What is the difference between nofollow and dofollow backlinks?

MikeFriedman

9 years ago

Nofollow links do not increase traffic to your website. This is an incredibly stupid and uninformed post.

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chrisjohn93

9 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

Nofollow links do not increase traffic to your website. This is an incredibly stupid and uninformed post.

No-follow is only provides traffic not link juice to your website. Ezinearticles, reddit are providing no-follow links but a huge traffic divert to your website.

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nettiapina

9 years ago

Originally Posted by chrisjohn93

No-follow is only provides traffic not link juice to your website. Ezinearticles, reddit are providing no-follow links but a huge traffic divert to your website.

I think you're missing Mike's point. It's not the nofollow link that's providing the traffic, but a link on Reddit or another popular website.

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totalprocessing.net 9 years ago

Originally Posted by nettiapina

I think you're missing Mike's point. It's not the nofollow link that's providing the traffic, but a link on Reddit or another popular website.

The link does provide the traffic. Without the link, there would be no traffic. It just happens to be a nofollow link...
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- DABK 9 years ago
  
  And that's exactly what Netiapina said.
  
  Originally Posted by totalprocessing.net
  
  The link does provide the traffic. Without the link, there would be no traffic. It just happens to be a nofollow link...
  
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productdesign12 9 years ago

Originally Posted by MikeFriedman

Nofollow links do not increase traffic to your website. This is an incredibly stupid and uninformed post.

Yes, you are right Nofollow links not increase traffic to our website.

Why we get Nofollow links if it will not helpful for us ?????
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- Ryan1234 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by productdesign12
  
  Yes, you are right Nofollow links not increase traffic to our website.
  
  Why we get Nofollow links if it will not helpful for us ?????
  
  No follow links can increase traffic because if a visitor find a link on other site which has no follow, Visitor is likely to click the link and it can increase traffic. Only disadvantage of No Follow, SEO value will not be generated for back link.
  
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- DABK 9 years ago
  
  He did not say they don't increase traffic, he said they don't help with SEO.
  
  Originally Posted by productdesign12
  
  Yes, you are right Nofollow links not increase traffic to our website.
  
  Why we get Nofollow links if it will not helpful for us ?????
  
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- MikeFriedman 9 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by productdesign12
  
  Yes, you are right Nofollow links not increase traffic to our website.
  
  Why we get Nofollow links if it will not helpful for us ?????
  
  WE don't get nofollow links. Only idiots run around chasing nofollow links.
  
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nettiapina

9 years ago

Originally Posted by geto

search engine have a metric called pageranker calculating the link point of the page,when many people click a particular page that page earn more points, If the particular page gains more clicks the search engine will take it as a good page in search results for the user using pageranker,the more clicks gained the more chance the page will rank higher in search results.

I'm not sure what you're talking about, but that's not a description of pagerank. It's got nothing to do with clicks. We went through this in another topic, but if you don't know how something works why do you post about it?

Also, there's no such thing as "dofollow". There's only links, and some links are marked with rel=nofollow.

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geto

9 years ago

Stop commenting if your're not familiar with a particular topic,better to stay aside and wait other people comment and you will get the knowledge.I would like to educate you both if your saying the dofllow and nofollow lnks does not exist your wrong, take any known domain name go to ahrefs or majesticSEO enter a domain name you will see where that domain name get backlinks.

This mehtod will help you to learn where your competitors get backlinks from.And also if you need to learn in the easiest way go to goole type in nofollow and dofollow backlinks if these words do not appear then come back and comment but don't spreading or commenting things your not familiar with.

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nettiapina

9 years ago

Originally Posted by geto

Stop commenting if your're not familiar with a particular topic

Ouch. Foot in your mouth, and deep. Mike F. happens to be one of the most seasoned SEOs on this forum.

You, on the other hand, haven't posted a single comment where you got even the basics right. "Incredibly stupid and uninformed" is a very mild and polite way to describe your BS.

Originally Posted by geto

I would like to educate you both if your saying the dofllow and nofollow lnks does not exist your wrong, take any known domain name go to ahrefs or majesticSEO enter a domain name you will see where that domain name get backlinks.

You are not able to educate anyone. You're so deeply misinformed that it almost physically hurts to read your posts.

There's no such thing as "dofollow". That's just a normal link. So a bunch of ignorant people use that term? Doesn't make it right.

Who said "nofollow" doesn't exist? You did, but tried to claim I said that. That's called straw man argument. I'm so fed up with that crap that I'll just cut to the chase and call it what it is: lying. You're lying about what I said.

It's a good start to use proper tools, but you should not get your SEO education from their interfaces either.

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meettest

9 years ago

any tools are for checking the NoFollow and Dofollow links?

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Originally Posted by meettest

any tools are for checking the NoFollow and Dofollow links?

you can add Mozilla plugin nodofollow to check the links...
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kazim

9 years ago

Dofollow links are helpful for getting rank on Goggle and Nofollow links are not usful for getting rank on Google.

