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Backlinks are the most important aspect of building a successful website. To those that don’t know, your search rankings are partly based on how many website link back to yours. So, here’s your guide to do follow blogs.

There are many ways to build backlinks, which I won’t cover here. But there are good way and bad ways. A good way to build backlinks is by commenting on blogs.

However, many blogs (especially Wordpress by default) have a ‘no-follow’ tag attribute on by default. This means that any links in your comments will not be counted in your search rankings. So, you shouldn’t waste your time commenting on these types of blogs (that is unless they genuinely interest you).

How do you find so called ‘do-follow’ blogs?

The fastest and easiest way is to use a new tool called Do Follow Diver. This tool is great, it is a database of blogs that have removed the ‘no-follow’ attribute from their blogs. That means that when you comment and leave your web address, it will be counted as a valuable link to search engines.

All you need to do is search for things that interest you or things related to your blog, read the blog entries and make relevant comments. Keep in mind, you should not spam comments and just post your links. You should participate on the blogs and add something to the conversation. If you needlessly spam, chances are your comments will be removed and you wasted your time posting to begin with.

How valuable are these do-follow backlinks? 1 hour spent building links for your blog through commenting will help your search rankings greatly and eventually increase your Google Pagerank.

My only complaint about “>Do Follow Diver< is that it only allows you to search these blogs, it doesn’t provide a straight list of all the blogs in it’s directory.

There are other directories of ‘do-follow’ sites that aren’t as useful but here they are listed below:

Do Follow Diver
Do Follow Blogs Directory
Blogs That Follow: A Do Follow Blog Link Directory
424 blog backlinks
Do Follow List | Nickoo Shore
Phoenix SEO Do-Follow Blog List

The media was filled positive PR about a new search engine that is seeking to challenge Google called, Cuil (pronounced ‘cool’).

As a search professional, I’m not impressed.

In fact, the only thing that impressed me was their PR campaign. They managed to get into every major media outlet in the world. They were even featured on the front page of Drudgereport as well as Digg and all the other major social networking websites.

While their PR campaign was impressive, it was also their own undoing. Their new site could not handle the server load and it did not work for most of the day. Way to impress us guys.

What kind of company announces their ‘Google Killer’ to the world and doesn’t plan for the inevitable traffic from people wanting to try it out?

Well, eventually I was able to try it out and I was not impressed at all. The search results weren’t very relevant. I couldn’t even find some of my own websites. Hell, if you search for ‘Cuil,’ it returns nothing.

The layout of the search results also doesn’t really work from a perspective of trying to find what you’re looking for quickly. They claim they’ve indexed 192 billion webpages. But that is irrelevant unless they have the relevancy to match.

I also fail to see a business model, I don’t see ads anywhere or any way to monetize their search results. I’m glad to see someone step up and take on Google but these guys have a lot more work ahead of them before they can truly compete.