What You Need to Know About DoFollow and NoFollow Links

6. December 2011 Posted by Nick Sotos

What You Need to Know About DoFollow and NoFollow Links

(And the Difference!)

Without a doubt, vying for traffic on the internet is certainly highly competitive in today’s online marketplace. Most of us understand the basics of link building to increase traffic: More relevant links increase page rankings for our Web sites. In turn this higher visibility drives in even more traffic. But are you familiar with DoFollow and NoFollow links, or their difference?

If not, you may be missing out on a simple and handy tool to get your sites noticed. Or you may be using them incorrectly, which isn’t going to help you either. For those reasons, let’s explore the nuts and bolts of these critical connections, so you can use them to increase your traffic and therefore, get more Page Rank!

What is a DoFollow Link?

You don’t have to be an SEO expert or know HTML code to get a grasp of this link. In general, a link sitting on a web page is just a connection to another Web site. As you probably know, it can be inserted within text, pictures or a reference box and contains an HTML tag and the URL you’ll be going to when clicked.

A DoFollow link is a “regular” link. There is no difference in HTML code. What that tells search engines like Google, is follow the connection to another site. Nothing fancy here. So far, that’s easy right? So let’s move on to the NoFollow link.

 

What is a NoFollow Link?

This is the one you’re really interested in. A NoFollow link contains the extra code: rel=”nofollow”. It has no effect on a visitor’s experience, as they can still follow the connection. What it does impact is Page Rank on Google. It says “No, you don’t have my permission to follow this link!”

 

The Big Difference between Dofollow and Nofollow Links

To sum it up nicely — only the search engines or web crawlers pay attention to the NoFollow code. When Google’s algorithms read the NoFollow attribute, it simply ignores the link when calculating a Web site’s Page Rank. So what does all this mean to you? Let’s discuss that next.

 

How to Use Dofollow and Nofollow Links

Savvy internet marketers use other’s Web sites and blogs to build links, increase page rank and drive more traffic to their own sites — among many other things. They post guest blogs and write comments on related sites leaving their name and a link back to their site. The problem is many blogs these days only allow NoFollow links.

If you write guest posts for other sites, ask the owner to provide you with a DoFollow link. A link back with the DoFollow attribute means your site is important in the eyes of search engines, so it helps to increase your Page Rank factor.

Many believe that a NoFollow link is still useful and worthwhile. Some SEO experts have shown that even these links can help to increase page rankings, so the discussion will continue. And keep in mind a link, whether it’s a NoFollow or DoFollow, will bring visitors to your Web site!

 

Start Connecting with Your Links!

See, it’s not too difficult to follow the connection between DoFollow and NoFollow links. No you know, so start guest blogging, especially with DoFollow links. It’s a great way to alert traffic to your products or services, including sales and promotions!

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About Nick Sotos

He is a gear expert as he spends most of his time outdoors. He is the chief editor of OutdoorGearMadness.com a blog that offers Rocky Mountain Trail Coupon and the latest Outdoorplay Coupon In the blog you can find Reviews, Tips, coupons and promo codes for many outdoor merchants such as outdoorplay and rocky mountain trail.
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115 Responses to What You Need to Know About DoFollow and NoFollow Links

  1. Anna says:
    7. December 2011 at 12:19

    “When Google’s algorithms read the NoFollow attribute, it simply ignores the link when calculating a Web site’s Page Rank.” Well. Are you sure? I mean there is a link whatsoever, and a link is a link, and this nofollow link is not considered as powerful as a dofollow link, but it must (should) be considered somehow, or am I totally lost in the dark? :)
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    • Nick Sotos
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      7. December 2011 at 14:48

      Hello Anna,
      No you are not lost in the dark. You have probably read in my article that nowadays there are many who believe that a NoFollow might be useful and worthwhile. Moreover, some SEO experts believe and have provided facts to prove that even these links can help to increase page rankings. It is true that we have no official information from Google, but the basic knowledge we have is that Google’s algorithms ignore them.
      It feels to me like this discussion between those two sides will go on and on…
      Thanks for stopping by and sharing your thoughts!
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    • kenneth says:
      14. December 2011 at 18:17

      First, Great article Nick.

