How to tell if a blog does follow comment links- Simple Trick
1 January 2008It’s very simple to verify if a blog uses a ‘do follow’ plugin or has ‘no follow’ tags removed in the user comments section. In the Firefox browser, right click on a link in the comments section of a post. Then click on ‘properties’. A little box will pop up and under ‘relation’ it will say ‘external’ for ‘do follow’ and ‘external nofollow’ for ‘no follow’ links. This is the only sure way to verify since backlinks don’t always show up in Google’s index right away or ever at all.
Good Luck!
(p.s. This is a ‘do follow’ blog. However, I do moderate comments.)
Feel free to list your ‘do follow’ blog(s) in the comments. 
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on January 5th, 2008 at 11:23 pm
There’s another way using Firefox and the free SEOQuake toolbar. The SEOQuake toolbar offers a function which will create a strike-through style to any links which have the nofollow attribute set, which offers an immediate visual indicator of nofollow/dofollow (search on Google for SEOQuake to find out more about it)
on January 6th, 2008 at 9:10 am
Hi Neil,
Thanks for the tip. I will check out the toolbar.
on January 7th, 2008 at 7:30 pm
Seobook also has a firefox extension that highlights each link on the page that has the no-follow attribute. That I use religiously But it should be said that internal no-follow should no be included in this theory. As It can be a viable tool in your SEO to funnel Pagerank to the important pages of your site, like your customers and your content. I mean, who wants their FAQ page or Login page to rank higher than anything else on their site…right?
on January 8th, 2008 at 10:46 am
Nice trick. Thanks. It seems that yours is do follow
I have a plugin in firefox that can highlight the no follow links, so for me it’s much easyer.
on January 19th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
This useful data! I like the comments too.
on January 28th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
nifty little trick, I usually spend some time looking through source code, but this helps for sites using IFRAMES or encrypted source… ->goes and opens firefox
on February 5th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
I’ve used this extension since 3 months ago.
It really help me in my link development campaign.
But what I really want is a tool to know whether a blog is using do follow tag, only by inputting the URL.
That way, we don’t have to open the blog to know whether it has dofollow tag.
on February 9th, 2008 at 11:47 am
Yudi: something would have to open the page to get that information, of course. Should not be too difficult to write a PHP Curl script to grab the page content and scan for nofollow’s on external links within the html.
There’s also http://www.commenthunt.com/ which provides search results only from dofollow blogs.
on February 14th, 2008 at 12:06 am
Wow. That’s cool. It worked for your site as well! Thanks for that. This is a great blog!
on February 20th, 2008 at 12:06 am
Harmony,
I personally like the idea of ‘working’ on the backlink/marketing campaign. Searching high and low for quality ‘dofollow’ backlinks, participating in meaningful discussions on blogs or forums and earning the consequential traffic from search engines and click throughs.
For the link to commenthunt.com, Neil, I’ll check it out. Thanks!
on February 20th, 2008 at 11:57 am
They are many plugin available for firefox that will tell you not only dofollow or nofollow links but give you many other interesting statistical numbers.
I use “Search Status Plugin” for firefox (version 1.21) and it works great.
Good search engine for do-follow is backlinkspot.com
on February 28th, 2008 at 4:39 am
Great Tip!
But what does it mean if you look at a link’s properties and the relation line isn’t even there?
There are some blogs I’ve been to where I right click on the comment link, look at the properties, and it only lists the web address and whether it will open in a new window. The relation property doesn’t show up at all.
on March 6th, 2008 at 9:35 am
Wish I found this link earlier - I think I must have wasted a lot of time building up backlinks and for them not being followed!
on March 24th, 2008 at 12:17 pm
You are right.
This is ridiculously relevant to my recent project an e-commerce marketing blog, i have used word press to set up the blog on a domain and now have that decision to make, one thing i will say is that i still have to generate traffic before anything can be done.
Cheers, I’ve downloaded the plug-in now i just have to make the decision
on April 6th, 2008 at 5:09 am
I may be alone here but I really wish there was something available to do this through IE…there are a few of us out there
on April 6th, 2008 at 5:34 am
Btw, I subscribed and dropped my card. I see I will be coming to you for BANS and Squidoo advice holy moly lol…but no categories?
