I am a newbie to all this. What is this "no follow" and follow links. How I can identify that I will get "follow links" to my blog? I am greatful to the people who can throw me some useful answers.
this is regards to the inbound links from other sites and tells the search engines to follow that link or not and also if "link juice" is to be passed on. So the best type of link is one that has the follow on it but it may not be the end of the world if it has the no follow tag as you may still see reffering traffic from them but it won't affect your rankings.
The nofollow tag is specific to Google. When you add rel="nofollow" to a link that is the same as telling Google's bots not to follow that link. "do follow" is not really a tag, but is the default when no tag is added. Most other SE's will ignore this tag
The nofollow prevents search engines to be index urls which use the nofollow. So it is useless for SEO purposes, but you still can generate traffic.
IMHO this is not always true, since I have found a few back links in Yahoo which is having a Rel="nofollow" tag attached with them. It is generally meant to Google, that Google will not follow the link which is associated with nofollow tag. But you can always get traffic from that link.
Search engines have different views over this attribute, see below... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow#Interpretation_by_the_individual_search_engines
It is important to note that Google's 'no-follow' tag recommendation applies only to comments and signature links, not to the original posts. Links made from original blog posts will still be followed, indexed and weighted by the search engines.
nofollow is a HTML attribute value used to instruct some search engines that a hyperlink should not influence the link target's ranking in the search engine's index. It is intended to reduce the effectiveness of certain types of search engine spam, thereby improving the quality of search engine results and preventing spamdexing from occurring in the first place. Follow works opposite to it where the search engines gives the weightage and influence in PR an SERP positiong
Still there are many online tools available to check whether the blog is nofollow or dofollow but, these tools are not much accurate, So my best advise is to find the relevant blog, go through it, and just check the link of the comment post. is the URL in source have code like <a href='http://www.bloomtools.com' rel='nofollow'> or <a href='http://www.bloomtools.com' rel='external nofollow'> this link is nofollow, while dofollow link do not have any attribute like this with the URL there may be rel="external" But it's not actually the nofollow link. Best of luck.