How to Find Dofollow Links on a WebPage

by Sandy

A DoFollow link is one that does not follow the NoFollow Attribute. Nofollow provides a way for webmasters to tell search engines “Don’t follow links on this page” or “Don’t follow this specific link.” and does not transfer PageRank or anchor text across these links.

If you’re using blog commenting as a link building strategy, you might be interested in knowing if the blogs your commenting on actually does dofollow your links. By default, all WordPress blogs automatically assigns the nofollow attribute to all user-submitted links (comment data, commenter URL, etc). The reason most webmasters choose to keep their blog as “nofollow” is because of the amount of Comment SPAM that can be generated once you switch over from this default WordPress attribute.

However, there are many bloggers that believe that they must give back to the commenter and make their blog dofollow. There are tools and google search operators you can use to find dofollow blogs. However, a good firefox addon to use is Nofollow.

It’s a simple extension that highlight links in a page according to nofollow / dofollow status. A nofollow link is highlighted in red color and nofollow in blue as you can see below:

After you install the addon, all you need to do to figure out the NoFollow and DoFollow links on any webpage is to right click and choose the NoDoFollow option in the pop-up. Choosing this option would highlight all the hyperlinks seen on the web page. The DoFollow hyperlinks shall be highlighted in BLUE while the NoFollow links would be shown in RED. This will easily help you figure out the status of any web page.

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sudha October 27, 2011 at 14:46

Most article syndication sites have do follow links. This is how they attract writers. Your articles can also get syndicated on other sites too.

mick October 31, 2011 at 02:14: That maybe the case, but the Panda update has devalued those links somewhat.
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moddnag October 30, 2011 at 19:43

good information
thank you to share,Im glad to read

chan@http://autoforecastexpert.net November 8, 2011 at 08:51

Nice information . I like your website. Keep the Good work

Salman @ Tech Blog November 8, 2011 at 16:39

Great info …. Its really easy to identify dofollow links this way !! BTW chrome extension too does the same job except highlighting dofollow links blue in color

Richie November 9, 2011 at 23:00

I belong to a service that provides do follow high PR pages to post on (it’s Actually Rank, for the record). The owner of this service has done a lot of tests, and believes that backlinks from no follow and do follow sites are almost equally valuable. I tend to believe him since it’s in his best interest to keep everyone believing you need Do follow backlinks, otherwise he’s out of business.

bebeball November 19, 2011 at 14:11