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How to detect 'no follow'

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by acuman, Jul 16, 2007.

  1. #1
    Hi,
    Can anyone explain in a newbie easy way how I can find out if a site has a 'no follow' for its backlinks?

    And what would be the reasons why they would do this?

    Thanks!
     
    acuman, Jul 16, 2007 IP
  2. kojakfilth

    kojakfilth Notable Member

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    #2
    download search status plugin to your firefox browser and each page you visit the link with no follow tag will be highlighted
     
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  3. ajsa52

    ajsa52 Well-Known Member

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    #3
    It's very simple: Open source code and search for "nofollow" word.
    - Open the page on your favorite browser.
    - Right Click on page, and on floating menu click on "View Page source"
    - On the source search for "nofollow" word.
    Example. On http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page you'll find this

    
    <a href="http://en.wiktionary.org/" class="external text" title="http://en.wiktionary.org/" [COLOR="Red"]rel="nofollow"[/COLOR]>Wiktionary</a>
    
    Code (markup):
    EDIT: I forgot, the reason for wikipedia to start using "nofollow" flag is to fight against spam.
     
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  4. acuman

    acuman Active Member

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    #4
    Thanks guys. reps.

    Why would a regular website add a nofollow?
     
    acuman, Jul 16, 2007 IP
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    zangief Well-Known Member

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    #5
    This one is a nice tool , when installed right click on the q sembol and select highlight nofollow and you'll see them all.
    thanks kojakfilth

     
    zangief, Jul 16, 2007 IP
  6. Eli B

    Eli B Peon

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    #6
    On a blog comment, right-click the link/username and go into the Properties for the link, you'll see either new window or something else or 'external nofollow' :)
     
    Eli B, Jul 16, 2007 IP
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    #7
    I can't believe I have never seen that firefox plugin before, I love it! thanks!
     
    TheMack, Jul 16, 2007 IP
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    #8
    yeah search status is another great tool...great use whenever you want to detect whether the site is using a no follow attribute...
     
    sweetie_12, Jul 16, 2007 IP
  9. Jim4767

    Jim4767 Prominent Member

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    dcristo Illustrious Member

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    #10
    View the source of the page with the link, and search for "nofollow"
     
    dcristo, Jul 16, 2007 IP
  11. getanapple

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    #11
    Well thats easy, because google says so, many webmasters are sheeple (sheep+people).

    the other thing is Wordpress now has it hard coded into the comments and you need to add a plugin to get it removed.

    The new round of advise from google is that all links external links should be nofollow unless they are editorial in nature. I am waiting for the next great post like its blackhat to not have external links without a no follow,
     
    getanapple, Jul 16, 2007 IP
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    Sunny side Banned

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    Thanks, kojakfilth, I had never time to look for it.
     
    Sunny side, Jul 19, 2007 IP
  13. Brewster

    Brewster Active Member

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    #13
    I use the SEO plugin that can be found on Aaron Wall's www.seobook.com page for this.

    When it is enabled it highlights all links that have a nofollow tag on them

    Brew
     
    Brewster, Jul 19, 2007 IP
  14. usasportstraining

    usasportstraining Notable Member

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    #14
    To answer your question, the reasons (that I can think of) that many of these sites do a nofollow attribute would be to:

    Prevent or discourage spam (Bloggers comment fields, Wikipedia are examples)
    Fear of "giving away" link juice (I don't think this is relevant)
    stop Google's spiders from following to avoid duplicate content, irrelevant pages, etc
     
    usasportstraining, Jul 19, 2007 IP
  15. Forrest

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    Because they don't want to pass any link juice on to the URL on the other end of the link. Maybe it's an example of what the site owner considers spam, that they think their readers will learn from, but don't want Google to associate with them.

    Also, it's not only <a href="..." rel="nofollow"> you need to look out for, but meta tags and robots.txt.
     
    Forrest, Jul 19, 2007 IP
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    wah2war Active Member

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    I think to keep their "environment" keep clean. They don`t want their site link to other sites that may contain illegal or bad content.
     
    wah2war, Jul 19, 2007 IP
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    trichnosis Prominent Member

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    #17
    the best way is checking the source code.

    just search for rel="nofollow" in the source code
     
    trichnosis, Jul 20, 2007 IP
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    ajsa52 Well-Known Member

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    Have your read the thread ? :(
    Same answer was posted several days ago.
     
    ajsa52, Jul 20, 2007 IP
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    #19
    Good help here guys. Thank you so much.
     
    bwtm77, Jul 20, 2007 IP
  20. priyakochin

    priyakochin Banned

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    #20
    Why can't u use moziall plugin for detecting.Its great
     
    priyakochin, Jul 21, 2007 IP