Nofollow & Dofollow Backlinks: A Guide To Blog Commenting

Link building is an important part of search engine optimization and some bloggers do this at all costs, even to the point of spamming on other blogs. Having quality, one-way backlinks pointing to your site does a lot in increasing your google page rank, thereby increasing the chance of your blog appearing in google search results. What most people fail to know is that only the quality of the backlinks matter, not necessarily the quantity. It's quite possible to have just a hundred backlinks and rank higher than sites with thousands of backlinks.

Now, don't get it twisted, a high google pagerank doesn't always equal to your traffic but it's still good to have it anyway. It's one of the algorithms google checks when sorting out search results. It's always been said that original contents matters a great deal and you must take this even more serious than link building but that is not the main topic here. There's a more comprehensive post I recently wrote on how to increase your google page rank and alexa traffic rank, you should try reading through it.


There are several ways to get quality backlinks pointing to your blog and one of the most effective is commenting on blogs relating to your niche. I've seen quite a lot of bloggers commenting here even to the point of spamming but most do not realize that google will never index or follow those links because there are ways to make blog commenting work to your advantage.

DoFollow And NoFollow Backlinks

What are dofollow and nofollow links? Did you know you can comment on 100 blogs without google recognizing any of those precious backlinks you worked hard to get? In a bid to reduce spamming for the sake of SEO, google devised the nofolow and dofollow tags. A link with nofollow tag added has no SEO benefit for the destination site and a link with dofollow or none of the tags will be indexed and counted as a backlink for the destination site


By default, all comments posted on blogs hosted on blogspot are nofollow links. Google doesn't index links on most blogger blogs, you probably would have noticed that in google webmaster tools and wondered why.

How To Differentiate Between Nofollow And Dofollow Links

Before you go about commenting on just any blog, you should know whether the blog you're commenting on has any SEO value for you. There's a firefox extension that highlight links in a page according to nofollow / dofollow status.

There's an easier way to do this though, just highlight an existing comment using firefox, right click and select view selection source. Below is an example of a nofollow link as shown in page source:

<a class="comments-autor-name" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/05279327145715289304" rel="nofollow">Don Caprio</a>
<a class="says">says:</a>

I'm not saying you should only comment on blogs with dofollow links, commenting on a few blogs with nofollow tag creates what looks like a natural profile in google's view.

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There are so many factors affecting your search engine ranking and even if you try to get to google's first page all by yourself, there are still some opportunities you'll be missing without an expert analysis. Apart from using the right keywords and having as much backlinks as possible, there might still be some things or two you probably won't know about because the rules on which search engines operate keep changing and hence, the need to have professionals handle your search engine optimization worries.

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Maybe you own a new website in a very competitive niche or you already have an existing site that shows up on google once in a while when someone types a weird search query, you can still make it to the first page within a very reasonable time as the results is quite quick as the name suggests.

QuickSEOResults strictly uses white hat search engine optimization concepts which stands the test of time and approved by major search engines as opposed to most SEO companies using black hat methods which got slammed by google's last Panda update. All their link building services are built on PR 6-9 authority websites and pinged out to 30-40 services which enables quick indexation. In order to ensure effectiveness, your site is also submitted to about 50 social bookmarking sites and close to 100 RSS aggregators.

If you have an idea on what basic search engine optimization and link building is all about, you will understand the stategic method employed by QuickSEOResults and like I mentioned earlier, you don't need to pay a dime till you see what they can do within thirty days, so I suggest you go for the free trial SEO first.

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Adding Feedjit Traffic Feed To Blogger & Hiding It From Blog Visitors

Feedjit Live Traffic Feed is one of the best ways to effectively monitor your blog traffic and it's very easy to use. It clearly shows your visitors' geographical location, incoming search queries, exit pages, time of visit and other things that can make you deduce a quick analysis on your web traffic. It gives you an insight on what content your visitors are interested in the most.

Though it's incomparable to google analytics in terms of sophistication, feedjit live traffic feed widget can still do a lot in helping you know your most valuable keywords, traffic source and so on.


