Do Follow or No Follows!!!!!

I don't personally think there is a big difference. Big thing about nofollow is it does not pass pagerank. But Im sure google still counts those links into the algo for ranking which is what really matters.

No it does not ... It means nothing at all.. You should be posting anyplace you can post no matter what anyone else tells you.

James

For me do follw site is more convenient and suitable to promote website using keywords and domain names. I also prefer for high pr sites.

I prefer dofollow sites. Regarding HubPages, they make links dofollow if your rating is above 75.

I try and find dofollows but if not then I will use no follows...

On the other hand I also make all my links leaving my own site no follows...

Danny

Having DoFollow links to your site is important as Google count these as full votes for your site. However, there's no concrete evidence to support that Google doesn't count NoFollow links entirely. I think these links still provide some link juice to your pages if you make a back link from these..

I prefer Do Follow one. Google won't crawl our link if placed on nofollow blog, but G do on do follow

In my opinion there is a difference nofollow tells google not to give this link and credit, you may aswell not have a nofollow link however this could still bring traffic to your websites.

Here is my question tho, is there any plugins out there or software (for mac if software) that shows you that the site is do follow or not.

Butters is correct. Google follows the link and index but dont pass any link juice...

Matt Cutts on nofollow...

h**p://groups.google.com/group/Google_Webmaster_Help-Indexing/msg/21b12da30e8b0de2?pli=1

"for Google, nofollow'ed links are dropped out of
our link graph; we don't even use such links for discovery."

"So nofollow as a link attribute causes Google to drop those links out
of our link graph. If you have a nofollow link from page A to page B,
we won't crawl via page A's link to discover page B."

When creating a link on a webpage using HTML, the standard code for that link is:
Search Engine OptimizationIt includes the HTML tag, the URL the link will be going to, the text that will be shown on the webpage for that link, and the closing HTML tag. You are able to add more HTML to the code above, in order to tell the search engine spiders whether or not you want them to follow the link when crawling your website. You may be thinking... "Why wouldn't I want the search engine spiders to see all of the links on my site?" This is a very valid concern, which I will address further down. First, I am going to show you how to modify the HTML in order to tell the search engine spiders to crawl a link or not. To tell the spiders to crawl a link, you don't have to do anything. Simply using the format shown above, the search engine spiders will crawl the link provided. To tell the spiders to NOT crawl a link, you need to add the following code to the HTML code above: rel="nofollow"

So dofollow means those are not using "nofollow" Hope it will help you.

OK so nofollow gives you no link juice in most search engines. So not worth your time to have a nofollow link in my opinion. But my friends like to call it a leaky condom.... Sometimes it really does help you.

do follow is much prefer but then no follow helps too..especially if its from a good quality site...

To me the most shocking thing is that you actually believe what Matt Cutts says. That guy is a walking spin machine. Nofollow links are excluded from the algo.. yeah right. They might have a little less effect but now that nofollow is standard, it's been used in a way it wasn't intended (all external links are automatically nofollow in order to keep pagerank in) and that must change how Google evaluates those links.

The problem with your "nofollow links are not followed or included" is that you are now thinking in small scale and exactly how SEO people think. And exactly how Matt Cutts & Google wants you to think because it makes their job much easier to filter your sites out.

What if I'm keeping a website about really, really narrowed niche and it's the best there is about the topic but because I don't know anything about SEO my only link building happens when I talk in the forums and comment on blogs in my niche. And 99.95% of those blogs are using nofollow tags. There's absolutely 0% change of site being ever featured in big social media site or in media.

So how's Google going to rank that site based on the quality of the site if all incoming links are nofollow? If nofollow links would be excluded completely, it would lead to a situation where search results would not be the best possible ones. And that means Google doesn't do their job properly because their algo has a fundamental flaw.

Then you say you do only dofollow blogs. I'm sorry but that's just so very wrong if you want to boost your rankings. We at SEOBDB.com are very familiar with the ratio of dofollow and nofollow blogs in Wordpress installations because our job is to find those blogs, spider them and determine which ones are dofollow and which ones are not, which by the way is not as easy as it sounds And based on our statistics you are lucky if you can find 1 active & not spammed to death dofollow blog in 100 Wordpress blogs. Based on that fact alone, think about how your link profile will look like if you comment only in dofollow blogs. I can't think of bigger flag right now. Well maybe using same anchor text all the time and doing posts in batches when there's clear timestamp visible when comment was left.

Anyway, I hope you guys really think these things before you go and spend a lot of time first building a website and then link building. Because if your goal is to rank in Google and you don't think your link building thru, you can really make things difficult for yourself.

Three words:

Natural Link Profile.

Does gaining only dofollow links make your link profile look natural?

I prefer Do Follow too, find high pr blog by google it "dofollow blog list"