Do Follow Pingback Challenge
Update: 09:44 (29 Apr) Some of the linksbacks are showing up but there still appears to be a technical issue somewhere. I am getting it ironed out but thanks to everyone who has DoFollow turned on. We need to spread the word (which I hope posts like this are doing) and get more bloggers on board!
Update: 00:28 (28 Apr) I have completed the first round of Trackbacks using my new found wisdom. All of the trackbacks went out according to the “Already pinged” section. Now it is just time to see if they actually get through moderation and posted.
Update: 22:20 (27 Apr) Thanks to Mr. Andy Beard I have a much better understanding of trackbacks / pingbacks and how they should be applied to not only this challenge but my future endeavors. Therefore I am updating this post yet again. Please read the comments for this post fo more information. One day I will actually get this thing figured out.
Update: 11:55 (27 Apr) Well it seems I was trying to get WordPress to do something it wasn’t capable of doing with trackbacks/pingbacks in the comments. I have updated the challenge to reflect this.
Update: 07:21 (27 Apr) I have a few more comments but no pingbacks/trackbacks yet and no increase in my Technorati links. Update: 16:58 I have contacted 14 DoFollow blogs and so far 1 has commented but no pingbacks / trackbacks. Hmmm
Original Post: 26 Apr 13:23
A while ago I posted about installing the DoFollow plugin and how I think this is a great idea because it really benefits the blog and the commentors which is only right. One would not exist without the other. Since that post I have read and heard that this process is definitely catching on across the blogsphere and more and more blogs are taking it up. Today I decided to see just how far reaching this practice truly is and do a little experiment, or actually a challenge. The challenge is to see how quickly I can get 50 pingbacks links to this post all through DoFollow posts. The rules are simple.
1. Using a very statistical and highly secret method I am going to search out blogs that have recently posted about DoFollow. 
2. Once I find a potential list of sites, I will visit each one and link directly to their DoFollow post’s permalink.
That’s it very simple. When I use the permalink in my post, it will trigger a trackback to the target blog’s post. Thus in the words of Mr. Andy Beard
On Wordpress blogs, that are using Dofollow, that link will be a followable link, with highly targeted anchor text linking through to your comments on the same discussion, thus 100% on topic perfect link.
Every site I visit should feel free to comment here as well, and even sites I haven’t visited yet. Drop a comment here and I will gladly pop over to your site as well. Regardless of how it is classified the end goal is to spread the word about using DoFollow and help increase exposure for all who care to participate.
Let the contest begin (again)!
DoFollow sites that I have found:
3 Dogs, 3 Pigs & a Family is not only an interesting domain name it also happens to be a rather interesting blog maintained by Maia Jose from Manila. 
Dougal Campbell over at Geek Ramblings has taken an interesting approach to the DoFollow plugin. He has set it to remove the “rel=nofollow” after 2 days versus a minimum number of approved comments.
Cormac Moylan from CormacMoylan.Com had a nice bit of info in his DoFollow post around how spammers combine the name and url sections of the comment form to add weight to their activities.
Ok I have to admit when I visited Banannie the logo really made me laugh. I can almost see that happening.
GeekySpeaky.Com is yet another awesome domain name. Some people have way too much creativity. A creative geek, interesting.
April 26th, 2007 at 2:04 pm
I think this is a great way for people to learn about the DoFollow community and hopefully increase our numbers.
April 26th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Brown Baron thanks for the comment. I notice though that the pingback from my comment didn’t show up here.
April 26th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
Thanks for visiting Susan - I use the Link Love plugin, and have configured it to enable DoFollow after TWO comments from a visitor - feel free to comment on another post (drop the same link in if you want) and we’ll see… I’ll be interested too.
Got to make your visitors work for their link
April 26th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
I see that you’re using the Do Follow plugin.
I recently wrote a post on the DO Follow movement in attempt to encourage others to follow suit.
I’ve added your blog to the list of Bloggers using DO Follow with link (sharing the linky love) to your home page here:
http://www.fastlanetransport.ca/blog/i-will-follow-do-follow/blogs-websites
You’ll see on this post that the list is really growing!
The post for this is also on my blogroll so it doesn’t get buried in the archives.
Cheers!
April 26th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Chris, I posted a second comment under the “Rejuvenate your Links” post. Hopefully the follow will work and the trackback will show up under this post. Thanks!
