What are "do follow" and "no follow" blog comments?

[SEOTour]

Hi Guys,

I am new to this forum and working as SEO expert. Have some terminology problems.

a) do follow

b) no follow

Will you please explain these two terms?

Thanks in advance,

[govindseo]

Do follow is crawl by search engine crawler, means search engine follow your link.
No follow means SE not follow your links.

[chowell]

Actually, the descriptions of the two are slightly different than govindseo indicated.

Dofollow - This means that the links pass value in the eyes of the SE robots. So if you use keyword anchor text, that anchor text passes value to the destination URL.

Nofollow - The Search Engines still follow the link and spider the page, but they do not pass any value to the destination URL.

Hope this helps to clarify.

Cory

[SemAdvance]

And there is the reason so many clients are screwed by self proclaimed SEO experts.

Cannot define important SEO terms and yet feel they have the right to label themselves an expert... or post complete misinformation.

Very good job Chowell.........I think you may be the real SEO expert!!

[webullswobble]

Hi Guys,

I am new to this forum and working as SEO expert. Have some terminology problems.

a) do follow

b) no follow

Will you please explain these two terms?

Thanks in advance,

Thanks for that - saved me having to ask - and my first visit here too!

[Terry Van Horne]

To be an expert and not know what nofollow... is well... that's an expert in the loosest sense of the term. Dofollow is easily the stupidest thing I've heard in a long tim since ALL ENGINES FOLLOW EVERYTHING!! This is the gheight of stupidity. This is why real SEO's have a reputation problem and why we're the red headed step child of Internet Marketing. It's rediculous and shows an expert is any idiot who proclaims himself as such. As long as that is the case this industry will never become a legitimate trade we will always be seen as the snakeoil salesman in the back alley selling products out of our trunk!

[sofomor]

Agree with everybody else!

This actually is the SUPPLY & DEMAND problem. How ? I will explain.

There is exuberant amount of SEO DEMAND for online businesses. The problem is the acute shortage of SUPPLY for them. Moreover, these businessmen have a bad impression (thanks to SEO experts) like cloaking, hidden text, link farms and all that black hat SEO stuff that they are desperate for some who is an actual EXPERT.

Now if SEO expert (like above) pitch themselves as EXPERTS, there is no way those innocent guys could ever know the reality.

Thats the real problem.

SEOTour buddy, I'm shocked and wondering how did you ever garnered links (and eventual rankings) if you didn't knew what NOFOLLOW was?

Enough of this bashing now

Just read what chowell said and please get labeled by others, and not by yourself.

Thank you

[james113]

And there is the reason so many clients are screwed by self proclaimed SEO experts.

Cannot define important SEO terms and yet feel they have the right to label themselves an expert... or post complete misinformation.

LOL!!!

I was thinking the same thing. The only true SEO experts are the people writing and controling the algorithms.





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[ron angel]

[QUOTE=sofomor;399941]Agree with everybody else!

This actually is the SUPPLY & DEMAND problem. How ? I will explain.

There is exuberant amount of SEO DEMAND for online businesses. The problem is the acute shortage of SUPPLY for them. Moreover, these businessmen have a bad impression (thanks to SEO experts) like cloaking, hidden text, link farms and all that black hat SEO stuff that they are desperate for some who is an actual EXPERT.

Now if SEO expert (like above) pitch themselves as EXPERTS, there is no way those innocent guys could ever know the reality.

Thats the real problem.

SEOTour buddy, I'm shocked and wondering how did you ever garnered links (and eventual rankings) if you didn't knew what NOFOLLOW was?

Enough of this bashing now

Just read what chowell said and please get labeled by others, and not by yourself.

Thank you[/QUOTE

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check them out using SiteReportCard: Web Site Optimization and Promotion Tools or a similar
site & see what their alexa google & other ratings are.If they are as good as they say should have top rankings!

[deepsand]

The acid test for SEO "experts" is the ranking of their OWN site
...

Are you saying that SERP is the definitive measure of success?