Follow No Follow - Frequently Asked Questions

[banner123]

there are a lot of ads on available which highlighted the no follow links such as quirk searchstatus as well as you can check it manually by open source you can find no follow link.

[twinspectra]

Well I think you have got the answer now how to display the nofollow and the dofollow links. If you have not then I can give you two options...

1) Nodofollow Addon for firefox
Here Nofollow links are red and dofollow links are blue, when the addon is activated by right clicking and selecting the nodofollow option.

2) Seo for Firefox
Here Nofollow links are crossed with a line in between the text and dofollow links are kept as they appear in normal way. To activate this addon just click on the SQ maked spot on top of browser near the search box of the browser.

And speaking about no follow and dofollow links they are both the same almost, only nofollow links are not crawled by the Google spider, but they do give you traffic. So building of nofollow and dofollow both are equally important to your website. And I also have read an article where Matt Cutts say that- "A link is a link no matter it is dofollow or nofollow."

[smithzenri]

If want to know link or website is Dofollow or not, open the site select link, right click on it, select option view source. It will be open in html rag. If it has a attribute of rel="nofollow" in <a> tag then it is nofollow link. And another way to check it is Nofollow link also display in pink background.

[whiplashclaims]

I read somewhere that nofollow links do help on google but less so.

[howimakemony]

Try Google operators like: "allintext:leave a comment" like one other guy suggested...works wonders

[strategic seo services]

Originally Posted by sasake

Hi, I have a question, how to know if a website has "Do-Follow" or not? For me this is important if you want to do blog commenting. It will be a waste of time if you leave a comment for a blog/website that does not have "Do-Follow", any ideas? Thanks

There is a free tool that will help you do this very, very easily. It is called SEO for Firefox. Go here to download it now: SEO for Firefox Extension: Free SEO Toolbar Firefox Browser Plugin (Note: be sure to have Mozilla Firefox installed first)

Then, once it is installed on your Firefox browser, right click on the SEO icon in the lower right hand corner of your screen, and select "Highlight NoFollow Links". Now, when you want to leave your anchor text backlink on a web page, you will be able to check if the backlink that you leave will be DoFollow or NoFollow (highlighted in Red).

[Magnet4Marketing]

NoFollow is not always a bad thing, sites like Yahoo Answers and YouTube give back nofollow links that have no affect on your rankings, but you can still greatly benefit from them. I agree with most here, use Firefox with SEO extension nofollow add on.

[Harry John]

This is the best idea to get backlinks from other highly rated pages.Even all the backlink generator or seller pages you found over the internet follow this technique to sell backlinks.But the main thing is that you have to find out whether the blog you are commenting is do-follow or not since backlinks from commenting are possible if only the blog allows do-follow.And for this you have the do little tricks.those are easy but need some effort too.

[Thierry Samuel]

thanks for sharing the tools, i never think about it...

[AnythingMarketing]

I don't even worry about NoFollow/DoFollow.

Post the backlink and move on!

They all matter!!

[JSProjects]

Originally Posted by AnythingMarketing

I don't even worry about NoFollow/DoFollow.

Post the backlink and move on!

They all matter!!

That is highly debatable and has led to countless threads that have gone on for pages and pages.

[Silapuna]

OK. you should do more "Do-Follow" backlinks and less "nofollow"

[anes amrani]

I think you should download the scrapebox dofollow checker google that you will found it the No1.

[gurleen]

1.forums.digitalpoint.com
2.vuju.com/
3.checkthisup.com
4.sitepoint.com/forums
5.thewebmasterforum.net
6.webmasterforums.com
7.allcoolforum.com
8.warriorforum.com
9.forums.webicy.com
10.thehyipforum.com
11.webmasterforumsonline.com
12.webmasters.am/forum
13.webmasterforums.net
14.devhunters.com
15.webmaster-forum.net
16.geekvillage.com/forums
17.tips.biz
18.webmastershelp.com
19.webmasterdesk.org
20.webmasterground.com
21.developers.evrsoft.com/forum
22.websitebabble.com

[Ibcontact]

Hmm Various sites ... But Digital point is not do-follow site and its paid site ...

[IMdude123]

but you dont have to pay to register on digital point

[Eugen Oprea]

I use the SEOmoz extension for Chrome to check whether or not links are no-follow.

