Different Types of Backlinks

First and foremost before link building we have to keep in mind that links coming to our site are quality backlinks or not. Many times i have written that quality is important rather than  quantity in terms of Backlinks building. Today we will discuss different types of Backlinks which are "dofollow" and "nofollow".It’s always advised that you should keep building quality dofollow backlinks regarding better SEO and traffic for your website.

Whenever you lands at any backlinks page, you heard many times the word “quality” before them. So, first let’s get understand what actually a quality backlink is ?

Quality Backlinks- A quality backlink is defined as a backlink which comes from a site which has content related to your site rather than a link which comes from a site which is not related to you. Quality backlink comes from site’s which uses your keywords or site’s of same theme. Suppose, www.bloglution.com receives a backlink from  a site using same keywords or on same theme such as blogging, SEO, Make money online etc, this link is regarded as quality Backlink rather than it receives a link from an Automobile website. Google gives high importance to the link which comes from blogging site and give less relevance to the link which comes from Automobile site. Google gives high importance to quality links which comes from High PR sites. It considers .gov and .edu as most important Hope you understand what I mean to say.

Now let’s see what are different types of backlinks ?

There are basically two different types of backlinks one is “dofollow” and another is “nofollow”.

   

   (1)   Dofollow Backlinks- Dofollow backlinks are those backlinks which are followed by search engine crawlers during crawling your site. Or we can say when search engine crawlers enters your page, they crawl your whole blog including links, pics everything, when they crawl a “dofollow” link they, lands at that page. Suppose I link back to you, when crawlers crawl that link they lands at your page, which helps in indexing your site faster. It provides you with traffic as well as help in increasing your Pagerank.

   

   (2)   Nofollow Backlinks- Nofollow backlinks are those backlinks which contains a “nofollow” tag. When search engine crawlers crawl this, they simply ignore it. You can see different website souce by right clicking and selecting ‘view source’, then use ctrl+f to find rel=“nofollow”. You will see many links with this tag, these links are nofollow links. These links also provides you with good traffic but not benifial for Pagerank.

Note: You are advised to build "dofollow" links and tag poor links in your site with a "nofollow" tag.

Any doubts, please comment. 

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