What is do-follow and no-follow link in seo?

[pitambar]

What is do-follow and no-follow link in seo?

[gauravprop]

Do follow links crawls by search engine and No follow links does not links crawls by search engines.

[Chikan]

Do-follow links are the links which are crawl by the search engine and pass the link juice.
No-follow links are the links which are not crawl by the search engine.

[James Andrew]

Dofollow links are those links which allow a search engine to follow its path. It means if there is link which takes the user to the target URL but refuses the search engine is not a Dofollow link.

[seoxoom]

These tags are used for search engine crawler, Do follow tags are used to follow hyperlink and no follow tags are used for not to follow hyperlink.

[Manov]

DoFollow and NoFollow is an attribute given to link by Google Search Engine which indidcates

NoFollow - When NoFollow attribute is given to link Google will not follow in displaying search query result.

DoFollow - When DoFollow attribute is given to link Google will display in search query result and if you don't specify NoFollow or DoFollow then implicitly it will consider DoFollow.

Example

- <a href=”domain name rel=”nofollow”>Anchor Text</a> - NoFollow Link

- <a href=”domain name”>Anchor Text</a> - DoFollow Link

Just the difference is removing tag will create dofollow.

[Method]

Well, I'd like to tell you something about Nofollow links that you can’t totally avoid because 70% sites are no-follow you can SEO on these sites which are useful for getting traffic. I know it will not help your site for backlinks and ranking but you should do it.

[nianalyticsindia]

Do follow links are hyperlinks that are able to tell the search engines like Google to pass along their page rank influence to outbound links.
No follow links are hyperlinks that eliminate the ability to pass on a page rank status to other websites.Nofollow links are not for crawling links by search engines which influence the rank of a blog or website in the search engines.

[dennis123]

Hi,do follow count as back link to the site from search engine. It's important for site ranking to get quality back links.
no follow doesn't count as back link to the site from search engine but it can be helpful as an traffic generate source if it's come from high pr sites.

[Mark Steve]

I think nofollow links are also important for your site because it contains good traffic for you.

[vshah1585]

Do-follow links which passes link juice to linked website.and no-follow link does not passes link juice.

[keithatherton]

Both the links are important even it is No-follow or Do-follow. Do-follow links share their page rank and No-follow do not share.

[Gurmeet]

No-follow links - These are the links which Google does not crawl.

Do-follow links - These are the links which Google crawls and gets your page indexed which builds quality backlinks.

[Uthra]

Dofollow Link is a hyperlink that tells all search engines to pass along it’s page rank influence to an outbound link. Search Engine counts do-follow links as backlinks for your site and you get some positive value for your site ranking.
Nofollow Link is a hyperlink that removes the ability to pass on it’s page rank status to

[mitchellparker]

Google appreciates to Do Follow links but not to No follow links. Do follow links have great chance to search and crawling by the search engines.