April 26th, 2007 at 10:27 pm
Thanks for the visit, Susan!
I’m glad to know you liked the background.
By the way, I’ll check back to see the progress of your efforts.
Cheers!
-Avi
April 27th, 2007 at 5:16 am
ping - pong
April 27th, 2007 at 7:42 am
Hmm, hope your pingback shows up, or I’m changing my plugin….
April 27th, 2007 at 9:45 am
Hi Susan,
Thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving a comment. Glad you’ve joined the NoNoFollow club and I hope it has a positive impact on your blogging relationships.
Ciao for now,
David
April 27th, 2007 at 10:28 am
Chris it is working I apparently had the wrong idea around how trackbacks / pingbacks were handled. It seemed logical to me that if I could send a blog a trackback/pingback by putting their link in my post, the same would happen if I put it in a comment. Apparently that isn’t a valid assumption. Trackbacks/pingbacks only work when they are used in the content of the post. Thanks!
April 27th, 2007 at 11:45 am
I am part of Do Follow on all 4 of my blogs.
The BenSpark, BenSpark 2: Electric Boogaloo, The Wired Kayaker and Flatwater Tech
Please feel free to come by and comment. Can can one comment let me know how to do the trackback/pingback thing? Thanks
April 27th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Ah. I think I knew that.
Stupid brain….
April 27th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
In some ways you are doing this slightly “ar$e about face” - in the UK that isn’t an impolite term, it is more technical.
Any time you link through to a blog that supports pingbacks / trackback, you will get a link.
On Wordpress blogs, that are using Dofollow, that link will be a followable link, with highly targetted anchor text linking through to your comments on the same discussion, thus 100% on topic perfect link.
Most people involved with the meme chains aren’t aware that trackback is actually a better method of spreading link love than leaving comments. Sure a comment is a one way link, but the anchor text for the most part is useless, and most people use the allowed comment link for a link to their domain, and not related content.
The purpose of the Bumpzee community was to help people find blogs talking about things that are on topic for their own log, and not just to leave comments but to use trackback thus creating better links for all.
Just like my automated lists using RSS feeds, comments dont trigger the trackback mechanism. In some cases they might trigger a linkback or referral script, if someone follows the link, though such linking these days is fairly rare.
For a link to a post from a comment to register correctly, you might have to ping Technorati the URL for the post, but you should make sure it is the permalink, and not the comment link.
Also this doesn’t seem to work on Blogger and Typepad for some reason.
April 27th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
Andy I don’t take offense to your “ar$se about face” in any way actually here in the states we would say “a$$ backwards” but the meaning is the same. I was under the impression that comments were the best way to spread link love, apparently that isn’t the case. Of course now that you have stated it I suppose it should have been obvious. Trackbacks are naturally the better way to approach this, and indeed any type of situation where you want targeted text and a meaningful link. Thank you very much for this information. I can see I really need to spend more time reading your blog.
The Bumpzee community is a great idea and I will certainly take advantage, in a good way of course.
I am going to have to research your automated RSS links more. I noticed them when I visited your blog and they are on my list of things to learn about, of course that list has grown so large lately and it just keeps getting bigger. The more I learn the more I realize I have so much more to learn.
Thank you again for all the wonderful information. I am sure those reading the comments will benefit greatly from it, I know I have. Now to edit my post yet again and do it right this time!
April 27th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
No need to address me in a formal way
It is good also to think about writing something about the blog you are linking to each time to wrap the link and give it more relevance.
Ultimately I would love the Dofollow community to grow to a few 1000 blogs, so that everyone could find great blogs to have “link conversations” with.
April 28th, 2007 at 2:11 pm
I use the Do Follow Plug In at my site.
April 28th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
where do i sign up for this?
April 28th, 2007 at 4:28 pm
Hi, got your trackback! I think you have some interesting ideas here, and I like the way you’re working it all out publicly. I’ve been blogging for a long time but I just started understanding trackbacks. It still seems hit or miss whether they’ll work or not, though.
By the way I’m glad my logo gave you a smile :).
April 29th, 2007 at 12:34 am
I was also under the impression that leaving relevant comments on posts on dofollow blogs result in permalinks to my blog. And the link I left was the main link to my blog.
