How to Know if Your Blog is Dofollow or Nofollow?
It’s a simple post and many friends will feel if it was required to publish! This post is for new bloggers who are still in the process of learning SEO. Essentially omgzam inspired me to produce this quick post.
For some time, I was hesitating if I should publish this post as I know most of the friends visiting this blog are much matured and know advanced and complex concept. How would they respond to find a trivial post like this. But I thought everybody is born as a child. There are huge number of new bloggers would find the post of some use!
icttrends Hey, may I ask how do you determine whether a blog is a dofollow or not? Cause I’m not sure whether mine is.
Nizam
omgzam
How to Know Dofollow or Nofollow Blog
Mozilla Firefox
What causes dofollow or nofollow is the rel attribute in anchor tag in HTML code of page. There is an easy way to check the source code in all browsers including Mozilla Firefox.
- Select some text including the link on web-page.
- Right click the selection and choose ‘View Selection Source’
- Look inside < a > tag and check the rel attribute. If there is nofollow, it is nofollow link otherwise its dofollow.
Example of Nofollow link
This is how you can identify if a link is nofollow attributed or not. But when you wish to inspect among many links you’ll certainly feel this method rather tedious. Why not to use Addons in Firefox to trace nofollow links? They will highlight the dofollow links in one color and nofollow in another, this way it would be much easier to identify just by inspecting.
How to Install Nofollow Extension for Firefox?
1. From Tools menu choose add-ons
2. Search for NoDoFollow Add-on and install
How to Identify if links are dofollow or nofollow?
59 Responses to “How to Know if Your Blog is Dofollow or Nofollow?”
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This is especially useful to people who don’t know what Do Follow and No Follow is and feel that all blogs are on the same level when it comes to promotion. Nice tip, I use this program myself and it works swell.
joydeep@A1directorylookup
Twitter: seoforu
on May 12, 2010
I had heard about no follow blogs but really didn’t knew that why they are termed as no follow,you made me understand that and thanks for the add on explanation-certainly it would help in finding the nofollow links easily.
Shirley Osei-Mensah
Twitter: shirleyszone
on May 12, 2010
I had actually been looking for this answer and there you have it
. Thanks very much for sharing this, Suresh. I really appreciate it 
.
I have even voted in the poll below the post that it was helpful and it was what I was looking for
.
.-= Shirley Osei-Mensah´s last blog ..Accepting Guest Posts On Shirley Osei-Mensah’s Blog =-.
Suresh Khanal
Twitter: icttrends
on May 12, 2010
I was much dubious whether should I publish this post or not. I was scared if my friends will scold me for writing such trivial information. Now, I feel it is of some use, anyway.
Baba Pandey on May 12, 2010
Good tutorial. Nofollow plugin is best way to find nofollow/dofollow. I have been using it since a year and love it.
.-= Baba Pandey´s last blog ..Negative Ranking factors =-.
icttrends on May 12, 2010
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JimiJones on May 12, 2010
@icttrends Thanks for the mention, Suresh.
Kevin M.
Twitter: KevinMartineau
on May 12, 2010
Very helpful information Suresh! You answered all the questions that I had about dofollow and nofollow. Thanks!
.-= Kevin M.´s last blog ..3 ways to use Facebook to promote your blog =-.
Jimi Jones
Twitter: JimiJones
on May 12, 2010
Good tutorial, Suresh, and thanks for the mention.
I see you were wondering if the info would seem trivial, but keep in mind, newer bloggers are really happy to have this type of information. Your more advanced readers should understand that you were not really posting this for them.
I go through this quite a bit, answering questions from readers and subscribers. It does make you t about the post, but in the end, it’s about helping others.
Good post, man.
.-= Jimi Jones´s last blog ..IMAutomator – A Social Bookmarking Tool That Delivers =-.
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Lewis Smile
Twitter: mrlewissmile
on May 12, 2010
If you use the Google Chrome browser, add the extension SeoQuake – you can set it to automatically linethrough all nofollow links on the page you’re looking at. VERY handy for SEO research.
Ileane @ The Podcast Blog
Twitter: Ileane
on May 12, 2010
Hey Suresh, Thanks for including my comment here as an example. This is really a very needed post, you don’t have to worry about that. I’m using Google Chrome and I use the SEO Site Tools extension to sniff out the DoFollow links. I think it’s important to let your readers know that if they have a DoFollow blog, make sure to get it added to a DoFollow directory. Some of my blogs are listed in http://dofollow.info which is a good directory from Kristie Hines.
I took the poll and posted this on Google Buzz & Twitter.
.-= Ileane @ The Podcast Blog´s last blog ..SEO Site Tools Finds Google Page Rank =-.
Suresh Khanal
Twitter: icttrends
on May 13, 2010
Thank you Ileane. You help always more than I expect. I’m listed it on dofollow.info directory too!
