nofollow & dofollow

**anamaria2513** · 06-21-2009, 01:53 PM

hello if any person best answer please reply me and any one know what is the different between nofollow & dofollow ?

**eggheadhosting** · 06-21-2009, 04:55 PM

Follow helps on backlinks to your website. 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.

**jamestl2** · 06-21-2009, 05:27 PM

One exists, the other doesn't...

**baxy** · 06-21-2009, 08:33 PM

Dofollow is nothing but a absence of rel="nofollow"

**willcode4beer** · 06-22-2009, 01:47 PM

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Originally Posted by baxy

Dofollow is nothing but a absence of rel="nofollow"

no, the absence of rel="nofollow" is the absence of rel="nofollow".

dofollow is a term invented by SEO marketers as a way of BS'ing their clients.

rel="nofollow" is used to tell the search indexers that you are sick of all the spammers posting comments on your site thinking they will get backlinks.

**jamestl2** · 06-22-2009, 03:22 PM

Exactly Paul, having a rel="dofollow" attribute doesn't equate to the search engines automatically following that link. There's absolutely no code you can insert to tell them to do so, or "do follow" the link, as they might say.

**willcode4beer** · 08:12 PM

OTOH, if you follow the micro-format trend, you can add, rev="vote-for" as a way to signify that you think a page is useful/important.
As to whether or not the search engines care....who knows?

I guess the so called "dofollow" are what the rest of the planet call "links". If it doesn't say, "rel=nofollow", it's not "dofollow", it's just a plain old link.

**luxl85** · 06-24-2009, 01:28 AM

Generally the no follow links are useless.

**jamestl2** · 06-24-2009, 01:39 AM

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Originally Posted by luxl85

Generally the no follow links are useless.

Even if a said link were to send you 10,000 unique visitors a day?

**james.henry** · 06-24-2009, 02:33 AM

NoFollow = Don't Follow this link
DoFollow = Follow this link..

**journey08** · 06-24-2009, 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by luxl85

Generally the no follow links are useless.

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.

**BenjaminGates** · 06-24-2009, 11:27 AM

Nofollow is a wierd html attribute invented by Google and their company. Similarly Dofollow is another wierd html attribute invented by their non-company members.

Just know that there is no need to really know these two attributes unless you want to get page rank to your site..

In btw, nofollow is real.. As someone says dofollow is non existance of nofollow in an html tag.There are also other attributes for rel that is rel="me", rel="home". Somehow there is no rel="you"! May be you can try as it does not matter to any body who sees an html link.

**BenjaminGates** · 06-24-2009, 11:28 AM

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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 share your view

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**anamaria2513** · 06-25-2009, 10:53 AM

Thank you for your comments

**willcode4beer** · 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by james.henry

NoFollow = Don't Follow this link
DoFollow = Follow this link..

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Originally Posted by BenjaminGates

Nofollow is a wierd html attribute invented by Google and their company. Similarly Dofollow is another wierd html attribute invented by their non-company members.

wrong. DoFollow does not exist

maybe the experts need to refresh basic html
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html

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Originally Posted by BenjaminGates

As someone says dofollow is non existance of nofollow in an html tag.

again, completely wrong.

the "non existance of nofollow" is a plain old link.

**Custom Cars** · 09:21 AM

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Originally Posted by jamestl2

Exactly Paul, having a rel="dofollow" attribute doesn't equate to the search engines automatically following that link. There's absolutely no code you can insert to tell them to do so, or "do follow" the link, as they might say.

There is no need to tell the search engines to follow a link; it does do by default unless it finds a nofollow attribute or directive. Similarly, there's no need to tell the search engines to index a page; it does so by default unless it finds the noindex directive.

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Originally Posted by willcode4beer

I guess the so called "dofollow" are what the rest of the planet call "links". If it doesn't say, "rel=nofollow", it's not "dofollow", it's just a plain old link.

No it's not, a link is a link whether its nofollow or not. You can still click on it and be taken to the site or page that the link poits to. A link with rel="nofollow" is still a link, it just doesn't count as a backlink for SEO purposes when it has rel="nofollow".

**BenjaminGates** · 06-27-2009, 09:36 AM

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Originally Posted by willcode4beer

wrong. DoFollow does not exist

maybe the experts need to refresh basic html
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html

again, completely wrong.

the "non existance of nofollow" is a plain old link.

You take the code literally

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**BenjaminGates** · 06-27-2009, 09:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Custom Cars

There is no need to tell the search engines to follow a link; it does do by default unless it finds a nofollow attribute or directive. Similarly, there's no need to tell the search engines to index a page; it does so by default unless it finds the noindex directive.
No it's not, a link is a link whether its nofollow or not. You can still click on it and be taken to the site or page that the link poits to. A link with rel="nofollow" is still a link, it just doesn't count as a backlink for SEO purposes when it has rel="nofollow".

That is the best explanation. But do you mean the search engines will index a page when it is linked from a site as nofollow? I don't believe this is the case. How is the noindex attribute used in an html tag? This is interesting to try out.

**Custom Cars** · 06-27-2009, 12:19 PM

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Originally Posted by BenjaminGates

That is the best explanation. But do you mean the search engines will index a page when it is linked from a site as nofollow? I don't believe this is the case. How is the noindex attribute used in an html tag? This is interesting to try out.

Noindex is a page level directive declared in meta tag. It's not an attribute attached to a link so I should have been more clear. What I meant was that you don't need to tell search engines explicitely to follow a link because that is their default action, much in the same way that you don't need to add <meta name="ROBOTS" content="INDEX" /> to your web pages to ensure that it will be indexed because that is the search engines default action.

**jamestl2** · 06-27-2009, 08:14 PM

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There is no need to tell the search engines to follow a link; it does do by default unless it finds a nofollow attribute or directive.

You CAN'T tell the SE's to follow a link, that's the whole point. And just because there's no rel="nofollow", doesn't mean they automatically "follow" the link, it doesn't "follow" a link by default to pass on whatever PR or ranking power the link may theoretically provide.

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No it's not, a link is a link whether its nofollow or not.

Paul was explaining dofollow, not nofollow.