Do Follow vs No Follow links

25DORIS · #1 (**permalink**) 12-28-11, 03:08

I am a new comer in the hosting market. I also want to know about Search engine optimization. I mostly hear two terms: “do follow” and “no follow”.

Can anyone get a clear idea about “do follow” and “no follow”?
I also want to know that what are the basic differences between them?
You can suggest me any good SEO techniques to get a good website ranking.

77wmaster · #2 (**permalink**) 12-28-11, 04:14

In case of “Do follow” link, Google can crawl these backlinks.
In case of “No follow” link, Google can't crawl these backlinks but any website or blog can get a lot of traffic with no follow backlinks.

WebMaster · #3 (**permalink**) 12-28-11, 04:49

Yes, I agree with you. And I want to share some SEO techniques to boost website ranking :

* Article marketing
* Blogging
* Social bookmarking
* Work on social networking
* Forum posting

All the above mentioned techniques will enable you to secure a good ranking in the search engines. Other than this, your website on an appropriate web hosting plan. It can be a Linux or Windows based web hosting plan. An efficient web hosting plan will assure 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.

PATRICIAF5 · #4 (**permalink**) 12-28-11, 05:35

Yes, you are right. Users have to choose a proper hosting plan, which guarantees the best speed and uptime of your website. Even Google utilizes the speed as a factor to calculate page ranking of a website.

debasri · #5 (**permalink**) 12-28-11, 21:04

In my point of view It is wrong 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 would not have been crawled.

I more thing I want to discuss, is that : 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.

10NANCY · #6 (**permalink**) 12-29-11, 00:02

Actually, search engines want to find out a balance of “no follow” and “do follow” links to any website. There is a debate about the ratios, but it is confirmed that users should not be trying to get every link to their site as a “do follow”.

kevinbed · #7 (**permalink**) 02-06-12, 05:33

If you have been trying to learn SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for some time chances are you have heard about dofollow and nofollow links. But what are they anyway, and how do you find out if a link is dofollow or nofollow? And how does this affect your sites search engine rankings?
The original idea with nofollow was to reduce comment spam on websites.What the nofollow tag does, is it tells Google to disregard the link and to not give any link juice to the target page. Specifically nofollow links does not pass PageRank to the target page! This means you should not pay for links from directories or other sources if they carry the nofollow tag.Dofollow is the opposite of nofollow. It’s a standard link with no “nofollow” tag added. A link that will pass link juice and that is good for your search engine rankings if it points your way. It’s just easier to call it a “dofollow link” than to say “a link with no nofollow tag”,