What is DoFollow? What is NoFollow? Follow Along and See.
If you’ve been doing any kind of reading about link building, then you’ve probably seen people mentioning “nofollow” and “dofollow” links. These are very important terms to understand when you are trying to build great links back to your site in order to increase your search engine rankings. But, to the person who is new to all of this, it may be kind of confusing. I am going to help break it down for you.
When creating a link on a webpage using HTML, the standard code for that link is:
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It includes the HTML tag, the URL the link will be going to, the text that will be shown on the webpage for that link, and the closing HTML tag.
You are able to add more HTML to the code above, in order to tell the search engine spiders whether or not you want them to follow the link when crawling your website. You may be thinking… “Why wouldn’t I want the search engine spiders to see all of the links on my site?” This is a very valid concern, which I will address further down. First, I am going to show you how to modify the HTML in order to tell the search engine spiders to crawl a link or not.
To tell the spiders to crawl a link, you don’t have to do anything. Simply using the format shown above, the search engine spiders will crawl the link provided.
To tell the spiders to NOT crawl a link, you need to add the following code to the HTML code above:
rel="nofollow"
It would then look like:
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Basically, there is no true “dofollow”, it is just NOT using the “nofollow” tag. Pretty simple, eh? (No, I am not Canadian… well, kind of.)
Why does this matter?
When you are using different methods (hopefully from this site) in order to build links on other websites (to increase your search engine rankings), you need to determine if the websites you are attempting to get your site listed on use the “nofollow” tag or not. If they do, it may still be a good idea to try to get that link there, but it is generally regarded as not the best use of time since the search engines don’t follow that link and you don’t get any increase in search engine rankings from that link.
So, when you are looking for sites and blogs that you could leave your link on (through reciprocal links, commenting on a blog, directory submissions, buying links, etc) figure out if the links in the particular section of the site you are aiming for uses “nofollow” or not. (A good way to do this is to view the source code, or find some good “dofollow” lists such as Courtney Tuttle’s D-list )
Why wouldn’t I want the search engine spiders to see all of the links on my site? (Or, Why would I use “nofollow”?)
There are many reasons you would want to use the “nofollow” tag, such as:
1) Paid Links: This is recommended by Google. Essentially, your sites page rank give a small amount of rank juice to the sites you link to (which helps their search engine ranking, which is the purpose of link building, to get that juice from others). If you have a paid link on your site, it’s essentially buying a higher rank in Google. They don’t like that.
2) Maybe in your blog’s comment section (if using most blog software, this is automatic). It is up to you if you want your commentators to get link juice back to their site. It is personal preference.
3) When linking to major, very popular sites. If you are linking to google.com, yahoo.com, digg.com (the front page), cnn.com, or whoever else, they are already popular, so you might as well use “nofollow” since your link won’t make or break them.
I hope this has been helpful. Feel free to comment or use the contact link in the top right of the page if you have any questions about this, or any link building subject.
UPDATE: Now that you know what dofollow is, you can easily find dofollow blogs with my DoFollow Blogs Search Engine, DoFollow Diver!
Tags: do follow, Link Building, Search Engine Optimization, seo
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Thanks for the useful post here, and I have finally know how to differential the ‘nofollow’ and ‘dofollow’ stuffs, which this matter has annoyed me for a very long time…
Great, education information. Thank you for sharing it.
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i just started a new blog and by the advice of another expert blogger i disabled my “comments” since the site said it’d frustrate new bloggers…do the existing links i put on my blogroll considered dofollow? hope you canshed light on this…e-mail me if reply is lengthy, i don’t mind the long read…thanks!
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pardon my ignorance…
Yes…. the ones in the blogroll are dofollow.
You can turn your comments on…. I doubt it will frustrate you.
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I’ve heard some people say nofollow stops the SE from following the link, and i’ve heard others say it follows but doesnt give any link juice to the page.
Your article suggests the first instance, is this right?
No, it’s the second instance… they still follow it, they just dont pass any authority or link juice.
Great explanation, I refer people to this article when they wonder what dofollow/nofollow means
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Nice sharing.. It is very good to know the difference for me as i am doing Affiliate marketing. Now, i will apply “no follow” html code into my affiliate links. Just to keep my Pr juice good.
Hi… just a quick note to say thanks. I’ve been searching for this kind of information for a while, and always ended up being re-directed etc. Nice to see org content.
Great post, I prefer follow… lol!
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Thanks for your sharing dude. Good job.
Very informative article. I was at another blog and they made mention to “do-follow” and “no-follow” and I had no idea what they were talking about. Thank you for shedding light on this issue and making it understandable for the newbies.
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i want to test this dofollow here hehe… delete it if u want to thanks..
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Useful article, thanks!
Excellent explanation, very helpful! Will spread the good word around to some friends about your site!
great info, still a little confused ovger the hole do and no follow links but i will get my head round it very soon lol
Thanks for this,
I have been looking for ways to increase link backs and am willing to comment in a good way… Thanks.
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Hi, nice idea I like doFollow blogging its for the benefit of both the blog owner and the visitor.
thanks
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This is a gem of SEO knowledge. I will be using your search engine.
Thanks, Brian
Good information- thank you very much
As you have given huge information on dofollow and nofollow but one morething I would like to tell that google gives less importance to nofollow but if we optimize yahoo, msn and other search engine then I personally found that still nofollow are given some improtance by these search engine.
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Thanks for the info, i had been wondering about this question for some time. Great idea for a blog, perfect answer to my question.
Interesting read, thanks for sharing. Fellow DP member here, keep up the good work
This is great, Thanks for the info. Most people don’t know about this but will soon be increased with knowledge.
Thank you for helping with the link building.
Good work
Finally, a place that tells you detail for detail about what exactly Do Follow means, and how to get Links that count from Google.
Thanks for the info.
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This finally connects the dots. I always wanted to know what nofollow means. Thank you.
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I stumbled you for it.Nice information.
Thank you very much for posting this! It really helped!
There appears to be so much that you need to do in order to increase your search engine and until you find an article like this a lot of it may be in vain i.e. Regulary posting to sites which are nofollow as you didn’t realise there was a nofollow/dofollow distinction.
These are the types of articles that you need to find in order to focus your attention on the things that will help increase the popularity of your site.
Thank you for helping with the link building
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There are really few dofollow blog nowaday.I have tried to find dofollow blog on google.But almost all of the blogs are nofollow,it is really hard to make backlinks on blogs now.Thank you for your post and your blog very much.
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Thank you very much for posting , It really helped to know what nofollow means.
Very informative. Thank you for the dofollow search engine.
Cheers.
It might also be worth pointing out – only Google and Yahoo claim to take note of the nofollow tag. Whilst they have the majority, at least the links help a little with other search engine results. Happy new year.
your search engine is great thanks!
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This finally connects the dots. I always wanted to know what nofollow means. Thank you
There are really few dofollow blog nowaday.I have tried to find dofollow blog on google.But almost all of the blogs are nofollow,it is really hard to make backlinks on blogs now.Thank you for your post and your blog very much.
good article! to my mind the best way to find dofollow (no nofollow)
blogs is to google.
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Nice article written here. I got to know a few more things about dofollow. The dofollow search engine is really good.. Thanks
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This is an awesome resource and I sincerely appreciate you taking the time to explain what a “dofollow/nofollow” website is. Another SEO professional in Denver had talked about this on his blog as though it was some great mystery and I was just unfamiliar with the terminology. I understood the concept, I just had no idea we were describing it this way. Thank you so much!