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How Can You Find Out If A Site Does Or Does Not Use The "Nofollow" Tags?

by Chris C.
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I was reading some material, and it said that if you were going to spend time building backlinks you should build backlinks on pages that don't use the "no follow" tag. It didn't really explain how to find if a site has it or not though and why it is important.

Can someone please help me understand this better?It sounds interesting and important.

Also, how do you go about putting a "no follow" tag on your site?
#find #nofollow #site #tags
  • Profile picture of the author Ben Roy
    It's really easy. Go to a page with a link on it. Look at the source (the code) of the page. Find the link you are interested in. It will look like:

    <a href="xxx.xxx">Link Text</a>

    If it is NO FOLLOW it will look like:

    <a href="xxx.xxx" rel="nofollow">Link Text</a>

    And as to why it's important, that little nofollow tag tells the search engines not to follow the link, not to count it as a 'vote' for the destination page. So the link is essentially invisible to google. A nofollow link is only valuable to humans.
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  • Profile picture of the author Clark
    Search G for "dofollow search".

    That'll give you a list of resources for you to plug in your keyword to target do follow sites for your search term.

    Here's the skinny on No follow -> nofollow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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  • Profile picture of the author ltdraper
    There's a Greasemonkey script to highlight nofollow links. I can't post a link yet, but if you google "greasemonkey nofollow" you'll find it.

    If you're not using Firefox/Greasemonkey, welcome to a bold new world.
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    Nothing to see here, move along...

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    • Profile picture of the author Angela V. Edwards
      Originally Posted by ltdraper View Post

      There's a Greasemonkey script to highlight nofollow links. I can't post a link yet, but if you google "greasemonkey nofollow" you'll find it.

      If you're not using Firefox/Greasemonkey, welcome to a bold new world.
      This is exactly what I use. Even if you don't want to use Firefox all the time, you might want to download it and add the Greasemonkey plug in so that any time you're looking at a potential backlink, you can see if it is Do Follow or No Follow.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mike Adams
    One thing I have seen that is kinda underhanded. The links on that specific page are all regular direct links "willfollow", but the link, from the main page to the page with all the out going links, is a "no follow" link.

    You will notice this when you are at a page with "willfollow" links, but it has no page rank. The reason it has no page rank is because the link used to get to that page was rel="nofollow". This is most prevalent on sites like myspace and other social sites. The main page will have all links to pages nofollow but the links on the page people post to is willfollow.

    Remember nofollow links will be followed by the search engines and may get you indexed via these links, but the links will not pass any PageRank or page reputation. Thus resulting in little to no help in the SERPs. One thing to remember before you buy a link or start building links to your site is check the PageRank on the ACTUAL page that your link will be on. You can do this by using the Google tool bar or by using Google PageRank Checker - Check Google page rank of any web pages
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  • Profile picture of the author nicholasb
    sweet thanks, I have been wondering that myself
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  • Profile picture of the author altesino
    I second the Nofollow 1.1 plugin. It puts do follow links in blue and nofollow in red.
    Greasemonkey just highlights the nofollow in red.

    In the end both are great plugins and its really just a matter of preference.
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