When posting on a blog, how can I determine if a blog has nofollow active? I've recently seen the term dofollow, is it important for that to be active? I made a post on a blog then I looked at its robot.txt file and saw that everything for the directory and subdomain was marked /disallow for all agents. I'm not sure why someone would do that but when they do it, that would mean no comments will ever be read?
Open the source and look for rel=nofollow (or rel="external nofollow") in anchor text. You can also use firefox plugins to highlight nofollow links. rel=nofollow and robots nofollow are different things.
You can also use search stat firefox plugin It has nofollow link highlight and many other usefull tools
The firefox plugin is the best way to check for nofollow in blogs. It actually saves time.. instead of opening up the source of the page and searching.
That is what I was about to suggest, I use nodofollow myself, it really is a handy tool to have. Also check their comment policies if they have one posted, some blogs will actually randomly choose commentators to get free reviews, etc. for quality comments.
Firefox plugins is what I'm looking for. I've been trying to figure it out by using web developer tool bar, sounds like I need some better ones. This highlight sounds perfect. How r they different?
I have been using Search Status Adds on and it's useful to instantly see which of links are nofollow.
Okay thanks folks, I just installed nodofollow. Opening the source seems to be an unreliable way of doing it. I could use some help with rel nofollow and the different between the too.