Never in my life I saw any HTML Code with “do follow†Tag and yet every wannabe SEO and Webmaster are using that all over the Internet. I know “follow†tag but what does “do follow†means? fastreplies
There is no dofollow tag, it simply means a link is not nofollow. What does this question have to do with directories?
I just went over Directories and Announcement Forums and found dozens "do follow" claims. So I wonder, why people who are heavily involved with SEO would use this term. fastreplies
Do Follow means site is indexed by Google robots. It means Google will see your link and count it as back link. In case of no follow means, google robots will not be able to see your link. In other words, it will never be considered as back link.
But bots have no idea what "do follow" means How do you expect bots to execute your request if they don't understand the code? fastreplies
It includes the HTML tag, the URL the link will be going to, the text that will be shown on the webpage for that link, and the closing HTML tag. In order to tell the search engine spiders whether or not you want them to follow the link when crawling your website, you can choose whether to add a nofollow tag or not. To tell the spiders to crawl a link, you don’t have to do anything. However, to tell the spiders to NOT crawl a link, you need to add the following code to the HTML code above: rel="nofollow" So, when you are looking for sites that you could add your links on, the first thing you need to do is to know that if the sites use “nofollow†tags or not.
I LOL'd. Yea...I'm not sure where all the "do follow" nonsense came from. I only know "follow" and "nofollow." I guess asking the search engines to "follow" isn't strong enough...but if that is the case, I think "do follow" is still a bit weak. I think I'll try "index or die, follow dammit!"
There are 2 things infact "Follow" and "Nofollow" but 90% times "Follow" is called as "Dofollow".. However Dofollow is really important to get Backlinks for your site.
whatever the meaning of "follow the white rabbit" does mean "do follow". that means no need to say to bots to follow a link, they already knows that
Then how come you didn't said: "do follow the white rabbit" and said "follow"? Maybe because "do follow" would be wrong thing to say? ??? fastreplies
I think it's an emphasis. A link has only one purpose for seo, its aim to be follow, right? However, once upon a time rel="nofollow" has appeared. After that all the seo guys called links as nofollow and do follow. I mean it has been important for a link to be follow, after that nofollow appeared. so people just give point to it. - X: Look at the source code dude, are the links have rel="nofollow"? - Y: Hmm, there is no such that. - X: Ok, that link does follow. Go on! that's spoken.
Right OK, but what happened to "follow" tag? Did W3.org cancel it? Are you saying that SEO guys are using "do follow" in HTML Code? ??? fastreplies
There is no dofollow tag, and google made up the "nofollow." All that nofollow means is the PR is not passed on to the link from the mother site. That's it. There is no such thing as dofollow. There is no such thing as follow. Even leaving off the "nofollow" tag does not in itself do anything, as one cannot, repeat, cannot, make google do anything. Not putting "nofollow" is more like asking, "please google, count the PR of this link." But they may say, "no." Stephen C
No, I don't say that. Actually no need to use "do follow". I think "follow" tag has never been so important. A link's first and main aim is just being a link and redirecting people and bots to the target. if you want to point to some web page, you just give a link to it. So bots and visitors can go on to target of the link. However, in the google's eyes you are responsible about the links you give. if you don't want to be responsible about the linked page, you put "rel=nofollow". So google don't think you are a supporter of any harmful web page.
Man, you are giving me headache with all these semantics... my head start spinning around You still didn't answer my question If there is no need to use "do follow", then why people all over the Forums and Blog are using it? ??? fastreplies
There is no "do follow." There is no "follow." If you use those, your browser and bots will ignore them, as they make no sense. What people "mean" is they are calling: "not using nofollow" to mean "dofollow." But they do not mean there is actually a tag, "do follow." There isn't. Stephen C
all the other members who posted a reply to this thread and I replied your answer. BUT you don't understand! actually you already started to talk nosense. you say people use "do follow". I don't say people use "do follow". People DO NOT use "do follow". Just name the links as "do follow" which are not "nofollow".