If you are a blogger or a webmaster, you may know how important backlinks are in the success of a blog. So what is a backlink?
Backlinks are incoming links to a web page.
Backlinks are also called inbound links, inbound links, internal links, and internal links.
How backlinks affect a website/blog
Backlinks play a key role in the search engine optimization (SEO) of your blog. The most important factor behind your page rank is backlinks. To get good page rank and rank high in Google, you need to focus on building backlinks, preferably dofollow backlinks. Read on to understand the difference between dofollow and nofollow backlinks.
Different types of backlinks
In general, there are two types of backlinks: 1. Backlink Dofollow and 2. Backlink Nofollow.
dofollow backlinks
Search engine crawlers crawl all the content on your web page, including images, links, keywords, etc. Every time they find a link, if the link is dofollow, the crawlers follow the link and land on another web page. If you want to get indexed in Google and rank high in Google, you need to focus on these dofollow backlinks.
nofollow bottom lines
Nofollow backlinks are ignored by search engine crawlers. Whenever you are linking to any non-high value website, use the rel=”nofollow” attribute in your web page html.
How to check if a link is Dofollow or Nofollow?
Google Chrome users
1. To check if a link is dofollow or nofollow, left click and hover over the link.
2. Then right click on the link and then click on inspect element.
3. After clicking inspect element, a javascript console will appear at the bottom of the page, there you can find if a link is dofollow or nofollow.
Mozilla Firefox Users
1. To check if a link is dofollow or nofollow, left click and hover over the link.
2. Then right click on the link and then click on inspect element.
3. After clicking inspect element, you will see a popup at the bottom of the page.
4. There you click on html.
4. There you will know that the link is dofollow or nofollow.
How to handle these dofollow and nofollow links
In Blogger by default all outgoing links are dofollow. Which means you’re giving away link juice to other blogs. It is better to nofollow outgoing links from a blog. It only grants dofollow to those outgoing links that are relevant to the content.
It is equally important to “dofollow” outbound links that are relevant. You do not need to give the “nofollow” attribute to the internal pages of your blog.
Simple methods to create backlinks
1. Comments on blogs.
2. Guest Posting.
3. Posting and comments on the forum.
4. Social bookmarking.