alexa are paying more intention to your site. The higher your website PR, the more frequently Googlebot and Alexa crawl your site.

I assume that you probably had already Googling for search term dofollow blog, list of dofollow blog, edu and gov wordpress blog, or high PR commentluv blog, etc.

For example, hancur.it with its post title List of High PR .edu Dofollow Blogs 2012, is on page one from your Googling result.

Then you visit hancur.it, read the post for about 2 minutes. You are curious with the list, in which probably more than 10 links. And then you start to click one by one of the links, or copy paste one by one to a new tab, to visit all links.

Let's say, it takes a minute to load each link. What was your result? Did you satisfy with the result? I assume that you just spent about 12 minutes of worthless pageview visit to hancur.it. I guess that most of the links on the list are probably dead. You have forgotten the main point here.

Have you ever wonder whether if hancur.it had visited all those links, or already got backlinks from one of them? I bet that hancur.it's webmaster never actually try to click all links on its list, he just only gatherred the lists (copy paste) from others.

So, what's the point then?

Let me ask you! Who was the one who counted your dofollow backlink? If you read my post carefully, you'll know the answer right away....

...mmm.. Yap, Alexa. Alexa is the dofollow backlinks source. That's why, there're no sites got backlink from Alexa.com, whether is nofollow or dofollow, even Google.com (the #1 Alexa rank).

Go to Alexa website! Search for your site's niche! For example: you type blogging, and then the top result with most traffic and rank is ngemengepeh.co.uk. Click on it! You will go to ngemengepeh.co.uk's site info. Have a look on the site reputation! How many does ngemengepeh.co.uk's sites linking in? Let's say it has 14,256 sites linking in.

Click on the number! You will go to sites linking to ngemengepeh.co.uk (page1). There you go! You have seen the top 100 (5 pages) dofollow sites lists of ngemengepeh.co.uk. Now, all you have to do is eliminate the list one by one! If on the top 20 (page 1) are only backlink from high PR sites such as Google.com, Yahoo.com, Twitter.com, Bing.com, and Youtube.com, it will be hard for you to get those backlinks.

Now, move on to the top 40 (page 2)! Look for the site that contain pages or dates. For example you see on the number 21 is:

wewegombel.ac.in
wewegombel.ac.in/it/blogging/2012/07/best_list.html

There are 3 possibilities lay within the link. ngemengepeh.co.uk may get doffolow backlink directly from the post article, by commenting, or the page was no longer exist (dead links). And still, it's worth to check it out, to add value to yourself, better than following the lists from webmasters who haven't got backlinks from the lists, just like hancur.it did.

But.. There is always but..

Your 1st visit to best_list.html page for instance, from copy paste the link, will be consider as a spam visit. Why? Because your referring site was unknown. You must at least bookmarks the site to visit again, or visit from search engine by Googling for wewegombel.ac.in.

Ups.. I've forgot to describe about the main point, the more easiest way. Back to the googling result example above! The top result from the example above was hancur.it. Check the Alexa's sites linking to hancur.it! Now, you will know whether hancur.it's webmaster has been made a fool of you or not.

How to Get Free Backlink from PR9 Site

If you are a webmaster, you would have known this, The more sites that are linking to your site, the more traffic you will get. That is truly a fact, there are no webmasters would doubt it. Many webmasters are trying hard to keep their Alexa rank as lower as they could.

Though even I could not understand what are alexa based for ranking the sites. On alexa website, it only said that, many inbound links can help improve your rank in search engines, and can serve as a measure of a site's reputation.

You would also probably saw an advertising about buying link from PR9 sites. Infact you wouldn't have to spent a dime to get backlink from a PR9 site based on my experience in this blog.

Yeah!! The site is blogger.com, a PR9 site with alexa rank 89 (last time I checked). How did I get that PR9 backlink for free? If you already have Google account, whether you have blog or not, you must have a blogger profile. Fill your blogger profile with your site!

And then, if you have already blogger profile with your site on it, you must have been wondering, why my site didn't get a backlink from blogger.com?

Actually, there are 2 ways to get a backlink from blogger.com. The main thing is, you must comment to other sites, especially blogger blogspot sites, using your Google account.

The second is, your comment must be unique, so that it can drive the other visitors of the site who also read the post, to view on your blogger profile.

The more people viewed on your profile, and visited the site on your blogger profile, the faster you get the PR9 backlink from blogger.com.

The truth is, by commenting to other blogs or sites, it will drive traffic to your site, at least an exchange visit from the site owner. Moreover, if you follow others blog using Google Friend Connect, that other blog will also get another backlink from blogger.com.

You should not have to place your site link, using html text, with an anchor text, for an intention to get dofollow backlink from the site. It would be considered as a spam comment, and the site owner would not publish your comment.

Update: December 26, 2014