If you are relatively new to the Internet community, it may seem a daunting task to
get free, natural, backlinks to your site. You may understand now how important
natural backlinks are towards establishing a solid reputation with search engines,
but you are caught in the dilemma of the first-time job seeker. You don’t have the
qualifications to attract someone who is interested in you, but the only way to gain
those qualifications is to have the working reputation (backlinks) already in place.
So, what do you do? If you were in a tight job market looking only for experienced
people and you had no such qualifications, then you might consider getting your
experience by volunteering or doing an internship. This is not much different than
what you are going to have to do to start generating some viable backlinks that
count towards your Internet resume. You will have to do a little upfront work and
scout down the backlinks just like you were an eager job seeker with the quandary
of having no experience in a job market where all the employers want higher
qualifications.
AN EASY WAY TO SPOT A BACKLINK LEAD
As we mentioned earlier, there is a special attribute that can tell search engines to
ignore a link. In fact, search engines and blog communities like WordPress are so
afraid of backlink spamming that they automatically put the attribute of
rel=nofollow in their templates. This keeps commentators from spamming for the
sake of a backlink.
The problem with that approach is that it also keeps genuine people who are
marketing their sites from commenting too. So, many community based forums
find that the lesser of two evils for them is to switch the nofollow attribute back to a
dofollow attribute. Then, they have someone clean up the spam. This allows those
commentators with substantial entries that contribute to the community to have
their backlink. They are generally called “dofollow” sites, in comparison to nofollow
sites.
WHERE DO YOU GO?
Yet, knowing that some people are willing to give you a break in the backlink
seeking market doesn’t tell you where to go since they are unlikely to advertise this
and thus attract spammers. Understanding this predicament, you will have to do
some research on the types of websites that might give you some credit with a little
work on your end. Luckily, you bought this eBook, and half that battle is done. You
will have a leg up from other first-time backlink scouts because we will tell you
where to look and how to present yourself to get a decent backlink in less time.
Otherwise, you might have ended up getting the door slammed in your face or
wasting valuable time.
In the same way that you would not go to an employer that is not hiring and spend
inordinate amounts of time trying to get their attention, you will want to focus on
websites that basically are ready to work with you. These are the ones that can
offer you some backlinks for just a small amount of effort on your part. These are
basically those that have established a dofollow capability back into their
community forums and websites.
If you were having to actually walk your way towards every referral and ask them if
they were a dofollow site, it would take too long to get a list together. However, the
power of the Internet is that it allows you to network your way into multiple
referrals in a fraction of the time. Bulletin boards and forums are great ways to find
information on websites that will give you credit for commenting or contributing to
a community. They often post lists of sites and forums that are dofollow and can
provide you with an instant marketing contact referral list.
DIGITALPOINT
This large webmaster forum is can be an excellent resource for dofollow list of sites.
Keep in mind that the forum has grown tremendously and information changes very
quickly on the Internet. As more people become aware of digital point, it can
become diluted and start offering less quality information and more trade/sell/buy
marketplace transactions.
However, registration is free and the entire site is set up to allow you to build a
reputation through commenting in the forums. If you want to get a signature for
backlink purposes, currently you need to have at least made 10 comments/posts to
the forums and been a member for seven days. Other types of restrictions for
buying and selling also are in place. The site does allow revenue sharing after
you’ve established yourself as a contributing member with at least 50 posts to your
credit. Digitalpoint is also a dofollow forum as well as posting information on other
dofollow sites.
SearcH Engines, SCRIPTS, SOFTWARE, ETc.
Aside from logging into webmaster blogs and forums to locate dofollow lists, you
can also find information on downloading free or paid scripts and software to create your own dofollow lists. As search engines get more sophisticated and marketers
become savvy about dofollow, you can expect that people with nofollow in their
attribute might get less spam, but also less commenting and community
contributions. It’s definitely a double-edged sword for sites, but for you it’s a no-
brainer. Dofollow sites give you a backlink.
Here are some great places to locate information for free on dofollow sites:
CommentHunt.com
This is a search engine that locates high ranking blogs on specific topics that you
are searching and that are dofollow sites.
CommentKahuna.com
Free software for registering to locate dofollow sites.
DofollowBlogs.com
A directory listing of sites, separated by relevant categories that are recognized
as dofollow sites.
Why do some people give away this valuable software for free? Obviously, the
answer is that it is not free; they get something from offering it for free: a backlink.
Anyone that creates a valuable piece of software that becomes instantly popular
has just hit the gold mine for backlinks. This is an area that webmasters
consistently scout for resources and they are the most proficient networkers on the
Internet. Thus, software to help others get backlinks is a popular way to actually
obtain backlinks for you too.