[ButterflyGarden]

Here are lists of dofollow forums - Do Follow Forum Lists

[siiiis]

I used donofollow extension firefox

[Angela147]

Hi guys, i want to ask there is measure difference in no & do follow??? I mean about help in SE ranking & what is the benifit of nofollow links???

[y8new]

i think when you comment, both link dofollow and no follow are good if approved. I often use addons "nofollow" of firefox to check link do or no follow.

[Marketing Ignite]

Originally Posted by Angela147

Hi guys, i want to ask there is measure difference in no & do follow??? I mean about help in SE ranking & what is the benifit of nofollow links???

Officially Matt Cutts says that no follow do not count in passing on page rank and link juice so no it would not help. Now, is this true? probably so but I believe that having no follow as well is a natural part so to look more natural it would help with some no follow as well.

[NYC SEO]

With Panda constantly getting more aggresive, it's only a matter of time they penalize sites with no nofollows

[stevenclark]

Simply if you are using Firefox then nodofollow add on is there. install it. And not using Firefox then check source of the site.

[Maunchand]

Linkchecker 2.0 is also useful to check if a link is Dofollow or No follow. The good thing about this particular tool is that it even indicates image links to be dofollow or nofollow. I think this particular feature to be its specialty.

[JSProjects]

Originally Posted by NYC SEO

With Panda constantly getting more aggresive, it's only a matter of time they penalize sites with no nofollows

I don't agree at all.

Just an example, what happens if your site goes "viral" and starts generating thousands of backlinks a day? Plenty of those are going to be nofollow. Google is not going to penalize you just because you've got nofollow links.

[reninter]

There are addons from Mozilla do follow- no follow (make sure it's not comfortable with all version) and also you can install with chrome. http://www.chromeextensions.org/webmaster-seo/nofollow-checker/
Install it and check.

[spymobiles]

I use "SEO Quake" for this purpose. Install it easily on your Mozilla Firefox and enjoy

[Tom Albas]

Frequently, I use " SEO Quake" for work...But this plugin is very heavily and load to much

[myiphoneapp]

i use search status add on to check dofollow and no follow links, and this is the best add on, there are many more feature available that you can use.

thanks!

[peter696]

Yes, no link value if you get any link from no-follow attributes. You can check simply from view-source of that page, just find no-follow. Besides you can install Add-ons 'search status' and activate 'Highlights no-follow links' but this add-ons only work in Firefox.

[sgfinancialfreedom]

Thanks for the dofollow forum list. Great resource!

[Barry Unruh]

Originally Posted by consultant1027

An example is a link to the Better Business Bureau BBB. You know it is already indexed in Google, so why send any link juice to them.

Start by taking off your "gotta keep all the juice for my site" hat for a moment...

What Matt Cutts is really telling you is very simple. If you believe a site is "worthy" of your vote of confidence then leave it as a follow link. If it is an affiliate link, or other site you do not want to promote, then "no follow" tag it.

Here is the way you should think about this. What is going to improve the overall value of the internet for you and your readers? Do that. In your example of the Better Business Bureau, I would leave it as a follow link. They are relevant, authoritative, and valuable to my readers. If it was an affiliate link to Clickbank or Amazon I would no-follow it, since the actual page does not provide overall value.

You can bet in the long run by following the advice in my last paragraph you are going to increase your relevance to Google and avoid more of their algorithm tweaks than trying to focus on always eking out one more tiny ounce of link juice.

[SeoMonster1]

Both dofollow and nofollow has different significance and both are important. Don't go only for dofollow. Mix it up and do both.

[JohnMcCabe]

You can put as many "rel=dofollow" tags as you want, anywhere you want. It doesn't mean anything, because there is no such thing as a "dofollow link."

"Follow" is the default value, it does not have to be declared. In the absence of a "rel=nofollow" tag, spiders will follow links. There is some evidence that other search engines, and even Google at times, will follow the link anyway.

With that being the case, Barry's advice above makes the most sense. Only use the nofollow tag, and then only on links you do not wish to endorse to the spiders.

[muzar5]

Try nodofollow add on.

[taurasmark]

Originally Posted by calhoun

It is not working with Firefox 4.

Google the nodofollow 1.5 for the latest version.

by the way nofollow links are red and dofollow links are blue when using this add-on.

You took the words right out of my mouth!

