I use the SEO for Firefox plugin.  This shows all nofollow links as red.  I changed this to pink so I could read what the link says.  Sometimes the Red made it so I could not read the link title.

• I search in “Google Blog Search” for blogs in my niche.
• I click on the first result in Google Blog Search
• I go to the bottom of the page and check for comments.
• Does the comment allow me to add my URL. I will move on to the next blog in my search if there is not a place to add my URL.
• I check on the number of comments. If there are posts with a lot of comments I will go and look at that post. If any of the comments have links and they are Dofollow I have found a Dofollow Blog to comment on.
• I comment on this article and then I copy the url of this blog into my personal list.
• I also add into this list the name and URL and email I used on this comment.
• I will comment on 3 or 4 other posts on this blog and move on.
• I will mark in my personal Dofollow list that I need to go to this blog again.
• I will go back and see if my comments are live and if any of them are dofollow.
• I will add more comments with the same name, address, and link to get over the dofollow hump on this blog.

I have several websites.  I use comments to link to all of them.  I always try to have the link be a good anchor link to my site.  You may check out my linking basics article for more on this.

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How Lucia’s Linky Love Works
The blog owner can set it to 3 up to 10 comments and then your comments become dofollow. I love to post on these blogs. It indicates to me first off the blog owner understands how to give back to his commenters.
Many have put Lucia’s Linky love plugin in their blog.

Dofollow Blogs How to Find link to SEO for Firefox plugin.

Do I post on Nofollow Blogs?
Yes, there are a couple of very good nofollow blogs I read and I comment on. I comment on almost every post I read. Why do I always comment? It helps me learn. If I read an article and then write about it I have to have paid attention to the article. I have a lot of backlinks in Yahoo from nofollow blogs. I like dofollow better but I believe the nofollow help also.

I have learned a lot by reading articles to comment on.

This is a Dofollow Blog. Your comments if appropriate are appreciated and approved will be Dofollow.

Installing SEO for Firefox
Search Google for “Firefox Download.”  Scroll partway down the page and click on “Download Now- Free.”  You will get the latest version.  Now search Google for “SEO for Firefox” and download the plugin.  Your computer will ask you to okay the download.  It will ask if it is OK to install.  You have now installed SEO for Firefox.

Setting up Your Plugin
I have my plugin set to show the PR, Yahoo Links, Yahoo Page Links and Alexa ranking.  Go to  “Tools” on your toolbar.  You will see “SEO for FIrefox”–Options.  First I “Hide All.”   Then I go back and set “PR,”  “Y! Links,”  “Y! Page Links,”  and “Alexa” to “Automatic.“  You can choose any rankings that you like to Automatic or On Demand.

The more items you set to Automatic the longer your search pages will take to load.  If you set to “On Demand” when you click on the “?” you will get the ranking to show up.

You can toggle the features on and off by clicking on the “SE” picture at the bottom right of your window.

Feature #1
Nofollow or Dofollow.  This shows if a link on a webpage is nofollow or dofollow.  If the link turns red it is a Nofollow link if it changes to whatever the website standard is then it is a dofollow link.  I have changed my Nofollow to pink because often I could not read the link when it turned Dark red.  The bleed in my screen would cover up what the link was.  Turn your nofollow to pink**

Features #2-35
This feature works when you are searching in Google.  As soon as you search you will see some Blue lines appear with a bunch of question marks.  These are all links to rankings of web page sites if you click on the question marks.  The sites I really like to know what the numbers are #1 Y! links  #2 Y! page Links #3 Alexa and #4 PR (Google Page Rank).  I have turned off all the other options so I only get 4 links showing up underneath all of my searches.

Numbered Links
Another nice feature is it counts the number of links ahead of the link you are on.  I set my Google search to show 100 results and this way I know exactly where my result comes up in the search engine.  In my opinion you must be in the top ten.  The Top five really unless there is Wikipedia or About.com on the first page.  Then you will still get some clicks with over a 10.  But very few.

After you get this plugin go and play with it.
Learn by playing around.  I really also like putting a website into the SEO for Firefox Lookup tool.  It spits out a ton of information.

Turn your Nofollow links Pink**
To change SEO for firefox highlight to pink.  After you have installed the plugin click on “Tools” at the top of your page.  Then “SEO for Firefox” the “Options.”  At the top of this page you will see  Click on the color and you can change the color.  You can also turn this feature on and off.

