This is the third in a series of articles in which I hope to share with you my knowledge of how and why Technology Bloggers has been so successful, so fast. Learn more about this series by reading our Technology Bloggers success article.
I believe that respect is one of the most crucial things in blogging. If you are good to your readers, your readers will be good to you.
To build up a great community (like the one on this blog) you have to be a friendly author. Most of our authors, myself included, don’t just leave their article once it is written, they check back every few days and reply to comments.
But it’s not just about being a good commenter.
Being a dofollow blog is one of the main reasons for the success of this blog. People come here because they know they will be treated well.
You have heard it all before but I shall sumarise it again: if you read you benefit from out great content and the ability to comment and gain dofollow keyword rich links to your latest content; if you write you also have the ability to get dofollow keyword rich links links to your content in your article, and (if you are of author status or higher) you can get a link to your chosen site on the sidebar.
I believe that if you offer people fantastic content from a variety of different authors, as well as dofollow keyword rich links in comments, matched with great incentives to write, you have a recipe for success!
Not 100% convinced about dofollow? Well it is thought that it might lower your PageRank, especially on individual articles, and there are some rumors that it can harm you in the SERP’s, but from my personal experience, I believe that the benefits outweigh the costs.
Need some proof? Here are just a few great blogs which are very successful and are dofollow:
Check their traffic ranking. Notice anything? Dofollow blogs with great content, also the authors usually try to respond to any comments in need of a reply.
Are you a dofollow blog? If not why not? From my experience with Technology Bloggers and my own philosophy blog, dofollow is one way of succeeding in blogging.
Why does dofollow work?
I believe it all comes back down to respect, you are respecting your writers and readers, so in tern they respect you.
If you run a nofollow blog, try switching. Do it today and never look back 🙂
Back next Monday with the next in the series!
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