Do I now understand this to mean that I can’t get a permalink on comments to blog posts if I don’t have similar posts I could link back to? In effect for blogs that have topics so different from mine, I can only hope to link through posts talking about dofollow? I’d love to get more enlightenment on this.
Thank you so much for sharing all these info, especially for tech-challenged newbies like me.
April 29th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
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April 29th, 2007 at 11:48 pm
I have a list of 140 sites that “Do follow” if anyone is looking.
April 30th, 2007 at 7:11 am
hi there. i just started my blog about a week ago and found out about the dofollow campaign and changed my blog’s template. but i still dont understand many things and am still finding my way around. thanks for the links. they look pretty helpful so i’d probably spend tonight reading through them!
April 30th, 2007 at 10:25 am
Hi Susan,
Happy the trackback got through
(Do you moderate them as well?)
Would it be possible each day to tell your score, so we can see who is beating who
Just loved your idea and its always more fun if 2 work on the same thing, competition makes better
April 30th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
Maja Jose
If links aren’t related in some way, although they might get picked up by Technorati (which in itself has some value), other search engines won’t place as much value on the link.
In the same way search engines heavily discount blogroll links, links to unrelated content also get discounted.
A link from a comment does have some value even if it is linking to your domain, especially if you are just trying to rank highly for your name.
The link might also count toward pagerank to a lesser extent, but pagerank is only one of 200+ factors that Google uses for search engine rankings.
Less than 100 links from highly relevant pages with good anchor text can help you rank very well for fairly competitive phrases, as long as you have a page that is highly topical as well.
April 30th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
Thank you so much, Andy. I shall apply these learnings immediately.
Perhaps this kind of explains why my other blog on my Filipino romance writing got a PR3 without much effort from me except interacting with other Filipina bloggers, while the Manila Mom blog got a PR2 even with the favorites exchange and dofollow list. I’m not complaining, though. Actually I’m ecstatic since both blogs are just about a month old. I’m eager to learn even more.
April 30th, 2007 at 6:34 pm
My Disclosure Policy Plugin site got PR4 with links from less than 20 sites, and every single link was from a relevant post.
It is a shame that plugin didn’t get a little more coverage.
I didn’t hit PR6 for my front page this time around possibly because I had so many external links on my front page recently. I don’t worry about Toolbar pagerank too much, though I am sure it affects monetization somewhat.
April 30th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
I just got a stinking PR1 eventhough I am ranking in the 30k on technorati.
/me sulks
April 30th, 2007 at 7:05 pm
Bob you have internal pages that are PR4
http://bobmeetsworld.com/worlds-most-dangerous-jobs-photo/
What you need to work on is your internal linking structure, and think very carefully about sitewide external links.
April 30th, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Andy, that’s the best news I heard today
I’ll be hopping over to your blog for some more advise!
May 4th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
Hi Susan,
I found you through your comment on Pureblogging.com. I installed the Dofollow plugin by Semiologic a couple days ago.
I was quite surprised to learn that Wordpress defaults to nofollow, seems like it defeats the purpose of commenting (at least for other bloggers). Of course, I’m talking about legit, sincere comments.
Thanks for spreading the word on this. I hope that more bloggers make the change since you can use Akismet and Bad Behavior to keep the spam out anyway.
All the best,
JoLynn
May 4th, 2007 at 10:54 pm
How Dofollow Affects Comments on The Fit Shack…
I recently learned that by default, Wordpress (the blogging platform that this site runs on) automatically inserts the nofollow tag in all comments. What this means is if you are a blogger and you leave a comment on a blog that is using nofollow in the…
May 8th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
Hi, Susan and thanks for visiting my Big Oak SEO Blog. I look forward to more of your comments in the future.
I support the DoFollow link movement as you know and hope others will to.
June 19th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
[...] (and now the word “follow” looks funny to me.) edit: this thing is catching on like gangbusters! for more info and to join the masses check out the Bumpzee No Nofollow | I Follow | DoFollow Community and the Life is Risky: DoFollow Challenge. [...]
June 21st, 2007 at 1:07 pm
I’m in on the DoFollow movement. The best sites out there are the ones that aim in whatever way possible to give something to their readers. As bloggers tend to read other blogs, I think this is especially key among us, and our “link love” is definitely something we can give.
July 3rd, 2007 at 9:09 pm
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September 28th, 2007 at 3:22 am
Its ironic that many bloggers talk about this but then they actually use no follow.