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dofollow and nofollow in the same link

by IMhelper
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If any link contains rel="dofollow" and rel="nofollow" in the same link then which rel would re count by Google or any other search engine?
#dofollow #link #nofollow
  • Profile picture of the author AskiKaOwnzYou
    Originally Posted by IMhelper View Post

    If any link contains rel="dofollow" and rel="nofollow" in the same link then which rel would re count by Google or any other search engine?
    the first one googlebot finds. before an error occurs when it finds both.
    (this may detract fro your page/s ranking/s if you include both).
    TECHNICALLY IT SHOULD ALWAYS DEFAULT TO THE NO FOLLOW, but I have statistics that prove otherwise.
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    • Profile picture of the author Slade556
      Originally Posted by AskiKaOwnzYou View Post

      the first one googlebot finds. before an error occurs when it finds both.
      (this may detract fro your page/s ranking/s if you include both).
      TECHNICALLY IT SHOULD ALWAYS DEFAULT TO THE NO FOLLOW, but I have statistics that prove otherwise.
      Nope, the default is actually dofollow, unless the link specifically says otherwise.
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  • Profile picture of the author MikeFriedman
    There is no such thing as rel="dofollow"
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  • Profile picture of the author yukon
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    Originally Posted by IMhelper View Post

    If any link contains rel="dofollow" ...
    Whatever you've been reading, stop.
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    • Profile picture of the author nettiapina
      Originally Posted by yukon View Post

      Whatever you've been reading, stop.
      I wonder what have they been reading. There's several users who've made this weird mistake in the last couple of days.
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      Links in signature will not help your SEO. Not on this site, and not on any other forum.
      Who told me this? An ex Google web spam engineer.

      What's your excuse?
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  • Profile picture of the author SEO-Dave
    Since dofollow isn't a real rel= option (rel means relationship) which search engines honor, Google would ignore the dofollow and honor the nofollow. AKA the link would be nofollow.

    With rel attributes you can add anything you like, you could add

    rel="google dofollow alternate nofollow pagerank prev"

    But only the rel attributes used by search engines will matter, which in the example above are nofollow, alternate and prev (those are three real rel options, the others are made up).

    No idea what Google does with

    rel="dofollow" rel="nofollow"

    in one link, would assume nofollow, but not tested this.

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    • Profile picture of the author habibkhan01
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      I am fully agree with David. Thats nothing to be stated after that. Basically if you want to know more about it just search on google by writing "value of dofollow vs nofollow backlinks"
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  • Profile picture of the author uditsh
    The link will be dofollow(followed by search engines) by default if it doesn't have rel="nofollow" attribute. There is nothing rel="dofollow" attribute in practice and doesn't have any value. So if you have rel="nofollow" with your link then it wouldn't follow by any search engine.
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  • Profile picture of the author chrisjohn93
    Google will count this link as no-follow links.
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