There’s something new brewing in the blogosphere. Well, it’s not exactly new, but it is worth talking about.

DoFollow links.

But first, you need to know the reasoning behind NoFollow links. Most, if not all, blogging software automatically takes the URLs that your commenters enter and slaps a “nofollow” in front of them. This means that they don’t count as backlinks to most search engines. So you get a link back to your blog after commenting–but you don’t get any backlink bonus points to improve your blog’s standing on Google, Yahoo! or the like.

What’s happening, in a sort of blogging revolution, is that more and more blogs are starting to change their NoFollow settings to DoFollow. If you comment on one of these DoFollow blogs and leave your URL in the website box, you’ll get a backlink for each comment you leave.

While this is a great way to start building some backlinks until your blog attains popularity, it was a real pain in the ass for a long time. Who wants to go sifting through the site’s code to see if a blog offered DoFollow links or not? How boring is that.

Good thing we don’t have to do that anymore. Thanks to a few kind webmasters, we now have a few databases of DoFollow sites for your viewing pleasure. And here they are:

DoFollow.us
The DoFollow Directory
“Do Follow” Blog Directory
DoFollow Blogs Blog

Visit one of those sites. Find a blog with a good PageRank in the niche you want. Comment away. It’s that simple.

Oh, one more thing. Please don’t spam DoFollow blogs. Most of the sites are moderated and/or have industrial strength spam blockers installed. Be weary of what you decide to say in your comments.