Nofollow vs Dofollow is a big confusion among newbie bloggers. For them nofollow backlinks don’t have as much importance as compared to dofollow backlinks. This is the reason, they keep looking for the blogs which can give them dofollow backlinks.
But this is also a reality that when you comment on a post which is giving you dofollow backlinks then there might be huge comments already on that post. When Google pass link juice to any blog then they check out-bound links on that post and then according to the number of total comment PR is passed to your link.
Let me give you one simple example -
Suppose any blog have PR 8 on any of its post and you dropped your comment there. If there is total 8 comments on that posts then Google will pass PR 8 / 8 Comments means PR1 to all url who commented there.
And if the situation is PR 8 / 4 Comments then Google will pass PR2 to all urls who commented there.
In simple words Google divide PageRank to all the people who commented on that post. Here I took the example of PR 8 with 8 or 4 comments only, but the real scenario is totally different.
So if 100 people are commenting on any PR 5 post then Google will give you only 5/100 value of that PageRank.
So when next time you comment on any post then count all the comments first and then decide what you should do,
So what is importance of nofollow backlinks?
You might have heard many times that Google keep suggesting content relevancy.
What is Content Relevancy?
This is a concept which Google use to distinguish quality of backlinks. According to Google, you must make backlinks from relevant websites only.
Example -
If you have a health blog and you are making backlinks from tech or blogging niche blogs than this is totally wrong. When Google spiders will crawl your link then they will keep content relevancy in their mind, and if the backlinks are not from relevant sites then they are not going to give you more priority in search engine ranking.
So if you are in tech niche then try to make backlinks from tech blogs and if you are in health niche then try to make backlinks from health blogs.
How nofollow helps here?
Here comes the importance of nofollow backlinks which you were thinking is a waste of time, because they don’t help in getting pagerank for your blog.
When you are commenting on other blogs then most of the times you will get nofollow backlinks, so sometime you think that I should not comment because this is a nofollow backlink.
But by avoiding this activity you are avoiding link popularity.
Now what is link popularity here?
Link popularity is the term used for explaining mutual link between two objects. Means how two websites are connected with each other with links.
Nofollow backlinks help you to make your link popularity strong by giving you relevant backlinks.
So if you are not making backlinks just because sites are giving you nofollow backlinks then start making backlinks from relevant sites and soon you will see great improvement in your blog.
Final Words.
If you have any question then I am here to answer all your questions here. let’s have talk in comment section. I would love to hear you if this article helped you in learning something new in SEO.
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About Kulwant Nagi
Kulwant Nagi is a 25 years old Full-Time Blogger from Haryana, India. He Loves to write about SEO, WordPress and Blogging. Blogging Cage is a webmasters blog where you will learn blogging and SEO Tips. 
Surely nofollow links have their own benefits. Recently I was searching my name in Google and I was amazed to see that some blog articles were popping up where I have commented. That thing encouraged me to start blog commenting again. From our side we can assure that we have made the link nofollow but its all about search engine to follow it or not.
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Narender, nofollow links are great way to do link popularity. Keep doing comments on blog of your niche and keep taking benefits.
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Very detailed post bro, you have cleared all the doubts about nofollow backlinks, These are also useful to keep balance in dofollow and nofollow backlinks.
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Yes Kulwinder, we must keep proper ratio between these links to make Google love our blog.
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That was an awesome read. Thanks Kulwant. Now a days after many Google panda/ penguin updates, we’ve to diversify our backlinks to look more natural according to Search Engine algo. I’ve also read somewhere else that even ONLY dofollow links can affect your site serps. In my opinion relevancy and mixup of links can boost your serp better than any other technique.
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Sarah, Even I was in confusion about these backlinks 4-5 months back. But as I moved forward I came to know about them and shared this article with my readers.
Thanks for becoming one of my loving readers.
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Hello Kulwant,
Yes, this is really very important for us to know. Quite Informative I must say. Also the information given on link popularity is informative at the same time. Thanks for the share!!
Great post Kulwant bro.
I think most of the newbies hesitate to have nofollows. They are sometimes door to massive traffic. Right?
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ha ha. Yes Amal, they are the door for traffic.
You will have to become very selective and informative while dropping comments on other blogs to get more traffic.
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hello Kulwant bro,
This nice post. I got some valuable information in this post. But can you tell me again about this point, ‘Let me give you one simple example’ I am Little bit confuse.
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Rahul, this means that pagerank from that post gets divided among all commentors.
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Hi Kulwant….
Great explanation about Nofollow backlinks.
Most of the blogger don’t understand the concept of dofollow and nofollow and their importance.
You have cover this topic in detail in your article.
I want to add just one bit here
If a blog page is having a PR 5 and if it is having 5 dofollow blog then link juice passed to each link will not exactly the
PR5/5 = PR1
because there is some Juice loss also exist
so effectively each link will get around 80 – 85% of actual link juice
So effectively each link will get (PR5/5) * (X) where ‘X’ could be somewhere around 0.8 to 0.85
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Thanks for adding more value in article, Sandeep.
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I have a question, Kulwant.
Mine, as you know, is a multi niche` blog. If I want to make relevant backlinks, do I have to link my comment here to one of my blogging related posts? And a comment on tech blog to an article related to technology?