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Tia
Twitter: bizchickblogs
on May 13, 2010
Interesting. I have checked using your method as well as the SEO Quake and Firefox plugins, and it appears that my blog and comments are actually dofollow and yet two people today have told me that my blog is not really dofollow.
Maybe you guys can see what you see when you check out a post with comments. It’s getting irritating.
.-= Tia´s last blog ..10 Tips for Effective Marketing on StumbleUpon! =-.
Internet Marketing on May 13, 2010
Thanks for this wonderful tip. I am using a do follow plug ins that’s why I can tell if it is a do follow or not. I just learned how to check it manually through this blog. Thanks so much. Great post indeed.
Suresh Khanal
Twitter: icttrends
on May 13, 2010
It feels so odd to have comment author’s name ‘Internet Marketing’. I know the importance of keyword in a dofollow link, but how can I call you:
Hi Internet Marketting!
Thanks for your wonderful words and I appreciate. At the same time I’m glad to know you now can identify without a plugin too!
I would love to implement keywordLove but it is no longer available. Can anybody help please!
Internet Marketing on May 13, 2010
Thank you so much for being nice and accomodating. That comment gave me a good laught but thanks really for understanding, as you said, you know how important keyword is.
Thanks a lot.
Andy Bailey
Twitter: commentluv
on May 13, 2010
Hi! thanks for this post and for having it commentluv enabled!
You may be interested in some new developments for CommentLuv and dofollow (and keywordluv type features)
Check out my last blog post link, it will lead you to a post that explains how to have your blog as dofollow for the last blog post links and not have to worry about dofollow bots ruining it for everyone.
it’s funny the previous comment about calling someone Internet Marketer, I don’t really agree with keywords as the name so I added another function (brand new last night) that shows the persons real name and then next to it, it shows a link using the anchor text from the users registered site name.
This only happens for registered comluv.com users which means, bots, spammers and other evil doers wont get to feel the luv. And, if a member starts behaving like an evel doer, I can ban them from one point and they no longer get to be a dofollow taker.
It’s not ready yet but comluv gold will be the one (comment) plugin to rule them all!
happy blogging!
.-= Andy Bailey´s last blog ..ComLuv.com is now DoFollow (for registered members) =-.
Suresh Khanal
Twitter: icttrends
on May 13, 2010
Its great to find Andy on my blog. Please accept heartily welcome.
I’m going through your recent post and explore the new developments. I hope my problems will be solved.
Thanks a lot for the info you’ve presented here.
Eco Lucca on May 13, 2010
Ahhh wonderful. DoFollow! Yummy!!
Tell you what since you’ve been so nice I will share a dofollow blog of my own, feel free to comment there ok? Tuscany Farmhouse Blog PR 2.
Again I really appreciate you being do-follow. I respect people’s blog and do not just comment blindly, I always try to add something of value. But can’t be bothered with ‘nofollow’ blogs. I think it’s all about giving and sharing. You are doing the right thing.
Lastly, some dirty links may give a false-positive with the Plugin. Dirty links will show up as a dofollow, when it’s in fact a redirect!
JJ Rendon on May 15, 2010
Great tips for beginners like me. I find this very helpful because whenever I search articles about it, The content is just so-so (more of keyword article it is) so it’s pretty frustrating. At least this article has quality content. Thank you.
Chase Mann on May 16, 2010
I love me some plugins (AddOns) for Firefox!
You should checkout WiseStamp for Firefox … lets you add 2 email signatures to Gmail
Thanks for sharing,
Chase.
Joseph Puckett on May 17, 2010
GREAT post! I’m new to blogging but use social media heavily. I’m an Alabama Insurance agency owner and look forward to using my new blog to make insurance understandable. I’ll be sure to check back often for more great tips. Thanks!
Joseph Puckett
Alabama Insurance Blog
Website
Rajni on May 18, 2010
I am always in a search. How can i find out dofollow blog?
This information will really help to check either a blog is dofollow or not
thanks a lot……………
Bob on May 19, 2010
In Chrome, just right click on a comment author link, and select “Inspect element”. Then look at the tag if it contains the nofollow attribute. You can do this for any link
Suresh Khanal
Twitter: icttrends
on May 19, 2010
Thanks Bob for adding how to do it in Chrome.
Brady on May 20, 2010
I actually use the extension for Chrome. it is VERY helpful, but how sure are you that it is 100% accurate?
Suresh Khanal
Twitter: icttrends
on May 21, 2010
I hope it won’t be a issue since you can always peep through the code to check if the link contains rel=”nofollow”
Fernando Estrella on May 21, 2010
oh wow, i was struggling with the View page source and then ctrl+f then type a keyowrd that i saw in the post. nodofollow is the best addon ive download for firefox so far! haha. Thanks a lot fo the info!
