For online marketers, blog promotion is all about link building. Well, mostly. No matter what you do, your ultimate goal should be to get more links to boost authority of your blog.

As you may already know, that helps your search engine rankings and also get you referral traffic from the originating sites or blogs.

Note: Before building links, it helps if you optimize your blog first. Fortunately, nowadays most of the work is just one time process. Although keyword research and content production are on-going activities. You can read more about this in my guide on Whitehat SEO for blogs.

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The fine folks over at CatsWhoCode.com have put together a list of around 250 different blogs who have DoFollow links as well as blogs that use the CommentLuv plugin and the Top Commentators widget. The purpose of their article was to compile this list for those out their who are looking to gain backlinks.

I must give these guys credit. They did mention within their article about spamming blogs using their lists.

So, if you want to create a real visibility for your blog and not being called a spammer, always leave relevant comments when you have something to say.
Please do not use this list for spamming.

I use DoFollow on my own personal blog as well as CommentLuv as a means of rewarding individuals who contribute to the conversations that take place on the blog. I will admit, it seems like these two avenues have opened up even more flood gates in terms of the amount of spam comments I receive. Worst yet, the list of DoFollow blogs were compiled using software called Fast Blog Finder. So not only do I as a blog owner have to deal with automated spam, I now have to deal with human beings looking for backlinks through means of leaving comments.

You know, if you want to generate backlinks, do it the old fashioned way. Create a kick ass article. Create something that is link bait. It may not be as easy as commenting on a bunch of blogs but at least you'll decrease the risk of your future comments being flagged as spam automatically from services such as Akismet. If you're not sure on how to create link bait, check out the following articles from Performancing.

The Art Of Linkbaiting

How To Create User Generated Linkbait And Build Relationships At The Same Time

The Five Components Of A Great Linkbait

How I Write List Oriented Linkbait

From Linkbait To Video Bait

I have an article that was published over 900 times. Do I have over 900 backlinks? Hardly. You can't predict where your articles will end up or how often the search engines will crawl those sites. You can, however, manually ping those sites. I simply Google my article, grab the URL and ping Technorati or Google. Yes, it's tedious, but do you want those backlinks or not?