Written on December 7th, 2009 by bloggeri14 shouts
Many people have been wondering whether to have nofollow or dofollow blog comments. If you do not know what they are then read difference with dofollow and nofollow links first. This post will tell you why dofollow links were implemented and how you can benefit from having dofollow blog comments.
Nofollow vs. Dofollow
Nofollow links do not provide link juice to the page you are linking to. This means that the only reason why you should use nofollow links is not pass link juice to sites that do not deserve it. Google implemented the whole nofollow attribute for links, so that they people could prevent link juice flowing to spam sites.
The first implementation was blogs and blog comments in blogger, so that users could easily prevent people using blog comments to link to bad sites.
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Written on October 21st, 2009 by bloggerino shouts
Why Does it Matter
Search engines count the amount of inbound links you have to your site and pages. The most import thing is the anchor text that is used for the inbound links. Anchor text is the text that reads in the actual link. Like this: Anchor Text. The Anchor texts are also counted by search engines.
Anchor texts are matched with keywords that people use in searches. If you have multiple inbound links with the same keywords then it will provide the page with better ranking. Nofollow links are links that are not counted with search engines and this means that they do not improve page ranking in search results.
What are Dofollow links
Dofollow links are all the normal links that do not have rel=”nofollow” tag in them. In normal HTML source code it looks like this:
<a href="http://www.somesite.com">Anchor Text</a>
What Are Nofollow Links
Nofollow links mean that the links have a tag that means that they should not be counted by search engines. When you look at the source code you can find links that look like this:
<a href="http://www.somesite.com" rel="nofollow">Anchor Text</a>
The rel=”nofollow” is the key that tells search engines that the link is not to be counted.
Conclusion
You can use this knowledge with link exchanges. When you are trading links with someone, always verify that the links are dofollow links. If they have the nofollow tag, then do not accept the link trade.
