I just replied to an email I had missed last month from Will at Charlotte Fence Company. Will looked at the source code for GrowMap and when he saw nofollow tags in it he thought we were not really Certified DoFollow. It is easy to see how someone might think that so I want to share more details with my readers.
The best WordPress Themes automatically nofollow certain unimportant fields and since we use Thesis that is true here. The nofollow tags Will is seeing are on the Twitter links, dates, and reply links in the comments – not on your anchor text links to your sites.
The best way to determine whether a site adds no follow to links to yours is by using a tool such as the link checker in the SEOBook Toolbar. If you already have the Toolbar look for the red double-arrow to the right of the orange RSS feed icon as shown in the image below:
Highlight No Follow Links
If you have the toolbar turned on (click on the word SEOBook on the far left of the toolbar to toggle the tool off and on) and click on the red Highlight NoFollow Links icon, all nofollowed links on the page will be highlighted in red.
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As you can see in the example image below, Thesis has automatically nofollowed the links for reply, dates, and to your Twitter account and the links to your sites using your selected anchor text and the CommentLuv featured posts are dofollow:
What is No Followed at GrowMap - What is Do Followed
Our source code is visible, but if you want to see the source code on sites where it isn’t use this View HTML Source Code Viewer. Some sites move their source code off-page as part of advanced SEO strategies.
We recommend you check the status of the many links on your blog or site using the free SEOBook Toolbar of one of the other alternatives. It is not a bad idea to nofollow unimportant links.
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Such a very fine and informative blog. yeah I just got an update for the firefox addin. thanks for the information.
There are very less blogs which are do follow while internet is full of no follow blogs, and that’s what I experienced. I think that criteria of no follow should be reviewed because it some times leave a sign of no follow on most common and unspammed things.
Really like this content. I want to know more about such tools as you seem to have a lot of knowledge about how to use them!
I just got an update for the firefox addin, it just keeps getting better and better. Another tool I use is the basic Google toolbar which quickly shows the pagerank for a website.
Twitter: azhumidors
April 8, 2010 at 2:42 pm
Twitter: @azhumidors
Rank Checker and SEO4Firefox are my two most favorite Firefox addons. I also recommend SearchStatus plugin, since it shows the PageRank and Alexa rating of any page that you are currently on.
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Thanks for the links. I downloaded the firefox add-on and it is very useful when it comes to finding do-follow and no-follow links.
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killer Wow! by the name its sounds that if you applied it on your seo business then it gives you the killer output or results, good steps to compare between the both.
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Twitter: jronaldlee
March 19, 2010 at 7:17 am
Twitter: @jronaldlee
I, too, was using NoDoFollow for Firefox, but Firefox 3.6 seems to have broken it. I may have to try out the toolbar…
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What would be great is if someone would write a book that is called SEO linking for dummies. Being the dummy I am talking about I would be the first one standing in line to buy it. It is like the more I read about this stuff the more confused I get. Sorry
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Twitter: practicewebsite
March 16, 2010 at 4:24 am
Twitter: @practicewebsite
Although your explanation makes perfect sense, it is possible you could be wrong in your conclusions.
There seem to be some rumours and tests showing that if a link is nofollowed somewhere high up on a web page, all subsequent links to the same URL will not be followed (even if the link doesn’t contain the rel=nofollow). It’s something I will be testing soon but you might want to run some tests as well.
Why is it important? Because the gravatar links (which are always nofollowed, even if you use a no nofollow plugin) appear before the dofollow links on all the blogs.
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You really help those starting out in this blog…You have good tips about marketing strategy.
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I use an excellent Firefox program which can immediately identify nofollow and dofollow links for me.
Great informative post, getting both nofollow and dofollow links makes your link profile looks natural, and both is great for human traffic.
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I think the majority of people are just trying to gain exposure for their site rather than boost page rank. However some people like to show off their page rank because it makes them feel better.
If you are using firefox browser, you can try out NoDoFollow Addon, which highlights links in a page according to nofollow / dofollow status.
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I think SEObook is the best. I am only missing one important option. And that’s the possibility to sort on pagerank. But on their own blog I see a lot of users requesting it. So it probably will be in a next update
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March 10, 2010 at 7:35 pm
Twitter: @insaneabs
Hey,
I have been using the SEObook tools for about a year now, I think I would go insane if they were taken away from me. Its like crack! I love to see all the red highlights on site so I can see what link juice is being passed. I think everyone should get a dose of these drug like tools…
I personally use the SEOmoz toolbar which works like the SEOBook toolbar but has a few more functions. I like it because it highlights nofollows in pleasant pink instead of red. Overall, a very informative post that shows the SEO newbie how to find dofollow blogs.
great information that you had provided to everyone, for the starter the tips you provided is so good for them.
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Thank you for this advice. I’ve just started my own blog and I’m new to the world of SEO so this will help save me a lot of time finding dofollow links. I’ll be sure to keep checking back to Grow Map for more SEO tips.
Twitter: extremejohn
March 9, 2010 at 3:57 pm
Twitter: @extremejohn
Holy crap that’s a massive comments field…. nice work
I have been using the SEOBook tools for around a year now and love them, with tools like this it’s important for blogs like mine to let visitors know that your blog is Do Follow on the third comment vs the first and every comment. The striking big red UH OH screams No Follow which might throw some visitors of.
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Twitter: ChrisGuthrie
March 9, 2010 at 3:10 pm
Twitter: @ChrisGuthrie
When I go around commenting I don’t worry too much about whether or not someone is truly do follow or no follow, because I believe comment link building isn’t the best strategy.
Instead, I prefer to write comments that the blog owner will consider valueable and come visit my blog – bam new reader. And then other readers might read my comment and like what I have to say and visit my blog as well – bam another new reader.
(forgot to add, I just use FireBug instead if I really want to check though)
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Twitter: GrowMap
March 9, 2010 at 3:38 pm
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hi Chris,
Welcome and thank you for sharing. As more and more quality blogs exist there won’t be time to read and comment in them all. I know that is why I now focus on Do Follow, CommentLuv, KeywordLuv blogs and that is probably why this post is popular.
Consistency is key to success so it simply makes sense to consistently interact with specific blogs and to do that we have to have a way to prioritize them. It isn’t so much the actual Do Follow links as it is a common way of looking at life.
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thanks for your information your information might be very helpful for the SEO peoples. with your information anyone can get the good ranking thanks for your information.
That’s an informative explanation for dofollow vs. nofollow. I didn’t know about PageRush’s dofollow tool and list, might use it sometime soon. Since SEOQuake is probably one of the most popular webmaster plug-in, you might want to publish a quick howto for SEOQuake users too.
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Twitter: GrowMap
March 9, 2010 at 8:12 am
Twitter: @GrowMap
Hello Chris,
I know that SEOQuake is similar in many ways to the SEOBook Toolbar. Since I do not use it and don’t have time to compare them I would be happy to publish a guest post about SEOQuake.
I would be interested in a post similar to this one about how to display the same information or posts about any other functionality available in SEOQuake. The author is welcome to include their affiliate links, if any, for writing a quality guest post.
I really need to write that post about why we should never object to someone using affiliate links as long as their recommendations are sincere and their research valuable to us. Ethical affiliates only recommend what they truly believe in and many recommend SEOQuake because they use it regularly.
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You have described very well about Do follow and No follow and its very easy to understand about it from this post.I think now I have cleared my some doubts.I like that you provide us such valuable information.
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