I’ll look forward to a reply from you.
Thanks
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For multi niche blog you can select proper category of niche. Like if you are commenting on a tech blog then add url of your tech category.
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Very much agreed Kulwant. Nofollow links are equally important as are do follow links. You have listed the advanatages above and one simple and crucial advantage is that when you have a good mix of No Follow and Do Follow links to your blog, it seems very natural and you can avoid unnatural link penalties.
Nicely explained.
This was one of the question which was getting asked in too much forums and people from Facebook were asking me same question. Hope most of the newbies will be happy after reading this article.
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Recently I got PR3 for my new blog but I never focused on building a backlinks or guest article and recently I found that nofollow links to my blog from my niche blogs are the reason for getting that PR.
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Good news for you for getting decent PR. Keep doing great work to increase it more.
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I m not satisfied with your example 1. PR is not divided. Each person who comments gets 10% of PR. So, if a person who commented on the page with 5 comments would get 0.8 PR and with 10 comments too will get 0.8 PR until the whole PR of the site is destroyed.
Thanks,
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Mehul, this is the thing which I read on most of the blogs and forums, so I shared the exact thing. While truth is, no one knows about this.
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Totally agreed with you, too many dofollow links are dangerous and nofollow links are not really NO FOLLOW in the eye of google, they also count them as the backlink which you can check on webmaster tools.
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nice and well explained….is there any quick and effective method to increase the Google PR…?
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Thanks a lot.
Read – http://www.bloggingcage.com/pagerank-update/
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Do-follow and No-follow is a bit confusing topic and till now I tend to neglect the importance of the latter, so thanks for the post…!!
The theory on the importance of backlinks is quite good, Kulwant. Is that true that Google shares the page rank of a particular page among all the backlinks that go from that page? Even if I commnet on page with good page rank and there are are only 3 comments, there may be a flood of comments before the Page Rank update. Any way, having backlinks whethere nofollow or dofollow, is really important. Thanks for the wonderful post.
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Hey Kulwant,
If the attribute of link is nofollow that means Google Crawler will not consider it, then how the nofollow are taken into considerations?
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Hope you have gone through article very well. if not then please read it again.
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Hello Friend
its very interesting post and yes you are right no follow link are increase your website traffic and do follow links are increase your website rank and both are very important, and thanks for sharing me
Hey,
I had always thought the same thing that commenting on nofollow links are waste. Its really enlightening to know that nofollow links give s link popularity and help in increasing the blog position. Do u think I should comment on nofollow and dofollow equally or give importance to which one?
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Just keep a good ratio. Don’t run for getting dofollow only.
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Hey Kulwant, seems those tips for about to be pro bloggers, but for me commenting on a blog means making them friend and have good blogging network. But thanks a lot for descriptive analysis of Do and No follow link. It was like a Professor’s Note. regards
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I also do comments with that intention only.
Thanks for your complement.
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For a commenter like me nofollow is not valueless but nofollow links in post content does not help blog owner. A nofollow attribute to a link do not save your PR from being leaked, it just evaporated i.e. that part of PR vanished from your site and there’s a big question, why are you giving nofollow to links? Because these sites are not authority site. So, why are you linking to non-authority sites? Google will hit you if you link to thousands of sites with nofollow attributes. I always give dofollow links from my blog post.
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While linking or commenting on other blogs, never care whether the blog is dofollow or nofollow. Dofollow is, no doubt, much more helpful. But, no-follow is useful in attracting new hits from other blogs and also increasing visibility!
Thanks for the nice article.
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I would like to say it in different way, “if you want more exposure then don’t care about the type of backlinks.”
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Thank you so much for your information. It’s concise and comprehensible enough to be understood by those who are beginners with SEO. You made it simple to identify dofollow and nofollow sites which is really useful to choose which sites people should focus on to gain back links.
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Gaurav, I am glad that you found it useful.
We must always target the audience, not type of backlinks.
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oh i see. before reading this post i always prefer do follow post. but this post shows tht no follow is also important for our website for boosting traffic
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Hey Kulwant,
Nice post with great information. Thanks for telling the difference between Dofollow or Nofollow because till now I am really confused with these two terms but after reading this post, finally I got the idea of both of them. Thanks for sharing this post.
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Good to know then your doubt about these two terms are cleared.
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What if I have dofollow link in the footer of my blog is it good for search engine ranking or should I prefer no follow link in the footer?
Akshat, I have made my links as nofollow. Hope this would help me to save my blog from any penalty.
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If you write a guest post for a PR8 site and the post ends up having 8 comments. 4 of these comments come from other people while the rest 4 are your reply to those comments. What PR would Google give to you if it has to share the link juice?
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You created tough scenario for me.
As we know Google give more link juice having dofollow link in that post, so obviously the person who did guest posting will get more benefit.
How much he will get, that I cannot quote.
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Hey…!! its very interesting. Thanks for differentiate the terms do-follow and no-follow. You differentiate these terms in a precise manner and these are easy to understand. Thanks for sharing such a nice post…!!!
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The example is really nice and makes the concept easier to understand..
Do you know any tools to check Page Rank of internal pages of the blog?
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I am happy to hear from you.
I use http://www.checkpagerank.net/ for checking internal pages links.
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