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Imbahost

9 years ago

Dofollow links allow Google crawlers to crawl the links while nofollow links prohibit google crawlers from crawling the links.

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foysolahmed

9 years ago

web 2.0 is dofollow links.Everyone can make it for ranking

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Meenawls

9 years ago

When Google bots are crawling a website they look for external links point to other websites. If this links is “do follow” then search engines will follows the link and so link juice gets passed.

If a search engine finds a “no follow” backlink it will just ignore the link and will not get deeper into crawling and no link juice is passed.

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Ryan1234

9 years ago

In case of no follow, SEO value will not be generated through back link but it will increase traffic. Because when a visitor get your link on other site, they are likely to click the link.
In case of do follow, Apart from increasing traffic, SEO value too will be generated through back link.

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drsatyakarna

9 years ago

Dofollow links are helpful for getting rank on Goggle and Nofollow links are not usful for getting rank on Google. No follow Only Increasing the traffic.

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Duttay

9 years ago

Follow link passes link juice which are definitely help you so much in order to get good high pagerank. Same as opposite in nofollow link can not passes link juice, but this links are useful to get more traffic.

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Hudson White

9 years ago

In simple words, nofollow links doesn't pass link juice but dofollow links pass link juice to the linked site.

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nirajsharma 9 years ago

hmm, First of all i would say no-follow links are useful but for certain purpose like

1) traffic gaining
2) maintain balance of backlinks of dofollow.

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Shirlyn

9 years ago

DoFollow links

to refer to websites having content that is related.
used to get links from high quality websites.
used for referred content to link to the source of origin

NoFollow links

used in the comment section as one can have very less control over this section
used on websites having unrelated content.
used on an Affiliate link.

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nettiapina

9 years ago

Can we please let this thread die? This is the most stupid nofollow thread this forum has seen for ages, and there's some world class ignorance on this forum. Also, the guy who dug it up is just a signature spammer.

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patadeperro

9 years ago

Originally Posted by nettiapina

Can we please let this thread die? This is the most stupid nofollow thread this forum has seen for ages, and there's some world class ignorance on this forum. Also, the guy who dug it up is just a signature spammer.

And you keep working to change it, I dont know if you have infinite patience, good intentions or what, why do you keep posting trying to "solve" their questions when it is more than clear they dont care (the OP and the admins)?

Save your time and invest it in greener places, I am serious.
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DABK

9 years ago

No. They must be made to understand! Or, I got some free time and this relaxes me. One or the other.

But, yes, it's stupid and has a lot of posts by people who don't know what they're talking about it.

To all the people who talk about dofollow... Create a post somehwere, look at the code... look at links... you will notice that the nofollow links come with rel=nofollow and the rest have nothing, no rel=dofollow.

Then, become convinced that there are link and some are nofollow but the ones that are not nofollow are not dofollow... Because the opposite of a nofollow link is link, not dofollow link.

Originally Posted by nettiapina

Can we please let this thread die? This is the most stupid nofollow thread this forum has seen for ages, and there's some world class ignorance on this forum. Also, the guy who dug it up is just a signature spammer.

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MikeFriedman

9 years ago

Originally Posted by Ryan1234

No follow links can increase traffic because if a visitor find a link on other site which has no follow, Visitor is likely to click the link and it can increase traffic. Only disadvantage of No Follow, SEO value will not be generated for back link.

That is just incredibly stupid. For traffic, a link is a link. It does not matter if it is nofollow or not. 99.999999999999% of web traffic that most websites get have no freaking clue what a nofollow link is. Of course, 99% of the people in this subforum apparently do not know either and this is an SEO forum. WTF?

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Ravisharma

9 years ago

no follow link is no wait age for search engine

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dragonboy46

9 years ago

No Follow links tells the search engines not to follow the link which means it passes no PR and no link juice so it's completely useless when it comes to getting ranked high or building pr, but you should have 1-2% of your links nofollow just to make your link profile looking natural but only for this reason.

Do Follow links tells Search Engines to follow a particular link and it passes PR & link juice so it's good for building PR or increasing rankings in search engines. Most of your links should be dofollow from mid-high PR and mid-high MOZ AUTHORITY domains because that's what gonna get you ranked.

It is important to note that all links are "DoFollow" by default. They are made nofollow by adding rel="nofollow" attribute to combat comment spam, for example.

Also note that there is no algorithm of Google that penalizes your site for having all dofollows, but there maybe in the future! so it's better to have a few nofollow links to keep things looking natural.

Personally, I don't bother with nofollow links and I don't like them.

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Joseph Dyson

9 years ago

Nofollow links attributes do not allow search engine bots to follow link.That means if the website owner is linking back to you with nofollow attributes, it does not pass on link juice. Only Humans will be able to follow the links. Though some time back Google made it clear that they don’t consider nofollow link attributes but weightage of such links are really less. Even though, it’s a good practice to use Nofollow link attribute to those link, where you don’t want to pass link-juice.

