Difference between do follow or nofollow in SEO?

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Hi,
difference between do follow or follow in SEO?

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Jeya vinoth.J

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Welcome to the forums, @jeyavinoth1690.

That’s an easy one.

There is no such attribute as “do follow” (or “dofollow”). Although you often see people refer to this, they are incorrect. The only two attributes are “follow” (the default setting for links) and “nofollow”.

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Do follow links are those links which a google crawler read and follow that hyperlink to the website which is been linked to.

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Rteally? Did you read the post above yours? The term “do follow” is incorrect and should not be used.

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Nofollow link means this type link does not impact the authority not help your SEO ranking your website and Dofollow link is impact your authority and help your SEO ranking

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Valid values for the “CONTENT” attribute are: “INDEX”, “NOINDEX”, “FOLLOW”, “NOFOLLOW”. Multiple comma-separated values are allowed, but obviously only some combinations make sense. If there is no robots tag, the default is “INDEX,FOLLOW”, so there’s no need to spell that out. That leaves:

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, FOLLOW">
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX, NOFOLLOW">
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">

http://www.robotstxt.org/meta.html

See also Google’s guidelines on using the nofollow attribute on links:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96569?hl=en

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