Dofollow and Nofollow Links

Did you know why both Do-follow Links and No Follow Links are good for your Websites? The answer to this question is very simple, both kind of links are good for driving traffic. It does not matter what kind of link you normally prefer because both links can send you traffic. As we all know, traffic is one of the main factors to become successful online. A website without traffic is like having a store in the mall without visitors.

“do-follow” is a plain HTML link that indicates search-engine spiders to crawl your link. Whereas, No-follow attribute tells search engines that the link must be ignored. To make a link No-follow there are 2 ways – Firstly, you can make No-follow from anchor tags and secondly, it could be done directly from robots tag and file also. 

Example - Do-follow link

<a href="http://example.com">Your Anchor Text</a>

Example - No-follow link

<a href="http://www.example.com" rel="no-follow">Your Anchor Text</a>

Having your link No-follow will be treated in following ways  – 

• Spiders will not follow the link
• Users may still click and follow the link
• Page Rank is not transferred
• Anchor text is not transferred to your link profile