What is the difference between do-follow & no-follow ?

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Basically tells the search engine spiders whether or not to follow a link on your page. The no-follow is typically used on forums and threads to prevent spammers from gaining back-links an adding to their page rank.

Dofollow Link is a hyperlink that is able to tell search engines to pass along it's page rank influence to an outbound link.

Nofollow Link is exactly the opposite. It is a hyperlink that removes the ability to pass on it's page rank status to other sites.

Do-follow links are counted as a back links by Google.On other hand side no follow links are not consider as a back links.

Do follow will aid to get boost in Search Engine Ranking Posting for particular key phrase where No follow will aid to gain link popularity.

Do Follow Link will be a link that the Search Engines will be able to follow and crawl and as a SEO benefits will be transferred to the website that the link is pointing .

No follow link do not share page rank.

Gaining link equity vs not gaining much

Always prefer dofollow, Google counts it and boost your keyword.

I think Do follow link is a hyperlink that can crawled by search engines and which is helpful for increasing the page rank of site while No follow link is a hyperlink that cann't crawled by search engine. No follow link is only used for increasing the visiters.

No Follow Links are the links which does not allows the Search Engine to Visit the site it is linked to.
And Do Follow Links are the links which allows the Search Engine to Visit the site it is linked to

the links which google accepts are follow

Nofollow is a tag that simply tells search engines not to crawl, or notice, a link on a page.
Dofollow means this link haven't use nofollow tag. Links from DoFollow sites do get noticed by search engines, thus boosting their value

Do follow is used to make the link for search engines. And its really great to increase page rank as well.

No follow is used to make the link for general traffic and no search engine/bot will crawl those page.

So botgh should be use as required.

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Dofollow Link is a hyperlink that is able to tell all search engines to pass along it’s page rank influence to an outbound link.If you will use or get do follow links then search engines will count your link in the eyes of google, yahoo, bing etc as backlink for your site and you can get some positive value for your site ranking.And other hand nofollow link is exactly the opposite. It is a hyperlink that removes the ability to pass on it’s page rank status to other sites.Nofollow links are for not crawling a link by search engine that influence the ranking of a particular website or blog in search engines.

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