You might think it’s relatively easy to go to someone’s blog and simply drop a comment, boom…with a link to your web site. Happy ending huh?

Well… this was easy back in the days, but since the comment spam, Google introduced the “no follow” to help bloggers counteract spam. This means that, even though you can put a link in your comment on a blog, the link is given no weight by the search engines. [example: WordPress is default at "no follow"]

This was significantly helpful in cutting down on blog comment spam. However, it also negatively impacted legitimate comment links from getting any credit as far as the search engines are concerned.

So, if you’re looking to generate links that help you in the search engines by participating in blog comments, look at some of these “do follow” blog directories. There is also a handy way of seeing which blogs are “do follow” or “no follow” using a Firefox Web browser add-on called “NoDoFollow“, so you can finally stop wondering about which link is “do follow” and which one isn’t.