A Link Devolopment Question...what Is Do Follow

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by moneybrown, Sep 5, 2008.

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    ITHOUGHT I UNDERStood this....which i htought was enable the do follow action on your blog..can someone exlplain is a do follow and how it works and benifits me...just thought..for example..it was....enalbe do follow on my blog...and i can follow the ppl who leave comments ???? not sure..help me please
     
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  2. Breakaway11

    Breakaway11 Well-Known Member

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    it has to do with whether or a link, using the regular html link code, passes any authority from the site the link is on to the site the link is to....

    you can add rel="nofollow" to the code to make it so Google doesn't pass authority from the linking site to the linked site.... any link WITHOUT rel="nofollow" is dofollow, and passes authority.
     
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    Do follow allows robots to traverse the links in the page and do not follow
    advices the robots not to traverse.

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    Do-Follow blog comments help your PR.
     
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    Setting do follow on your own blog won't help you in any way, except that you may get more comments on your posts. You'd probably get a lot of spam posts though. It does not allow you to follow your visitors or anything like that. Setting that option is just telling the search engines that it is okay to pass some value onto any url link in comments. Really it's probably only worth setting it as do follow if your blog is targeting the webmaster community.
     
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    For a new blog it can greatly increase the visitor base.
     
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    thank you guys so much... im sure i understand this alot better...nothing to do with following users or ppl who leave comments...just helps your back links and pr...and verifies links...i have a better understanding of this do - follow..thank you guys for taking the time to answer this for me!!
     
    moneybrown, Sep 6, 2008 IP