It’s every Internet marketers dream of getting live links from blog comments. As we all know, Google rewards blogs and web sites that have legitimate live links pointing towards them. Blog commenting would be such a wonderful way to create these links, if it were not for the pesky No Follow Attribute.

For those who don’t know, the No Follow attribute is a piece of coding that blogs and web sites may use on their links. When Google sees the No Follow coding in a link, it does not credit the link when it calculates its page ranking for the search results. (Site visitors can still click on the link).

If you want to know if a particular blog or web site is using the No Follow attribute, go to the page in question, then click on the View Menu at the top of your browser (Or right click on the page if you are using IE. Undoubtedly there is a similar function in FireFox and the AOL browser as well. So you click on the View button, then a menu will show up containing a few items. Select the one called Source.

Now you see a file of source code. At the top of this file, click the Edit button then click Find. A window appears with a Find Now slot. Enter rel=”nofollow” and click Find. If the Finder locates the code, the blog or web site is using the No Follow Attribute.

Try to see if this code is around the Comment field. Some bloggers allow live links in the Comment field but not in the body of the post.

Okay, now back on topic. I have discovered a wonderful little software program that finds blogs that do not use the No Follow attribute. Its Fast Blog Finder

You enter your keyword term or keyword phrase in  Fast Blog Finder and the program locates a listing of blogs using that term. It will show you which ones use the No Follow Attribute and which do not. The free version of Good Blog Finder locates up to fifty blogs matchingt your term. The paid version locates many more.

When you have found a blog that matches your criteria, you can make your comment even more powerful by incorporating your keyword phrase in the anchor text that includes your name. For example, suppose my keyword phrase is “Logitch Web Cams.” I would make a relevant post, then in my signature, I would put, June Campbell writing about Logitech Web Cams.”

I wish I knew how to turn no follow off on this blog. Does anyone know how to do this in WordPress? If so, leave a comment and I’ll make it live as soon as you tell me how to do so! :-)