27 {{ upvoteCount | shortNum }}
27 {{ upvoteCount | shortNum }}

Dofollow and Nofollow

by maxlazermarketing
24 replies
  • SEO
    • |
I've come across this dofollow and nofollow topic quite several times in many forums and I've replied to them as per my knowledge. What I know is secondary, but I want to know clearly about the topic and how far they have impact in popularizing the website.
#dofollow #nofollow
  • Profile picture of the author MarQueteer
    Dofollow (all links without nofollow) = Links are followed by the search engine spiders and transfer link juice, trust and PR.

    Nofollow = Links are followed by the seach engine spiders but transfer no link juice, trust and PR at all.

    Bottom line: Nofollow links are only good for direct visitors via the link, especially on high traffic sites and can help a little to get your site indexed, but that's it. Even one billion nofollow links wouldn't make you climb a single position in the SERPs.
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[499708].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author geek4ever
    In a nutshell, DoFollow links gives your website some PR & SERP juice while NoFollow links don't.
    Signature
    Add URLs | SEO & Internet Marketing Blog | Buy & sell websites | Join SWOM Today!
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[499837].message }}
    • Profile picture of the author Jeremy123
      So then it is useless to bookmark your webpages unless the bookmarking site
      is dofollow, hence something like bookmarkdemon is a little of a scam because

      most bookmark sites are nofollow only a few dozen are dofollow, same with bookmark
      submission services. You don't know wether they are submitting to do or nofollow sites.
      {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[499943].message }}
      • Profile picture of the author htownseoguy
        Actually quite a few bookmarking sites are do follow.
        {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[499998].message }}
      • Profile picture of the author Charlotte web design
        Banned
        [DELETED]
        {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[500009].message }}
        • Profile picture of the author kflanagan28
          Has anyone ever done a case study where they only tried to get nofollow links for a throw away domain ?. I am doing this at the moment. I want to verify if they do nothing at all for your rank in the 3 main engines ..
          {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[500054].message }}
          • Profile picture of the author askloz
            your wasting your time, google no longer indexes the page that has a nofollow link, before they used to and just didn't apply a PR to it... this was in affect about 6 months ago.

            Originally Posted by kflanagan28 View Post

            Has anyone ever done a case study where they only tried to get nofollow links for a throw away domain ?. I am doing this at the moment. I want to verify if they do nothing at all for your rank in the 3 main engines ..
            Signature
            HEADS UP - EVEN NEWER -->> 27 Dollar FX Systems - Ultimate Golden Cross - FX Signal Book
            {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[500782].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author htownseoguy
    Mainly no follow means the link will not be followed by the search engines. It mostly refers to blog comments and is meant to deter spammers that leave comments just to get a quick back link. Most Wordpress blogs are no follow by default.

    Also it's used in many cases for paid online advertising to avoid the paid links penalty for website or blog owners that are selling advertising.
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[499994].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author dambim
    instead of wasting time looking for do follow, creating good content will made many sites link to yours
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[500311].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author Hafsoh
    Nofollow are for not crawling a link by search engine. Dofollow allow search engine to crawl links. Nofollow tag we can use if we are using a link for reference not for crawl. Both are good for human traffic.
    Signature
    Shopping Cart Web Design // Web Hosting // One Way Link Building
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[500466].message }}
    • Profile picture of the author Jeremy123
      from another post was told google follows nofollow for indexing,
      just does not pass link power
      {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[500586].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author torrent
    Building links should certainly not be solely dependent on whether that link will be nofollow or not. A nofollow link that will deliver qualified traffic is a great link, even if it does not "pass link juice" or is even crawled by the search engines.

    If you are not sure of the value of a link, and want to know whether the link will be nofollow or not, is that a link you should be pursuing? That is a better question, perhaps, as you may not be identifying the best link opportunities for your sites.

    If knowing is that important, I recommend utilizing a Firefox plugin to see whether links are nofollow or not. Some have additional benefits.
    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...follow&cat=all
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[501563].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author IowaGal
    This will explain it all:

    About rel="nofollow" - Webmasters/Site owners Help
    Signature
    Techy Bigmouth at http://KristineWirth.com who loves coffee. Feel free to send me some.
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[501766].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author Dantplayer
    Are links from facebook nofollow?
    Signature

    Join the Madness on Facebook!

