You can check their source code and see if there is "nofollow" thing or not. This is the simple step to check
You would have to view the source, which you can get via a right click, then do a search for "nofollow" and see where it's been applied.
Thanks glitto. But where this "nofollow thing" could be located? Is it the <meta name="robots" content="nofollow"> tag located after the <head>, in the site's HTML?
If you are using Firefox and install the SEO Toolbar, all the 'no-follow' links show up as red so they're easy to spot.
Nofollow is a way to tell search engine spiders to not follow your web pages and index them. This is done using a meta tag with the value nofollow, noindex. This can alos be achieved having a robots.txt file and putting the appropriate code. If you want to block your site from search engines, you should use nofollow. For example administration area of a site. Else use follow
Popular blogs and websites use "nofollow" on links from comments. Comments are open, so most people who comment are doing for the sake of a backlink. They simply use nofollow, and you can find it in the source code. It tells the bot not to follow that link.
if i place <meta name="robots" content="index, follow"> , means the spyder will crawl only index page but not whole site pages?
install firefox...install the searchstatus plugin..once installed it displays on the right bottom..the alexa,,google pr,compete ranking..right click the blue icon next to it and select 'highlight nofollow links',all nofollow links will turn pink..hope that helps!
All right. Now I understand there's a difference between the NOFOLLOW meta tag placed after <head> and the rel="NOFOLLOW" placed in the hiperlink. For those who need more information about using the meta tag, check this out: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=61050.
And when looking through source code realize that when looking at blogs quite a bit will have nofollow, however, you have to look at the comments section as that is what you are looking for. OR if you have done a link exchange with someone, always go there and check if they added nofollow. If they have never accept links from them again as they are taking your link and not passing pagerank back to you.. just a note
I use Search Status. It highlights no-follow links automatically when you visit a page. It also does many other things like meta tags analysis and keyword density...
I am using seo for firefox ads on.. It's very useful.. but if you don't want to install that. better check it manually in view source code...