Some times I am puzzled. While developing links for my sites, I am not in a correct position to differentiate those blogs/forums, whether they are dofollow or nofollow. Is there any easy parameter to determine the dofollow/nofollow status of a site?
]if you are using firefox or google chrome, right click on the page containing the links. On the source page, if you see the code <a> href=http://www.domain.com> title="the title"</a> then it is a follow link, if <a href, rel= nofollow=http://www.domain.com> title="the title"</a> than it is a no follow link
Really, all bots including GoogleBot follows the links w/ the attributes of NF. I wouldn't worry about it. Just keep promoting your site heavily.
Yeah, there is definitely confusion over exactly how Google and other search engines really treat "no-follow" links, but many sources suggest that it doesn't make that much of a difference. I guess the secrets are pretty closely guarded. To do it, though, both previous tips are probably the easiest way.
There is a firefox plugin that shows if links are no/do follow. nodofollow plugin. Easy and fast way to determine whether links are useful
The firefox add on is called NoDoFollow. It is fantastically awesomtastic- you can turn it on and off as you please, and it highlights dofollow links as blue and nofollow links as pink/red.
You can check whether the site is dofollow/nofollow by right clicking on the backlink on the page, and look in its properties. If the site shows where the link will open, then it is dofollow, otherwise the website is nofollow. Or you can go to page's source and find out whether the site is dofollow or nofollow. You can check page source from view source or Ctrl+u, then find for nofollow, if you find external rel=nofollow, then the site is nofollow.