Nothing is more irritating to a webmaster than posting up a lot of links only to find that the site has them as no-follow making them pointless as far as search engine bots go. This makes it sensible to check the page to see if your links on it will count to search engines.
You could do this the long way by checking the page source code of every site you visit for the relevant parameters – do-follow or no-follow. If no tags containing the parameters are found it is usually safe to assume that the links are do-follow. If opening up the source code of every site you scout, when that source code can contain hundreds of lines, isn’t your thing then you can make use of the SEO for Firefox add-on that is designed to aid webmaster search engine optimization. The feature that helps in this task it the one that highlights no-follow links in red, saving you the time of posting your link and checking back the source code only to find that your efforts were in vain.
All links that are not highlighted red are do-follow and are good for improving search engine results, providing that the site they are on is also indexed by the search engine you are trying to improve your standing with. One more fact of importance is that; given the demand the add-on places on the computer’s processing power, however, it should be left off except when actively scouting for a place to put up links.
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Gr8 Tool Buddy. Would like to try on this and see in result. Keep sharing. Good Work.
This is what i have been looking for! Thanks for sharing it. Keep up the good work pal.
Excellent article. You hit the nail on the head when you say “Nothing is more irritating to a webmaster than posting up a lot of links only to find that the site has them as no-follow”
However this allows you to find the ones that do allow follow links which makes life much easier. One of the best tools I have found all year.
Excellent work.
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