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Well, it's become something of an important area of my day when it's time to do blog commenting for link building and SEO. I will spend a good two to three hours finding good, quality, (interesting) do-follow blogs to add to my nifty Google reader.
One thing I've noticed is that there isn't really a dofollow blog list that focuses on social media related blogs and sites, and I think that list would be valuable. Even the dofollow lists and search engines that *do* exist are often outdated, many use ref=nofollow as well and shouldn't be on there in the first place.
A nifty trick I've picked up is this (shhh don't tell everyone):
You know those little "u comment i follow" badges that people put up on their blogs when they use ref=dofollow?
(they look something like this:)
Well, google images indexes them.
....
If you're smart, you have realized that you simply need to go to google images, and search:
"u comment i follow" (with quotes gives more accurate results, IMHO).
The badges will show up as results, on the blogs that are ref=dofollow.
A bright idea, I thought =)
With all of the blogs out there trying to become viral, trying to write the next big thing to make everyone look at them, I thought I'd make a short list of ideas for your next blog.
1. Write about what everyone else is doing in their blogs...just for inspiration.
2. Make a huge meandering post complaining about how horrible Digg's front page is that day.
3. Write about the latest political scandal. Or actually, the election. That's an untapped topic.
4. Talk about how the economy is going to stay in a recession forever.
5. Talk about how the recession is part of the economy's natural cycle, and it will go back up.
6. Complain that Obama will put taxes too high.
7. Complain that Obama won't put taxes high enough.
8. Tell your readers that you can't find anything to blog about.
9. Talk about your kids.
10. Look on Technorati for the most popular stories -- then blog about them.
11. Talk about how you have writer's block and then write a long post about your cup of coffee.
12. Complain about all of the email you get...from the email link at the top of your page.
13. Explain about making money online.
14. Talk about SEO.
15. Ask for guest blog posts (and then don't use them).
16. Complain about injustice.
17. Complain about censorship.
18. Complain about web censorship.
19. Complain about other bloggers.
20. Praise (or trash) a well-known celebrity.
