What is DoFollow and NoFollow?
by cheesy on Nov.01, 2008, under SEO
What is backlinks?
Backlinks are also known by different names as inlinks or inbound links. A backlink is a link from another website to your website.
Why are backlinks important?
Having good quality backlinks coming into your website can increase your Google page rank. And having good page rank can put your website in top search list which can invite traffics to your website.
Unfortunately this process is open to webmasters to grab as many backlinks as they can get, including ones that aren’t relevant to their site and could even be considered as just spam. Google became aware of this problem and in 2005 introduced the nofollow tag. What this did was effectively stop search engines from giving any credit to a link which had the nofollow attribute.
So how the nofollow tag works?
Say for instance you were creating a link to my blog from your website. This is the code you would use:
<a href=”http://www.desktopbundle.com/”>Computer Blog</a>
It will create the following link: Computer Blog
With the nofollow tag the code will look like this:
<a href=”http://www.desktopbundle.com/” rel=”nofollow”>Computer Blog</a>
Notice the addition of rel=”nofollow”. Although it has extra code, the link will still appear the same, like this:Computer Blog.
So although you can’t tell the difference by looking at the link itself, the extra code you put can tell the search engines that they shouldn’t give any juice to that link. This will help you prevent comment spam
So how dofollow tag works?
Dofollow is the opposite of nofollow - in the other words, the search engines do give credit to the link.
This is an example to create a dofollow link:
<a href=”http://www.desktopbundle.com/”> Computer Blog </a>
Without putting rel=”nofollow” code on it, it already means you make dofollow link. So if you posted a comment on that blog then the link to your website would be given credit by Google and the other search engines.
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