What the difference noFollow and Dofollow ?

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  1. #1
    What the difference noFollow and Dofollow ?
    and who is the best for SEO ?
     
    Cr.designer, Sep 17, 2010 IP
  2. zaheerseo

    zaheerseo Greenhorn

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    Nofollow are for not crawling a link by search engine. Dofollow allow search engine to crawl links. Nofollow tag we can use if we are using a link for reference not for crawl. Both are good for human traffic.

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  3. dcristo

    dcristo Illustrious Member

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    Nofollow was introduced for blog comment links when the webmaster was unsure about approving a link.
     
    dcristo, Sep 17, 2010 IP
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    editionart Guest

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    By nofollow we mean those links which are not crawl by search engines and dofollow mean links which are crawled by search engines.
     
    editionart, Sep 18, 2010 IP
  5. CharlieHash

    CharlieHash Peon

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    Dofollow is best for your blogpost and nofollow for your comments

    Dofollow means you are allowing search engine to index your links and nofollow means you are not allowing search engine to index your links, google has made this system to stop spamming of links
     
    CharlieHash, Sep 18, 2010 IP
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    jannyflcn Peon

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    Dofollow links are followd by google and nofollow links are not followed by google..

    i think dofollow links are good practice in SEO..
     
    jannyflcn, Sep 20, 2010 IP
  7. jayesh.phoenix

    jayesh.phoenix Peon

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    Dofollow links are useful to get high PR. Google count only dofollow backlink for PR. So that dofollow is best for SEO.
     
    jayesh.phoenix, Oct 4, 2010 IP
  8. james.theron

    james.theron Greenhorn

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    both are important as per seo wise,

    nofollow links are not carry forwards PR weight age where as dofollow links should carry forward PR juice
     
    james.theron, Oct 5, 2010 IP
  9. seoexpa

    seoexpa Peon

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    By default all links are "dofollow" .It means search engine robots will follow that link if not otherwise instructed .

    All link will get link juice for any normal link in web page. If you do not want give link juice to that link you can implement no follow tag .

    "Nofollow" tag will be written as:
    <a href=www.domain. com rel="nofollow">anchor text </a>

    In these case that link will not get any link juice ,as you instructed search engine robots not to follow that link by implementing rel="nofollow" tag .
     
    seoexpa, Oct 13, 2010 IP
  10. jeffersondaniel

    jeffersondaniel Peon

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    Dofollow and Nofollow are two important factors among many SEO Ranking Factors that influence the ranking of a particular site in search engines. Google Page Rank of a website is to estimate the value of that particular site when buying/selling links. Google mainly provides good page rank for the websites that have quality incoming links (back-links) from another site. The more back-links you have (quality), the higher the pagerank you will receive from Google.

    If the other webmasters give us a backlink with “dofollow” tag included, then we get some share in their pagerank i.e., the link will be considered by Google and our site ranking improves. Whereas if the other site owners give a link back to our site using the “nofollow” attribute, then it will not be considered by Google and our website ranking will stay same as it is.

    Do follow is the best for SEO.
     
    jeffersondaniel, Oct 13, 2010 IP
  11. dhirenv

    dhirenv Member

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    a page with a NoFollow tag tells the search engines that yes, this page can be crawled, but don’t show this page at all in Google’s Index, and don’t follow any outgoing links, and no PageRank flows from that page.
     
    dhirenv, Oct 13, 2010 IP
  12. EnesErtem

    EnesErtem Peon

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    i don't think like you , some bots crawls nofollow links.
    Otherwise they don't crawl more pages.
     
    EnesErtem, Oct 13, 2010 IP
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    No Follow links are links which tells Google "Not to See" these links.
    :)
     
    Sherlin.Austin, Oct 18, 2010 IP
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    Some Search engine not consider to nofollow and Google will consider it, but will not give preference to them. And I site giving you dofollow link it means their is benefit to leave link otherwise their is no benefit leave a nofollow link. It's mean that site do not want to gave link juice.
     
    soccorss, Dec 25, 2010 IP
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    Everyone knows that there is no follow and do follow. But let me tell u that google has kept some sites already reserved for No follow like twitter and many news sites.
    For example many webmasters do try to control the PR via No follow method which google won't follow. So its like google have its own reservations in terms of No follow.
     
    meganuk, Dec 25, 2010 IP
  16. RULE

    RULE Well-Known Member

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    Do follows are better, coz link juice is better for ranking and dofollow sites do give those link juice.
     
    RULE, Dec 25, 2010 IP
  17. Irfi0009

    Irfi0009 Banned

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    SEs respect tags like nofollow or dofollow.

    Nofollow will give you traffics but one SEs will follow your links.

    But if you will use or get dofollow links then SEs will count it as backlink for your site and you can get some positive value for your site ranking.
     
    Irfi0009, Dec 25, 2010 IP
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    You can only increase your website traffic on your website by nofollow by dofollow will help to promote to your site.
     
    mohitsharma, Dec 25, 2010 IP
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    Dofollow means you are allowing search engine to index your links and nofollow means you are not allowing search engine to index your links, google has made this system to stop spamming of links.
     
    baghsarai, Dec 27, 2010 IP
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    DoFollow gives you SEO Juice, NoFollow counts
    as a backlink but significantly reduce (or no) juice.
     
    Craig.Michaels, Dec 27, 2010 IP