What is the No-follow link in SEO ? Who doesn't want their business to grow? In today’s online business there is a lot of competition in every sector, so the question arises how one can grow a business? Boosting the websites on top of search engines needs some analysi work and Off page SEO ( search engine optimization). Off Page SEO consists of many activities and its work to provide organic traffic and reference to concerned sites. So how do they do it? They do this by inserting links of concerned content to other reputed websites. In this blog I will discuss the No - Follow link.
Let’s Understand about No - Follow Link No - follow link as sound to not follow back. It is a link which is placed as anchor text or in image and content. It says to google crawlers to not follow back to original websites. No - Follow link is generated due to the comment section. To promote their websites or pages people often leave their link or spam to comment sections of content. So to battle the spam level google launched No - Follow link in 2005. When Google started it also other search engines followed like Bing and yahoo search engine. Like Do - Follow link, No - Follow link is the same weightage. If all the websites recommend your websites to visit then it might be possible to give a chaos look that why all websites are recommending your website.
Importance of No - Follow Link If you want only organic websites then your website must have a mix of Do - follow and No Follow links. Google’s penguin update finds out any suspicious that all websites are giving Do follow then google thought it as spam hence their rank goes down. So No - Follow links are very important as sometimes it acts as Do - follow when people read the content and they click on anchor text then brings more traffic to your websites.
Which activity of Off page SEO gives No - Follow links Forum Post - Forum post meaning involving in the discussion of debate, or concerned topic of blogs. It gives the quality of backlinks. It is said that No - Follow doesn’t follow to respective sites but it might follow to respective sites. Social Media - Posting links in post is another way of getting quality backlinks as it provides No - Follow links. Comment Post - Commenting on another reputed website in the comment section gives No Follow link. Placing a backlinks in the comment section might give you spam so comment wisely about any topic because bloggers may get hurt. Other Popular websites also provide Outbound No - Follow links their name is given below. Quora : Answering the question on different topic. The website specially made to solve queries provides No - follow links. You don’t have to create an account , just click on the question you want to answer and here your No - follow link is ready.