How To Spot Nofollow Links In Websites

If you are actively building backlinks to your website, then you may want to visually check to see if your link contains a "nofollow" attribute. The "nofollow" attribute keeps the link from passing pagerank to your page and is ignored when most major search engines rank your website.

Having a link from a site that uses "nofollow" attributes is not going to help your page rank. The best thing to do is to actually check for these link types before you take any action towards obtaining the link...In other words, look before you link!

If you are an article marketer, you may find that there are lots of article directories that use the "nofollow" tags on all the author bio links. Before we get all angry and frustrated, we must understand that some article directories use the "nofollow" links to help control spam links.

They apply the links across the board due to the sheer number of spammy links they receive. Some article sites do not use this type of link attribute in the bio links so for the time being it is best to look for and submit to these directories.

How do you know if the site is using "nofollow" links? Well, the hardest method would be to examine the source code and see if the "nofollow" attribute has been applied either inline in the anchor tag itself, or you would have to examine the CSS code to see if the link attribute is applied via a CSS rule.

The absolute easiest way to spot nofollow links in websites is to use the firefox extension that I developed just for this purpose. Introducing Knofollo...a super easy way to spot nofollow link attributes by highlighting them so they are very easy to detect.

Knofollo finds nofollows in anchor tags as well as CSS rules and visually displays them to you as you browse. Read on for more information and be sure to check out the main Knofollo Site for more information on downloading and using knofollo. Be sure to check out the video tutorials.