How you can detect if a blog is a dofollow or nofollow by checking the links of a wordpress blog.
WordPress blog is a nofollow blog by default. I am sure there are pros and contras out there, and it’s really up to you whether you want to make your blog dofollow or leave it as a nofollow blog. But most of the times, when you are commenting or leaving a link in a blog or website, you also want to know if the blog dofollow. I have posted about what dofollow blogs are in this page.
Actually having links in a dofollow higher page rank blog, will help your blog to rank higher too. That’s why people tend to comment regularly in a high PR dofollow blog.
And if you don’t know which blogs are dofollow and which aren’t, you can easily check the code source or using firefox addons (i am a firefox user).
This is the steps to detect dofollow or nofollow blog:
1. Select the link, right click, and in your browser page’s option, select “View Selection Source”.
Select the link, right click.
2. In the page source, you will see “nofollow” attribute, the code will be similar to this following:
<a href="http://www.yourblog.com" rel="external nofollow">yourlink</a>
The other way is installing SEOquake firefox addon, and whenever you want to check a link, right click the addon icon in the right bottom of your screen and select “highlight nofollow links”. The result will be red highlighted links, those are nofollow links.
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Nice tutorial Kim :)
Another great addon for firefox is the firebug addon at http://getfirebug.com
It allows you to inspect various elements of sites including html, javascript and css
@Robyn from Sam’s Web Guide, Thank you for the great input. I absolutely agree with you, firebug is my most favorite firefox plugin.
Thanks for commenting.
i really didn’t know that my blog was set on NoFollow on default. i just found out a few days ago and i was still thinking if i should go ahead and remove it or what. but i made my decision. i’m removing it and i’ll be officially a do-follow blog in a couple of minutes.
@Vector Graphics, Hey there
Having do-follow blogs give you advantage to encourage more discussion, because other than commenting people also like to seek for free backlinks by commenting.
Good luck with your blog!
I’ve just recently started my blog as well with Wordpress. This article is very helpful as I’m looking to comment and get the do follow backlink. I’ve just installed the Do Follow and Link Love plugins to Wordpress to cancel out the default no follow and reward the commenter with a do follow link, I hope it works!
Good luck with it! Thanks for visiting..
The simplest way is to use the Nofollow plugin for Firefox.
Thanks for the suggestion froslo.
I’m a newbie to this. I paid for some links then learned about the “nofollow” issue. Now I’m checking their page source and around my link it doesn’t say “nofollow” anywhere but it does so elsewhere on the page.
Even if it is anywhere on the page does that mean all the links on that page are “nofollow”? Or does it have to say that by your link in the page source? I’m not clear on this.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
Hello Vic,
I don’t really understand what your question is.
If the page source displays
rel="nofollow"next to your site’s link then it is nofollow.It goes otherwise, if the other links dofollow, then some links are dofollow :)
With a demo site or the site’s link that you refers, it is more easy to investigate.
I hope this helps.
PageRank is an algorithim google invented that assesses the strength of a website. The algorithim evaluates a site on a scale of n/a to 10 with 0 being the lowest/weakest and 10 being the highest/strongest. We can check our site’s rank by using a checker pagerank tool.
very useful tutorial…credit to this post…
this is helpful to know about the difference between the two dofollow and the nofollow. and i wanna know that your site too the nofollow word is comming in the source option.
so i wanna know the real fact about the dofollow and nofollow details.
can you get a nice list of high ranking pr do follow blogs…
congratulation, your blog is on of the top of google for kw how to check dofollow blog. more chars!
This info was useful to me as I did not know about nofollow vs. dofollow. I probably have alot of useless links :-)
Hi there,
Nofollow links are not useless, especially if this link is in high traffic blog or websites, though it does not count in SEO, but people might click the link to your site and you get more traffic ;-)
Keep on building links,
Kimi.
what if i did not found my link in the source of page?
is that mean it will not be indexed by google?
i know some sites with 5 and 6 pr of inner page allow commenting when i check them by nodofollow add one of firefox they appear do follow but google can not find them and the link or the anchor text is not appear in the source of page
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Hi there, it should be detected from the source page.
