Any Tool which can differentiate Nofollow Vs Dofollow on the SERP itself?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by deshkar_sandesh, Nov 17, 2009.

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    Hi,

    Does anyone know any tool or mozilla plugin which can differentiate nofollow and do follow on the SERP (search engine result page) itself?
     
    deshkar_sandesh, Nov 17, 2009 IP
  2. elladrone

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    Your question does not have an answer, AFAIK.
    Checking if a page has follow or nofollow links comes only when you browse the page and the tool on your computer actually parses the HTML code for the rel="nofollow" tag. Hence it cannot do it on the SERP, unless anyone out there is sick enough to write a plugin that loads every page "in the background" and check.

    HINT- plain Google Search will allow you to do something similar if you craft well your search string. Good luck!
     
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    There are various firefox plugins that will help when you are on the page itself.

    I like the SEOMoz one.
     
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    Even if such a tool exists it would be pretty much worthless. The only way a tool like this could work is if it were based on the absence or presence of <meta name="robots" content="nofollow"> which nofollows ALL links on that page. It "could" also specify pages not followed as the result of a robot.txt disallow I guess, but mainly it would likely use the meta robots element.

    So a tool (if it exists) "could" tell you whether or not ALL links on a page are nofollowed by the meta robots. But it is VERY rare that someone would use <meta name="robots" content="nofollow"> because it also nofollows internal links on that same page which is usually not desirable.

    But if the meta robots is missing such a tool would say the page is followed... which is the case probably 99.9999999% of the time. But this doesn't mean that all links on the page are followed, just that they have the potential for being followed. A blog post page is typically followed at the page level (the level the tool would be looking at) but each of the comments are typically nofollowed 99.999% of the time.

    So the tool might rule out nofollow pages 0.0000001% of the time. Not even worth the time and CPU cycles necessary to install and run the plugin IMO.
     
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  5. deshkar_sandesh

    deshkar_sandesh Active Member

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    Well, if i am not getting wrong....you mean to say i should try google operators (to find specific types of blogs which are do follow) by trying well-crafted search string.

    OR could you please give any example of well-crafted search string to find do follow blogs.
     
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    SEO Quake does it, in an add on for firefox. However, it's not 100% reliable. It makes mistakes from time to time. But if you need to thumb through pages nad pages of results, this is the fastest way I've found.
     
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