      Anna, as Nick mentions in the article and in his reply there has been lots of discussion and potential proof that Google does apply value to even NoFollow links. Nicks statement in the article above “No, you don’t have my permission to follow this link” isn’t entirely accurate. Google will follow all links even if NoFollow is there, the NoFollow attribute is more designed just to tell a Google not to pass value to that page.

      From what I’ve found is that these are most handy when it’s an uncontrolled link for example in your comments section. A NoFollow basically tells Google to scrutinize the link even further. Matt Cutts and Google have reported that they still may ignore the NoFollow. I’m sure it comes down to if the link is actually relevant among many other factors and magical juju that no one will disclose because of “trade secrets”

      In the end, a link, is a link, is a link. Some are more valuable than others, but any link has some value to it.
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    • Dev from career and jobs
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      22. January 2012 at 22:36

      Nope well it does not and even it rarely brings any traffic as the visitor does not come to know much about your site and what it is offering.

  2. Kay Elisabet says:
    7. December 2011 at 13:03

    Good summary on NoFollow and DoFollow. I think NoFollow links count for something. can’t recall where, but I’ve read a about a few SEO experiments where people tried out ranking a website with only NoFollow links, and I think the consensus was that they do count for something. Also, when linkbuilding it is important to make your links look as natural as possible to avoid Google thinking you’re a spammer, so many SEOs purposely include a selection of NoFollow links when linkbuilding.

  3. Anita Johnson
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    8. December 2011 at 16:48

    Thank you Nick! This is very useful information. I am still learning about all of this and have been told that Do Not Follow won’t help in your page rank but it appears that may not be the case. Again, thanks for shedding some light on this.

  4. Jannich from Job på lolland says:
    8. December 2011 at 17:19

    “Many believe that a NoFollow link is still useful and worthwhile” – Well of course they are. If I make a new website and only focus on building dofollow links to it, google will find out something is fishy soon enough.

    So when building links, it’s a good idea to build both dofollow and nodofollow links – at least that’s what I think. :-)

  5. Alain says:
    8. December 2011 at 17:36

    thanks for the news !
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  6. Matt Kinsella
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    8. December 2011 at 20:23

    Some good advice and something everyone should know early on in their link building so they don’t waste time building pointless links. Some nofollow links are followed by Google though and there is some discussion about how valid they are but I will be sticking to dofollow link building for now.
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  7. Dann says:
    9. December 2011 at 10:34

    Nice info for beginners. Thx dude :)
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  8. Paul Lopez says:
    9. December 2011 at 16:52

    I am not so concerned about do-follow or no-follow stuff, as I believe on the fact that links are for advertisement. However, I agree, do-follow links are helpful to get some good SERP for couple of keywords, but I really don’t like to chase them, because such kind of links will assist my website to get rank well in Google search engine and send some traffic, but I don’t see the point to ignore those no-follow links that might send targeted traffic directly and valuable for sales lead generation. Anyway, your article is very nice. I will recommend your post on forums, because a lot of members often ask the difference between these two terms.

  9. Chris
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    10. December 2011 at 02:35

    I can see in Google Webmaster tools in Search Queries that Google is counting ‘nofollow’ link as links to my site.

    So at the least, i guarantee Google recognizes these links. Whether they help with SEO at all… That’s still the mystery.
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  10. Mike Breeze says:
    10. December 2011 at 14:33

    Thank you Nick, that’s actually a very good and clear explanation – I was a bit confused before. So you also take dofollow into consideration when guest-blogging? Good idea, never thought of that.
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    • Nick Sotos
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      11. December 2011 at 18:51

      You’re welcome Mike! I had to get over that hesitation, too. In the end, I am convinced that both no-follow and do-follow links are beneficial to your blog so as to look like a natural profile in Google’s view.