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brightsuntravel 9 years ago

Nofollow link:- f you always wonder what does nofollow mean then probably here is the answer of it, it's a link is set as nofollow, it means Google bot won't crawl the link and won't pass any link juice.

<a href= Example 1 rel="nofollow">Example1</a>
<a href= http://www.example2.com rel="external nofollow">Example2</a>

REL HTML tag: Did you notice rel html tag? it's set as nofollow, which means its a nofollow link. Even if nofollow link doesn't pass any link juice but it can help to bring traffic towards your website, so if you are making No follow link then there is no harm. Google doesn't follow these links, however other search engines respect them, I have explained it in detail at the end of the post.

You can also make an entire post nofollow with the help of robots meta tag for that you can just add the below statement to the page/post.

<meta name="robots" content="nofollow" />

By adding the above statement you can make a whole post/page nofollow, All the links present on the page will be treated as nofollow even though they don't have Nofollow rel tag.

Dofollow link:- Dofollow link passes link juice and they definitely help you much, in order to achieve good page rank. As it instructs search engine spiders to follow this link.

<a href = http://www.example3.org rel="external">Example3</a>

The above link is dofollow, generally when you left comment on other site, you will see links with rel external attribute, rel="external" is just to represent that the link is external, it has nothing to do with backlink type. If you find no rel attribute in link then also its being treated as a dofollow link because it equals to REL Dofollow.
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WebmasterJSP 8 years ago

A normal hyper link in which Google and other search engine bots follows through the link is do follow link.
A link that doesn't allows search engines bots to follow through are no follow links. A no follow link is added with rel ="no follow" attribute you can check this on the page source of the url(ctrl+ u) and search with using (ctrl+ f)if its a do follow tag or a no follow
if you wish not to send any ranking juice from your site you can use no follow for links.
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nettiapina 8 years ago

Originally Posted by Ghazala

No Follow - A no follow link is a link that doesn’t “point” to another site (no signposts).

All links point to another site by definition. If they don't they're not links. Google has said that they also collect and crawl the links that have the nofollow parameter.

I guess this might be a sort of translation problem. "To point" vs. "a point". You could say that Google gives points for "followed" links. That's the purpose of Pagerank.

Now that some doofus dug up this ancient thread I'd just like to add this: Google seems to devalue "followed" links that are in eg. forum signatures and blog comments. They're doing the work that the site owner didn't do.
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hieronymusf01

8 years ago

There is lot of difference. Its like day and night.

There is a term called juice, which a website passess when it links to another website.

Here are manjor differences:

No follow:

Don't pass the juice
Consider the link as non trusted
You don't get benefit of the website's high PR.

Do follow:

Passes the juice
Consider the link as trusted
Benefit of website's high PR
Help is link building.

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nettiapina 8 years ago

Originally Posted by hieronymusf01

You don't get benefit of the website's high PR.

There's no such thing. Individual pages have Pagerank. The value of the link depends on the strength of the linking page, and number of the links on that page.
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Carl Hardy

8 years ago

Links that point to another site are called do follow links. A no follow link is a link that doesn’t point to another site.

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DABK 8 years ago

Nah, the standard link links to some other place on the web and does pass juice and anchor text. A nofollow link, a later invention, points to some other place on the web and does not pass juice or anchor text.

Should have read the posts before yours; you'd have learned something.

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Links that point to another site are called do follow links. A no follow link is a link that doesn't point to another site.
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cbpayne 8 years ago

Originally Posted by Carl Hardy

Links that point to another site are called do follow links. A no follow link is a link that doesn't point to another site.

There are some really clueless idiotic posts in this thread. This one has got to be the worst!
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nettiapina

8 years ago

Originally Posted by mathavan

No follow mean you can't get the some percentage of page rank or page authority from the linking page, there is no back link, there is no traffic. Its totally waste.

No, it doesn't. This is a fairly simple concept. How can you even get so confused about this topic?

Originally Posted by kamaldeep

In order to understand the difference between do follow vs no follow links, we need to look at how the search engines work.

You need to stop stealing content, stop spamming forums, and stop being a horrible excuse for a human being.

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nettiapina 8 years ago

Originally Posted by harshitagupta7653

NoFollow links attributes do not allow the search engine bots to follow the link it is generate only traffic

Again, Google has publicly said that their crawlers may follow any link they can find from the public internet. If you don't understand a term you should not play a game of word association, and babble whatever comes to mind.
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cbpayne

8 years ago

Originally Posted by harshitagupta7653

NoFollow links attributes do not allow the search engine bots to follow the link it is generate only traffic ; whereas DoFollow links allow all the search engine to follow the link and reach target website with traffic.

For someone who sells SEO services, you too are pretty clueless.

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DABK 8 years ago

What, you're going to expect now that people only to sell services they know something about?
CB, that's very unfriendly of you. How are they going to make a living if they need to know what they're doing? If they're to deliver what they promise? Isn't it enough that they can create a hyperlink?

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