[bacolod]

Well if the site has a nofollow tag, then basically google will just ignore your site link and makes your backlink useless then. I'm not an expert on this but that's what i've understood.

[sweetr]

you're certainly right about all these. it's true that a lot of people nowadays just rely on the backlinks and do not create sensible and sincere comments anymore.

[ajmal]

I use Quirk Search Status to find Dofollow Links . Its a great tool also gives Page rank, Alexa , Robots.txt file , many many more .

[Visionsen]

JS, l can't agree with you more on the word heavily debated. l red an article from an online SEO guru that says No Follow blogs are a waste of time and l think he is right.

[alanson]

thanks for the information you shared here.

[toxicchili]

There is so much misinformation. Even google is pretty vague about what they do with them.

How does Google handle nofollowed links?

In general, we don't follow them. This means that Google does not transfer PageRank or anchor text across these links. Essentially, using nofollow causes us to drop the target links from our overall graph of the web. However, the target pages may still appear in our index if other sites link to them without using nofollow, or if the URLs are submitted to Google in a Sitemap. Also, it's important to note that other search engines may handle nofollow in slightly different ways.

In General??

Also a no-follow link on a page can be indexed or picked up by other sites, and in turn picked up by google. Take wikipedia for example (As mentioned previously), I have links that although no follow have then been picked up by othersites in their content which don't have the no-follow attribute on the link.

Either way, too much weight can be put on this and devalue your whole link building strategy. Perhaps google doesn't transfer pagerank or anchor text across these links and it is clear that google is aware that these links are there, but I doubt they are going to disclose how they use this information.

[Magnet4Marketing]

Nofollow links are as every bit as important as dofollow as far as I'm concerned. They may have no search engine benefits but you can get much needed referral traffic depending where the source is.

[seoblacksmith]

If you are having a problem on the backward compatibility of Firefox add-ons, use Mozbar instead.

[Alice Manon]

Originally Posted by sasake

Hi, I have a question, how to know if a website has "Do-Follow" or not? For me this is important if you want to do blog commenting. It will be a waste of time if you leave a comment for a blog/website that does not have "Do-Follow", any ideas? Thanks

Just comment in blog sites that have KeywordLuv, Commentluv, a WordPress plugin that accepts keywords as anchor text for your website. And also you can make use of add-ons "SearchStatus" to differentiate dofollow and nofollow.

[JSProjects]

Originally Posted by Visionsen

JS, l can't agree with you more on the word heavily debated. l red an article from an online SEO guru that says No Follow blogs are a waste of time and l think he is right.

If you do enough searching then you'll notice that it's heavily debated. My personal opinion? I obviously prefer "dofollow," but I'm not going to turn down a nofollow link. At the very least it's going to help your diversity. And other engines don't seem to be as clear on their stance.

[antony05]

A hyperlink can have two tags: nofollow or dofollow. NoFollow tells the search engines to not continue to the website or give it credit for a link. Reversely, DoFollow tags give your website credit for the link. All of the links we obtain are DoFollow

DoFollow is simply an internet slang term given to web pages or sites that are not utilizing "NoFollow." NoFollow is a hyperlink value that tells search engines not to pass on any credibility or influence to an outbound link. Originally created to help the blogging community reduce the number of inserted links into a "comment" area of a blog page, the attribute is typically standard in blog comments. It helps overwhelmed webmasters disallow spammers from gaining any kind of advantage by inserting an unwanted link on a popular page.

[MoreTricks]

I am also using firefox plugin.
Its works with my FireFox 9

[Ken Somerville]

I have written Three Posts on my Blog about dofollow and no follow. There is some great tools that you can get for free to help you find do follow blogs.

All links are good though some carry a lot more weight with the search engines.

One other thing that you can look for is called Commentluv. This gives you a direct link to your last blog post on the site that you are commenting on.

I personaly have both the do follow and comment love on my blog. But then I believe that we should all be helping each other to succeed.

I hope this helps.

You will need to copy and paste, as I don't have enough posts yet to put in the links. lol

Where to Find Do Follow Blogs | Welcome to the Ken Somerville Home Page/blog
A Free Tool For Finding DoFollow Blogs | Welcome to the Ken Somerville Home Page/blog
Do Follow Backlinks | Welcome to the Ken Somerville Home Page/blog