What Is DoFollow? What Is NoFollow? All Answered Here

If you’ve been doing any kind of reading about link building, then you’ve probably seen people mentioning “nofollow” and “dofollow” links. These are very important terms to understand when you are trying to build great links back to your site. But, to the person who is new to all of this, it may be kind of confusing. I am going to help break it down for you.

http://karangoel.in/2009/10/03/what-is-dofollow-what-is-nofollow-all-answered-here/

 

That is great, it is useful to newbies. But it is an old news for some guys with SEO experience

 

This is good information for newbie. However, this information can be found on wikipedia as well.

 

Impressive article for the beginners. Keep writing.

 

Thanks for the helpful thread

 

Thanks for the helpful link!!

 

ohh great thanks for provide detail information about dofollow and no follow links. but there is lots of information available in so many search engines .like google, bing, yahoo .. many more.

 

@harry009: WRONG!!!! There is no information is Search engines...All information is present in websites that are INDEXED by SE's....

 

useful for noobs

 

Nice write up. It certainly helps to understand these concepts. However, wouldn't you rather have a nofollow backlink from CBS than a regular dofollow from any average joe website? I know I would.

 

Well Dofollow is wen crawler crawls your posted links like in link building or commenting if you hv selected nodofollow plugin then 2 colors come.... pink and blue... Pink color means nodofollow link and blue means do follow link so if your link is in blue color then it will be crawled by crawler and if its in pink color then it wnt........

 

@pearlwensil: That's what OP is explaining..

 

Thanks for the link, I agree this can be a confusing topic for all newbies.

 

Very nice for those new to SEO. Great share!

 

@JR Lang: If you search in DP for this topic, you will find 1000's of topics listed..I think OP has done a great job..

 

This is what Google telling us about "No-follow"..

"Nofollow" provides a way for webmasters to tell search engines "Don't follow links on this page" or "Don't follow this specific link.
Google does not transfer PageRank or anchor text across these links. it's important to note that Yahoo and Bing search engines may handle nofollow in slightly different ways.

Source: About rel="nofollow"

 

Do follow= Google bot can crawl
No follow= Google bot can not crawl

 

@dsouza: Yes, that's right.

 

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Thanks this cleared up a few missed questions about follow tags