As I will explain with a future article called “why analytics is oh so important”, while looking at my stats a few days ago, I noticed a strange search term in my google search terms. I usually look into those to get new topics to write about and just for kicks sometimes.

But today it’s food for thought, as one of these search terms has given me one of the most interesting linkbuilding ideas since that ebook about linkbuilding told me how to get 2000+ links with little effort and I shared that with you for free. This one could be attributed to a visitor or perhaps some SEO smart person, but anyway, it’s such a brilliant idea… Plus, could you ever pass up the opportunity of 56 THOUSAND links?…

As before it’s a simple Google search, but then again, most brilliant things are simple eh? However, this time it’s much much easier to get them. This time it’s all based on a simple wordpress plugin called NoFollow Free which strips comments of their nofollow attribute in the hope of encouraging people to comment more, giving them an incentive. However, this plugin also adds a little text at the end of each post saying “comments links could be nofollow free”.

So, in order to harness this power and get our oh so desired links we simply tell Google to tell us where we can find these sweet blogs which provide us with our linkbuilding nectar:

"comments links could be nofollow free"

One thing to remember though, this nofollow plugin also adds a number of previously approved posts before removing the nofollow. So if you plan to hit and run, think again… And I won’t mention the number since that would just prompt spammers to hit it. And since most blogs need you to be moderated before you post this may not work unless you make your comments smart and useful.

So, before I finish, here’s a tip on how to comment on those blogs: no single word comments, no great post comments (without any reasons or followup), no obviously spammy comments and no stuffed keywords. Read the whole post, see what it tells you, and comment on that truthfully. Also, don’t post two or three comments at once, trying to bypass the nofollow limit.

As for you webmasters who get pestered by this little hack I’ve exposed, download this really useful plugin for wordpress which helps you delink the comment author, i.e. remove the link from his comment, thus making him or her fail in his spammy crap.

So use this responsibly, and both you and the bloggers will win from this. I hope you enjoyed this, so comment if you did, and add your opinions.

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