How to Know if a Link is noFollow or doFollow

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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