Can you differentiate between ‘nofollow’ and ‘dofollow’ link?

[Kyra Clinic]

Can you differentiate between ‘nofollow’ and ‘dofollow’ link?

[RH-Calvin]

The main difference is that 'no follow' links are never crawled and hence they do not contribute to backlink building. 'Do follow' links are crawled and they help to build strong backlinks for your website to rank keywords in search engines. Both types of links are helpful to drive good traffic to your website.

[jeny]

Nofollow links are the HTML attributes that do not allow search engine bots or crawlers to follow link.That means if the website owner is linking back to you with nofollow attributes, it does not pass on link juice. Only Human being will be able to follow the links.Nofollow are not created the backlinks.

Example of Nofollow Link:

<a href=”write URL here” rel=”nofollow”>Write text here</a>

Dofollow links allow search engines to follow them and reach our website. Giving us link juice and a backlink. If a webmaster is linking back to you with this link both Search Engine and Human being will be able to follow you.It same as a anchor tag.Dofollow links create the best back linking methods.

Example of Dofollow Link:

<a href=”Write URL here”>Write text here</a>

[Kalpart]

Do follow links pass the reputation and the link juice while nofollow do not pass the reputation and the link juice. Quality Dofollow backlinks contribute more in google ranking than the nofollow link.

[fakhruddin.ewc@]

Do follow links are providing back-links with recommendation. But no follow links are providing back-links without giving any recommendation.

[seairexim]

The main difference is that 'no follow' links are never crawled and hence they do not contribute to backlink building. 'Do follow' links are crawled and they help to build strong backlinks for your website to rank keywords in search engines. Both types of links are helpful to drive good traffic to your website.

Completely agree with you Mr. Calvin...

[WebOutGateway]

Hi!!

Dofollow link is a hyperlink which instruct search engine crawlers to index the website and also put an impact over page rank. When we attempt to achieve a dofollow link then it is counted by search engines and sits in the eye of Google, Bing, MSN, Yahoo etc. as a backlink for your website and enhances your site ranking. While Nofollow are non-crawling link which prevent search engine crawlers from crawling and indexing.

[daviddakarai]

Do-follow links and No-follow links both are equally important. But still having do-follow links in good quality is good for us as they help our site to get better page rank as well as better visibility in terms of SERP results. No-follow links will not allow to share their link juice.

[cikande]

Can you differentiate between ‘nofollow’ and ‘dofollow’ link?

Sure, if you want to differentiate them, the first step is you can check link which dofollow or nofollow with inspect element, if in the link had rel nofollow it's mean nofollow link, if not it's dofollow link. Or you can add plugins to differentiate them like as RDS bar.

[benben1]

Nofollow

Link which contain Rel=”nofollow” HTML attribute is nofollow the attribute simply assist search engines to know more about the link. Whenever you found a little piece of code in your link i.e. Rel=”nofollow” it mean that the link is nofollow and these types of links does not impact the authority nor help you out to Improve Seo ranking or visibility of your website.

Because rel nofollow tag is a noindex tag which has in fact a clear instruction for Search engines that do not try to index particular link.

By adding the above mentioned code for noindex crawlers simply ignore it and do not give any value nor pass link juice which cannot be prolific for batter ranking in search engines.

Dofollow

It is a type of link which has a potential to improve the ranking and the credibility of your website in Google. By default every link is dofollow, link which does not contain Rel=”Nofollow” Attribute is dofollow and these are considered to be the most powerful links for any websites.

These links allow search engine to doindex and pass link juice which is indeed the most vital thing for webmasters.The credit goes to Google who introduces dofollow link in 2005 to deeply filter search engine results for spam indexing.

[ShreyaKoushik]

Nofollow links - Nofollow links attributes do not allow search engine bots to follow link.That means if the website owner is linking back to you with nofollow attributes, it does not pass on link juice.

Dofollow links - Dofollow links allow google (all search engines) to follow them and reach our website. Giving us link juice and a backlink.

[sadianisar]

In SEO,
Dofollow link: This link is usually indexed by web crawler. With the help of this link, backlink considered to be a powerful one.
Nofollow link: This link is not indexed by web crawler so it is used for only generating traffic to website.

[Liyanscom321]

No follow links are never crawled whereas Do follow links are crawled.

[alex.thomson]

No follow : Nofollow is an HTML attribute value used to instruct search engines bots that a hyperlink should not influence the link target’s ranking in the search engine’s index.
Do follow : Dofollow links allow google (all search engines) to follow them and reach our website? Giving us link juice and a backlink

[zinavo]

Follow links:
Follow links are links that count as points, pushing SEO link juice and boosting the page rank of the linked-to sites, helping them go higher in the SERPs as a result.

No follow:
A no follow link is a link that does not count as a point in the page’s favor, does not boost PageRank, and doesn’t help a page’s placement in the SERPs. No follow links get no love. Theirs is a sad and lonely life.

[bruceconnor]

DO FOLLOW:
whenever a google robotcome to your website then robot point out external link to other website. If crawling robot find do follow link then search engine follow the link and link juice pass is known as do follow.

NO FOLLOW:
If link is do follow then google bot will not follow the link and it will just ignore it which results to no link juice pass known as no follow.

[wiztech]

Do follow link

DoFollow links are links that count as points, pushing SEO link juice and boosting the page rank of the linked-to sites, helping them go higher in the SERPs as a result.

What is a No Follow Link?

A no follow link is a link that does not count as a point in the page’s favor, does not boost PageRank, and doesn’t help a page’s placement in the SERPs. No follow links get no love. Theirs is a sad and lonely life.

[24x7servermanag]

Do-follow link is nothing but the link juice performed in the SEO. Link juice is the technique using which you used to pass the link from one website to another. Using it, you come to know that how powerful the linking between the one site to another or in-between is. The hyperlinks are used for it.

The important factor while ranking your website by the search engine is that how many quality links you have added. It is not like that if there are more number of links then search engine will rank your website on top, it depends on which type of links you have added.

The more authority a page has, the more link juice it will pass.

No-Follow link -

It is intended to reduce the effectiveness of certain types of search engine spam, thereby improving the quality of search engine results and preventing spamdexing from occurring in the first place.

Recently Google has said that they will still count the nofollow link as an outgoing link in terms of the distribution of page rank from your page. Though again it also depends on where that nofollow link is placed. Placing a nofollow link at the bottom of the page has the least impact, and when placed at the top of the page, it carries some impact.

The necessity of the nofollow tag highlights the crooked and spammy mentality commonly associated with SE