  11. Peter Lee
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    10. December 2011 at 17:08

    Some websites I see only have nofollow links and I think that’s over optimized. This will only bring negative effects on SEO. We should put some dofollow links as well just to make it natural.
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  12. Surfing Videos
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    12. December 2011 at 06:05

    I think google has really confounded the entire ecosystem of the internet with dofollow and nofollow links. It made wikiepedia a wortheless place. They have actually lowered the incentive for improving the ecosystem of the internet.
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    • Nick Sotos
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      14. December 2011 at 21:02

      My opinion is that Google improves the ecosystem of the internet. It maybe hard for webmasters to built a good and valuable site, but the reader that searches for an information is going to find the right one, in small time and effort.
      Thanks for your comment.

  13. Herniawan
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    12. December 2011 at 08:18

    That’s true what you write. Actually nofollow links still provide great benefits for our blog. At least it will increase our blog traffic. But most people still do not understand the benefits of both a DoFollow link or nofollow. They are just looking for link dofollow until they write spam comments

  14. Sunny
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    12. December 2011 at 10:36

    A lot of people have mentioned that no follow does have hidden benefits and I agree – wiki links are no follow but have certainly help some of my sites rank. Furthermore, I think one of the most important things is to make the spread of no to do follow links look natural. If you aren’t thinking about it too much, its easy for that to happen

  15. Michael | BuildinganOnline.com
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    12. December 2011 at 17:34

    Hi Nick,

    What I really do not understand in this follow / nofollow issue is, why Google even distinguish between them.

    I mean; if I insert a link at my WordPress-blog, then it will automatically become either one or the other, partly based on any plugin’s installed.

    If I want to change the attribute of the standard link, I have to manually add some html code. I manage that task, but not everyone do. And secondly, I will have to remember / consider to do it every time.

    Quite inconvenient when one comes blogging. Do Google only want the pro’s to rank? Do everyday-people not contribute with anything important, that deserves to rank?

    Regards,
    Michael
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    • Nick Sotos
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      14. December 2011 at 22:09

      Hi Michael,

      Very interesting points I have to say; let me try to answer to some of them.

      “What I really do not understand in this follow / nofollow issue is, why Google even distinguish between them.”

      That is a big question for a lot of us. I think though that when they had unveil this new indexing command for web authors that all search engines recognize, they tried to reduce the link and comment spam that plagues many web sites.

      “I mean; if I insert a link at my WordPress-blog, then it will automatically become either one or the other, partly based on any plugin’s installed.
      If I want to change the attribute of the standard link, I have to manually add some html code. I manage that task, but not everyone do. And secondly, I will have to remember / consider to do it every time.”

      Indeed, you have to know some html code to change the standard link, or as you said by using the right plugin’s.

      “Quite inconvenient when one comes blogging. Do Google only want the pro’s to rank? Do everyday-people not contribute with anything important, that deserves to rank?”

      As a blogger myself I have to say, that many blogs do deserve to rank high; and they do. The SEO secrets are so many and so well hidden, that surely is not enough for a page or a blog to only have many links, DoFollow or NoFollow.

      Thanks a lot Michael for commenting.

      • Michael | BuildinganOnline.com
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        15. December 2011 at 06:50

        Hey Nick,

        Thank you taking time to answer me back.

        Lots of thing about Google doesn’t necessarily seems fair, but it’s their business, so it’s their decision how to run it.

        The problem with that is, the success of any website is totally dependent on how Google tread it.

        Not that I have any hope, my opinion matters to Google, I still find their algorithm should take into consideration if the site were a private blogger or a professional/business related website – or skip the follow/nofollow thing.

        But as you say, there are so many mysteries regarding the algorithm, and I sometimes find site/page ranking, I really can’t understand why does.

        Wouldn’t it be great if WP made it an option to check F/NF when inserting a link” That would sure help the blogger a lot….

        Regards,
        Michael
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        • Nick Sotos
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          15. December 2011 at 10:02

          Thanks Michael.

