I’ve found a few free forum sites where you can create forums that are dofollow. However, getting them indexed and getting traffic to them is a big challenge and I’d rather concentrate on more profitable and easy link building ventures at this point.

There are plenty of forums out there where you can get dofollow links from both within the post and from signature links. The further away you get from technology and blogging topics the more likely you are to find dofollow forums. Just be mindful of following the rules of the forum and confirm what kind of links they allow you to use.

As for Wiki’s I haven’t located one yet that had dofollow links that wasn’t paid.

We need an update on any forums that have dofollow. That in itself should make for an interesting post. A nice list of dofollow forums and wikis with a bit of filler info.
Have you had a chance to come across any?

Well, at least I put your houseboat site on my random blogroll.

PR is part of it but more important is getting an anchored link counted toward a target site or post. I’ve had sites with little PR or age show up well in SERPs just on this factor alone. Of course, PR and age and probably lack of advertising will give the site more authority in Google’s eyes.

Having a cluster is part of an overall link building strategy. The important thing with a cluster is that you have a little more control over the linking than you do with articles, dofollow comments and forums.

Thats OK some day I’ll make it to the big league.

On these Blogger link cluster? Don’t they require quite a bit of time to build them up in PR so you get good PR juice from them? I can spend months trying to get a Blogger blog gain low page rank. And that is if I focus heavily on that blog alone.

Link clusters seem like a lot of work when you could just write articles, comment blogs and forums.

Don’t clusters take years to build?

Denise

That is true. A lot of it depends on how natural it looks and the numbers involved. Certain blackhat tools, like YACG and Blogger Generator, can create 1000’s of links very quickly and they’ll also get blacklisted in Google very quickly. A natural link cluster will grow slowly and organically and stay relatively small which is almost always acceptable to Google.

I haven’t checked into them recently. I think I may actually have a blog of sorts on classic Visual Basic still out there somewhere. I’ll have to see if I can track it down. A quick search didn’t turn mine up but I did find one done by an old co-worker of mine.

Their blogs, as best I can tell, don’t have a nofollow attribute inserted on posts so that would be good. I wouldn’t do one where I wanted people to comment and so forth but for link clustering it should work fine.