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What is the difference between dofollow and nofollow backlinks?31
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Hello All, Many a times in the Orangecopper Forum i have come across questions from visitors, requesting to clarify the difference between a do-follow and a no-follow link! or “dofollow” and ”nofollow” These two terms are very much used terms in the SEO perspective. So let me make that clear by adding a detailed post here.
So lets Start with NoFollow Backlinks
Assuming you already know what is the HTML code for a hyperlink i am starting, for the benefit of our friends who do not know about back links or hyperlink code here it is.
Basic Hyperlink code
<a href="http://www.orangecopper.com/forum">OC Forum</a>
No follow Hyperlink code
<a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.orangecopper.com/forum">OC Forum</a>
So basically its shouting to the Search engine Bot, ” Hey bot ! this is for your information, Do NOT crawl through this link as i dont like it ! ”
Do Follow Hyperlinks
There is No Such thing called as dofollow hyperlink, aahh, then why are we discussing it ?? because, a dofollow is any link that is NOT a “nofollow” , In simple words, every link is dofollow if not specified as no follow.
Bonus Tips:
Everyone loves to be indexed, then why the hell anyone would use the no-follow tags, there could be many reasons.
1 . This should be ideally be used for paid links ( as suggested by google) because, we are not recomending it, we are charging it to be placed there and the reason is money and not content.
2. When you are tweeting in twitter or Digging in DIG or making a squidoo lenses, these are Social networking sites and would not like to link everywhere they find links to. even from scraps and posts, so by default most of these links are NOFOLLOW too.
Hope you enjoyed the article
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Nice explanation. Often i have observed that directories that allow free link addition has two options 1. reciprocal link with free link back 2. complete free link back, the option2 is usally no-follow, so be carefull when you submit to directories to no follow link back, its waste !
thx ,san
Sandeep,
Very true, the point you have said is valid.
Guys, Be sure before you submit to directories, make sure they are dofollow !
cheers
Josh
Hey Josh,
Do you have a list of dofollow directories, by any chance that you could share?
if yes it would be great, let me know. btw, nice article, thanks
Toni
Hello Toni,
Thx, Sure let me check if i could provide you a list of dofollow directories, i would email you.
also there is nov 09's list on the blog, thats not bad list either.
cheers
Josh
Great explanation, ive found this on google. thanks a ton buddy..
Hi Tim,
you are welcome for your kind words, keep following OC Blog.
-josh
Thanks for the info… I genuinely like this blog. I bookmarked this post and will definitely be making a return visit.
Thanks Josh for explaining the CMP
-Wilson
how about backlink poinst? what's the impact on ranking?
Hey igoydude,
Basically back links have a good weight on SEO only when 1. you have a do-follow back link 2.It is from a significantly higher PR domain 3. The niche from the linking website is related.
warm regards
Josh
Nofollow link are not counted when google distributing PR and search engine crawler not follow the nofollow links
Dofollow are reverse of nofollow google count in PR distribution and search engine crawler crawl the links.
Well said!
all links should be as dofollow link and spam managed by owner websites,
My south African business index has not one no follow link on it. I don't believe in no follow especially if I am being paid good money to get results for clients. I am busy working on a theme for my web design blog and weighing up the pros and cons of facebook comments vs moderated do follow. What are your thoughts?
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hmmmm.. Some of the wp users make comments as nofollow right?
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Great explanation about do follow and no follow backlinks. Really useful for me and my blogs.
Nice explanation. Often i have observed that directories that allow free link addition has two options 1. reciprocal link with free link back 2. complete free link back.
Nice explanation between Do follow and no follow back links. Thanks for sharing this type of information. I really impressed with your post.
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