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How Do I Know if A Blog is Do-Follow?
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You may be wondering if your blog is setup to do-follow, by disabling the nofollow attribute. Or, you may want to comment on a blog but you aren’t sure whether they are do-follow or not.
If you have your own hosted Wordpress blog, and you have not installed a plugin to disable nofollow, then chances are very good that your blog is NOT do-follow.
If someone else installed your blog, or you just want to verify that your blog is nofollow, if you are wanting to determine if a blog is do-follow, there are a couple of ways to check.
Remember, do-follow blogs really refer to the comments left on the blog. So you need to check the comments on a post to determine if the blog is using the html nofollow attribute.
The easiest, and quickest way to check do-follow, is by using either the Firefox, or Flock browser and the SEO for Firefox extension.
If you’re not using the Firefox browser, or the Flock browser, I need to ask you why you’re not using one of those browsers? It’s probably just because Microsoft Internet Explorer was installed on your computer and you don’t know what your missing.
The Firefox and Flock browsers are much better than Internet Explorer (IE). If you are doing any sort of social marketing, you really need to check out the Flock browser.
If you are using IE, I’ll explain how to determine if a blog is do-follow or not later on. Right now, let’s talk about using Firefox and Flock.
If you don’t already have it, install the SEO for Firefox extension - get the extension here. It also works on the Flock browser.
After you have installed SEO for Firefox extension, you will see it at the bottom of your browser. You can turn the extension on and off, but clicking the SEO at the bottom of the browser - it toggles on and off.
Now, when the extension is turned on all nofollow links are highlighted with a red background.
So, when you go to a blog, or go to your blog, you can see whether a blog is nofollow or do-follow. Look for a post with comments already posted. Go to those comments, or to the blog post page. If none of your blog posts have comments, you will need to create a comment.
Scroll down to the comments. If you see red background on the comment name, the blog comments are nofollow.
If you are using Internet Explorer, go to a post with comments. When you are on the page with comments. right click your mouse and choose “View Source”. This will open the html code in note pad. Then select search and type in a term in one of the comments, to easily find a comment.
You will see something like the text below. Notice the rel=’external nofollow’, this indicates the blog is no-follow.
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<a href=’http://followlist.com’ rel=’external nofollow’ onclick=”javascript:urchinTracker(’/outbound/followlist.com?ref=/blog/’);”> Mike’s Do-Follow Blog List</a> on
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<p>This is a test</p>
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If the blog were do-follow it would probably be rel=’external’. Notice the nofollow tag has been removed.
That’s how you determine if a blog is do-follow or not.
An easier way to find Do-Follow blogs related to your blog topic, would be to help me build the Do-Follow Blog Directory 
If you have questions about dofollow versus nofollow blogs, leave comments and I will attempt to answer every one of them.
Mike
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I love the seo for Firefox plugin, but sometimes I will double check by checking the source of the code, using the shortcut ctrl + u (on Firefox), and then I use ctrl + f , which is the find function, and I find the the name that the person left for comments. I double check because sometimes the link url might be stuffed with alot of irrelevant code, and depending on that, it may make the link not worth as much.
Hi Mike,
Well, I guess you learn something new every day.
I’ve been using the SEO add on for quite a while, and never knew why things were lit up in red. Now I know.
Thanks for the tip!
Mike
This is a very cool find. I’m not sure I pay much attention (although I support dofollow). Perhaps I should start!
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I think the best and most effective way of finding out if a blog is dofollow is to look at the red strip that appears on the link with the SEO for firefox extension. Download SEO for firefox, it will make your life a lot easier, and a lot more fun.
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I agree, the SEO Firefox extension is great for that.
If you are marketing on the internet, you really need to use Firefox, or Flock as your web browser. They are sooo much better than Internet Explorer.
I just learned about Flock a few months ago. It’s very similar to Firefox and you can use most of the Firefox extensions, but it’s built for social marketing.
Here is a blog post I did about Flock.
Do follow is a great way to get more comments on your blog.I comment on all related blogs to mine.People will visit if the comment is good enough.
Thanks for a nice informative article here. and if you do reply to the comments then I would like to know more about do-follow comments. I have recently been hearing more about do-follow comments and learning a few tricks I have also learned how to build do-follow blogs list (supposedly, don’t have proven knowledge) which have PR in minutes. I have submitted my site listed in “website” to 5 do-follow blog posts but I don’t see anything significant (change or something w.r.t. traffic/pr ??) to my blog. What do I track ?? and how ??
