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Comment posted on Sunday Coffee with Ana: DoFollow, NoFollow and More by Maky @ Nigerian Food

I give it to you, you are the Queen of networking Ana. There are only a handful of bloggers that take time to answer all their comments and looking around, I think they are mostly influenced by you. If I talk to a wall when I comment on a blog, I will not comment on that blog even if it is dofollow to the 3rd order. The only exception is when I see that a lot of commenters are asking questions without getting answers from the blog owner and I have the answer to their questions, I will then step in and help out or when I want to engage with the other commenters. I will understand though when in the future, you can’t meet up with replying all the comments because they are just too much (look what is happening now cos you went away for a few days!).

I like your new side banners better. Maybe because it is not generic. And it caught my attention the first day you put them up and that’s what you want, isn’t it?

Talking about design, did you create your opt-in form using Aweber forms or did you design it yourself? I had a look at their forms and they were too generic and they say you can edit them, still I’m curious. And pls which software did you use to create you e-book image? I love it.

Thanks for the pinging comments tip, it will be very handy. Though I’m sure you know this already, I find that my comments on your blog are indexed quickly, I guess it is because you update very often and crawlers come by on their own.

Alexa ranking: What tip do you have for people in a non-techy niche? Alexa ranking is mostly based on traffic from browsers with Alexa Toolbar installed. In some niches, the only traffic from a browser with Alexa toolbar maybe from the blog/site owner himself!

I got to run … my babies are calling.

Keep up the good work.

Maky @ Nigerian Food also commented

• Lucky you! I have a 3yr old that is more of a baby than my 3 month old

  Thanks for the answers but no thanks for making me feel good about my Alexa rank

• Hi Alex,

  Some bloggers do admit to manually editing it to become nofollow once they step on the PR ladder. But as Ana mentioned, she does not care cos she is still down with us mortals at PR0 But the question is … Does having a dofollow blog while at PR0 affect how long it will take to become ranked? Maybe Ana will answer that on Tuesday’s post?

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