Dofollow and Nofollow links
The A - Z Of Dofollow And Nofollow Links
About this Nofollow is a value that is assigned to an HTML anchor tag (a link) that prevents the Google search spider from following that link to its destination. Dofollow is simply the absence of the nofollow attribute, and would allow links to be followed by search spiders.
See now, Let's begin with an explanation of a link, also known as a hyperlink. Links can be found on almost every web page, they are connections you can click on to jump from one source of web content to another such as; a web page, an image, a video file, sound file, an HTML document, etc. Links are specified in HTML using the anchor tag (). The link itself can be text, a group of text or an image; and can lead to content that is on the same page, to a different page on the same site or even to different sites on the web.
Click,Why would you want links from another website? The obvious answer is to increase traffic to your site from users clicking on the link. What is less obvious is that your site will receive a boost in pagerank and credibility from the linking site if its own pagerank and credibility are in good standing. Pagerank effects where your site is listed on the search engine results page, a higher ranking puts your page closer to the top.
Why Nofollow?
Before 2005 blogging was still new and spammers had not capitalized on the comments section of blog sites. Spammers soon realized they could post their spam links in the comments section and boost their sites rankings, which was great for the spammers but it degraded the value of the content on the sites for the rest of the users. Google engineers created the nofollow attribute to prevent spammers from gaining any ranking from these links. Today nofollow is required by Google on any paid links including, affiliate links, for the following reason:
Google's official statement - "Webmasters engage within the practice of shopping for and selling links that pass The sources, and therefore the long-term impact it will have on their sites. Buying or selling links that pass Pagerank is in violation of Google's Webmaster Guidelines and may negatively impact a site's ranking in search results."
Some webmaster will choose to include the nofollow attribute for their entire site to prevent being associated with websites that do not uphold Google's Webmaster Guidelines thus protecting their own pagerank and credibility.
Where should nofollow be?
A nofollow attribute should be added anywhere a user can add a link by themselves, where the link is unmonitored. Any links that are paid links, including affiliate links should also include the nofollow attribute. Pages such as a registration page and a login page should contain the nofollow attribute because the search engine can not crawl these pages.
Is nofollow bad?
Nofollow has no negative effect to the site it is on. Nofollow is still a useful link, they do not receive any pagerank credit but through the keywords in the anchor text users may find your link and click through to your site. A linking site that has a great deal of quality content would most likely have a large number of users giving your links a greater chance of being found. According to Google nofollow links are small minority of the links on the web.
Any link from a trust worthy site that has quality content is worth having, with or with out the nofollow attribute.
This is an example of a link:
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This is the same link with the nofollow attribute:
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