Do you care about Dofollow?

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.