          It’s true, I agree with you; Google holds the keys of the internet.
          I still believe though, that if a blog/site has something worth reading, sooner or later this blog/site will rank high.

          “Wouldn’t it be great if WP made it an option to check F/NF when inserting a link”
          That would be excellent!

          Thanks for your comment.

  16. Stephen Sanders
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    14. December 2011 at 12:16

    Wow, I feel like I stopping over here was once agian wirthwhile. Perhaps you have some comments on the brand new WordPress update?
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    • Nick Sotos
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      14. December 2011 at 22:15

      Thanks Stephen for your kind words; I’m glad you found my article useful.
      As for your question, I really don’t have any comments for the WordPress update. The only think I know is that they named it “Sonny” in honour of the great jazz saxophonist Sonny Stitt.

      Thanks for your comment.

  17. Anthony says:
    15. December 2011 at 02:57

    From my experience, any link is a helpful link. I do, however, believe that not all links are created equally. Most of us already know that, and I have also noticed that finding a site with as few outbound links as possible is good too!
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  18. Ankit
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    18. December 2011 at 18:52

    Nice info but I just wanted to confirm that I have heard many times that Google counts even nofollow backlinks from highly reputed sources like BBC or CNN. Is it true or a myth??
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  19. Tim Barton says:
    18. December 2011 at 21:23

    The reasoning behind the controversy with nofollow is because logically wise its telling search engines not to index the information. While that is true of google, Bing will still follow and crawl to the target and if the target it is indexed bing will use it for the search results. Not only that but some websites will archive topics as they start to age and most archive sites are dofollow so what might not be dofollow now might become dofollow later. And lastly google like a certain amount of nofollow backlinks that don’t relate to your targetting keyword so it doesn’t look like spam.
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  20. Shekhar says:
    19. December 2011 at 15:33

    What a Great Article on Dofollow and Nofollow…..You Clarified it all :) Thanks
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  21. Yentl Storms
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    20. December 2011 at 16:30

    Thanks a lot, before reading this article, I already knew the difference between a NoFollow and a DoFollow link, just didn’t know how you could make a NoFollow one…

    Now I do know, so thanks.
    Oh yeah, one remark: I guess you forgot the w in “No you know, so start guest blogging, especially with DoFollow links.”
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  22. Alex says:
    21. December 2011 at 05:19

    recently i have read another document in which it is said that “nofollow” is just to prevent passing linkjuice from one website to another, the bots in fact still crawl and index the link. This is almost opposite to what i read before that the bots dont crawl the “nofollow” link and made me confuse much, what do you think about this??

  23. Denis says:
    21. December 2011 at 07:37

    Nice explanation of the difference between the two.

    Let me throw a question out there….

    If we are concerned about looking “natural” for Google so we don’t get penalized. Couldn’t someone just hire a guy to “sabotage” another site by linking all these bad sites to theirs? Do even garbage back links (or unnatural looking) make a difference?
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    • Nick Sotos from Outdoor Gear Coupon
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      There are so many spam detector plugins, that will make the “job” of this “hired guy” a true nightmare Denis.

      Thanks for stopping by.
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      • Alex from defense games says:
        26. December 2011 at 10:07

        yeah, the same question has crossed my mind.
        i saw many websites out there flooded with tons of crappy links of “adult” and “illegal” sites, so what if someone put my website there with those “bad neighbourhood”, too?
        and another question, i also see many people sell stuffs called “cheap (1000, 2000, 3000, etc)backlinks packet”(i’m sure they are of no value!), what will happen if someone (my competitors, for example) buy that packet and use it for my website?? (a large number of low quality links and all of them are built in a short period of time, doesnt it look suspicious and spammy to google’s eyes?)

        • Nick Sotos from Discount Outdoor Gear
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          30. December 2011 at 21:07

          If someone pays (your competitor, for example) to give you 1000, 2000, 3000 backlinks (even NoFollow or “crappy”), you should thank him for all the free traffic that you’ll get.

          I wish U all Happy New Year!

