Wednesday 15 May 2013

Understanding NoFollow and DoFollow Links

Understanding What is DoFollow Link and What is NoFollow Link is not rocket science. But it can do wonder's in the field of Search Engine Optimization and atleast you should know about it if you are trying to get in into SEO field or as a Webmaster.

Let's take a Example

SEO Mofo is releated to Search Engine Optimization when google Spider's or Crawler's visit a particular post or page of this website it check for content, meta tag's, title, and reference links with-in post.

All Things Need Patience SEO is One of Them

If you check this post you will find that there is only One link with anchor text SEO that goes to Wikipedia and big thing is i made it Nofollow.

Definition of NoFollow Link:

A link that do not pass link juice of source website to reference website.In Our Case SEO Mofo is source website and Wikipedia is reference website.

Definition of DoFollow Link:

A link that pass link juice of source website to reference website.In Our Case SEO Mofo is source website and Wikipedia is reference website.

By default all links you make in your website are DoFollow You need to add ' rel="nofollow" ' attribute to your HTML link to make it NoFollow.

It is better practice to make useful links only DoFollow and the rest NoFollow to maintain balance and not to give impression to search engine's that you are spamming or selling text links.