Only dofollow links count for SEO purposes, while nofollow links are not counted at all.
Therefore, it is important to know what dofollow links are and how to get them if you want to get traffic from search engines.
In this article, I will discuss the difference between dofollow and nofollow links. I'll also explain how to check if a link is dofollow or nofollow, and how you can get dofollow links that give you SEO power and help you drive search engine traffic to your site.
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What are Dofollow and Nofollow links?
So what are dofollow links and how are they different from nofollow links?
Dofollow links are links that count towards SEO rankings. By default, most of the links that people create from their own sites are dofollow. Getting great dofollow links is a primary goal for most SEOs.
A dofollow link has HTML code that looks like this:
Note that you don't have to add any special attributes to the link to make it dofollow.
Nofollow links are links that are not meant to count for SEO. Nofollow links were conceptualized in early 2005 by Google's Matt Cutts and Jason Shellen to prevent people from commenting on blogs to get links.
Since their inception, they have been used by webmasters for other purposes as well, and today it is virtually impossible to get dofollow links from blog comments, forums, and social networking sites where people can easily create profiles and links.
In fact, some sites even nofollow post biolinks and promotional links!
When you go out of your way to create content and build links, it can feel like an injustice.
But it actually tter or Facebook where people could sign up for free and link to your website. Without the nofollow attribute, you would get tons of spammers creating accounts just to link to your site to improve your SEO.
Creating the nofollow link reduces the number of spam subscriptions on social media accounts and also spam blog comments.
For nofollow links, note that a rel=“nofollow” attribute is added to the link to let search engines know that this link shouldn't help or hurt SEO.