  24. I am Bee
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    21. December 2011 at 10:13

    dofollow is nice of course, but a nofollow link can still generate traffic and important blogfollowers, so I wouldn’t say it’s totally irrelevant. nice article however! :)
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  25. Herniawan
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    21. December 2011 at 12:51

    Thats true. Dofollow blogs have advantages and disadvantages. Which gives a chance to be dofollow blogs will have a high traffic, but the comments given are low quality ( spam comment). But if a nofollow blog has low traffic, but comments that quality because they require our articles. Losses from dofollow blog also is our blog google pagerank will drop.

  26. mama2524 says:
    21. December 2011 at 13:01

    I will use this at my site
    Thank you
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  27. Gen says:
    24. December 2011 at 13:32

    Thanks a lot Nick and Thanks everybody who comments
    Great post and discussion as well

  28. Adam says:
    25. December 2011 at 09:19

    This is one of the seo legends. Google bots read both of these links.
    Make quality, don’t bother with seo tips =)
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  29. Vimal Dwivedi
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    26. December 2011 at 04:23

    There’s always a debate going on whether a DoFollow Link is better or NoFollow..
    but it depends on your blogs popularity or how much readers you have..
    as a newbie i’ll prefer DoFollow blogs..
    but what you recommend for me? please let me know your opinion……
    thanks and merry Christmas…….
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  30. Doug
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    27. December 2011 at 04:49

    This subject has been a bit confusing, i havn’t read up on this for a while now. I never worry about follow or no follow really, i just use the robots file really, but that won’t equal a rel follow tag
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  31. milla says:
    27. December 2011 at 21:09

    yea big G ignores nofollow fo pr
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  32. Julie
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    28. December 2011 at 03:14

    In general, I think this post is true, but I guess the NF and DF will continue to be up for debate. I think there is some value to the NF, it shows a more natural linking. I also have seen it show up in keyword/SEO analysis tools. Plus, as Nick mentions, many blogs are NoFollow these days. As someone who closely monitors comments, I think it is nice to provide the Do Follow luv. :)
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  33. Persiv says:
    29. December 2011 at 13:35

    Thaknk your for your tipe. I think ‘nofollow’ links ignores for calulating google page rank of a site but, it still will be effective for SEO and search enging rank.there is difference between page rank and search engine rank.

  34. John
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    29. December 2011 at 23:44

    No follow links are just as important as do follow links. that is just one of the SEO LIES the so called gurus are spouting. Even after the panda update it is important to sprinkle so nofollow juice on your site.
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  35. Amy
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    30. December 2011 at 16:50

    I just recently got in to doing this myself and it has brought me a considerable amount of traffic. I can’t say I totally understand how it is even doing that, but it’s working and my page rank is going up. It’s like they say, “why reinvent the wheel”…so I’m just going to keep using dofollow and Comment Luv, and Nofollow too if it pops up and let Google do the rest :)

  36. Brokejumper
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    1. January 2012 at 11:14

    No Follow, Do Follow? Can’t we all just link along? =)
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  37. Jaya Lakshmi says:
    2. January 2012 at 08:08

    Any amount of traffic is an achievement and specially if you are starting. You are doing just fine, just keep working forward and you will keep succeeding.

  38. Isaac Sarayiah
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    Hi
    Interesting article. I launched my blog – http://www.theSarayiahpost.com which is my views on life, love, relationships etc at the end of August 2011 and use a combination of do follow and no follow links to build traffic and so far in just over 4 months my site has jumped more than 26m places in the world-wide rankings according to Alexa to being almost in the top 800,000 which is amazing! My traffic for December was up 30% on Nov, which in itself was a record month since I launched.

    I am trying to help people change their way of thinking and problem solving so they can challenge the status quo and “be FREE be ALIVE be Truly HAPPY.” Please check out my site and leave comments – http://www.theSarayiahpost.com – my latest article is about New Year’s.

