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Dofollow or not?

by BillWynne
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There are sites that have your link as dofollow but when you mouse over the link it is to the hosting website.

When you click it goes on through to your website.

If you are just looking for dofollow backlinks would this qualify?

I don't know if this is dofollow or not.
(i'm not a programmer)
#dofollow
  • Profile picture of the author InitialEffort
    Are you saying it is to something like thewebsiteyouareon . com / linktoyourwebsite ?

    Like they cloaked it?
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  • Profile picture of the author paulgl
    You will have to look at the source code to see how the mouseover
    effect is done. If it's html, the link is visible to search engines. Just
    check for the nofollow tag. If it's a script, it's invisible and the point
    is moot.

    There is no way to force google to "follow" a link. There is no dofollow.
    Even if they omit the nofollow, google still may not like it.

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  • Profile picture of the author actionplanbiz
    No they do not qualify as a backlink
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  • Profile picture of the author BillWynne
    I will look at the code but my feeling was it was a way to not give away any "link juice".

    Looks like that is a synonymous judgment.

    Won't be wasting anytime there unless it is a high traffic site.
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  • Profile picture of the author socialbookmark
    If you mean that you got backlinks from some websites that after clicking on links, you will be redirected to your website by a Php script, know that these links are not dofollow and they are no backlinks at all. Because they are not pointing to your website directly.
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    • Profile picture of the author BillWynne
      Originally Posted by socialbookmark View Post

      If you mean that you got backlinks from some websites that after clicking on links, you will be redirected to your website by a Php script, know that these links are not dofollow and they are no backlinks at all. Because they are not pointing to your website directly.
      Thanks, I was not aware of what the coding was that they use for this.
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  • Profile picture of the author radiotiger
    CHeck this with SEOforfirefox plugin. this highlights to red if its no-follow.
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    • Profile picture of the author trustumar
      301 or permanent redirect passes link juice and they do qualify. Other types do not.

      Check with seoconsultants.com/tools/headers

      to see whether a redirect is 301 or not.
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