Can you tell me what is it actually for (do-follow blog comments) and why people are mad about getting comments posted to do-follow blogs. Why it is so important and how to check if something is happening or not.
I have posted my real email address and you can send me a reply there if you can and in return I will post your blog to 50 PR blogs (do-follow) if you wish, for free
I want to learn as much as possible about posting do-follow blog comments. That’s how I got to your blog through google.
Once again three cheers to your article
I use SearchStatus Firefox SEO Toolbar Extension to highlight Nofollow links. It has other quick utilities which I use on a frequent basis (backlink checking, indexed pages checking, whois information, etc.) Well worth a check, not that Aaron Wall’s SEO extension is bad. I think SearchStatus may be all that a blogger may need.
Excellent ,Thank you.
I love the seo for Firefox plugin, but sometimes I will double check by checking the source of the code, using the shortcut ctrl + u (on Firefox), and then I use ctrl + f , which is the find function, and I find the the name that the person left for comments.
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I have been using Firefox and SEO for Firefox and both of them are a great combination for SEO People.A few months back, I was quite unfamiliar with “how to find or determine do follow attributes” but now I am more than happy to know all this already. On the other hand, I have never heard about Flock, this is a quite new thing for me and i shall be giving it a try.
I use only Do-follow addon for firefox
And I love this tool than SEO for firefox addon
Hi, thanks for the dofollow tip. I can also recommend dofollow search engine liske commenthunt or use any software if you really need dofollow link.
Oh.. thanks for this great tool….but I have a question… I use a program called “Fast blog finder ” to find do follow blog links… I have found out that some blog links which show as do follow in ” fast blog finder ” are showing as no follow blogs in SEO tool .. so I am in a confusion that which tool is saying correct … so please help me out… thanks…
I agree, the SEO Firefox extension is great for that.
If you are marketing on the internet, you really need to use Firefox, or Flock as your web browser. They are sooo much better than Internet Explorer.
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I agree, the SEO Firefox extension is great for that.
If you are marketing on the internet, you really need to use Firefox, or Flock as your web browser. They are sooo much better than Internet Explorer.
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Good Find. i have read your blog prv week but I am commenting today. I have used this, a very good tool.
I was puzzled seeing red links in my blog in Firefox whereas all the links were coming perfecctly in other browsers. Perplexed I searched for the problem and found your blog and problem was resolved moment I switched off SEO extn in Firefox. Thanks for guidance for my blog for Indian stock tips and look for your visit.
Well, I guess you learn something new every day.
I’ve been using the SEO add on for quite a while, and never knew why things were lit up in red. Now I know.
Thanks for the tip!
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This is also a good add-on.Thanks for sharing this information with me.
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I didn’t know of that FireFox pluggin that allows you to find dofollow blogs in the comments. You make my day with this information. Thanks dude!
That is pretty awesome actually mate, I’ve just tested it on your site, and it seems to be do follow! Excellent!
I tried using another tool in Firefox, but it didn’t seem to do the trick as well!
Thanks so much
Thanks for the great post! We are migrating from IE to Firefox for it’s sheer SEO friendliness, and will try out Flock browser.
There’s 2 free Do-Follow blogs finder out there - Fast Blog Finder (free version returns 50 searches) and Real Link Finder
Thanks for the great post! We’re migrating from IE to Firefox for it’s sheer SEO friendliness, and will also check out Flock browser.
There’s 2 free Do-Follow blog finders out there - Fast Blog Finder (free version returns only 50 blogs) and Real Link Finder.
If you read whole blog there are a lot of important information which really can be used to SEO
nice
I used that SEO extension and i really work with it now.
But i am getting again problems.
That is even in this page i can see a lot of links which are highlighted.
Ex: Home link at the top,
And bottom wordPress, Blue zinfandel, brain Gardner.
Now i wanna know how can you say this blog (Follwlist.com) do-follow or no-follow.?
I am confused. I know this blog is do-follow but it shows some highlighted links……
Please tell what is the wrong?
Can we say whole blog is nofollow just because of we see highlighted links?
Marble,
Yes there are some links on this blog that are nofollow.
