Long time follower, Dana from Blogging Tips Blog chimes in with a nice tip for those of us who care about link juice.
As you may already aware, Do-follow link is surely important part of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) – specially for link building. Do-follow link is used by search engine as one of many factor to determine your blog rank. It is really important because higher rank will make search engine feature your blog for search activities relate to your blog topic. You can do link building trough so many ways such as exchange link, paid link, link directory submission, guest posting, commenting etc. But, you must know that no all of the link will be Do-follow so you do not get link juice for it and also is not counted by search engine. There are many links that use No-follow tag in their link properties so you should take it serious if your target is link building. Link buildingers should afraid of No-Follow tag in targeted blog link.
Therefore we need to check whether the link is Do-follow or No-follow before we put our link in that. We also need to check whether our link still Do-follow after live for certain time – especially for link exchange and paid link. Indeed, link checking is a must if you want to do link building for your blog/site. And no need to worry if you do not know how to check it. You surely will be able to check the Do-follow/No-follow things easily after finish this article. I am sharing the way to check Dofollow/Nofollow link in this article.
Here – find the ways:
Way#1 Check the html source code
You can check whether the link Do-follow or No-follow by use view source page facility in web browser. I do not know other web browser but FireFox and internet explorer (IE) have this facility. You can find this facility in menu bar – in View Tab exactly. It call as “page source” in FireFox and as “source” in IE. Here what I find when do checking in this blog source page:
<a href=”http://letupdate.com” onclick=”javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(‘/outbound/commentauthor/letupdate.com’);” rel=’external ‘ class=’url’>Dana @ Blogging Update</a></span>
You can see that there is “ rel=’external’ “ code in the link source code. It mean that the link is Do-Follow. And you do not must look for that exactly code – but as long as there is no “ rel=’nofollow’ “ in it, it mean the link is Do-Follow link.
Way#2 Chek link properties
As far as I know, this way only can do in firefox web browser. We can easily check whether a link is Do-follow or No-follow – Just right click right in the link that you want to check and choose properties. You will see the relation information which determine whether the link No-follow or Do-follow. Here the example that I do in this blog:
You can see in above picture that the link to http://letupdate.com have “external” in relation tag. It mean that link to http://letupdate.com is Do-follow link which pass PR juice to targeted site In contrary, If there is no relation tag or relation tag value is No-Follow, it mean that the link is No-Follow link which do not pass the PR juice.
Way#3 Use no Do-follow FireFox plugin
This is the easiest way to check whether a link is Do-follow or No-Follow in my opinion. We just need to install and activate it in our FireFox web browser – and all link will be checked. This No/Dofollow firefox plugin will highlight in blue color the Do-follow link if you activate it. Find the example in below:
You can see that “Dana @ Blogging Update” in blue color – it mean that link in “Dana @ Blogging Update” is Do-Follow link. It will be red if the link is No-follow.
Conclusion
Link Building is important part of whole Search Engine Optimization (SEO). You can do Link Building with many ways such as exchange link, paid link, link directory submission, guest posting, commenting etc. In all of those ways, one important common things is that the link must Do-follow – if not, there are no meaning of it regarding to link building. Therefore the link checking is a must in link building – especially for link exchange and paid link. You can do it easily by use the three ways in this article so you will do not miss the Do-follow link.
That’s all update this time, wait for next update!
Dana is the founder of Blogging Tips Blog, a blog where he shares much about blogging, and little about internet and IT. Yup, You will find many knowledge sharing about blogging here, and also knowledge sharing about Internet and IT sometimes. You can subscribe the LetUpdate dot Com Feed or twitter @danalingga to be updated.
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Wow, Good literary effort. I have bookmarked it to keep in touch. I have been checking new posts here.
I am using Opera at the moment. maybe someone could reccoment the same plugin for Opera? couldnt find it via google search unfortunately((
thx bro…i love this article….
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i am just stunt to read this article .in this article have awesome information about dofollow and no follow
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You saved us wasting time , thanks a lot
My need, How I will create dofollow link. Please let me know in this matter.
Very interesting Article. Thanks for the information.
I always wondered how to check for dofollow.
Thanks for the advice.
Is there any tools that will check this for me?
I used the plug-in Luv on my site and I found them very helpful. I get new content from the comments readers made and this is very important to climb in the rankings. Thank you for using this plug-in utility.
thanks for sharing the information. this is a very informative article.
Tip number 2 is worth its weight in gold and will save me a lot of time and frustration in the future. Thank You
No do follow plug in won’t work with firefox 5.0 any ideas?
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Thanks for giving me the useful information. I think I need it. Thank you
Thank you for sharing code! This can be a great help for those seeking to follow the blog. And of course we should also remember that whenever we commented it must be relevant to the topic so that it will be approved by the admin. Anyway, this is amazing! hope you can post for further technical just like this. Thanks list this blog
Very good method to find out do-or nofollow links. Seo spy glass software also able to tell you.
Thanks for this……link building is a process that I find immensely frustrating and any extra knowledge is welcome. Interesting html tutorial as well.
I get used to using the do-follow FireFox plugin. But too much plugins make FireFox so slow. You have a good conclusion on checking dofollow attribute.
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we also use seo firefox..love that tool from aaron’s website
I just know that Mozilla Firefox has a menu that can be used to check dofollow or nofollow link
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Thanks for this……link building is a process that I find immensely frustrating and any extra knowledge is welcome.
Hello,
not working in ver.6
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Thank you for offering
I’m using mozilla and SEO QUAKE, it’s very useful tool.I also show exact PR of the page when searching with google.Anyway, congrats to the author.
Hi, thank you for sharing this great info. Was just browsing through the net in my office and happened upon your blog. It is really very well written and quit comprehensive in explaining with a very simple language.
I guess checking the source code is the best way to determine whether the links are follow or no follow. Thanks for the post!
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Only way browse the URL in the (firefox better) and select the link then go for selected source if its not contains nofollow means its dofollow
thanks, I have been looking for this info.
I can attest that this does actually work!
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Thanks this really works
wow great thank you for sharing.
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Thanks!!!! I also show exact PR of the page when searching with google.
thanks! sharing information
Dana, all I use is the no follow plugin for Firefox but thanks for the info on the view source. Samantha
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Thanks you for share these information with us. its very useful for link building and link exchange
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I have went for the last option. So when a link is showing in blue it is a do follow link. Does that mean i should write a comment and i will get the link juice for that comment?
Nice information, very useful for me .. Thanks a lot, keep it up
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I have went for the last option. So when a link is showing in blue it is a do follow link
If you check do-follow and no follow from inspect element I thing this is conform why to check do follow and no follow. It is a pleasure reading… The sound of this article is really amazing…
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I use nofollow plugin for firefox, and I find it really helpful in finding quality dofollow links to promote my business website.
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Really great advice of how to se if a link is no or dofollow. I have never before used Firefox but I will try to install it now.
It seems to be very easy to check the status of all links if I have that web browser.
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I think
Thank you so much! The Firefox plugin worked! And its really fast.
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