If you have any kind of reading on the creation of link, then you've probably seen people mentioning "nofollow" and "dofollow" links. These terms are very important to understand when you try to build great links to your site to increase your search engine rankings. But for those who are new to all this, they will be a little confused. I will help you to understand all that.
When you create a link on your page you can tell a search engine spiders to follow or not the link when crawling your website. you ask,"why I don't want my link to be followed" the answer is for example you have a comment section and you don't want your commentators to get link juice back to their site, or you linking a popular website like google so can as well use "nofollow". It is personal preference.
Firstlly, if you want to tell the spiders to crawl a link, you don’t have to do anything. Simply using the standard format with 'href' attribut, the search engine spiders will crawl the link provided. And to tell the spiders to NOT crawl a link, you need to add the following code to the HTML code :
rel="nofollow"
Basically, there is no true “dofollow”, it is just NOT using the “nofollow” tag. Pretty simple!
When you want to create backlinks on other Web sites, you must determine if the websites you try to get your site listed on use the "nofollow" tag or not. If so, may still be a good idea to try to make this link, but it is generally regarded as not the best use of time, since search engines do not follow this link and you do not receive an increase in the search engines for that link.
So when you're looking for sites and blogs you can leave your link (through links, comments on a blog, directory submissions, buy links, etc) see if the links in the section of the site you are in order for uses "nofollow" or not. (A good way is to view source code). And here a list of forums that allows doFollow in signatures:
Warrior Forum - By far the most helpful and responsive internet marketing forum that I have visted.There are people who are always ready to answer you questions and attend to your need. 5Star Affiliate Forum - Another favorite affiliate marketing forums. Ableton - Audio and musical forums Abestweb - Affiliate Marketing forum for both newbie and experienced affiliates to learn and earn more by sharing information about networks, merchants and best practices Abundance - Free advertising forum Addicsports - Baseball, basketball, and sports forum. Affiliateseeking.com - webmaster and affiliate forums. Acorn Domains - A growing community of UK Domain Name owners, buyers and sellers. Admin Zone Forums - Resources for community administrator and webmaster. Affiliates4U - UK’s leading affiliate and marketing forums Allcoolforums - Online Free discussion board AMD Forums - official AMD processors support forum Baseballtalkpro - baseball forums. Blogger Forum - Focused on blogging community, monetizing and promotion of blogs. Blogger Talk - Forums for bloggers. Business Forum - business-related forums. BZ Image - SEO Forum - Web Design Help - Webmaster Forum - Web Hosting Talk Capital Theory - online moneymaking forum. Clickbank Success - A “dofollow” forum dedicated to clickbank users.Clicks Forum - Internet marketing for business.Cnet Forums - Software and technical forums.Code4gold - Free Webmaster Resources, Webmaster Tools and Search Engine OptimizationComic Book Resources - Discussion about comic books and resourcesDavid Castle - UK SEO & Internet Marketing Forums.Deviantart - Join the largest art community in the world!DDBoard - Domain name “dofollow” discussion board.Digitalppoint - Internet marketing and search engine forumsDirectoryJunction - New but cool webmasters forum.Discuss Names - Another dofollow domain names discussion forum.
Nowdays internet grows with social networking and communities, but there are two that are the best HubPages and Squidoo. these two communities can get indexed almost immediately and ranking well with the search engines. I will try to give you some differents between them bellow.
HubPages is an internet community where users can publish content, gain information about a specific topic or both, your contents are known as hubs. HubPages displays advertising on your hub, this allows it to generate the money and then gets you your commission. also HubPages allows you to add you adsense, amazon, and Ebay ID to you hubs to earn income from anyone who clicks or purchases from your links. You can also add keywords to your hubs to make it easier for the search engines to locate you.
Squidoo is a tool that you can use to promote yourself, your products, your affiliate products or just have fun with letting people know about how cute your cat is. Just like Hub Pages, you can build unlimited lens on any topic while earning additional income from adsense, amazon, and Ebay. Squidoo is very Google friendly and allows you to add up to 40 keywords to your lens to enhance you search engine traffic. As you can see, these two powerhouse, high pr social communities share several similar characteristics
The differences begin with the earnings from your income modules. Squidoo has shared earning policy which divides the total earnings between the whole Squidoo community depending on the ranking of your lens. The higher your lens rank, the bigger portion of the earnings you receive. Hub Pages on the other hand allows you to keep 100% of your earnings from adsense, amazon, and Ebay.
Another difference are the rules and regulations. Hub pages is very strict on self promotion or over promotion of afffiliate products. They will ban you quickly if your intentions are to only provide content for the sole purpose of spamming. Squidoo also discourages spammers, but they are more inviting to internet marketers who are intereseted in creating lens to promote their affiliate products or programs. I guess you can say that Squidoo gives you a wider freedom of speech. Hub Pages also does not allow adult content, whereas Squidoo does.
Finally, we can make money from HubPages and Squidoo by publishing contents, and nothing prevents you from using both. The decision between one over the other would be the equivalent of leaving money on the table.