The links that you need to pay attention to on dofollow blogs are the comment links. If the comment links are dofollow, the blog is a dofollow blog and you get link love from the blog.
Hope that clarifies it.
Mike
I hope you are telling about this.
Out of 32 comments so far no one is nofollow (Not highlighted).
Is that why this is do-follow?
I got it like that…
I would like to make a do-follow community or something like that. Then we all can collect dofollow and page rank blogs.
Thanks
Thanks for the great tip, I wasn’t aware of that firefox extension. Used to have to view source and search for nofollow which was annoying.
Thanks for these wonderful tips.. I have already installed SEO addon for firefox and its working wonders for me.. thank you
but i found a blog where there is both the attributes EXTERNAL AND EXTERNAL NO FOLLOW
IS IT POSSIBLE HAVE BOTH AT THE SAMETIME FOR DIFFERENT COMMENTS.
This is an awesome post. I have been looking a bloggs all day to figure out the best way to find do follow without wasting too much time. This is a simple way I dont know why I didn’t think of it yet
thanks
Basically, the internet is one giant poll to Google, and each link counts as a vote. There are other factors that intefere, but we’ll keep it as is for simplicity’s sake. The more links you have, the more popular your site is - and that’s exactly what Google wants to find, the most popular/authorative sites on the web.
The NoFollow attribute tells Google, “Don’t count this link as a vote for this website”. Whilst Google might still crawl the website’s content, it definitely does not add any link-weight. Well done, you’ve now penalized both the legitimate commenters as well as the spammers. Makes sense.
I’ve made one of my blogs into a dofollow blog and here are my results (in comparison to a number of other, more popular, nofollow blogs that I own):
1. More comments.
2. Discussion. Because my links were carrying link-juice, and I was only accepting good quality comments, I ended up with proper, meaningful discussion that was pertinent to the article. I’m sure many of you bloggers only get spam and scraper comments
Great Post, I too spent a whole day, a few days ago, trying to figure out an easy way to find dofollow blogs. I was originally just looking at the source code for the blog post page to determine it’s link status, but that got tedious and I hate starting at code for extended periods of time. I tried the SEO extension for firefox and it’s great, love it.
I agree that if you are still using IE you should be forced to try Firefox, lol, especially if you are a marketer. You will never go back. I haven’t tried the Flock browser but it sounds good so I’ll give it a test run soon.
I have been using Fast Blog Finder the last few days to find and post comments to dofollow blogs. It seems to be a really nice tool. The Gold edition returns more results but the free version returns enough to get you going and on some searches it has returned pleanty.
I try to make it a habbit to post to some high PR nofollow blogs as well as dofollow ones. This keeps my backlinks more natural and keeps things more random. There is an argument that posting only to dofollow blogs could make “The Big G” think that your links aren’t totally natural, even if they really are. I don’t know if this is true or not but as a general rule just make sure your backlinking campaigns resemble natural linking and that your comments are meaningful and helpful and you shouldn’t have any problems. Thanks again.
This is a grate post. I have been looking for blogs which allow do follow links. Recently i have spent time commenting on blogs. i wish i stared early. Thank you for sharing this post with us.
I also use the great firefox plugin however i have noticed that it can be sometimes a bit inaccurate. To take extra precautions I usually check the source code by right clicking on the page and scrolling down to view source. This way i can see if the comments are do-follow or not.
Great post and keep it up.
This is a very cool find. I’m not sure I pay much attention (although I support dofollow). Perhaps I should start!
I had a difficult time early on learning the differences in do follow and don’t but through trial and error am pretty competent now. Is there a way to differentiate the unknown ones?
Yep , thank you for this post , that was exactly what i was looking for.I am using Firefox but i like to determine things out of the html code.First i thought the no follow/do follow is in connection with the robot.txt.But no chance, you helped me well, ‘external’ is the key word one have to focus on.
Cheers ! and thx once more
I also use the firefow plugin but I have also found it to be a little bit inaccurate but hey it is free so not really to bothered and not complaining
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Right, but u want back link count increase for SEO traffic increase that is wrong with no follow link that send traffics and save steps? U can track this traffic. U can’t track SEO traffic.
Both have their places, and this what most people miss.
Nice blog to take links from this blog and i like your blog
Thank you for putting this information out there. I have been working on getting links to my site and you have made things so much easier for me with this info. I won’t be wasting time on posting to no-follow sites/blogs.
