What is DoFollow? What is NoFollow?

 
Building Backlinks are very important for your websites. If you are serious blogger you must carryout link building. And commenting on higher page rank sites is one way of increasing backlinks. I recommend you to read How you should comment on other blogs to know the benefits on commenting. When one gets many backlinks, one’s site’s ranking in search engine results will skyrocket. Ultimately you can increase Blog traffic.

What is Dofollow & How does it help in SEO(Search Engine Optimization) ?

Dofollow Blog

Search engines uses search bots or web crawlers to access and index web pages. That’s how you see websites in the search results of Google and Yahoo!.
Folks, carry out link building process to boost your site ranking so you can get 1000′s of visitors mainly from Google. Search engines like Yahoo,Bing and Ask also can provide good amount traffic.
In the past, when you commented in a blog, you could get a backlink, just by using this HTML code:

<a href=”your link URL”>Your Url (anchor)</a>

When you placed this piece of code within your comment, you used to get backlink from it. It was highly beneficial for you to rank high (especially if the blog is high PageRank).Thus it will give some SEO benefits for your site.
Lets now see,

What is NoFollow?

Nofollow

A nofollow blog means the opposite. It doesn’t allow search engine spiders to crawl and follow the link. In 2005, Matt Cutts, Google’s webspam team head and Jason Shellon of Blogger brought up a new attribute in HTML codes—NOFOLLOW. Nofollow is a HTML tag added to the link anchor code, and will change the normal code as:

<a href=”your link URL” rel=”nofollow”>Your Url</a>

This is automatically done. Meaning, when you comment with the link, the NoFollow attribute will be added automatically. The link will be valueless and the search crawlers would not follow them to index.
Though this is a good scheme to prevent comment spamming, it hit the genuine commenters. They also lost so many backlinks, and a nice easy way to get them. Thus it won’t give you the SEO benefits for your site. But people started working against this. The bloggers started removing NoFollow attribute from the comments of valuable commenters. And a different attribute, DoFollow began.

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25 Responses to “What is DoFollow? What is NoFollow?”

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Thanks for Publishing this Great things on this Blog . I tried long back this hack on my PR 4 blog but due to some spam reason i convert it to no follow but now thinking to come back and give others the do follow benifit

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I really liked reading your post!. Quallity content. With such a valuable blog i believe you deserve to be ranking even higher in the search engines :) .

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That clears up a lot of my questions. Thank you.

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i read it & feel really use full information here are for anyone required it.
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I’ve heard these terms previously but I don’t know what these means.After reading this article it is now clear.
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This is a great help for me especially I’m doing SEO as of now.

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Thank you so much for a well written, easy to understand article on this. I have linked to your article from my post about nofollow/dofollow. It can get really confusing when trying to explain it – but you did a great job.
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Thank you for article. I am using article writing to get my backlinks. I am still learning about 2 ways links and commenting on other people blogs. So far it works out pretty good. When you have a chance please also comment on my blog. Thanks

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Thank Post
it seems that most sites still are not using Do-Follow.

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A really informative article, especially for a begginer that build a backlinks. Thank you very much for sharing this!

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That’s what true commenters want. I think it was a good initiative to prevent spamming but at the same time it is really essential. It is good thing that bloggers have paid attention to this.

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today i properly understood .what it is…As i m a new blogger.trying to grow my blog .all you explained is nice.although i used these anchor tags but dint knew much about it…credit goes to you….bookmarking..

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I agree with your opinion that website requires backlink
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thanks for your information .. This is very useful for me ..keep posting
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to reach the top do need support, as well as a website can reach the top, because the number of backlinks thank you for share

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Yeah Dofollow is a great concept to provide link juice to others. It is good as it goes into hands beside hands it makes hard to handle all things
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Tnx for the great insight on what is no follow and what is do follow
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Thanks for this and I had made my blog dofollow you must visit my blog and can take its link juice.
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Very clear about back link. Thanks

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Thanks for this post. It really helped me. This clearly tells the difference between do follow and no follow.

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Thanks for the explanation. In my opinion, i think it’s better to build both no-follow and do-follow links in order to make it look natural.

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there is also very good information for the nofollow and do follow link i like i
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Hi Parveen!

your post is nice , simple and attractive. Your way to approaching the point is really amazing. i like it very much.

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