Unfortunately, Google still isn’t showing many back links. Webmaster Tools reports 0 Pages with external links. A Google search for link:pagerush.com yields only about 10 results. As usual, Yahoo is much more forthcoming, showing inlinks from other domains at a healthy 386.

As long as this continues to get better on a week over week basis, I’m happy. Building a successful site is a combination of creating something remarkable, and promoting it intelligently. Oh, and one of these days I’ve got to get over and figure out how to better capitalize on the StumbleUpon phenomenon.

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I collected over 2000 links from existing public sources and worked with a team of human judges to visit each blog and verify if it was dofollow. I have learned a lot and met a lot of great bloggers in the process. Not surprisingly, about half of the links we verified (which were supposedly dofollow) were actually nofollow.

Classifying blogs is not as easy as you might think. They must have comments. If they use a comment plug-in like Disqus, you have to verify that the commenter’s link goes to their blog, and not a Disqus profile page. Then there are plugins like Lucia’s Link Love that may allow dofollow links in the body of the post, or only allow dofollow links after a certain number of approved posts (I’ve been categorizing these as “somefollow”). And of course, any given blog could change at any time. So an important design consideration for this tool was to make it easy to re-check blogs on an ongoing basis.

As I’ve posted elsewhere, getting dofollow blog backlinks is not the only link building strategy you should consider. It is a strategy that mostly makes sense for new Web sites. Your site will only increase PageRank by getting links from sites that have a higher PageRank, so it makes sense to target blogs with a higher PageRank. Unfortunately this makes high PageRank sites more of a target, but we’ve found a healthy distribution of medium PageRank sites.

Lastly, I created a very basic categorization system for the blogs. Of course, when seeking backlinks from blogs it is best to comment in your area of expertise. Surprisingly, the largest categories are Technology and People. I would have thought that Marketing and Business blogs where the most likely to be giving away dofollow links, but I was wrong.

You can evaluate the list using the PageRush dofollow search engine. The search engine searches all of the blogs on the dofollow list. To get full access to the entire list on an ongoing basis, as well as OPML RSS export, sign up for PageRush Site Booster today!

Long term this has huge ramifications as it makes Google search results more socially malleable. You should actively rank your sites to the top for all the search terms you care about now so that as more people discover this feature, they will see your sites and comments for their searches. You should see very small short-term gains in traffic if you hit major keyword searches.

On-Demand indexing allows anyone with a Google Custom Search Engine or Google Site Search to identify and tell us about new pages or recent site changes by submitting a Sitemap to our Webmaster Tools.

Google Custom Search: On-Demand Indexing for a fast-moving web

This is only really useful for large sites with a lot of content. I would argue that for small sites and blogs, the normal global Google search is the only way people are going to find you any way, and secondary searches on your site are pretty small secondary source of traffic. Lijit, which is a service organizing Google CSE for bloggers is pretty useless, IMHO. When developers have full API access to Google CSE, it becomes a lot more interesting. This would surely be something developers would pay for, as the only alternative currently is Yahoo BOSS.