What are DoFollow vs NoFollow Links?

[Elly]

By default all links are dofollow links. And when some one put nofollow attribute into the link. then it's become nofollow links.

Dofollow Links are those links from which we get link juice and it's very helpful in SEO strategy. You can get your website more high into alexa ranking.

Nofollow Links are those links from which we do not get any link juice but still it's alive to get traffic just. not link juice.

Nofollow is an attribute from which we tell to search engines that do not follow this link ranks.

 

[cybexindia15]

a) DoFollow
Refer to site having related content.
High quality websites
Link to the original source

b) NoFollow (we can use dofollow in following instances)

In comments section as we do not have any control
Affiliate Links (They are meant for linking and on sale basis commission, then why give them our link juice)

 

[andyle]

A no follow link is created with the nofollow link HTML tag, which looks like this:

<a href=”website/” rel=”nofollow”>Link Text</a>

A do follow link is created with the dofollow link HTML tag, which looks like this:

<a href=”website/” rel=”dofollow”>Link Text</a>

 

[Broadanderson]

Dofollow links, the links from other website will be crawled by search engines and will be calculated as a back link for the website.

Nofollow links, the links from other website will not be crawled by search engines but can help to improve the traffic to the website. These links are not calculated as back link for website.

So Dofollow links are more useful compare to Nofollow links.

 

[RH-Calvin]

They are link attributes containing instructions for search engine robots. No follow links are never crawled and are responsible to generate traffic to your website. Do follow links are crawled and indexed in search engines and they are helpful to build keyword ranking in search engines.

 

[edwina]

No-follow links attributes do not allow search engine bots to follow link

Do-follow links allow google (all search engines) to follow them and reach our website

 

[arindamdutta16]

Do follow is hyperlink inclusion that tells search engines to pass on any credibility or influence to an outbound link. When Google bot visits a website it reads website pages and includes links with do follow attribute and excludes link with no follow attribute. Nofollow is html tag that website owners, add to links in their website for the search engines not to crawl, notice, or acknowledge a link. While a nofollow link is ignored, but popular social networking site like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Myspace sites are nofollow, but they do provide a lot of other benefits.

 

[Ritika Patel]

Do follow link allow the search engines No Follow do not allow the search engines.

 

[giftssuppliers]

Do follow: When Google bots are crawling a website they check your website links. If this links is “do follow” then search engines will follows the link and so link juice gets passed.

no follow: 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.

 

[rajdeep]

Dofollow Link is a hyperlink that is able to tell all search engines to pass along it’s page rank influence to an outbound link. If you will use or get do follow links then search engines will count your link in the eyes of Google, yahoo, Bing etc as backlink for your site and you can get some positive value for your site ranking.

Nofollow is html tag that website owners, add to links in their website for the search engines not to crawl, notice, or acknowledge a link.

 

[guptaabhijit318]

Do follow Back links is the most powerful way to influence search engines to redirect a lot of traffic to your site. Search engine crawlers crawl the whole content on your webpage including images, links, keywords etc.

No follow links can be relevant to your post’s context and can come from the sources which have a potential to generate high referral traffic.

 

[jaysh4922]

Both No Follow and Do Follow are important for the website. But it is said for improving PR one must have do follow links. But they both are links for the user and both can helpful to bring traffic.

 

[completeshutters]

Do-follow are those link which is readable by the Google crawler and the No-follow link are not.

 

[Alpha Men]

Do follow Back links is the most powerful way to influence search engines to redirect a lot of traffic to your site. Search engine crawlers crawl the whole content on your webpage including images, links, keywords etc.

No follow links can be relevant to your post’s context and can come from the sources which have a potential to generate high referral traffic.

 

[IT-INDIA.com]

If you can get NF links for your website which are niche relevant, you can expect nice juice from such NF backlinks.

 

[garymjone]

Do-follow is rank google but build both do-follow and no-follow to seo friendly and natural backlinks

 

[IT-INDIA.com]

Does anyone check their Google webmaster tools reports here? for backlinks?

Has anyone ever observed NF links recognized by Google? I say YES!

 

[zozoreview]

You should be a balance between do follow and nofollow

 

[ragulaussie]

a) DoFollow
Refer to site having related content.
High quality websites
Link to the original source

b) NoFollow (we can use dofollow in following instances)

In comments section

 

[Pitradev]

Do follow links are useful and also give recommendation while no follow links are not giving the recommendation.