what are dofollow and nofollow links???

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by Sherlin, Aug 4, 2010.

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    As I am learning SEO very recently and quiet a new can anyone tell me what is utility of dofollow and nofollow in site and how google is going to evaluate them?????
     
    Sherlin, Aug 4, 2010 IP
  2. mocansimiondaniel

    mocansimiondaniel Active Member

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    If you heard about page rank (PR) than a dofollow link transfers PR, and a nofollow doesn`t.
    Or another explanation is that dofollow links say to the google bot that it should follow that link, and nofollow not to do it.
    Or DoFollow links transfer Link Juice that is like a vote from you to that link, nofollow doesnt cast that vote.
     
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    only do follow give you credit and link juice.
     
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    ska_defender Well-Known Member

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    Yes only dofollow links increases your PR and backlinks hence help in SEO optimization
     
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    Dofollow links pass PR juice while nofollow links don't.
     
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    Do follow = Share PR juice + back links
    No follow = only you can get Back links
     
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    To find if a link is no-follow, check the page source (right click on webpage where link is and find your link in the source). If the link in the source code has rel="nofollow" in there the the link will only pass very little credit for Google.
     
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    Good Stuff- Thanks for the info!
     
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    fr@nc!z Active Member

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    NoFol­low is an HTML attribute that is assigned to a hyper­link that instructs the search engine crawler that the tar­geted page should not be awarded with a SERP boost. If a link doesn’t con­tain the ‘Nofol­low’ attribute then it is auto­mat­i­cally deemed to be a ‘Dofol­low’ link.
     
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    I had started to think what is the rationale of a DoFollow and a NoFollow....
     
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    Initially forums and blogs were do-follow, to bring in huge traffic.After reaching a stage getting high PR they tend to cut down the do-follow to no-follow,so that quality is maintained coz usually do-follow forums are bugged up with advertisers right.
    Simple logic!
     
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    teamaguilar, Aug 14, 2010 IP