--- title: "Does no-follow backlinks hurt SEO?" description: "Link building plays an important role in SEO. The healthy links are created by directory submissions, article submissions, video submission, blog subm" author: "Latlon Technologies" published: 2016-12-05 updated: 2018-03-16 canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/blog/11232/does-no-follow-backlinks-hurt-seo category: "search engine marketing" tags: ["web development", "seo"] reading_time: 2 minutes --- # Does no-follow backlinks hurt SEO? Links with do-follow and no-follow [attribute](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/221/attributes-reflection) make more [difference](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/157114/good-news-or-bad-news-and-the-difference-is) in [SEO](https://www.mindstick.com/services/search-engine-optimization) strategy. Many site owners think that no-follow links are bad for SEO and it affects the SERP result. But practically it was not the case! As per the Google scenario, it’s the do-follow links which create some negative effect when it was from the unrelated sites. \ ![SEO-services-in-India](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/11/be/17/11be17f0d8d3e2ad253ce5173030542c.jpg)\ **Are you confused with the do-follow and no-follow [attributes](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13105/2-attributes-that-make-your-odoo-ecommerce-theme-productive-and-engaging)?** The links with the do-follow attributes are crawled by the Google or other [search engine](https://www.mindstick.com/services/search-engine-optimization) bots. So do-follow links must be from the relevant and high PR sites, as it was crawled by the search engine bots. Do-follow link plays an important role in increasing SERP results if it links from high PR sites. At the same time, links with no-follow attributes are not crawled by the search engine bots. Many websites provide no-follow links. Though it won’t [influence](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/story/1553/6-reasons-for-the-western-influence-on-india) SERP result, these links may bring [huge traffic](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/36066/i-am-a-blogger-i-want-to-get-huge-traffic-on-my-blog-what-should-i-do) to your websites which indirectly helps in [improvement](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32074/which-state-introduces-land-improvement-schemes-act-bill-to-empower-farmers-in-state) of SERP results. The amount of traffic depends on the popularity of the site linking to you. **Hence no-follow links do not harm the ranking of the website; instead, they help to [increase traffic to your](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/156188/what-are-the-most-effective-ways-to-increase-traffic-to-your-website) website.** https://goo.gl/rOfRiY\ --- Original Source: https://www.mindstick.com/blog/11232/does-no-follow-backlinks-hurt-seo Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.