Saved me time and effort!
Hey, thanks for the great post! I’ve been wondering now how to determine a blog is a dofollow or nofollow. I was thinking of buying a dofollow search software to determine that. But now I found your post and it can be done using Firefox tools with no extra cost.
nice informative post,can you write about blogger blogs and does this plug in work for all
The SEO tool for firefox has an option to highlight all links that are no follow. This really helps in figuring out if a link is do follow or not.
I agree that the Firefox and Flock browsers are much better than Internet Explorer (IE). When I was doing social marketing, I took your advice and checked out the Flock browser. Thanks for the tips!!!
Hi Mike, can you help me with this thing?
I was actually looking for a do follow blog without having rel-external or javascript note, as in clean and straight html do follow code only..
Can you be able to find ways to make my searching easy?
Sure to drop by again..Millions Thanks!
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Wow, this is VERY REVEALING. Thanks a bunch for telling me this. I had to comment on yours as your training shows me that your blog is dofollow,
Thanks, once again.
I’m really glad I read this article. I never knew about the SEO add-on until I read it haha, so that’s one good thing that I got from this article.
Also, I like how you point out how easy it is to find out on your own. I get so many requests with people asking me to tell them if a blog is dofollow or not, that I eventually just started ignoring people.
I’m going to link to this article on my blog =)
I admit, I have not been on this webpage in a long time… however it was another joy to see It is such an important topic and ignored by so many, even professionals. I thank you to help making people more aware of possible issues.
Great stuff as usual….
I love the seo for Firefox plug in, but sometimes I will double check by checking the source of the code, using the shortcut ctrl + u (on Firefox), and then I use ctrl + f , which is the find function, and I find the the name that the person left for comments.If you are marketing on the internet, you really need to use Firefox, or Flock as your web browser. They are so much better than Internet Explorer. I would like to thank you for the efforts you have made in writing this article. I am hoping the same best work from you in the future as well. In fact your creative writing abilities has inspired me
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Blog - loads has been happening out there in the “do follow” world.. I’ll be reading across the blogoshpere and hope to do an update once I’ve digested all the guidelines and own come to There are those conclusions. I’ve heard some rumors that stopping comments is no longer valuable, so that’s somewhat I’d as to investigate and get coming back to you all on.
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Thanks for tips…I dont even know that wordpress comes with default no follow .. anyway changed the code..but I am having hard time with spammer ..even though I have did every possible think I can do
Beware of being dofollow on everything. I know it’s an exciting “movement” and all that but there is a reason Google penalizes too many outlinks and not enough backlinks. I used to be dofollow but learned the hard way. I was once a PR5, then a PR0, now I’ll take my PR2 and selective outlinking. Hopefully I’ll get back to where I once was now that I’m more careful.Thanks for the article.
Great! Thank you very much for that great post. That will be much easier to find dofollow sites now.
Thanks!
Thats what we need. Thanks for your info.
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I’m not sure if the word “revealing” is the best one to use to describe your content. “Helpful” might be a start but I’d say “informative” would be a good label for this blog.
Obviously the blogs that are dofollow will have over 10 or more comments on their pages, while the nofollow sometimes not even 1 comment displayed.
Your are very right because Firefox and SEO for Firefox are best to determine that if a blog is do follow or no follow. If you would only have Internet Explorer then you can determine it either, Just install Seo Quake on internet explorer and it will do the same which SEO for firefox does for Firefox.
I’d be lost without do-follow blogs. Well, I’d be struggling with SEO, put it that way. I use Quirk SearchStatus firefox plugin - look it up.
I am confused. I know this blog is do-follow but it shows some highlighted links……
Please tell what is the wrong? I have little knowledge.
Thanks I have been searching for the answer about the difference between dofollow and nofollow.
Thanks for the article. I think I have the hang of do and nofollow now.
Acai, Where you saw those highlighted links? I can’t see them in any comments? I think that must indicator for something else.
You can also just right click on a comment link in Firefox and click Properties. One of the few things it says about the link is either “external” or “external nofollow.”
Shave a few seconds off of everyone’s SEO morning routine, yeah?
Just a word of warning to you guys - some sites have like a fake do follow plugin. It takes awhile for the plugin to detect the link on certain websites. It will appear to be do-follow for a few minutse. but if you let it sit, you will see it to be no-follow.
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