    Happy New Year and have a wonderful day.
    Love
    Isaac Sarayiah
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  39. Luisa says:
    4. January 2012 at 21:50

    It may be helpful in some cases to know the html code to see if a link is dofollow. There are many SEO plugins for Firefox that allow you to determine whether a link is dofollow or nofollow, but in some cases (such as Disqus) the plugin is not able to show the real attribute of the link. Peek at the code can be very useful in this case.
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  40. foresight
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    7. January 2012 at 08:10

    indeed back link is very important to blog site awareness to the world, seo and page rank.
    thanks for this article keep it up
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  41. matt says:
    10. January 2012 at 00:12

    I really didnt know the difference between the 2 types of links until I read this post. Thank you for the info.

  42. Carly says:
    10. January 2012 at 04:22

    Great article. I have heard that sites are actually penalized by google for providing no-follow links. I have also heard that the reason Wikipedia has such a high rank is that all the links are no-follow and they have tons of incoming links. I know that is kind of contradictory to my first sentence. However, the penalty might have only come about more recently, at which point Wikipedia already had tons of other factors bringing its page rank up.

  43. Ana - Best Dating Sites says:
    12. January 2012 at 13:45

    To know what is the diversity of do-follow and no-follow links is the prime credit when you are developing hyperlinks for high search results to be successful in website marketing. Google wants free inbound links, which are known as natural links. You can quickly get natural do-follow hyperlinks when you post articles in any high pr article submission sites in the author-bio but where as the no-follow hyperlinks do not provide any benefit at all in impacting Google optimization result.

  44. mike says:
    16. January 2012 at 13:30

    A no follow link has to have a value, even if not as much as a do follow. Thats what the web is about. i am convinced that a no follow link is still better than no link.

  45. technoguy says:
    17. January 2012 at 08:36

    Using other’s websites by placing links to attract traffic to your website is a great idea. But this link exchange has brought forth the idea of three-way linking. Website owners place the links from other websites on their supporting sites. Do-follow is good, but the link juice of a do-folow blog keeps draining out to the sites the comments give a link to.

  46. Elvis Shrestha
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    Nice post, i will see the rest of the blog later, by the way you have great writing skills… Keep It Up :) :)
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  47. Andi says:
    22. January 2012 at 13:10

    Using nofollow and dofollow link in the right place will make website better in search engine.
    Thanks for your information.
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  48. Chris Lucernoni
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    24. January 2012 at 15:57

    Do blogs and news sites typically tell users whether they use DoFollow or NoFollow links? Or do you simply have to look at links on the page to figure it out?

  49. joewana says:
    9. February 2012 at 20:53

    agree with julie I think there is some value to the NF, it shows a more natural linking. I also have seen it show up in keyword/SEO analysis tools. Plus, as Nick mentions, many blogs are NoFollow these days.
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  50. chris
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    10. February 2012 at 09:45

    Where I am interested is on how to no Dofollow blogs or sites and a Nofollow once since this information is not visible by just visiting the blog. Thanks for putting up this resource.

    • Jimmy Sigenstrøm
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      You can check it by checking a commentators link, if it has this code rel=”nofollow” then it’s a nofollow link.
      Blogger blogs has always and only nofollow links
      Wordpress has it by default, but it can be changed with a lot of plugins like commentluv. You can find commentluv blogs by searching on Google by using this line
      “yourkeyword=”commentluv enabled”

  51. video tchat says:
    10. February 2012 at 10:09

    hi all,
    I’m very interested in these question… And I think all nofollow blogs or sites are usables too, if they have for example a good traffic… users don’t worry of do or nofollow, they just want to find something for them… If they come on your website, finally google will be happy too…

    thanks for all on this blog

  52. Tom from make free money
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    15. February 2012 at 09:59

    Great article! I have always wondered if a no-follow link does anything for your site. It’s nice to know it can still increase traffic even if it isn’t passing pagerank! I recall posting a comment on a blog a long time ago that had a PR of 9 and my friend said I shouldn’t waste my time with sites like that. But, I found it weird that my sites ranking increased just a few days after that. My friend told me it was just a coincidence and I didn’t think anything of it after that. Thanks for the post!
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