spider is not read the nofollow..

To put it simply, no follow means the site won't recommend the link, so Google won't see. That's all.

Yeah, I don't think Google pays attention to nofollow links

Originally Posted by journey08

I don't think nofollow links are useless.. As long as these links are came from relevant sites, they are still useful and may help drive targeted traffic for your site.

I agree with Journey08. No follow BLs has factors in ranking in Yahoo.

dofollow is nothing more than the absence of nofollow. Unless the page specifically says nofollow in the linking properties, your website(s) will be given a qualified backlink toward your page rank.

Many sites such as hubpages use nofollow until you have a hub score of around 70. Does this mean that you shouldn't use hubpages because of this? Of course not, hubpages ranks extremely well in search engines. Even with the nofollow link, you are using another page to promote your own. Of course when you get the "dofollow" link, you will be better off.

No follow means Google won't count it as a backlink at all.

Google loves dofollow attributes only while other search engines loves both dofollow and nofollow attributes.

Nofollow make this link like a banner, it's not a backlink, just a reference, where google will not index it like a backlink, propably not show this page when searching your website.

thanks guys, your replies makes me more understand about no-dofollow...

Link building is the most important aspect of search engine optimization. These links decide the rank of the page in google. While creating a link we always follow dofollow forums because the provide backlinks .

NoFollow vs. DoFollow - Should You Care?

By Vertical Measures

There’s a pretty big debate being waged on websites today between the “no follow” link contingent and the “do follow” advocates. Which side of the camp are you on? Maybe you haven’t decided because you really aren’t sure how each type of link works. No follow links were first developed by Google as a way to control spam links on blogs and other sites. There was a valid complaint that many legitimate sites were being penalized if they had a large number of links to other sites with little or no value. By adding the no follow tag to any links (rel=“nofollow”), blog publishers and forum owners were provided a tool to prevent spammers from posting endless useless comments simply to get a free link back to a site that you might not want to be associated with.
A “no follow” link gives Google and other major search engines specific instructions. When a “no follow” code is part of a link, the theory goes that Google will NOT follow the link to the other page and it will NOT include the link when calculating Page Rank for your web page.
On the other hand, it’s nice to share some link juice with those who take the time to comment on your blog, sign your guest book or otherwise contribute something of value to your site. After all, wouldn’t you like them to return the favor to you some day?
As a link builder, we often get requests to find only “do follow” links for our clients. But should they really insist on that? Should you count the ratio of no follow to do follow links to your site (or from your site) to try and figure out the perfect balance?
Three Good Reasons Not to Care
In our opinion, you really don’t need to worry too much about ratios or link counts. Here are three good reasons why:
1. The search engines expect to see a balance of “no follow” and “do follow” links to your site. What those exact ratios are can be debated, but it is clear that you should not be trying to get every link to your site as a “do follow”.
2. We haven’t seen any concrete proof that the three major search engines aren’t passing some link juice through “no follows”. In fact, we have seen some pretty good articles indicating that they feel they received some good link love from “no follow” links from authority sites.
3. Focus on getting links for traffic and you won’t have to worry about it at all. This is often lost with link builders. So much emphasis is place on getting link juice for search engine rankings, that many forget that the best links of all bring real traffic to your site. If you get a link that sends you meaningful traffic, do you really care if it is “no follow” or “do follow”?
It all boils down to common sense – a balance of inbound links will generally do more to help your site when compared to concentrating on one method of link building. When in doubt, if it’s a quality site that wants to link to you, take the link, whether it is “do follow” or “no follow”.

Ironic isn't it? All this talk of nofollow and "dofollow", is a sympton of so called "SEO's" and linksellers spamming blogs and forums in the first place

Nofollow make this link like a banner, it's not a backlink, just a reference, where google will not index it like a backlink, propably not show this page when searching your website.

I would suggest that most of the present company should take a look at a couple of above posts to hopefully grasp that dofollow is not an attribute first and foremost because it simply doesn't exist.

Honestly, this whole follow dofollow talk is getting on my nerves. Meh, don't follow follow until follow follows you...

Thi still sounds too technical. How do you explain these things to people who speak the language of SEO? Is there a simplified way to further explain the difference between nofollow and dofollow?

Originally Posted by downliner

You can argue that dofollow doesn't exist however this thread (and the thousands of others like it online) seem evidence enough that dofollow is real, and its here to stay :P

Unicorns don't exist, yet debates about unicorns still show up in plenty of Search Results.

Point being that just because a bunch of people start using specific terminology (on the internet, no less ) doesn't mean that it automatically equates to truth or reality.

Originally Posted by peter carri

Is there a simplified way to further explain the difference between nofollow and dofollow?

Extremely simple? Re-read post #3.

Not all search systems consider nofollow...
Pluses and minuses of removal of attribute nofollow from links in comments.

Pluses (+):
* Increase in comments. We stimulate the visitor to leave the comment to a post. As the commentator receives small encouragements - a direct reference.
* Increase in constant readers. The user who has left the comment for the first time and having received a direct reference on the site, most likely will return on your blog to esteem new posts if he has become interested or to receive links on the site.

Minuses (-):
* Ranging Deterioration, and consequently, reduction of the traffic from search systems. As, deleting attribute "nofollow" the number backlinks from your site increases.
* Increases in "empty comments" (spams) and loss of time for struggle against them.

On the projects I backlinks have hidden in rel=“nofollow” )))

Nofollow make this link like a banner, it's not a backlink, just a reference, where google will not index it like a backlink, propably not show this page when searching your website.

Originally Posted by andrew_smith

Google can't read the nofollow link, it's only consider do follow links.

Have you as much as read anything in the thread?

No follow links are do not crawled by the search engines. Its useless links. do follow links are best.

Thanks.