Do you care about Dofollow?

[InternetMarketingIQ]

Last month I started working again on a site that is pretty aged and was ranking in the top 20 for a very competitive travel niche.

I have been working an EXACT keyword anchor text phrase.

I have been posting blog and forum comments.

I have NOT bothered to look for dofollow blogs at all... in fact nearly all the comments are on nofollow blogs.

However I am looking for blogs with pages that have pagerank.

I have managed to push the site to #5 from page 2 for this keyword phrase in about 3 weeks with maybe 100 anchor text backlinks.

I only post on blogs with Pagerank because I believe dofollow or not that this at least shows the blog is respected by Google.

And it seems to be working just fine. I don't know it if will push clear to #1, but the site at #1 has a ton of links and almost all of them are PR3 or lower and many of them in low quality directories.

Not a this works for sure kind of thing, but it sure seems to.

I believe when you chase links only on dofollow blogs you just set yourself up to be one of 100's and that your link may get buried real soon as the page is archived. A lot of the comments I'm making are on blogs that only have a handful of comments already.

And yes I read the article and make a comment that is relevant to the article. No sense in posting comments that will only be deleted by the moderator.

[JMPruitt]

I worry more about whether the blog gets any traffic than if they follow or not. YOU can get good traffic from placing comments on no follow blogs. Does no good for link juice, but the game is all about traffic in the end, not just ranking for the sake of getting on Google.

If you can get more traffic without waiting on search engine rankings, why pass it up just because it does not help you with the search traffic?

[DogScout]

Originally Posted by JMPruitt

I worry more about whether the blog gets any traffic than if they follow or not. YOU can get good traffic from placing comments on no follow blogs. Does no good for link juice, but the game is all about traffic in the end, not just ranking for the sake of getting on Google.

If you can get more traffic without waiting on search engine rankings, why pass it up just because it does not help you with the search traffic?

Amen (And more added words)

[dlm]

Originally Posted by JMPruitt

I worry more about whether the blog gets any traffic than if they follow or not. YOU can get good traffic from placing comments on no follow blogs. Does no good for link juice, but the game is all about traffic in the end, not just ranking for the sake of getting on Google.

If you can get more traffic without waiting on search engine rankings, why pass it up just because it does not help you with the search traffic?

Quoted for truth.

People get too worked up over dofollow and PR and all that stuff. Traffic matters, revenue matters, number of inbound links (might affect traffic and revenue, but on its own) doesn't matter.