What is dofollow and nofollow?

Started by john9999, 06-30-2012, 05:53:52

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guptaabhijit318

Do follow Back links is the most powerful way to influence search engines to redirect a lot of traffic to your site. Search engine crawlers crawl the whole content on your webpage including images, links, keywords etc.

No follow links can be relevant to your post's context and can come from the sources which have a potential to generate high referral traffic.


fix.97

Link 'rel attribute' defines the type of link and by checking this attribute you can very well judge whether it's a dofollow link or nofollow link. <a href="http://exampledemo.com" rel="dofollow">Example1</a> OR.
nofollow is a value that can be assigned to the rel attribute of an HTML a element to instruct some search engines that the hyperlink should not influence the ranking of the link's target in the search engine's index.


a4nuser

Specially for newbies who are new to SEO or people who are still not clear about Nofollow or dofollow, this post will be useful. Did You Know? Nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct search engines bots that a hyperlink should not influence the link target's ranking in the search engine's index.
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affinity

Can anyone recommend a good tool that highlights nofollow and dofollow links?

pablohunt2812

Nofollow

Link which contain Rel="nofollow" HTML attribute is nofollow the attribute simply assist search engines to know more about the link. Whenever you found a little piece of code in your link i.e. Rel="nofollow" it mean that the link is nofollow and these types of links does not impact the authority nor help you out to Improve Seo ranking or visibility of your website.

Because rel nofollow tag is a noindex tag which has in fact a clear instruction for Search engines that do not try to index particular link.

By adding the above mentioned code for noindex crawlers simply ignore it and do not give any value nor pass link juice which cannot be prolific for batter ranking in search engines.

Dofollow

It is a type of link which has a potential to improve the ranking and the credibility of your website in Google. By default every link is dofollow, link which does not contain Rel="Nofollow" Attribute is dofollow and these are considered to be the most powerful links for any websites.

These links allow search engine to doindex and pass link juice which is indeed the most vital thing for webmasters.The credit goes to Google who introduces dofollow link in 2005 to deeply filter search engine results for spam indexing.

If you want to know more about in detail that how to identify and make difference between both of these links then you must read out the valuable source along with video tutorial Difference Between The Code Of Dofollow And Nofollow Link and you can also learn how to turn Nofollow in to dofollow and Dofollow in to Nofollow.


annarichart

Dofollow links allow google (all search engines) to follow them and reach our website. Giving us link juice and a backlink. If a webmaster is linking back to you with this link both Search Engine and Humans will be able to follow you. The best way to give someone dofollow love is allowing keyword in the anchor text