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Increase Your Page Rank by Joining the Do Follow Movement!

I came across a worrying fact the other day. If you are adding comments all over the blogosphere in the hope it will help with your Google Page Rank (which counts incoming links as part of its assessment of your blogs importance) you could have been wasting your time!

It seems plenty of blogs have what’s referred to as ‘No Follow’ attributes in the code, which basically stop Google from counting these towards your Pagerank. How frustrating, especially if you’ve been busy posting all over the blogosphere, getting involved and contributing like crazy.

So what can you do about this? Join the Do Follow Movement that’s what! How do you do that? Well here goes:

1) First check out Andy Beard’s ultimate list of Do Follow plug-ins to remove the No Follow attributes from your blog.

2) Then head to Randa Clay’s blog to pick up one of her beautiful graphics to prove your commitment and display proudly on your blog. For example:

Do Follow Logo from Randa Clay

3) Next head to Court Tuttle’s blog and add yourself to his D-List - all those who’ve joined the club already.

Once you done this, start commenting on any site from the list and with a bit of luck your Pagerank will start to rise.

I’ll let you know if it works for me, I’m currently stuck at rock bottom (see the chart below), but it certainly seems to be doing the trick for the amazing Paula Mooney!!

Page Rank May 07

If you want to know what your current Pagerank is head to Live Page Ranks where you can get a chart like mine, although hopefully with a higher page rank.

My thanks and respect to Andy, Randa, Court and of course Paula.

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10 Responses to “Increase Your Page Rank by Joining the Do Follow Movement!”

  1. Matthew on May 11th, 2007

    thats a good do follow guide… courts list is awesome.

    the dofollow also helps technorati rankings as well as google

  2. Andrew Bargery on May 12th, 2007

    great, added bonus that it helps with the Technorati rankings as well.

    next stop link train - are these wrong?

  3. Ilya Lichtenstein on May 12th, 2007

    It’s important to remember that Google does PageRank updates only once every few months. The last update was about a week and a half ago. So, Paula’s PageRank didn’t jump from 2 to 5 in a couple of days because of all the DoFollow comments, but because all of the backlinks she accumulated over the last few months suddenly began to count toward her PR.

    But Dofollow comments help PageRank too- just not as much as you might think.

  4. Andrew Bargery on May 13th, 2007

    Thanks for that Ilya. I would have thought Google would update the PR scores more frequently than that, especially considering the significance it seems to have acquired.

    It’s a shame Dofollow doesn’t help that much for PageRank. BUT, if it encourages people to leave comments and interact then it’s already worth its weight in gold.

    Thanks for stopping by!

  5. Cade on May 13th, 2007

    I am so glad that you found Court’s site. We work close together and we want to help out a lot of people. I am excited to see the growth of your site!

  6. Andrew Bargery on May 13th, 2007

    Hi Cade, thanks for the note. I’ll keep you posted on how I get on. Looks like you have some nice stuff going on over at http://writetoright.com/ also.

  7. Svend on May 14th, 2007

    Hey I want to get on the movement, but what are the downsides of adding a do-follow on your website? Because from what you and the others are saying it would be a really good thing. I am always just skeptical about new things so any information you have would be great.

  8. Andrew Bargery on May 14th, 2007

    Hi Svend, so far I haven’t noticed any downsides - but then I only got involved 3 days ago. Upsides include more comments, more interaction with other bloggers and increased back links.

    I can’t see what the downsides might be either. But then often when something sounds too good to be true, it is.

    Sorry I can’t be more helpful than that. If you come across anything then please let me know. In the mean time, thanks for stopping by.

  9. Halim - Belajar SEO on June 28th, 2008

    Is there a way to do the same thing to the blogspot site? If not, gosh..need to migrate to wordpress.

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