The journey of DannySKom

For those who still didn’t know, I’d like to tell you that this blog is about 1 month old. And for the owner of every site who is willing to build a good traffic and rank, it’s obvious that we will look for every possibility to increase traffic and rank of our site. Well, it does not happen only on you but it’s also happen to me. At the moment, I want to be serious with my site / blog and my plans it to get quite big traffic and also get 2 rank at Google by the end of the year.

Before I can achieve my target, I believe there is lots of things to do with my new blog. That’s why I conduct a research on how to increase my site especially hot to increase blog traffic. There are lots of suggestions, lets say… put a lots of word on your post, put a high quality contents, regularly update your blog and many more. From all of that suggestion, I found something which is quite interesting. Below is my experience from conduct a meeting.

During my research to get more traffic and rank, I found an article about back link and it lead me to the “DoFollow” and “NoFollow” link which will be used by Google as one of the ranking criteria and also other search engine such as Alexa. In this blog article, I’d like to share my knowledge about what are DOFOLLOW and NOFOLLOW and the impact of using it (included the positive and the negative of the method).

DOFOLLOW
Basically DoFollow is an ordinary link which is created by default. Whenever we create a link, that link automatically categorized as DoFollow link. And when a search engine indexing site which contains any link, the search engine will list all DoFollow link and use it as back link reference to the site which is stated on link URL. The method to earn many back link and usually used is by put as many comment with link on every site that allow DoFollow.

As the owner of site who are allowing DoFollow, the will get much traffic since there will be so many person “spammer” who are going to put lots of comment with link to promote their site. As the result, the rank from Alexa can be boosted easily since Alexa using traffic as one of their priority criteria to index a good ranked site. However there will be degraded rank in other search engine such as Google. Google use outbound and inbound link as one of the criteria to determine good site. If your site having too many inbound links and a little outbound links, your site will be categorized as a bad site and the worst case… your site will be put in Google sand box. What is Google sand box? Well, I’ll try to explain it later.

NOFOLLOW
NoFollow is an additional HTML tag attribute which is given on link tag (a href). By adding this on link tag, it will prevent some search engine to index any link which is having “rel=nofollow” in it. The intention of this tag is to reduce the effectiveness of certain type of spam. This attribute will not influence link target ranking and it will increase the quality of search engine result. For your information, this concept is originally designed by Google, search engine which is considered as the best search engine at the moment. Mostly, every blog applications have this tag as default on their settings.

As the owner with “NoFollow” setting as default, they will get real visitors (Visitors who are always coming because the content of your site is considered as good or useful for them) and the visitors will always coming as long as you can keep the good job for content. Any other site that are referring your site will increase your inbound link and since you will not give lots of outbound link, your rank with Google will be increased for sure even tough it will need some time.

SAND BOX
Google can also put a URL under consideration or usually known as put the URL in to the Sand Box. The URL that listed on Google Sand box won’t be listed on Google search engine. In this case your searching to that URL will return nothing or you can’t find the URL by using Google. Well, Google do this thing because the categorized your site as a spam site. And more than that, it is also happen when people attempting to manipulate Google’s page ranking to bring sites to the top by creating lots of inbound links to a new web site from other web sites. If this happen to you because of the mistake, don’t worry too much. Wait for a month or two. Google usually revise it and you can write an email to them.



Based on DoFollow, NoFollow, inbound link and outbound link, there’s must be something that used as calculation and algorithm to determine your rank by Google. Well, it does exist and it quite complicated especially for those who didn’t like mathematics like me hehe. And because of it, I’m sorry because I can’t explain it to you. For a better understanding, you can go to the WIKI or read the information about calculation in this LINK

At the moment I’m intended to make my blog with DoFollow because I want to increase the traffic first. As the time goes on, I’ll change it back to NoFollow. However, I’ll keep trying to post something useful for all of you who read my blog. To check the web is using DoFollow or NoFollow, there is a plug-in for Mozilla. The plug-in is called NoDoFollow and can be found HERE.

That’s all what can I share with you at the moment and for your information, I’m still newbie. Because of that, you are invited to give the correction if there is something wrong in my post. And for your consideration, I’m from Indonesia and English is not my native language. Please forgive me if my grammar is not correct. Hopefully this article can be useful for you.

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