Blog Rules

In an effort to increase participation in my blog, I have decided to make it do follow. This is important for a couple of reasons:

1) The no-follow attribute is designed to strip the link juice from sites you don’t trust – I do trust my network of online friends, & I don’t think that we should automatically distrust newcomers.

2) Link Juice is important to our rankings! Most of us participate in online communities for 2 reasons – it’s fun, and it’s good for business. Without do-follow, our business doesn’t benefit.

So welcome to my do follow blog & please enjoy the discussion. A few rules (most of which are borrowed from Ryan Ward.)

1) Please don’t abuse the do-follow w/ spammy comments & anchor text links to your website – please use your name, or your “handle.”

2) I’m giving link juice here, so please don’t be shy to link back to my site or blog.

3) Try & add something to the conversation – please don’t post a bunch of “me too” comments just to get a backlink.

4) Email notification of followup’s are great, and really add to the discussion. Leave the box checked! If you care enough to comment, you should care enough when others do.

5) I will not allow any links to pornographic, gambling, or excessively spammy sites.

6) My Lucia’s Linky Love settings allow a comment to go dofollow after a commentator has left 10 comments, and as long as the name is less than 20 characters.

Here is a list of do-follow real estate blogs I’m compiling.