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When I was doing my latest post – Insane List of 140 Do Follow & Nofollow Blogs with CommentLuv 2010, I’ve noticed several strange things about do follow and nofollow blogs. Theoretically, a nofollow blog should rank better, than a do follow blog, because a nofollow blog doesn’t share its ranking in links. So, it means, that it stores it for itself. You know that. Nothing new. But..
Ok, let’s compare several pair of blogs from my list of blogs with CommentLuv. In this case, the “pair” is a do follow blog and a nofollow blog with similar Google pagerank and Alexa ranking.
Do Follow VS Nofollow: Round 1
blog.hichamaged.net (will be “A”) and www.jhsiess.com (will be “B”). Their Google pageranks are both 4. And both of them have appr. 219,000 of Alexa (by the 21st of Dec. 2009). A is a nofollow blog and B is a do follow blog. Ok with that.
Niches
A’s niche is “life, personal, psychology” and B’s niche is “life, death, personal”. Well.. the same boring, I guess :)
Compete Ranks
Use popuri.us to check my work. So.. A has 825,263 and B has 263,443. The lower means the better. Seems like B is winning. Let’s go further.
Yahoo backlinks
A has 18,449 and B – 18,120. Almost the same, so nobody wins this time.
Archives
A’s archive and B’s archive. Don’t count the total amount of their posts. You can visually decide, that A’s got twice more, than B.
Wait a minute.. A is nofollow and it has so many posts! This blog lives longer and it should be ranked better, than B. But considering the fact, that they have pagerank 4, B wins with less posts, because it has gained its rank faster. And it has better Alexa ranking, which means there is more website traffic running on this blog.
Summary
www.jhsiess.com, which is B and a do follow blog, wins.
Do Follow VS Nofollow: Round 2
eblogtip.com (as “A”) and www.andrewkeir.com (as “B”). Both of them have Google pagerank 2 and Alexa – ~176,000. A is a do follow and B is nofollow.
Niches
A’s niche is mostly “blogging, design”, B’s niche is “blogging, money etc”. Almost the same.
Compete Ranks
A has N/A. B has 238,011. Technically, B wins.
Yahoo backlinks
A – 6,466, B – 744. It’s clear, that A wins.
Archives
B has about 185 posts and the first one was posted on October 19th, 2008. A has twice less – 98 posts by today, and the oldest post was published on Sept. 28th, 2009.
Summary
A wins, because it has twice less posts, it is younger and it has much more of backlinks. Remember, that A is a do follow blog?
Do Follow VS Nofollow: Final Conclusion
No doubt, that do follow blog is better, because you get high-ranked much more faster. Why? Maybe it’s because the majority of your visitors are those, who wants to comment. Or maybe those, who comment, eventually do some kind of an external promotion, which surely do the best for you and your blog.
What do you think?
Are those parameters, that I’ve used, enough for a total comparison of do follow and nofollow blogs? Maybe there is something else, that should change the final result of this experiment?
I’ll gladly accept your opinions.
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My blog was a dofollow blog last time. But PR dropped after enabled it. And stay there even I removed dofollow. :(
But I do agree that dofollow will bring more traffic. :)
Jayce,
I’ve changed your comment backlink. It should be right to your home page.
About your PR.
I believe, that now is everything right. 3 pr with ~111k of Alexa. That’s quite normal.
As far as I understand, the nofollow tag is only affected by Google.
I do not see any reason why a doFollow blog should have a higher pagerank. Perhaps only because more people are linking to it. But then are they linking to it because it has good content or because it is a dofollow blog.
Strictly speaking do follow should help the readers and commentator, not the blog itself. If both blogs have the same exceptional quality content, then the linking should be similar and therefore the PR similar.
Also could it be that the higher traffic stats is as a result of a dofollow page, that draws people to the page instead of the content itself?
But that’s theory, it seems that people are after link juice
Good comparison none the less. But it would certainly make sense for a do follow blog, if possible, for the community at large.
I wrote a great article on this very subject. (No links on comments)
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