What is Dofollow and nofollow link in SEO?

A no follow link is a link that does not count as a point in the page's favor, does not boost Page Rank, and doesn't help a page's placement in the SERPs. No follow links get no love. Theirs is a sad and lonely life. The no follow tag is basically a notice sign for search engines saying “don't count this.” Dofollow links allow google (all search engines) to follow them and reach our website.
 
No follow links:

No follow links are links that are generated with HTML code.This links do not pass on link juice and so does not boost your creditability and website ranking.

Do follow links:

Do follow links are hyperlinks that allow search engine and humans to follow them. They pass through link juice so that it receives links from high-authority sites. They improve your site authority and also boost your SEO effect.
 
Dofollow links allows search engines to crawl them and reachout one's website. Giving us link juice and a backlink.

Nofollow links attributes do not allow search engine bots to follow link.
 
In other terms, do-follow links let the web crawler reach your website through the multiple do-follow backlinks you have created, thus help gain link juice for your website.
Whereas the no-follow links is a passive link that does not let the web crawler follow to your website through the backlinks created, thus are worthless for the purpose of SEO.
 
Do follow and no follow are link attributes and contain instructions for search engine robots. Do follow links are crawled and indexed in search engines whereas no follow links are never crawled and indexed in search engines.
 
Do follow links are basically the links that matters for Google web crawler and helps to reach to your website. While no follow links only passes link juice to the website. If some user click on that link of your's then only traffic can be passed to your website otherwise crawler will not notice your no follow.
 
A no follow link is a link that does not count as a point in the page's favor, does not boost Page Rank, and doesn't help a page's placement in the SERPs. No follow links get no love. Theirs is a sad and lonely life. The no follow tag is basically a notice sign for search engines saying “don't count this.” Dofollow links allow google (all search engines) to follow them and reach our website.
 
No follow links are links which don't allow search engines bots to index the links.
Do follow links are links which allows search engines bots to index the links.
 
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