Verifying What is Do Follow versus No Follow

March 3, 2010 · 186 comments

I just replied to an email I had missed last month from Will at Charlotte Fence Company. Will looked at the source code for GrowMap and when he saw nofollow tags in it he thought we were not really Certified DoFollow. It is easy to see how someone might think that so I want to share more details with my readers.

The best WordPress Themes automatically nofollow certain unimportant fields and since we use Thesis that is true here. The nofollow tags Will is seeing are on the Twitter links, dates, and reply links in the comments – not on your anchor text links to your sites.

The best way to determine whether a site adds no follow to links to yours is by using a tool such as the link checker in the SEOBook Toolbar. If you already have the Toolbar look for the red double-arrow to the right of the orange RSS feed icon as shown in the image below:

Highlight No Follow Links

If you have the toolbar turned on (click on the word SEOBook on the far left of the toolbar to toggle the tool off and on) and click on the red Highlight NoFollow Links icon, all nofollowed links on the page will be highlighted in red.

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As you can see in the example image below, Thesis has automatically nofollowed the links for reply, dates, and to your Twitter account and the links to your sites using your selected anchor text and the CommentLuv featured posts are dofollow:

What is No Followed - What is Do Followed

What is No Followed at GrowMap - What is Do Followed

Our source code is visible, but if you want to see the source code on sites where it isn’t use this View HTML Source Code Viewer. Some sites move their source code off-page as part of advanced SEO strategies.

We recommend you check the status of the many links on your blog or site using the free SEOBook Toolbar of one of the other alternatives. It is not a bad idea to nofollow unimportant links.

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cheese baskets December 10, 2010 at 12:21 am

Hi growmap, another helpful toll to detect which links are dofollow or nofollow is the SEOquake. Everytime you turn it on and put a check mark on the “line-through nofollow and noindex” option, it will automatically (as the name suggests) put a line-through to indicate which links are nofollow. This tool is really helpful. It makes the job a lot easier. Thanks for the post.

Basam who writes about silpada December 9, 2010 at 10:13 pm

There are tool for each browser that can verify the no follow and do follow links. For FireFox Search Status is software that is helpful in this regard.

Garry November 18, 2010 at 11:08 am

Hi,

This is a great tool. I will use it on my blog.

Cheers!!!
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Jones from Web 2.0 Design November 14, 2010 at 11:39 pm

I am using this tool. and must say its of great help. Now i dont’ve to go to viewsource to find nofollow so its saves time.

Lisa November 5, 2010 at 4:59 pm

My favourite is the Firefox addon from SEOMoz, highlights the nofollow in pink and you can leave it on when it switches between pages so you don’t have to keep pressing it.

Daniel Hamilton October 27, 2010 at 9:38 pm

That’s a good point, could I also mention that there are many add-ons for Mozilla firefox that help with No-follow detection.

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Just use the plug in “Platinum SEO plugin” to ahdnle the do follow and no follow attributes

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Thanks i like your post. i don’t like nofollow links
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Just use the plug in “Platinum SEO plugin” to ahdnle the do follow and no follow attributes

Nathan Isaac Twitter: nathan__isaac September 18, 2010 at 1:39 pm Twitter: @nathan__isaac

Thank you for this, I was wondering how the heck to turn nofollow on or off
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Used Monster Trucks September 14, 2010 at 4:03 am

Do Follow links are very much important than No Follow links. keywordluv is one of the best way to find do follow blogs. Thanx for this useful information it will be very helpful for many freshers.

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Here is the information interesting and useful that you share.
Leave comments in dofollow blogs is one of the best ways to increase my website.otherwise Commenting is a great way for me to meet new people and make connections, share information.

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KyAus who writes about Online Mobile Backup July 23, 2010 at 4:16 pm

I’ve been using the SEO toolbar on my firefox so that it wouldn’t mess up the view on my regular browsing during my personal use. Yes, it is easy to turn it off from View-Toolbars-SEO, but I’d rather have one browser dealing with regular stuff and one with blogging.
I personally like the tool bar. Not only does it show you No-Follow links, but it also gives page rank and so many more factors that you have to consider. It is a definitely a good resource to have.

Good post!
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jiya July 8, 2010 at 4:59 am

Most of the peoples are going to choose do follow but still I am with no follow & also my blog is having no follow because I really hate spammers & no follow is a good for keep spammers away from you. & if any one can have no follow then he will get only real comments.

growmap Twitter: GrowMap September 8, 2010 at 10:23 pm Twitter: @GrowMap: It blows my mind when a spammer takes the time to leave a real comment about how they are nofollow because they hate spammers. Really? How about STOP SPAMMING?
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Jako July 5, 2010 at 5:44 am

BertWillis who writes about WD-60C9 July 1, 2010 at 4:15 am

Really decent little plugin, it has always been a real pain for me to manuall check the code, especially since some people use the tag in the header, some on each individual link…so this definitely helps alot. Thank ya!

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Commenting on “do follow” is really helpful to both sides. As it both has it shares of benefit.

With the help of those SEO toolbars, We can easily determine whether it is “no follow” or “do follow” ..

I just want to know, Is there a difference between SEObook and SeoQuake? What is it? Thanks!

Serwis komputerowy Wroc?aw June 24, 2010 at 6:44 am

I`m new in SEO field and from some time I`m using SeoQuake. After reading this post I realized that I have in my seo tool something like “line-through nofollow and noindex”. Jupi

Thanks for this post.

Heating Elements June 17, 2010 at 3:29 am

Thank you very much for the share. I am using search status firefox addon to realize dofollow and nofollow blogs.
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Pete June 9, 2010 at 5:20 am