That's what the free traffic widget looks like. You like it, huh? :) Now let's add it to your blogspot blog!

How To Add Feedjit Live Traffic Feed To Blogger

-You need to first visit feedjit to generate the code. Click here to see the sign up page.

-Fill the registration form and and proceed to the next page where you'll need to configure the look and feel of the free traffic widget to easily blend with your blog's template

-After choosing the colors, size and every other thing, you can select your blogging platform with the drop down menu at the bottom and add it directly to your blog from there.

-I prefer the alternative: Manually adding it to your blog. Select Other blog or website and copy out the generated code.

-Go to your blog's dashboard and click on Design.

-Depending on where you want the live traffic feed widget to appear on your blog, click on Add a Gadget, select HTML/Javascript and paste the code you copied earlier into the box.

-Save your template and preview your blog

How To Hide Feedjit Live Traffic Feed From Your Visitors

Though this widget looks cool, you may want to have a hidden tracker for reasons best known to you. When your visitors see that they're being tracked, they might feel a bit insecure and being tightly watched. Nobody likes this, not even me. You may also want to have this traffic feed widget invisible but still working in the background because you feel it's too bogus and gives your blog some sort of unprofessional look?

Whatever the reason may be, you can turn it to some sort of invisible tracker for your blog and here's a little trick to hide this feedjit widget.

<div style="height:0;width:0;overflow:hidden;">

YOUR FEEDJIT CODE HERE

</div>

Replace YOUR FEEDJIT CODE HERE with the code you generated earlier. Alternatively, simply paste the code below to your blog:

<div style="height:0;width:0;overflow:hidden;">
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://feedjit.com/serve/?bc=FFFFFF&amp;tc=494949&amp;brd1=336699&amp;lnk=494949&amp;hc=336699&amp;ww=160"></script><noscript>
</div>

That's it and the widget remains hidden in the background. Are you wondering how to view the traffic feed widget when it's already hidden?

http://live.feedjit.com/live/your-url-here/0/

Just replace your-url-here with your blog address. You can bookmark the link on your browser for quicker access. Wanna see who's been visiting us? Follow the link below.

http://live.feedjit.com/live/doncaprio.com/0/

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How To Increase Your Blog's Google Page Rank And Alexa Global Rank

I was at home on Sunday, just relaxing and decided to check my inbox and saw this email from a fellow blogger:

"Please can you tell me the secret of your Google page rank and natural traffic. Thanks"

I've been asked countless times how my blog attained a Google page rank of 5/10 in less than a year (My web forum that is less than four months old also has a pagerank of 6/10). My former blog (www.capriofiles.com) was started in 2009 and this very one you're reading is just a year old. I could attain a page rank of 5/10 and alexa global traffic rank of about 150,000 in less than a year because of the little experience I had with my first blog. I had to delete that blog and focus solely on this because I realized I could do much better with just a blog. Anyway, I replied the email as follows:

"The major secret is original contents coupled with one way backlinks plus right use of keywords. When I started out, I registered in lots of forums (that allow URLs in profile) and commented on lots of blogs with higher page rank. That, combined with original and well researched contents improves page rank and search engine traffic and increases your alexa global traffic rank in the process. It might take months or even a year before you see a tangible effect, but just keep building your backlinks (one way backlinks) and be sure to emphasize on the keywords you think people would type in google search when writing your blog posts.

http://www.doncaprio.com/2011/03/link-building-traffic-and-seo.html

You can check out that post. Everything there practically works for me.

Assuming you're writing a post on "How to rob a bank," you must let that phrase or similar ones like "how to steal in a bank" appear in your article as many times as you can, perhaps five to ten times or so because that is just what anyone would type into google search box.

If only I had been writing my blog posts the way I do now right from the start, I would have had much more traffic and a higher alexa traffic rank. But remember, it's always original content, right choice of keywords and one-way backlinks that increases your google pagerank, search engine traffic and eventually, a better alexa trafic rank"

Yes, those are the three most important things to put in mind when thinking of increasing your blog's google page rank and alexa global traffic rank but for the purpose of clarification, I'll explain each of these one after the other.


