Difference between Do Follow and No Follow links

[GARCIA]

Hello All,

I am new to the Hosting world and want to learn some new things about SEO. I always have a confusion between two terms which are 'do follow' and 'no follow'. Can someone let me know the difference between these two terms and also suggest me some good SEO techniques to boost my website's rankings.

Thanks in advance

[jakson0100]

""Do follow = Google can crawl the link after that consider as a backlink.
No follow = Google never crawl the site, we cant get the backlink form the sites

[Rachael]

The dofollow links enable the search engines to crawl the links whereas the nofollow links do not enable search engines to crawl the link. Usually the search engines do not recognize the nofollow links therefore most of the online marketers and bloggers prefer dofollow links.

In order to boost the website ranking you can try the following techniques:

* Article marketing
* Blogging
* Social bookmarking
* Creating and maintaining presence on social networking websites
* Creating and maintaining presence on the respective forums

All the above mention techniques will enable you to secure a good ranking in the search engines. Apart from that it is also essential to host your website on an appropriate web hosting plan. It can be a Linux/Windows based web hosting plan. An efficient web hosting plan will ensure the speed and uptime of your website resulting in more traffic coming to your website and this will ultimately have an effect on the ranking of your website.

[Networker]

I agree with you about hosting your website on an appropriate hosting plan, which guarantees the best speed and uptime of your website. Even Google use the speed as a factor to calculate page ranking of a website.

[WH-Garry9]

Don't get into the misconception that "no follow" links are never crawled. If this would have been the case, most of the websites on the internet wouldn't have got rankings as they wouldn't have been crawled.

The difference between "no follow" links and "do follow" links is the fact that "no follow" links are given less importance by search engines as they don't appear to be authoritative links, whereas, "do follow" links are considered to be authoritative links and hence are given more importance.

[GeorgieQ]

Don't many message boards use no follow links? That's what I've heard. It makes sense that those links wouldn't be considered as important. Most of the links on message boards are in signatures and many of them are to promote the poster's own websites.

[RonaldWeis]

Originally Posted by WH-Garry9

Don't get into the misconception that "no follow" links are never crawled. If this would have been the case, most of the websites on the internet wouldn't have got rankings as they wouldn't have been crawled.

That's true. I used to leave comments and links on do-follow and no-follow blogs, and I notice that even the links on the no-follow blogs appear on Google Webmastertools.

[Harry]

IMO, all links are important no matter whether it's a tagged as 'Do-Follow' or 'No-Follow' since they may help in boosting website traffic if not for SEO
Even No-Follow links from heavy traffic websites/forums have potential for improve website traffic which is vital for growth of any business.

[Geoffrey]

Yes, I agree with you. A link is a link regardless of its 'follow' status. No-follow links are much better than no link at all. Moreover, the idea behind a backlink is that someone recommends your webpage to other internet users and not search engines.

[Nile Hadwards]

According to me the search engines want to find out a balance of “no follow” and “do follow” links to your website. There is an argument about the ratios, but it is confirmed that you should not be trying to get every link to your site as a “do follow”.

[lizatailor23]

Nofollow are for not crawling a link by search engine. Dofollow allow search engine to crawl links. Nofollow tag we can use if we are using a link for reference not for crawl. Both are good for human traffic.

[Mary]

One should always look forward for getting dofollow links because only dofollow links are crawled by Google. This helps in terms of improving the traffic to your website and you can achieve a good page rank.

[rinnie]

do follow links=can be crawled by google
no follow=can't be crawled, you'll get only traffic when the person click it the link