Content may be the king, but links are the currency of the web. Over the years, I’ve made some good money by building up links to my websites. The easiest way to do this was with blog commenting. Blogs are naturally content rich and google loves content rich sites, especially ones with continually fresh updates. Following this strategy easily put my sites on the top of the SERPs. When google brought in the nofollow tag, my blog commenting strategy had to be tuned to only comment on those blogs that did not use this tag. This is about the time when I thought it would be neat to have a dedicated dofollow search engine. DoFollow blogs are rare (in comparison with the billions are total blogs in the bloggersphere) but they exist.

What is the dofollow search engine?
Basically, it is just like any other search engine except it only brings back results from a special index of sites I’ve deemed as dofollow. Using the search engine saves time by only bringing back blogs posts related to your specialty. So say you have a site about iPhone apps, you can do a search on ‘iPhone’ and read up on what other bloggers are saying. This will mean that you will have more to comment on since it is an area you know well and it will also add relevancy to your links as the content of the post will be related to your site’s niche.

My comment policy
People naturally think that I’m a comment spammer. Whilst I may have strayed from time to time, I try to add value to the post by voicing my opinion. If I do not have anything of value to say, I simply move on to the next article or blog. This is also what I encourage other people to do. Comment spamming will only push bloggers to rethink their dofollow policy. If you are able to add useful comments though, you will not only be rewarded with some link juice, you will have helped out a fellow webpreneur feel good about themselves – well I certainly do when I receive a comment

Why do people have a dofollow blog
Having a dofollow blog can be a good strategy for fresh blogs. I for one, only have dofollow blogs on my rss. Unless you’re techcrunch or gizmodo, I don’t bother keeping up to date with your blog unless you give me some link juice for my time .

Your search engine is crap. It’s littered with nofollow blogs!
Unfortunately, there are bloggers out there who opt out of the dofollow program and change their blog back to nofollow. Checking blogs is currently a labourious manual task and I have no doubt that their are blogs in my list need to be weeded out. Please take a moment of your time to help out and contact me about these nofollow blogs that should be removed from the index.

I have a dofollow blog, can you add me in?
Sure thing! Just use my contact me page and buzz me with your sites details and I’ll drop by to verify your blog before I update my index.

Okay, enough argy bargy, where is your search engine?
I’ve made a special page to house the search engine. It is powered by google and only brings back blogs from my specifically constructed dofollow blog index