How do I know if a blog uses the nofollow attribute? How can I find blogs that do not use the nofollow attribute. Is posting on blogs really worth the effort for my sites benefit? How many post does it take for this stratify to work?
There are software that can find you blogs with nofollow and dofollow links. If you wish to do it manually, just right click on the blog page that you are on and view the 'source' of the page. From there you can find out if the links on the page have a nofollow attribute or not. If they don't, then you have yourself a winner
Search the source for "nofollow". If you don't hit it, you're fine. If you do hit it, double check that the nofollow isn't site related (internal linking). To be sure you can search for someone else's comment's anchor text and look at the link to see if there is a nofollow.
To make your life alot easier.... - right click the page and select "view source" A notepad will open up automatically. Searching for "nofollow" visually can take time, its like 'looking for Wally'. Instead... - right click the page and select "view source" - hold "Ctrl" and press "F" on your keyboard. - type: nofollow - hit "Enter" If the notepad has "nofollow" in it, it will be highlighted. If it doesn't, it will tell you "no text found". You will then know if the blog has "nofollow" code in it or not. Cheers
Let me give you the simple trick, Just copy and post the link of comment poster in the resources page of the particular page. and search for "nofollow" in the resource page.
I use firefox SearchStatus plugin to find the nofollow or dofollow attribute of link. it is very easy to use.
Here is another simple trick. Comment on popular blogs with plenty of traffic, then simply ignore the nofollow attribute all together. Search Engines will still follow it and index the link, it just won't pass any PR power along with it.
google sitemap shows no follow links as links, shame about the pr lovin, you just wont get any, but like qryztufre said you might get a little bit of traffic on poplular sites