Making your blog “dofollow” is a great way to promote your site. It will bring you more readers and comments (see also What is Dofollow). This blog is dofollow, the recent increase in the number of comments and readers inspired me to write this pledge.
I pledge to moderate all comments and reward quality commenters with dofollow backlinks.
What you can do to join the Dofollow Movement
1. Turn on comment moderation on your blog, and install a plugin that will filter comment spam.
2. Install a dofollow plugin.
3. Submit your dofollow blog to PageRush and add the HTML code for your badge.
2. Leave a comment below with a link to your site.
3. Follow @dofollow on Twitter. Anyone is welcome to follow, but @dofollow only follows people who have dofollow blogs. You follow? That means it is a great place to hang out find other dofollowers 
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PixelHead(Adam) 01.23.09 at 10:18 am
Great job in snagging the Dofollow name on twitter..I like AdamLove better though…us Adam’s got to stick together. Would you be interested in doing a guest post on Pixelheadonline…something like the “top ten reasons to to be Dofollow” ?
Dofollow Social Bookmarking 01.24.09 at 3:40 am
Many people still don’t know the importance of dofollow. I’m glad I’m a part of dofollow movement…
Airport Parking 01.24.09 at 3:41 am
Since the dofollow movement was taken seriously by big seo experts, I am not commenting to nofollow blogs anymore…
Anraiki 01.24.09 at 5:02 am
I think it is “brain washing” that I am following an action word base on its name, “Do follow”. That account is the first account I am following on twitter.
It told me to follow it!
Primar 01.24.09 at 11:05 am
Thanks Adam for this great trick, I should to join to bring my blog more traffic. I have submitted my blog articles to automated submission engines and have not seen much benefit. Thanks.
Altesino 01.24.09 at 4:53 pm
Congrats on the great Twitter name. I’m in the process of getting related names for my site on the social networks. I have to be a little more creative.
One point I’d stress is to have Akismet or another spam blocker on your blog. It can save you hours of work if a few spammers start slamming your site.
adam 01.24.09 at 7:53 pm
Altesino – Yes, Akismet is a requirement!
Boris 01.25.09 at 8:50 pm
Well, you may have gotten a great twitter name but so what. I got a great name, but it hasn’t done much for me.
adam 01.27.09 at 3:52 pm
Boris, the twitter name is more about building community than SEO value. Both are important, especially for a new site. Right now, most people discover PageRush through twitter, but I expect it to even out over time.
Daily Money Saving 01.28.09 at 5:46 pm
Adam, as I said at Shawn’s blog – some of the blogs in your search are found to be nofollow. You might want to look at it at your free time as I know it would take lot of time to do it manually, so I would help you to find out such blogs as much as I can whenever I come across.
adam 01.29.09 at 1:24 am
Thank you so much, Money. I am going to add a form to my dofollow certification page where you can report a nofollow site. In the meantime, send any that you find to adam@pagerush.com and I’ll take ‘em down ASAP. Thanks!
Auto Reviews 01.29.09 at 4:03 pm
Adam, I will tell you one thing. You must have come across dofollowblogs dot com directory. Now almost every blog in that directory has turned nofollow but the owner does not get time to look at them anymore.
If you could just maintain that all the blogs in your repository are dofollow, I not only guarantee you that you would be popularized very quickly but I would help to promote this tool offline as well.
I am looking a long success for your efforts.
Guy Labbé 01.29.09 at 5:13 pm
I didn’t understand why blogs would offer dofollow links to their commenters, but now I understand, thanks a lot. I will open comments soon on my own website, and it will be of course dofollow… why not?
adam 01.30.09 at 1:59 pm
Mr. Auto Reviews – Yes! Out of date lists is exactly what drove me to get involved in the dofollow movement. I plan to keep it up to date by working with a team of people to manually check all the links. With just a little help from myself, and people using the list, we should be able to keep it pretty accurate. Cheers!
Beth 01.31.09 at 8:58 pm
However, if you choose to use a plugin for WordPress, which this site doesn’t “approve”-even though it is do-follow, he’ll stop following you on Twitter and remove your site. Apparently, he thinks people can moderate comments 24/7. For the record, the plugin I use is Lucia’s Linky Love- one that is actually supported by other “do follow” lists.
adam 02.01.09 at 2:48 pm
Beth – I figured out how I can classify blogs like yours. I am going to add a new classification called “sometimes dofollow” or maybe “conditional dofollow”. Do you have a preference? I’m going to try and get this change rolled out next week. Thanks for all your feedback!
Marlborogirl 02.02.09 at 7:43 am
You are right, a dofollow blog brings more attention, traffic, and PR for the site. Commenting on DoFollow Blogs is becoming a popular link building strategy. Blog owners are encouraging visitors to leave comments related to their blog post by giving those who comment a link back to their website.
pool enclosures 02.02.09 at 1:10 pm
I think it’s great that you are set up as dofollow here! A lot of the reasons you can get a person to comment is so they can get something out of it in return as well. Here we get a little link juice which helps us out. In return we will all return here (at least I will) and pass along information to each other as it seems adam is going to do for us. I know spam comments can be very annoying, but a lively blog with lots of comments is also fun for readers and the blog owners. If nobody commented what fun would blogging really be? Just my 2 cents
Sell Used Cars 02.02.09 at 1:19 pm
Dofollow blogs are all about spreading the love IMO. That’s exactly what this world could use a ‘lil bit more love. I think the biggest grievance i have against do follow blogs is that people have a serious tendency to spam them. I mean, on one of my blogs, that i left un-moderated for a while all i would see is people posting “nice blog”. The most notorious one would just leave a random number or a keyword.
Dofollow is the way to go, but with moderation of course.
Blog Directory 02.02.09 at 11:31 pm
Thanks for your useful posts and of course thanks for making your blog do follow. I just made 3 of mine dofollow and my traffic doubled. I think it is a win-win for everyone.
Andy @ Dofollow 001 02.03.09 at 1:47 pm
Good stuff Adam – I’ve added my blog to your mini search engine anyway.
DoFollow Bloggers of the World Unite under the DoFollow Manifesto!
Bill Masson (WWAH) 02.03.09 at 5:42 pm
Hi Adam,
Great post and i like your style, I started using the dofollow plugin a few months back but decided to pull it, i thought the commentluv plugin was sufficient, but a recent comment reminded me that its a better policy for building a community and expanding your reach. I always try to make the commenting as easy as possible for any blogger or non blogger.
Have hooked up to your twitter movement and submitted my blog.
Thanks’ for the recent comment on my blog (-:
How to make wine 02.05.09 at 7:08 am
Thanks a lot for the lists of your dofollow blogs… Though they are not 100% dofollow, its still a great help.. I am using search status and I filtered everything…
adam 02.05.09 at 11:17 pm
Wine-dude, please do let me know (adam #at# pagerush.com) if you find any nofollow sites. I’ll remove them ASAP!
becky 02.06.09 at 12:43 am
Thanks adam for doing this. This been a really great help. I have a question. How can I get a dofollow plugin?
lira 03.03.09 at 12:15 pm
Thanks for the great insight, it has truly been helpful. Dofollow is truly the best way to go because it gets the most people to a website.