What is DoFollow?
Many website owners, designers, optimizers, and bloggers have heard of and search for DoFollow blogs, DoFollow social bookmarking, DoFollow forums, and DoFollow directories in their link building quests.
Would you be surprised to know that, with all the talk about DoFollow, that it is not a tag in a website’s code? DoFollow is, in fact, a term that represents something that is not present on a link to a specific URL – the “nofollow” tag.
Nofollow is a tag that simply tells search engines not to crawl, or notice, a link on a page. There are several reasons you would want to use a nofollow tag, such as with paid links (which Google frowns upon) or links to major sites that do not need a lot of boost in their link building efforts, like Google itself.
The reason that many people choose to use nofollow for other links on their site is for fear of giving up the prized “link juice” to other sites, possibly lowering their Google Page Rank. And while it is true that some sites are penalized because they have too many links, the real issue is when your site starts to look like a link farm with all links, and no content. Most sites can safely be DoFollow simply by having a balance of content and links.
So, to summarize, DoFollow sites are sites that do not use the nofollow tag. Links from DoFollow sites do get noticed by search engines, thus boosting their value. Learn more about DoFollow link building.
Thanks for your great contribution for SEO. Definately will bookmark your blog. Many people do not know how tell a dofollow website.
So I just want to share my knowledge here. Simply use Mozilla Firefox with nodofollow add on. Indicator red is nofollow and blue is dofollow.
The only problem I’ve seen with the Mozilla Firefox plugin is that if the commenter has a Blogger profile and just uses their blogger profile to post the comment, you will always see them as NoFollow even if their blog is a DoFollow blog. To be recognized as DoFollow by this plugin, they should use the Name/URL option instead of their google profile.
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I got a do follow blog. My question is, how does Google knows if you got paid links in your blog?
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Actually even nofollow links may help you in some way. From nofollow links you will not get the link juice or PR but you do get more authoritative web site.
How would you know if a blog is a nofollow or dofollow blog?
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set your blog as dofollow will increase the number of comments in your blog. but you will get more spammer too..
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Well, A good definition about Dofollow Links.
But it will be nice if you could write something more about it’s importance.
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Dofollow blog usually mean more visitors and more spammers but enabling comments moderation is an option to catch it.
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Remember that a whole page can be nofollow when the nofollow is in the meta tag, so don’t just check the link itself. And nofollow links can be useful to increase traffic to your site, but just don’t bring any pagerank.
I had been weighing the pros and cons about going DoFollow for a while. Recently I finally made the jump to DoFollow with CommentLuv. Should be interesting to see the impact.
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I love your website! I am always looking for great sites that teach about blogging and I found your site that teaches about the “dofollow” attribute that is so important to SEO. Thanks for sharing with your readers!
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I’ve always wondered why nofollow is the default on comments systems, in drupal it was a huge mission to remove them, and I didn’t even get it right. I’m happy to be working with WordPress and now have a permanent dofollow as part of my site.
Now to create awesome blog posts that people will feel happy commenting on
Thanks for teaching me ‘What dofollow is’.
Well, I think it’s time to spend some time commenting on dofollow blogs that you recommend. Hope it will work for me.
Thanks once again.
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