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title: "What is the difference between a do-follow and no-follow and how are they used?"  
description: "What is the difference between a do-follow and no-follow and how are they used?"  
author: "Rahul Roi"  
published: 2020-03-16  
updated: 2020-09-23  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/33714/what-is-the-difference-between-a-do-follow-and-no-follow-and-how-are-they-used  
category: "search engine optimization"  
tags: ["seo", "smo", "smm"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is the difference between a do-follow and no-follow and how are they used?

According to me, Where the Nofollow links exist because we don’t want every single webpage or link to be something a search engine crawls and ranks. So, no-follow link attributes tell search engine bots not to follow a certain link. These types of links are still clickable for a user, but not followed by a bot. On the other hand, all other links could be considered do-follow links, even though they don’t have to have special attributes to tell the search engine bots to follow them—the bots will by default.

## Answers

### Answer by Rahul Roi

According to me, Where the Nofollow links exist because we don’t want every single webpage or link to be something a search engine crawls and ranks. So, no-follow link attributes tell search engine bots not to follow a certain link. These types of links are still clickable for a user, but not followed by a bot. On the other hand, all other links could be considered do-follow links, even though they don’t have to have special attributes to tell the search engine bots to follow them—the bots will by default.


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