When building your websites, you should have been giving high priority to building links -both backlinks and internal links. They are the primary means of moving users from one page to another and from one website to another.

They give search engine bots a perception of your website -either negative or positive. Search engine bots engage your do-follow links and move from one website to another while they leave your no-follow links.

Does this mean no-follow links are of no value? We will find out soon.

If you are new to search engine optimization, this is probably the first time you hear of no and do-follow links. Do not worry; I will get into it in detail. It is what I want you to hold on to in this introductory part of the training. Creating excellent and actionable links is as vital as creating quality content.

Whether you are linking to another website or your content is linked, you must treat your links with caution. I agree with you that link building is challenging, especially when building quality links for search engine optimization.

Today, we will look at No-follow and do-follow links, their unique advantages, and the most beneficial ratio for SEO.



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YvonneBray Premium
I'm confused. I was under the impression that the no follow link was to be used to an external website and links such as Amazon, and the follow link to my internal website.
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Yes Yvonne,

You are right, Webmasters from Big websites use the nofollow link to refer to smaller websites.

The use it to say "although I am linking to this website, but it is not an authority"

I hope you got the gist

Ayodeji
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YvonneBray Premium
So I’m on the right track then?
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Siobhan3 Premium
Are we supposed to check the "no follow" box for our affiliate links? I read somewhere that we were.
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Parameter Premium
Hi Siobhan,

No no,

The no follow instruction has nothing to d o with affiliate links. The are attached to backlinks by webmasters.

Ayodeji
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jn232 Premium
If we did not tick the 'no follow' box for the affiliate links in our post, it is still ok right, Ayodeji?

Joe
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Siobhan3 Premium
OK, thank you!
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JKulk1 Premium
Hi Ayodeji. You have opened up a new world if no follow links to me. I was always under the impression that 'no follow' was used on pages that you didn't want the search engine's ranking , such as the 'sbout me' page. Jim
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Parameter Premium
Hi Jim,

Thank you for taking out time to see the training.
To stop search engine from seeing your pages you use a noidex meta tag or a robot.txt file on the page. See this from Google
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/block-indexing

But the no follow instruction is just an added instruction webmasters include in a link to show that although they are linking to your websites but search engines should not see it as an authority.

An example of a tool that can help you check you no follow and dofollow backlink is the ahref backlink checker. You can check the backlink profile of your website for free. See below
https://ahrefs.com/backlink-checker

Ayodeji
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Israel17 Premium
Links are extremely crucial for improving SEO, Ayodeji! Thanks for this piece!

Israel Olatunji
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Parameter Premium
Hi Israel,

Thank you, I always want to compare my website to a car. While the website is the car, our content is the engine part, OUR LINK IS THE OIL IN THE ENGINE.
I will liken the engine oil to our backlinks and compare the transmission oil to our internal links

Ayodeji
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StephenThiam Premium
Very hard to understand it. Thanks for sharing.
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Parameter Premium
Wahoo,

Hello Steve, Kindly let me know where you need me share more light. I will be glad to do that

Ayodeji
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