What is the difference between 'Nofollow' and 'Dofollow' link?

[Kabir]

Hello everyone,

Can anyone tell me What is the difference between 'Nofollow' and 'Dofollow' link? How to use them?

[Gandhar Kulkarni]

Hello everyone,

Can anyone tell me What is the difference between 'Nofollow' and 'Dofollow' link? How to use them?

Nofollow links do not allow search engine bots to follow links. It does not pass on any link juice. You have to explicitly mention No follow link while building a website.

Example of Nofollow Link:

<a href="URL" rel="nofollow">Keyword</a>

Dofollow links allow search engine bots to follow them. It passes on link juice. Also, it puts an impact over page rank. You just have to anchor text your keyword so that it gets hyperlink.

For eg.

<A href="URL">Keyword</a>

Note: By default, all the hyperlinks are dofollow. So, you don't need to do anything to make a link dofollow.

[Kabir]

Thank you Gandhar for the information

[Amrit]

Please tell me how to see if a link is dofollow or nofollow?

[Gandhar Kulkarni]

Please tell me how to see if a link is dofollow or nofollow?

With Chrome, go to the navigation bar and click on View> developer> view source. Alternatively, you can just right-click on the web page and click on 'inspect element' option. If you are using Firefox browser, then simply right-click on the web page and click on 'view page source' option.

From there, do an Edit>Find and search for "nofollow" in the search box. All the instances of the nofollow tag will be highlighted as,

<rel="nofollow">Keyword</a>

[Kabir]

If google ignores nofollow links then what is the use of nofollow link submission or having a nofollow link on website, blog or article?

[Gandhar Kulkarni]

If google ignores nofollow links then what is the use of nofollow link submission or having a nofollow link on website, blog or article?

Search engines can heavily penalize a website for using a too many do follow links that appear as spammy. Links like advertising, sponsored or affiliate are nofollow links. You still get paid when you click on these links and more important you dont need search engines to follow them. So it is the best solution to have the combination of both nofollow as well dofollow links. For some important content only mention dofollow links otherwise nofollow links passes the benefit to the website.

[oorjaclinic]

A nofollow backlink is the one that does not pass on the SEO advantages of the source site to blog where the link has pointed to. These links do not possess any SEO value, and neither adds up to the link profile that search engines make use of for evaluation of ranking websites.

Nofollow - A nofollow backlink is the one that does not pass on the SEO advantages of the source site to blog where the link has pointed to. These links do not possess any SEO value, and neither adds up to the link profile that search engines make use of for evaluation of ranking websites. The search engine bots do crawl along this link but do not follow where these links are pointed towards.


Do Follow - Do follow backlinks is the one that helps in improving the ranking and credibility of your website in Google. Moreover by default, every link is a dofollow link as it does not contain the no follow attributes. Furthermore, the do follow back links allow the search engines to do indexing which holds utmost importance for the webmasters.

[DipakS]

   Nofollow links do not allow search engine bots to follow links. It does not boost Page Rank, and doesn't pass on any link juice.

A no follow link is created with the nofollow link HTML tag, which looks like this:

   <a href="http://www.website.com/" rel="nofollow">Link Text</a>

Do Follow Links "point" to another site are called do follow links. These pass link juice to a page, help to increase its PageRank and raise its ranking in the search engines result pages. For ex.
   
   <A href="URL">Keyword</a>

By Default all the hyperlinks are dofollow.

-> Robots Meta Tag : <meta name="robots" content="nofollow" />

This tells bots/crawlers/spiders not to follow links on the full page.
   
-> Link Attribute : <a href="http://www.google.com" rel="nofollow">

This tells search engines not to count the link in terms of ranking pages.