In an effort to fight back against the Nofollow regime over the past couple of years in which a wide net was cast to thwart spammers, the Dofollow rebellion is now taking hold. Bloggers and others have decided that enough is enough and they do want to share the link love with there best blog buddies who make many comments.

Many bloggers have turned to link love measures such as the list of Dofollow plug-ins for WordPress listed Andy Beard’s blog (and why not check out Beard’s Bumpzee Dofollow community while you’re at it). The SEO Expert Blog is experimenting with Lucia’s Linky Love Plugin as we speak as a form of dofollow tag.

So, why are bloggers fighting back? It’s simple. Bloggers want control over who receives link juice and who doesn’t. By casting a wide nofollow net, the search engines put a wet blanket over the whole community for a while. In order to punish the spammers, everyone else must be punished as well (this philosophy is sort of like in team sports when one member messes up and the whole team must pay the price).

But, now webmasters want to reward the members of their communities not only on blogs but on message boards and on websites as well. How does one find dofollow sites, however. There have been many lists flying around the internet that grow daily and are not organized in any fashion and literally contain thousands of links one must sift through.

In addition, a few Dofollow directories have now sprung up such as Dofollow.us and Dofollowblogs.com that add some organization to the websites that are participating. The Dofollow movement does put more responsibility upon a webmaster’s shoulders to keep the spammers (who are of course attracted to dofollow) off their websites. But, many webmasters want this responsibility and see it as a good trade in order to grow their online communities and reward those who actively participate and have something to say.

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