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Topic: What is DoFollow and NoFollow Links

Posted By: sunsoftinfoway
Subject: What is DoFollow and NoFollow Links
Date Posted: 29 April 2014 at 7:19am

can you please explain what is DoFollow and Nofollow Links

Thank you

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 29 April 2014 at 10:50am

Search engines can downgrade your listing if you have to many outgoing links or outgoing links to less describable websites.

If Nofollow is added to the link Google and other search engines will not follow the link and therefore if it is a link to a less describable website will not affect your search engine ranking.

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Posted By: sunsoftinfoway
Date Posted: 29 April 2014 at 10:54am

Thank you so much

Posted By: Elizabeth_Keen
Date Posted: 16 June 2014 at 8:05pm

Go through the below links to get information about follow and no follow links:
http://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2013/07/24/follow-nofollow-links" rel="nofollow - http://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2013/07/24/follow-nofollow-links

Posted By: ziesha098
Date Posted: 07 August 2014 at 12:10pm

Dofollow links are the links which allow google and other search engines to crawl whereas this is not possible in case of nofollow links.

Posted By: adamcruz
Date Posted: 03 December 2014 at 5:04am

No follow links has no value for search engines and not crawled by secarh engine wheras all this is possible in the case of Do follow links. So all always create links and share links in do follow sites.

Posted By: yashepe
Date Posted: 02 March 2015 at 8:14am

well dofollow links will tell search engines to follow that link and it will let you to pass link juice, and if you do not wish to pass link juice then make that link to nofollow.

Posted By: ziwbew
Date Posted: 03 March 2016 at 1:39pm

Take a look at the following page to get exact info regarding dofollow and nofollow links:

http://www.shoutmeloud.com/understand-dofollow-nofollow--seo-basics. - http://www.shoutmeloud.com/understand-dofollow-nofollow-link-seo-basics.html

Hope this helps.

Posted By: tecobytes
Date Posted: 19 May 2016 at 8:53am

Do-Follow - When Google bots are crawling a website they look for external links point to other websites. If this links is “do follow” then search engines will follows the link and so link juice gets passed.
Nofollow - If a search engine finds a “no follow” backlink it will just ignore the link and will not get deeper into crawling and no link juice is passed.

Posted By: Planetwebsolutions
Date Posted: 06 June 2016 at 11:46am

No-follow link is an HTML attribute which do not allow the search engine to follow that link, it does not pass on link juice. Only humans will be able to follow the links. It is a good practice to use no-follow link attribute to those link to which you don't want to pass juice-link.

Example of Nofollow Link: <a href=”http://www.google.com/” rel=”nofollow”>Google</a>

Do-follow link allows the Google (and all search engines) to follow them and reach our website. It passes link juice and gives us a backlink. If a webmaster is linking back to you with this link then both search engine and humans will be able to follow you. The best way to give someone do follow link is allowing keyword in the anchor text. This means when you are linking to any website or page, use the targeted keyword as anchor text.

Example of do follow Link: <a href=”http://www.google.com/”>Google</a>

By default, all the hyperlinks are do-follow, So you don’t need to do anything to make it do follow.

No follow link is an HTML attribute which sends messages to the crawlers to not to follow the rel=”nofollow” link.

Do follow Link is an HTML attribute which sends messages to the crawlers to follow the link.

Posted By: tecobytes
Date Posted: 08 July 2016 at 5:45am

Do-follow and No-follow is using in crawling technique,if forum or any other website having No-follow means search engine will not read (crawl) ,if you generated backlinks in that website means for it is just waste of time.