There are two basic ways to find out if a link has been no-followed. You can check the code on the page or you can use Firefox extension for your web browser.
Checking Source Code
If you’re don’t use a browser like firefox that allows for extensions you’ll need to look at the code to tell if a link has been nofollowed. To do this, go to the web page featuring the links you are wondering about and then follow these steps.
Step 1: Select “View” and then “Page Source” from your browser’s menu bar.
Step 2: Click the “control” and “F” buttons at the same time to launch a search of the source code. To find out if the site uses nofollow at all, use “nofollow” as your search term.
If you want to know if a specific link has been nofollowed, type the anchor text in to the search box to jump to the code for that link. You’ll be able to spot the rel=”nofollow” attribute in the code of the link if it’s in use.
Using a Firefox Extension
If you don’t want to bother checking the code, you can install a browser extension that will dig up this information for you.
The team at Quirk have put together a great little Firefox extension called SearchStatus that will actually mark any link on a page with the nofollow attribute applied. I’ve got this program running on Firefox.
After install the plugin/extension just right click the Search Status toolbar at below right side in your firefox browser and choice “nofollow Note the text that is highlighted and surrounded by a red box. That red box tells me a link has been nofollowed.
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