I have no idea what is going on at the moment, but daily traffic levels are about double those of a week ago and quadrupled against a month back!

So I have to say welcome to all the new readers of the blog! There seems to be a lot of interest in the new Ebook, which I promise to get out very soon, plus also a lot of people going to the follow us page. So hopefully, if you haven’t bookmarked the site you will be adding it to your RSS feed or joining the other readers that have already signed up to the newsletter. I’ll have to write one of them soon as well!

Changes over the next month – well a bit of guest posting should be going on to some new sources; maybe an easier way of subscribing to the newsletter and joining in the chat on other blogs.

Do leave a comment on any posts that interest you – as long as the comment adds to the post then it will be approved quickly and this is now a “Do-Follow” blog – so your comments will actively link back to your own website. Enjoy the blog and I wish you happy blogging!

Here is an excellent tool from Google that I have just stumbled across in another website – a search just of the blogs that they have detected to be do follow blogs!

This begs the question, why do Google want to identify these blogs to us? Is it not opening up the system for people adding links just for SEO, which is what they try to prevent?

Anyway, how do you do it? Well, you go to the Google Do-Follow search page, enter some term and then press search. It should, if all works, then give you a list of results of that keyword just from do follow blogs. Go to a couple and see if they are relevant and recently updated.

If so, add a comment to a post or two – make sure that it is useful and adds to the site rather than spam so that the blog owner will accept your comment. Make a note of the blog that you have commented on and leave it, for say a week.

A week later go back and look at the post – has your comment been accepted and on show? If so, look through recent posts and see if there are any there that you can make comments on. Personally, I will avoid those blogs with hundreds of comments per post unless you can be the first to comment. If there are more than a handful of comments, there is no page rank gain and no chance of any visitors seeing your comment and visiting your website (the other reason you need to make a good comment).

Ideally, those blogs that accept your comments and either have a good page rank or send you a lot of traffic (or both) should be followed by an RSS reader. Mine only follows one blog at a time, but I’m hoping that I will be able to find one that will aggregate several feeds so that I can just keep watching for the latest posts from a variety of blogs.

Right, back to searching for blogs to leave comments on!