Oh, my do-follow blog is www.directsaleswebmarketing.com - 4 more coming soon.
on April 10th, 2008 at 8:12 am
The official claim is that links with the rel=nofollow attribute do not influence the search engine rankings of the target page. In addition to Google, Yahoo and MSN also support the rel=nofollow attribute.
i think it helps indexing
on April 11th, 2008 at 8:03 am
I’m a died-in-the-wool IE fan and use Firefox ONLY to check if a site uses no-follow links. The SearchStatus extension (www.quirk.biz/searchstatus) highlights all no-follow links in pink. It’s fast and works beautifully.
on April 15th, 2008 at 7:02 pm
I will in a few days review several free blog comment hunting tools on my blog (one with a nofollow feature ).
on April 25th, 2008 at 8:27 am
What a superneat trick. Thanks for sharing
on May 14th, 2008 at 8:13 pm
thank you for this great tip.I also use searchstatus with firefox addon.
on May 20th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
There is a firefox extension you can download for free from the following site:
http://www.joostdevalk.nl/seo-tools/link-analysis/
It performs a “link analysis” when you perform a linkdomain search in yahoo on your site or another. You can see at a glance which sites are granting you “link juice” through a do-follow link.
on June 9th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
Thanks for all the information. I just tried the firefox plug in that highlights the no follow links.
on July 10th, 2008 at 12:16 am
this is the simplest explanation
thanks…
on July 25th, 2008 at 6:50 am
I find it interesting that they have put a no follow and do follow attribute. Personally, I think all links should be a do follow because this makes it hard on the webmasters.
on July 31st, 2008 at 6:14 am
Thanks for this great tips.
I’ve looking for it high and low.
on August 15th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
Thanks for this trick. I seem to find new cool features in firefox everyday. Does anybody outhere still use ie? lol
on August 26th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Thank you so much for the info. Especially when it comes to link building, that is such a simple yet powerful tool to make sure you are doing it right!
on September 25th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
May I suggest another tip. You can install the seoquake plug-in from Firefox so it will display a strike through on those links that are NO Follow. If the link has no strike through it then its a Follow link. Thanks so much for the help on the quick way to check a link.
on October 8th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
thanks
on October 15th, 2008 at 9:21 pm
You can also do it this way - google approved …:
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/seeing-nofollow-links/
on October 15th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Wow, thanks Malcolm for the link. I missed that post.
on October 16th, 2008 at 9:01 am
A pleasure!
on December 12th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
So your Blog in Do follow hu? Thanks For your article. Its Really Helpful for me. I was Finding a Do Follow Blog List. I am Building a Blog list also for my SEO site. I will Show u Later.
Thanks
Kayes.
on December 23rd, 2008 at 4:48 am
Thanks for the great tip. We’ve been using IE all the while but slowing migrating to Firefox due to its SEO friendliness.
Another great browser suited for social bookmarking and blogging is the Flock browser, built on Firefox.
on January 3rd, 2009 at 3:27 am
You can also use http://followtopia.com as your search engine to find sites with no follow turned off. It indexes as many sites as yahoo.
on January 24th, 2009 at 5:36 am
I like the Matt Cutts method above, but if it is too techie, check out my videos of how to verify dofollow
http://www.pagerush.com/seo-tips/video-how-to-check-for-nofollow
on February 3rd, 2009 at 1:51 pm
Thanks for that easy tip, I have been trying figure this out all day. (and thanks to google for delivering you first page for search words how to tell if a blog is follow or nofollow)once I finally figured out what to search for.
Thanks to commenter Robert Goulet above for the link to followtopia.com too… that is a neat resource.
on February 7th, 2009 at 4:52 am
Thanks a million for this tip. I’m a newbie at some of this SEO stuff.
on February 11th, 2009 at 12:43 pm
Hi,
any plans to add XML-RPC cod to it..so that a blog editor/client can use it? joe
on March 1st, 2009 at 10:13 pm
Simply don’t use nofollow and let the search engines figure it out. It was meant to stop commentspam, but it doesn’t work
on March 19th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Awesome Trick. Definitly use Firefox with the SearchStatus Plug in!
on March 26th, 2009 at 6:08 am
Wow, this is VERY REVEALING. Thanks a bunch for telling me this. I had to comment on yours as your training shows me that your blog is dofollow,
Thanks, once again.
on March 31st, 2009 at 1:00 am
for me i’m using a firefox addon. it makes link with nofollow red and with dofollow blue.
on April 7th, 2009 at 10:55 pm
Hi !!! ^_^
My name is Piter Kokoniz. Just want to tell, that I like your blog very much!
And want to ask you: will you continue to post in this blog in future?
Sorry for my bad english:)
Thank you!
Your Piter Kokoniz, from Latvia
on May 1st, 2009 at 4:11 pm
why do people make no follow links in their comments anyway, its not as if linking to another site in any way hurts your own.
it really bugs me.