Determining whether a site is "dofollow" or "nofollow"

Hi!

Sorry if this topic has already been covered, but I've been browsing for a while now and haven't found an answer (Found tons of other very useful info. Great forum guys!)

My question is; How can you determine whether a site is "dofollow" or "nofollow?"

I've noticed there are some good lists out there about dofollow sites, but couldn't help but wonder how they know which are which. I would like to be able to check out some other sites related to my industry and determine whether or not they're "dofollow" on my own.

Many thanks!

 

Get SEO for Firefox, and it will mark in red what links are NOFOLLOW

Also, you can just view the source code, hit ctrl+f and type nofollow to see if it has the tags

 

The long way is to click View - Show Page Source on your browser, which will show the code for the page you want to check.

Click Control F, and type NoFollow. If any show up...the blog will have nofollow links..so you might as well move along.

 

Typhoon has this link on one of his threads: http://www.smartbloggerz.com/2008/08/100-do-follow-forums-to-increase.html

I am checking them all out...any help along the area of forums and posting would be great.
if I include the link in my signature, should I keyword it? Will I get the linkjuice from every post i am on that way?
How powerful will it be, if the sites front page is pg6, and I am pulling another forum topic?
I have rankquest toolbar (is their a better one?) for Firefox, it ranks the home page and nothing else inside...why?

 

you can check the source code to see if its no follow, some sites have the no follow in the meta tags so the links themselves look like do follow

 

The easiest way is to get the seo quake plugin for firefox when you have this plugin
whenever you view a no-follow link you will see a line through it to let you know it's
no-follow.

 

If you don't want to use plugins but using FireFox;

~ Visit Page
~ Control + U
~ Control + F
~ Type "nofollow"
~ If search doesn't find anything, it's do-follow

 

Thanks. I have this plugin but I had no idea you could do that with it.

 

To be honest, most people are forgetting that links without the nofollow attribute can still be no follow via using Javascript, Meta Tags, indirectly robots.txt and so on

 

Just right click on the SEO quake icon on firefox status bar and click on 'Line-through "nofollow" and "noindex"'

@zurpit: meta 'robots' nofollow is NOT same as anchor rel=nofollow attribute. Google infact follows a nofollow link.

 

Losts of good answers but I think bacanze said it best.

 

Anyone know if this forum is follow or nofollow? I would really like to know.

Ken

 

I don't agree with bacanze Javascript links would have the same effect as nofollow (agreed) but that's not true about meta robot tags or robots.txt. You are confusing between the two different nofollow here..

 

signature in this forum are dofollow, links in posts are dofollow too.

 

Thank you very much guys. Very useful tips from everyone. I figured it must have something to do with the sourcecode, but didn't really think sitting there trying to read it all to find "nofollow" would be the most efficient way to go about it. Thanks for the "Ctrl+F" tip. Working nicely.

I'll compile a list of dofollows that I come across and share them here, though I don't know how many of them will be useful to others here because most of them will likely be gambling and poker related. As I understand, most people don't want be linked with those types of sites due to issues with PPC.

Also, thank you for the tip on "SEO Quake." Had never heard of it before, and am on my way to google next to check it out.

(I've got SEO for Firefox, but I'm not sure how to use it to make "nofollows" appear red. I'll fool around with it some more) Nix that. Highlighted in bright red, right in front of my face!

Thank you, thank you, thank you all! You're the greatest!