Thread: Dofollow - Does this Matter?

I understand how a link with "nofollow" will prevent spiders from following those links and can help prevent spam. However, I see some links with "dofollow". The problem is that this doesn't seem to be a valid tag.

Does anyone know the real history of this tag?

We simply don't need to add the dofollow attribute if we want crawling for all the links.

dofollow is not a valid tag. as Amit said simply don't use nofollow if you want it be dofollow.

nofollow was first introduced to fight spam comments on blogs. it prevents passign link juice not to stop following the link. even if you have a nofollow on a link, search engine spiders would follow the link.

well if you want more comments on your site or blog you must use DO follow and there are some tools to find do follow blogs.....

Originally Posted by krates98

well if you want more comments on your site or blog you must use DO follow and there are some tools to find do follow blogs.....

If using nothing is the opposite of using nofollow, then it would seem to me that there is no point in using dofollow. No?

Originally Posted by Jeff.Walden

If using nothing is the opposite of using nofollow, then it would seem to me that there is no point in using dofollow. No?

Yes but there are tools available who only search for do follow blogs and if you use nothing it will not be considered as a do follow blog

Thanks for all the information!

Originally Posted by manik

dofollow is not a valid tag.

Its an Attribute.

no follow attributes are still follows by the crawlers, its only used to moderate PR juices, so meaning.. even you have this attributes.. this is still valid for Search engine crawlers

This dofollow attribute is not need to use for generating link juice for any website page.

Originally Posted by nairbuoyevoli

no follow attributes are still follows by the crawlers, its only used to moderate PR juices, so meaning.. even you have this attributes.. this is still valid for Search engine crawlers

How to crawl nofollow links?

Originally Posted by Kithomes

How to crawl nofollow links?

I thought that was the entire point of nofollow -- so that the crawlers don't follow them.

Originally Posted by nairbuoyevoli

no follow attributes are still follows by the crawlers, its only used to moderate PR juices, so meaning.. even you have this attributes.. this is still valid for Search engine crawlers

I agree that nofollow links are still crawled by search engines, but these are not counted to increase your page rank.

Yup! getting No follow links would not help increase your websites PR..

Well, without nofollow you wouldnt get any of the goodies that backlinks bring you, but if the URL is nofollow and visible on a high traffic site then it would give traffic to you.