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        • Kuhliff
          Kuhliff last edited by

          I have a page from a state agency linking to my website.  They have good PA and DA.  How do I tell google to "do follow"?  It is already showing up as linked to my site, I just want to make sure I'm getting the SEO juice! 🙂

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          • sarahwalsh
            sarahwalsh last edited by

            Great question: a business does need a mixture of quality do follow and also no follow backlinks.

            In order to build quality white hat backlinks, we would recommend hiring an agency to do this work, as it requires an SEO consultant who is highly knowledgeable at building quality links which will help to improve a companies organic SEO.

            Our business sells garden bars, and by having a mixture of white hat do-follow and no-follow back links we have helped our company onto the first page of Google in the U.K

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            • webduh
              webduh last edited by

              @victor-celer said in How do I set a link as a "do follow"?:

              <a <strong="">rel="nofollow" href="https://www.mywebsite.com">Visit my website!</a>

              Does that work in Forumns lik MOZ?

              <a <strong="">rel="follow" href="https://www.myfloridasolar.com">Visit my website!</a>

              Above and Below Solar Links

              or are these links the same?

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              • Kuhliff
                Kuhliff last edited by

                Thank you for clarifying!

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                • victor.celer
                  victor.celer last edited by

                  You need to check the HTML code of the link. If it doesn't explicitly say nofollow in the rel tag then it is a dofollow link.

                  For example, this a nofollow link:

                  <a <strong="">rel="nofollow" href="https://www.mywebsite.com">Visit my website!</a>

                  If we remove the nofollow property the link becomes dofollow:

                  Visit my website!

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