What is the best way to track if the back link is do follow???

Hi guys, am new at building links, recently (1.5 month ago) I bought a backlink to my website, but i can find it on seo spyglass nor majestic. I have inspected the link on the post, and it looks like a do follow link. Does it take time for these tools to crawl the backlink or it is something else that am missing.

Thanks for your help.

 

I can't find it*

 

I think you did all you could.

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control + F: "nofollow" if it's absent for your link, then it's dofollow

 

Thanks jv, i found other people asking the same questions on warrior forum and here is some answers:

Some links show within minutes, some never show.
But don't confuse them not showing up when you check with them not having an effect.
Many links don't show up even when Google is giving you credit for them.

well google won't really tell you all the links they indexed as they take more authority sites for more priority which only makes sense. You shouldn't worry about this as there are many programs out there to check your links. IBP is one of them, great for promoting and checking links.

It doesn't matter if they show up or not. Most software is far from perfect. And Google normally doesn't show you half the backlinks they rank you for.
So don't worry about it.
Worry about building more.
One thing though, quality backlinks will always show the fastest. So if you really want to rank your site and see the backlinks, focus on building quality links instead of spam.

 

You can install an extension called "nodofollow" on your firefox so you'll know if a link on a site is nofollow or dofollow.
Hope it helps..

 

You can try adding the "nofollow" extension to your Chrome toolbar and track whether a link is nofollow or dofollow.

 

When people ask such questions (like this one... best way to know if link is dofollow or nofollow), another question arise in my mind, and it is ... why the hell people are so much worried about tracking nofollow or dofollow?

I understand tracking is important, but valuable things like user behavior (Analytics kind of things), but does it really matter to know how many links are dofollow and how many are nofollow? Yes, it is important to know at the time of making link if the link will be dofollow or nofollow, but once it is made then what is the real concern?

I being an SEO, I always pay attention at the time of making links, but after that.. I simply forget it. If people link my content (many times we get thousands of natural links), many are dofollow and other are nofollow. So, what is the real concern?

 

Yeah it takes time for the links to get discovered. Open Site Explorer is even slower!!

 

you can check it via web source page or you can use this tool : http://seo-tools.freedirectorywebsites.com/get-source-code-of-webpage
if you lazy checking via source page then try this tool : http://seo-tools.freedirectorywebsites.com/website-analyzer-simple-web-analyzer

 

If, in the link it is no follow, that means do follow is missing.

 

You can press CTRL+U, then find the website url on the source page, if there is "nofollow"written beside the URL, then it is no follow, but if there is no "nofollow"written there, it's do follow.