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What is “nofollow”?

Nofollow is an attribute that can be added to links to discourage comment spam. It is used with the rel= “nofollow” attribute in a link. The concept for the specification of the attribute value ”nofollow” was designed by Googles head of web spam team Matt Cutts and Jason Shellen from Blogger.com in 2005.

What Google says in its official blog on “nofollow”?

If you’re a blogger or a blog reader, and knows about simple SEO tactics of leaving URL anywhere on web to increase traffic, then you would become familiar with “Nofollow” attribute. You’re familiar with blog owners who try to raise their own websites’ search engine rankings (pagerank) by submitting linked blog comments like “Visit my free weight loss program site.” This is called comment spam.

When Google goes through the attribute (rel=”nofollow”) on hyperlinks, those links won’t get any credit when Google rank websites in their search engine results. “Nofollow” provides a way for webmasters to tell search engines “Don’t follow links on this page” or “Don’t follow this specific link”. It is just a way to make sure that spammers get no benefit from abusing public areas like blog comments, trackbacks, and referrer lists. Spammer’s works with spam comment to not only get the rise in page rank, but also to get the direct traffic from links

Linking structure for “nofollow” and normal link

Link with nofollow:

<a href=”http://www.neelmoney.com/” rel=”nofollow”>best web site</a>

Normal link:
<a href=”http://www.neelmoney.com/”>best web site</a>

Firebox extension to spot out links

Nofollow 1.1 Add-on

It is Just a simple extension to highlight links in a page according to nofollow / dofollow status.

download this Add-on here.

What is dofollow?

Dofollow is the opposite of “nofollow”. Dofollow links are links which help you improve your search engine ranking results as they don’t have no follow attribute in hyperlinks. These links passes all important authority credit to links they follow.  Dofollow links are links which help you improve your search engine ranking results.

Dofollow link:

<a href=”http://www.neelmoney.com/”>best web site</a>

But hang on a code, is this right? You are probably wondering where the dofollow linking strategy is in that piece of code. Well there is no actual dofollow tag. It is just a term used to describe the opposite of nofollow. It is same as normal link. All authority credit like page rank, blog authority, anchor text

Do follow community

Many of the SEO champions do not believes the fact that “nofollow” attribute have some power to help in preventing comment spam. There are plugins available to stop comment spam like Akismet, spamkarma, so why “nofollow” attribute is needed? Virtually all blogs that were set up since early 2005 automatically apply the “nofollow” attribute to comments and pingbacks. So dofollow supporters recommend a plugins to make blog dofollow, and they appreciate others to join the dofollow community.

There are the bloggers from dofollow community who are telling that no follow is failed system.let us see  searchenginjournal who says that nofollow is  failed to stop the comment spam. some bloggers got that there are  reason to not to use nofollow.let us follow those 11 reason.

Plugins used to Dofollow the links

To make your blog into a dofollow blog you can use a plugin (software) that removes the “nofollow” attribute from automatically attaching itself to comments left on your blog.

list of such plugins:

Dofollow 4.0

Nofollow free

No nofollow

Remove nofollow

Get more help on “nofollow”

You can get detail from SEO master seomoz.org

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