    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[502392].message }}
    • Profile picture of the author GeorgettaSterling
      First, many folks answered this question PARTLY right, but not absolutely correctly.

      The "NOFOLLOW" tag is honored by Google - their spider won't allow pagerank to be passed through the link, and apparently their spider doesn't even follow the links any more. However, both Yahoo and MSN do follow AND value links despite the "NOFOLLOW" attribute, at least for now. I don't have the article handy, but their representatives said as much at a recent SEO event.

      Yahoo puts "NOFOLLOW" tags on some links on its own properties, largely to appease Google I suspect.

      Originally Posted by Dantplayer View Post

      Are links from facebook nofollow?
      A good way of finding out for yourself, now and for the future, is to get a plugin for firefox called "SearchStatus", which amongst many other useful SEO features, will highlight "NOFOLLOW" links for you. Then, you can check out every link type on every site that you are interested in and know.

      It is free, and you can get more info/download it here:
      SearchStatus | Firefox SEO Toolbar Extension

      Best Regards, Georgetta

      PS ebizza posted about Yahoo while I was posting, so at least one poster on this thread DID highlight the Yahoo-NoFOLLOW relationship...
      {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[502826].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author krishananda
    There are still tons of social bookmarking sites that provide dofollow links, indeed there are some SB sites owners that use dofollow first to attract submitters and change it afterward, still they aware by doing this the submitters would leave them right away.

    But why bother with dofollow and nofollow? one thing that you should aware of is the "out script".
    You can still make use of nofollow links but you won't get anything with the out script.
    Signature
    BlackHole SEO 2.0- Become AUTHORITY Website and RANK for MULTIPLE KEYWORDS you never even dreamed of!
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[502564].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author ebizza
    actually nofollow is seen by Yahoo
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[502806].message }}
    • Profile picture of the author askloz
      Yahoo doesn't index the pages, in fact Yahoo was one of the first not to index a nofollow link along with MSN, the only time they do is when you point links that have the dofollow. Been this way for ages, and recently as of 6 months or so ago, Google following suit. You may remember where a lot of posts online were saying how they lost heaps of back links.. that was the reason and for the shift, at least one of the reasons, why ppls rankings changed, cos before, just a little bit of juice was applied to the nofollow link when googlebots crawled them.

      Originally Posted by ebizza View Post

      actually nofollow is seen by Yahoo
      Signature
      HEADS UP - EVEN NEWER -->> 27 Dollar FX Systems - Ultimate Golden Cross - FX Signal Book
      {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[502956].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author ltdraper
    There is still a good reason to bookmark even with nofollow sites: The bookmark itself will rank in the SERPs if the site has authority. People that click that bookmark will end up at your site, and you've pushed the competition off that result. Get 5 strong bookmarks, and even if they're nofollow you can own the first five results for a term in the right circumstances.
    Signature

    Nothing to see here, move along...

    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[506167].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author tdave
    Some bloggers just take advantage of dofollow comment blog and spammed,others who have no intention do spam get filtered.
    Signature

    |Earning online isn't that Easy?|Where's the ways to earn cash online.

    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[850675].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author bus-fin
    wow a lot of knowledge that I can be here
    Thank you
    Signature
    More Knowledge To iPhoneXplore| Guide Photography
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[850743].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author cienik
    i have great list of social bookmarking site
    Signature

    Want to learn How to Make money online , Boost traffic and Blogging tips CLICK THIS :
    More than hundred way make money online , pure home job , boost traffic, SEO,and great tips = FREE

    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[850762].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author jason146
    thanks for clearing my ideas too about these two terms...
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[850957].message }}
  • Profile picture of the author Dave Z
    I have to disagree with a lot you guys are saying, Google does spider nofollow links and you will get indexed and you will even gain some ranking, if you have high numbers that is.

    But don't take my word for it grab a new domain, use a domainname with a keyword that you are sure that isn't indexed in Google something like dreggnmlogg.info make a standard HTML index page with some text and the keyword dreggnmlogg then ad only nofollow backlinks and wait what happens

    Check your stats if you are going to see the Googlebot crawling and indexing your site, this test will cost you $0.99 for a .info at Godaddy and you will learn that the dofollow tag, is a myth. i did this test myself and busted it and won me a case of Heineken beer.
    {{ DiscussionBoard.errors[850991].message }}

Trending Topics