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Review of DoFollow Search Engine
Launched in September of this year, DoFollow Search is not the first service to claim to give quality results for those seeking the golden dofollows.
The others out there such as Comment Hut tend to be fairly useless as they only spew up nofollow sites in their results.
This review will take two forms. Firstly, I've submitted the RSS feed for this very blog your are reading to be included in the index. In a week or two I'll report back to see what type of traffic, if any, that I have had from DoFollow Search.
But for this article I am going to test out their engine by using some keywords I happen to be using at the moment and examining the quality of the results.
I'm going to use four different keywords: press release, RSS directory, link building and history websites.
For each of these keywords I will examine the top five results, giving one point if the result is relevant to the niche and one point if the blog is "dofollow". So altogether there will be a score out of ten.
First up, press release.
This is quite a broad keyword but the first result is not particularly very impressive: Ball-it: The magic ball that wants to kill the Wii on the Venture Beat blog.
This is neither about a press release and nor is it "dofollow" - no points.
The second results is better: 10 Things to Keep in Mind When Writing a Press Release. In fact, not just better but excellent. Not only is it exactly the right category I am looking for but it is also "dofollow". Two points!
The next three results are not so hot: Knayam.com and WL announce $130+ contest; Week In Review - November 29, 2008; Why You Should Join Some Contest.
None of them concern press releases but they are all "dofollow".
So the final result for the keyword of press release is 5 /10.
Not bad, but not brilliant.
Lets try RSS directory.
The number one spot is again from VentureBeat and which, as I previously wrote, is not "dofollow". However, the article itself may not be about RSS directories, but it does talk about other types of directories so I'll give it one point for that.
Number two and three in the result list are good as they are "dofollow". Again, they may not be about RSS, but I'll give them full points anyway: Knowledge Empowers; Link Building For Your .Mobi Site Or App.
The last two results are not about directories, RSS or otherwise but they are dofollow: Interesting Articles #13 and Podcamp in 2009.
So the final result for RSS directories is 7 /10.
Good stuff.
On to the keyword of link building.
The first three results are: Review of EduBook blog on Hussein's Blog; eBay crashes, PayPal reverse payments on tamebay.com and Internet Marketing Bloggers Doin It Right at JR’s Internet Marketing Strategies. 2 points for these three results.
Result number four is perfect: Link Building With Gooruze.com. Not only is the article about link building but the whole site is about that subject and it's "dofollow"!
However, result number five gives me the heebie-jeebies. This is Jesper Rønn-Jensen's dofollow blog and in the sidebar sits the message "1,336,293 spam comments blocked" Holy shit, is the fate of DoFollow 001 now I've submitted it to DoFollow Search?!
The link building keyword receives a score of 5 /10.
I'll finish off with another keyword I have been working on, history websites. I'm not expecting much back from this result as dofollow blogs tend to be about SEO, marketing and technology and not about history.
Also, DoFollow Search only has 20,000 pages indexed, so there won't be a wide ranch of topics.
The number one spot is for JR's Internet Marketing Strategies again, and other results are interesting "dofollow" finds but, as expected, they are not about history: Child protection groups don’t all like the Great Firewall of Australia either and Someday soon we may have to turn back the clock on home lending.
Actually, DoFollow Search is better than I expected it to be. The results are fairly good, after all it's not going to be on the same level as Google.
Click through to the site and check it out. Report back on what you find.
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Re: Review of DoFollow Search Engine
Thanks for the review, I'm working on a simple way for users to notify us of blogs that "gone nofollow".
ps. Removed VentureBeat from the search engine, removing some 1200+ posts. But I'm glag, the quality has improved.
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