If a nofollow tag is added to a link, it will prevent search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN from indexing that link. So after exchanging your blog’s link with other blogs, you must check for nofollow tag. You must only exchange link with other bloggers if they are giving you a dofollow backlink otherwise there is no benefit of exchanging link with others.
How to check for nofollow tag
First method:
- Right click anywhere in your Firefox browser and select View Page Source ( Or simply press Ctrl + U ).
- Now in source window, press Ctrl + F and search for ‘nofollow’ . If you can not find nofollow tag, it means that the blog is a dofollow blog .
Second method:
It is the easiest method to check for nofollow tags. This method requires that you are using Firefox browser.
- First install SearchStatus add-on to your Firefox browser.
- After installation, restart your browser.
- Now you can see a SearcgStatus icon on the status bar. Right click on this icon and click on Highlight Nofollow Links.
- All the nofollow links on the website/blog will be highlighted. Have a look at the screenshot:
If you have any other method to easily check nofollow tags, you can share it with us
Simrandeep Singh is the Editor-in-chief of TricksDaddy and a blogger from Chandigarh (India).
He loves to write about WordPress, Freewares, Mobile Phones and Blogging Tips. Apart from Blogging, he loves travelling, photgraphy and cooking.
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Good tip….
The add-on installing method is easy.
And instead of doing your first method one can simply select the text he/she wants to look for the nofollow tag and right clik the text to view the source and can find out the tag if any. This will certainly reduce the strain to go through the whole code of the page.
@ Blogger User
Even I’m using the second method, I’ve installed the add-on and it do the rest of the work
Hey, working great thanks. Now I can easily check no follow tags on blogroll :d
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Hey adding my 2 cents to it, you can also use SEO plugin for Firefox which is very handy to show all the nofollow and dofollow links along with ranking of websites.
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hehehe….clever-clever
Not bad for someone who has it so far up there back end.
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thanks for the awesome tips. Help me cleared some of the stuff up.
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Gotta love how many useful plugins Firefox has.
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It is 2.39 AM and it just suddenly changed my life! Great plug-in
Thanks for the great info . Now i know how to check the no follow blog . Great. Thanks