If you provide the link, i will check it for you.
nice post, but i am using tool to find it out easily, great read. thanks for sharing the info.
Hyey could you tell me adding comment luv my site becomes no follow to follow blog?
Hi Shashank,
Commentluv has its own website, i recommend you go there and ask for the support.
Thanks.
Thanks for this Dina. I read this post more than 2 times to inspect the element. Finally using firebug plugin for firefox.. :-D
I agree! Firebug is an awesome addon, love it too cascd!
This was a great help. Thanks. i was having dificulties understanding some links and why they were not sending juice to my home page, now I can see why.
this is great , i just try to find dofollow using this methode
good articel, allow me review it in my blog
how can make a certain link nofollow
Hi Himu,
You can edit the “html” source and add this code: rel=”nofollow”
This will create a nofollow link..
Hope this helps.
pls told me how to install a tool bar for checking DF/ NF and Page ranks ?
this is great , thanks!
wow awesome tip mate!
thanks for sharing
Nice tutorial …
Great tutoria. Thanks for sharing all this.
Thanks for sharing this helpful tutorial earlier did not know my Blog is Dofollow or Nofollow
Hi Kimi
Looking for a way to detect dofollow blogs and came across your post.
Does that Firefox plugin still work with Firefox version 4.0?
Hi Keith!
I am not sure, I do not use FF 4..
I will update the post if I use it.
Thanks for checking!
Kimi.
Looking for a way to detect dofollow blogs and came across your post. thanks for your sharing
My seo quake doesn’t have the button on the bottom right of the screen that you mentioned. Perhaps that was an older version?
Carmen,
I am currently using the newest SEOquake.
To get the button, I do “right click” and it shows..
helpful post thanks for info whats the Difference in dofollow and nofollow
thank you So Mush I’m So Glad
Thank you so much for this article. I was really wondering how to check if a blog is dofollow or not? I’m going to try to SeoQuake now. Thanks again.
thanks its very helpful
Great info… Thanx!! :)
Great work KIMI,i accept that it is the steps to detect dofollow or nofollow blog.
Thanks for this article. It is very useful, hope you will share with us more.
And this is a no-follow blog then :)
Hi Sven
Yes, my blog is nofollow :)
thanks for your tutor. Its time my blog is dofollow commenting.so u can get backlink in my blog.
Thanks for the post as now i know better which site is dofollow and which is nofollow.
so what can i do with no-follow blog????
how can i use nofollow backlink to increase my seo ranking??
Pretty good post. I just stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say that I have really enjoyed reading your blog posts.Any way Ill be subscribing to your feed and I hope you post again soon.Thanks for sharing for writing the great blog info.
Thanks for your information. OK, my first assignment -> this blog is no follow? Am I right?
Very good and informative article. I was not sure what dofollow and nofollow is :)
i use google chrome, the fastest browser. And there is a chrome extension “NO-Follow options”. It guides me automatically. I do not have to look into codes. Firefox also have this add-on.
think it is strange that anyone would put their blog as nofollow as this will discourage people from using it.
Greate thanks
lol
using source code doesn’t show nofollow but when i use any tools it shows nofollow.
can u explain.
thanks for your info,,,, :) my blog is Dofollow
I completely understand how to know whether the blog is dofollow or nofollow
Thanks for the post. My site is dofollow, your comments are welcome.
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thank you sir very nice tutorial to know that a blog nofollow OR dofollow.keep sharing more tips :)
Having do-follow blogs give you advantage to encourage more discussion, because other than commenting people also like to seek for free backlinks by commenting.
I have searched a while for an easy way to check no or dofollow links. This seems to be what I am looking for :)
Thanks for all the great information. I have never before used Firefox but I will install it right away.
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