Liberar Blackberry
sibstvenbiznes on May 22, 2010
I hope you don’t mind me translating this into bulgarian in my site. I will provide a backlink
Suresh Khanal
Twitter: icttrends
on May 22, 2010
Its OK. No problem for me.
Steve
Twitter: None
on May 29, 2010
oh wow, i was struggling with the View page source and then ctrl+f then type a keyowrd that i saw in the post. nodofollow is the best addon ive download for firefox so far! haha. Thanks a lot fo the info!
Liberar Blackberry
Air Sampling Equipment on June 9, 2010
I found that the extension for Chrome is very helpful in this aspect.
crazyblogger on June 16, 2010
Making a dofollow blog is easy but the spam I am getting is really huge. I get atleast 20 spam comments in a day and thanks to Akismet every one of them is blocked. BTW I would love to know how many spam comments you get in a day?
Charleston Tours on June 16, 2010
Checking the page source for every blog is very time consuming.
tanmaydev on June 16, 2010
The advices became greatly helpful to me. I was tired of giving so much try but none was very helpful. But the post has given me great direction. I am very satisfied using the technique
Ravi Kumar on June 18, 2010
Actually these many days i was not aware of dofollow or notfollow. after reading article i do understand clearly how to use and select the options in righway.
Paul on June 20, 2010
Good post. Personaly I have installed SearchStatus bar V1.33 on my firefox browser. I can’t work anymore without. Not only it give to us the Hight Nofollow Links but many useful tools. An excellent toolbar MANDATORY for all
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Sam@webcam jobs
Twitter: BecomePerformer
on June 21, 2010
Nice one! The firefox plugin definitely makes it a lot easier to find dofollow blogs. I first learned about dofollow blogs and thought it would be an easy to way to get back links. What I learned is that just trying to spam actually does nothing since comments are almost ALWAYS deleted.
Justin on June 21, 2010
If you’re using firefox – use the plugin NoDoFollow in the article, it’s really helpful.
If your not with the browser firefox – then you should have to look at the source code, because I’m not sure that there are plugins like NoDoFollow for Opera and the other browsers.
You’re article’s really helpful for newbies.
MissSapphire on June 22, 2010
You helped me a lot with this information! thanks! but I’m still not sure… if I don’t install the nofollow extension my blog will automatically be dofollow?
Kathy on June 26, 2010
Thank you very much for your information. I am going to install no dofollow plugin in my firefox. Let me see it works or not.
Wiki DoFollow List on July 22, 2010
Looking for something to blog about? I saw this post about dofollow and thought you would like to know about a new site, Wiki Dofollow. It is a community compiled list of high ranking dofollow sites. That way, the list stays current.
wikidofollow.org
If you want, be one of the first to blog about it. I am sure you know how difficult it is getting visitors to a new site. Your help spreading the word would be greatly appreciated!
thanks.
IT Support, SEO Services and Consultation on August 31, 2010
Nice one! The firefox plugin definitely makes it a lot easier to find dofollow blogs.
Dr Gauresh on September 6, 2010
this no do follow addon for firefox is simply great. Thanks a lot for this addon. Also if you dont mind can u tell me the addon or toolbar which can display the PR of pages that i visit automatically. Earlier i had that plugin but now i dont and i just cant find it.
Suresh Khanal
Twitter: icttrends
on September 7, 2010
Hi Gauresh,
Google toolbar can help you find the PR of every site when you visit it. If you install SearchStatus addon you can check PageRank, Alexa, and Compete stats all at once.
Dr Gauresh on September 7, 2010
well i installed the SEO swoosty plugin in firefox and it shows me some decent options so i am happy now. But its really damn difficult to get an authentic plugin easily .. Earlier it was a lot more simple. Lots of stupid links have come up in firefox plugins … I have lost faith in firefox plugins authenticity …
Indra Hasbi on September 16, 2010
on my blog Ghobro and Riau Coding i use disquss to comment system. Now i know it not dofollow, but i dont know how to change it. Maybe you can sharing about it.
Hepa on September 23, 2010
Hmm somehow i can't get the plugin to work. So i will do it manually. But i think every link is good, doesn't matter if Do or NoFollow.
Sreejesh
Twitter: Sreejeshsuresh
on December 4, 2010
I came looking for chrome extension to check dofoolow blogs, but i got firefox, anyways thanks for posting!
seo services on December 27, 2010
Nice article! I think you had most important point discussed here. I like your explanation with image. You had good explanation about dofollow and nofollow.
tupaikaran
Twitter: tupaikaran
on February 12, 2011
thank you, this is a useful post for new bloggers like myself, specially the mozilla add-on part
vlad life quotes on February 18, 2011
I can find a similar addon for opera:(.Now i have to move back on firefox or chrome.
prestashop templates on May 3, 2011
I use google chrome with seo quake plugin for this
SEO Company Delhi
Twitter: webtechnocratz
on May 18, 2011
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