How to Find Out If a Link is “DoFollow” or “NoFollow”?
The other day i was talking to one of my fellow blogger friend Surender Sharma about SEO and Site traffic. We both agreed that commenting on other blogs in your niche always help get some extra traffic, it build a strong community around your blog, I remember how I build and win lot of my blogger friends in my innitial blogging days by commenting regularly on their blog posts.
Commenting works like You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours. It has a huge reciprocal effect. The person whom blog you comment regularly start visiting your blog, soon they start sharing your content on social media sites and start adding you in their community as friend. The one and only condition in this situation is that your blog must have good content to read, share and distribute.
The other benefit of commenting is that you get back links juice if the other blogger has turned their blog commenting system to DoFollow.
Read my following posts about commenting, dofollow blogs and how you can detect a link is dofollow or nofollow;
- List of Do Follow Blogs
- What is No follow and Do follow comment policy
- How Do I Check For No-Follow And Do-Follow Blog
I talked about a Firefox add On for checking DoFollow or NoFollow links in above post, but for those who prefer browsing internet with Google Chrome, there is a Google Chrome extension which helps detecting a link is a DoFollow or NoFollow. It works in same fashion and style as firefox DoFollow add On works.
Google Chrome Extension: nofollow marker
What it dose is simply highlights all nofollow links in pink, as you had seen a few people using something similar in Firefox. It doesn’t do anything complex.
Chrome Extension for Checking DoFollow Links
So quickly install this Extension to your Chrome Browser, detect DoFollow blogs and start commenting, I repeat “start commenting” with valuable inputs only.
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Nice information. I follow the same strategy to some extent ( I also comment on n0-follow blogs if I find useful info
). I don’t use this extension, but I am using the Chrome SEO extension which apart from showing the SEO stats, also highlights the No-follow links.
I agree that it is important to check first if a link is dofollow or nofollow. I appreciate that you shared that Firefox add-on as I am a user of that browser.
Shankar, I am here after long time. Hope you remember me.
You are right. Commenting and getting comment back is like scratching on the back…
Thanks for the information on how to find dofollow and follow link.
Do search engines really don’t follow nofollow links? I see lot of websites rank pretty high on Google and all their back links are from comments from nofollow links.
I agree that it’s critical to verify 1st if a link is dofollow or nofollow. I appreciate which you shared that Firefox add-on as I’m a user of that browser.
I agree that it can be essential to examine initial if a link is dofollow or nofollow. I appreciate that you shared that Firefox add-on as I’m a user of that browser.
Thanks for the great info. I was actually googling “dofollow” sites and this lens came up on the first page of google! Wow! Thanks for the insiteful information. I have converted my blog to a dofollow today.
Does this blog do follow?
http://www.furniture-cn.com
What if you don’t use Firefox? Would there there be something like this for Internet Explorer?
Nice post Shanker.
I had a question for you and fellow SEO professionals. What percentage of total effort for SEO would you think commenting on blogs has? Meaning if all the activities bring in 100% results how much would link building help.
@Dean Saliba In Firefox I use search status and it works pretty well. Try it.
Thanks in advance to those would contribute to the answer to my first question.
SEO Quake (for FF or Chrome) also indicates whether a link is NoFollow or not. Also be aware of the fact that often a link may be DoFollow, but the robot.txt attribute may be in use, still blocking link-love from being transferred by the link. Always be on the lookout for this, as it catches out many people!
Saw this post about dofollow and thought you would like to know about a new site, Wiki Dofollow. It is a community compiled list of high ranking dofollow sites. That way, the list stays current.
wikidofollow.org
If you want be one of the first to blog about it, that would be greatly appreciated!
thanks.
This is a novice idea to me that worth trying. Thanks for the idea
yeah its better to check whether a blog is dofollow and then comment on it.
very well post . it would help me a lot in blog commenting and selection of blogs to generate traffic
Nice post Shanker! I instantly downloaded the chrome plugin. Really needful tool.
Hi Shanker,
Good information. There is also a good firefox plugin to find out dofollow and nofollow links. I have recently posted about this plugin on my blog and it does a very good job…
Great to hear that from you Jitendra;