Play with searches now and look at the results in the “Blue Line” below the listings.  I have a tough time searching without this plugin installed on other computers.

Simple answer.  While playing around in the last few days —actually hard work.  I built and submited 5 articles to several different directories.  I won’t mention the other names but they are all the top rated in some of the top ten lists around.

Any way it is 4 days later.  I just checked, and one of my ezine articles went through right away and two more went through a couple of hours ago.  Traffic.  The article that went through right away has already had 118 people look at it and 14 of them have gone to my website—this website—.

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I just checked some of the other directories.  One of them all six articles are up.  One article has been viewed 6 times one 5 and the others once.   There have been a total of 16 people look at the articles and I believe 6 of those were the people who okayed the article.

Traffic to your articles is what Ezine articles offers.

How you write your articles matters. I think there are two ways to write an Ezine Article.

Going for the Click
One way is to go for the reader to click the link to go to your website.  In the articles that I have gotten over 15 percent of the readers to go to my website I get very few uploads of the page to other sites.   My best going for the click article so far got over a 40 percent click through rate.  It was a freak.  I have only written a few that have gotten over 25 percent but I am still going for the 40 percent click articles.

Going for the link
If you write a good informative article but do not push hard to get the reader to click to your website then more ezines and more websites will use your article on their site.  This will get you more back links.

Going for both Clicks and Links
You can resubmit the article with a significant rewrite after a few weeks from your previous article being accepted.  If your first article went for the click your second article can go for the link. It is fun to play with changing around the title to see what works better also.

Most Important Part of the article?
The author box is the most critical part of your article.  Pull the curtain down and tickle them from behind the curtain.  Make certain that they  want to go to your website to scratch the itch you created. 

I have started writing long author boxes. I put a link early in the box with the keyword for the article linking to one of my websites. I then write another informational paragraph. I then close it up with my name and the other link to my site. The first link becomes truly an in content link. According to the testing done by Jon Leger, Yahoo ranks a in content link higher than a link page link.

I have found Ezine Articles to be the toughest to get articles through. They are good practice for submitting articles because they force me to write better articles. Thanks EA..

IM by Rick is a dofollow Blog.  I give you link love for your comments.  Spread the word.  Link love given from IMbyRick.com.

Develop a list of dofollow blogs in and around your website niche.  How you do this will be the subject of another article.

Become a regular poster on these blogs.  As you develop more and more of your own pages link to them.  As soon as I post a new page I back it up with a post to a link from a nofollow blog.  I also reward the nofollow blog a little boost by bookmarking the page.

A Penny for my thoughts.

Let me explain about that post.  I always make the post relevant.  Often over 50 words and on topic.  I use the tips for my Building Links 101.  As I state in that article pay a lot of attension to the name you use.

Lucia’s Linky Love Plugin
Lets you set the limits on giving links to comments. The owner of the blog can set this to 3 to 10. If set to 3 then comments will be nofollow until they have 3 comments approved. There are also some other features to this plugin. Very well thought out.

I also look for blogs set up with Lucia’s link love. They usually are well thought out blogs. My comments are almost always accepted so the 3-10 limit is no big deal. It makes me get a little aggressive at commenting on their blog at first. I really like to get over the hump quickly.

IM by Rick is a Dofollow Blog.  All comments are moderated.

What is No follow.
From Wikipedia the definition is
“nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct some search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target’s ranking in the search engine’s index. It is intended to reduce the effectiveness of certain types of search engine spam, thereby improving the quality of search engine results and preventing spamdexing from occurring.”

This means that with a nofollow put into the link Google will not follow or count the link against the person who owns the website but also will not count the link as a plus to the writer of the comment.

Most blogs now automatically include nofollow in the comments.

I disagree with Nofollow
Why I totally disagree with nofollow. I moderate all comments. My thank you for an actual comment it the active link. If I get even a whiff of you not reading the article and leaving a comment you are toast.

Why should the content you are putting on my website not benefit you as well as me?

I love comments.. State your thoughts on this one.

I Give you Link love
Any comment I approve from this blog will not have the nofollow attribute activated.  It is very easy getting link love from me.

This is a Dofollow Blog.  We love comments.