What is Do Follow links and No follow Links?

Specially for newbies who are new to SEO or people who are still not clear about Nofollow or dofollow, this post will be useful. Nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct search engines bots that a hyperlink should not influence the link target's ranking in the search engine's index
 
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What is Do Follow links and No follow Links?

DoFollow Links refer to the type of link, which passes link juice to your website. By default each link is Dofollow. Whereas Nofollow link refers to type of link, which doesn't pass any link juice to your website. In order to avoid getting penalized by spam most of the website gives Nofollow backlink.

How to check backlink is giving Dofollow or Nofollow.
1) If you see strike through on anchor text, than means link is Nofollow. If there is no strike through means it is a Dofollow Link.
2) Select the anchor text, right click on it and select view selction area, if in <a href> tag, you are able to see rel="Nofollow", than that link is Nofollow. If it is Dofollow link, there won't be rel attribute in A href tag.
 
Nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct search engines bots that a hyperlink should not influence the link target's ranking in the search engine's index.

It is a type of link which has a potential to improve the ranking and the credibility of your website in Google. By default every link is dofollow, link which does not contain Rel=”Nofollow” Attribute is dofollow and these are considered to be the most powerful links for any websites.
 
Do follow and no follow are link attributes and contain instructions for search engine robots. Do follow links are crawled and indexed in search engines whereas no follow links are never crawled and indexed in search engines.
 
Nofollow link : Nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct search engines bots that a hyperlink should not influence the link target's ranking in the search engine's index.

Dofollow link : It is a type of link which has a potential to improve the ranking and the credibility of your website in Google. By default every link is dofollow, link which does not contain Rel=”Nofollow” Attribute is dofollow and these are considered to be the most powerful links for any websites.
 
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.
 
Dofollow links are the links that web crawler visits and indexes it. It is most important for SEO as it provides the quality backlinks as well.
Nofollow links are the links that web crawler does not visit and indexes it. It is not important for SEO purpose but it only generates traffic and leads to your website.
 
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