1. Original, Quality and Well Researched Contents

I'm sure you might have heard this before but do you actually know what it means? I've seen a lot of new bloggers use articles on other blogs word for word, thinking its a cheap way to get traffic but hurting their very own pagerank in the process. Google has a way of differentiating between original content from copied one and you'll definitely sink lower in search engine result page if you're the type that relies on contents from other blogs. The last Google panda update 2.5 focused heavily on plagiarism, poor contents, black hat SEO and lots of big sites with high page rank sank.

A friend using autoblogging software disappeared from SERP and so many others got affected. There was some kind of general fluctuation in traffic but I've noticed an increase in traffic since. When google realizes your site content is copied from somewhere else, you lose relevance in search engine result page and start missing out on search engine traffic. So, the bottom line is writing original and well research content that gives you not only a higher page rank, but also gains you credibility with your readers.

I should also add this: you don't expect to come up in google search result with a blog post of just one hundred words. Your post must be long enough to be called a real article. Writing short contents won't increase your page rank or drive in any meaningful traffic form search engines.

2. Choice of Keywords and Moderate Use

Apart from writing original contents, it's also important to know the right keywords to use that's going to drive in traffic from search engines. Like I said earlier, if you're going to write a blog post on how to rob a bank, you must be sure to include that phrase in your article and similar ones such as 'how to steal in a bank' and so on. You should let this appear in your article as many times as possible but it seems google now has a way of punishing excessive use of keywords. You must be moderate about it but you also must be sure you pick the right keywords to use in each article.

A few weeks back, I wrote a post that went viral and drove in lots of traffic, with almost 600 facebook likes in just a couple of weeks, and I took time to study how I wrote that blog post and realized what made it go viral was the proper use of keywords that drove in mad search engine traffic which will definitely have a huge impact on my alexa global ranking in about a month or so. The phrases used in that blog post was exactly what people were searching for on google.

Using Google analytics will give you a better insight on keywords and I suggest you start using this if you haven't.

3. Building Quality Backlinks

I won't talk much about this because I have an article that already covers it. Building quality backlinks is an efficient search engine optimization method that's definitely fool proof. It's an important way to increase your page rank and one of the algorithms google considers in SERP. For more info on this, please read this post.

One important this you must know in order to increase your traffic, google page rank and alexa traffic rank is that although these things are different from one another, they are still interrelated one way or the other. Focus on improving your blog by writing quality and original content with good choice of keywords and you'll realize your google page rank drives more search engine traffic which in turn increases your alexa traffic rank. Happy blogging!

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Buy Facebook Fans And Twitter Followers

Starting a facebook fan page is easy but getting people to like the page might be a hard task to accomplish. There are several ways to promote your facebook fan page on your website or blog and these include using the like box or like button I recently wrote a blog about. Another way is by suggesting the page to your facebook friends but this definitely won't get you thousands of likes. You might get a couple of hundreds which isn't that much when it comes to real facebook marketing.



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Using Google Analytics On Your Blog

There are several free counters you can use to monitor traffic coming to your blog but only a few can equal google analytics in terms of detailed reporting. Google analytics is a free service provided by google to keep a track of your site or blog's visitors. Using google analytics is quite helpful as it gives you an idea of what your visitors find interesting on your blog and areas you should make improvements. With google Analytics, you get to see almost real-time data about your site's visitors. It's even possible to track how much you're earning from each of your blogs if you have more than one.

Google Analytics can provide you information about top search keywords relating to your site, referring websites and so on.

Installing google analytics on blogger is quite easy but you first have to sign up for the service with your google account.

1. Log in to google analytics and create a new account for your blog.



2. Hit the sign up button on the next page and proceed to the next stage where you're supposed to enter your website's URL and account name.



3. Enter your contact information and proceed



4. Copy out the code generated on the next page





5. Log in to your blogger account and click on Design > Edit HTML

6. By pressi9ng CTRL + F on your keyboard, search for </head>

7. Just above this, paste the code you copied earlier in step 4 and save your template.

You just successfully installed google analytics code on your site and should start seeing tracking reports in your google analytics dashboard in about 24 hours.

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