“Nofollow” attribute is being used by more and more people now. It is a good idea to spot other people’s tactics on how they are using it on their web pages.
There are a few FireFox plugins that allow you to instantly see ‘nofollowed’ links as you browse. I am sure, most of you are well aware of those addons but I found it necessary to remind you of them:
1. Search Status highlights links using ‘nofollow’ (Right-link the tool icon in the status bar and choose ‘Highlight Nofollow Links‘). What I like about the tool is that you don’t have to reload the page once the plugin is activated:
2. SEOQuake shows ‘nofollow’ and ‘noindex’ links:
And do you use similar tools to see ‘nofollow’ links as you browse? Share them!
Quirk’s Search Status is one of the 2 tools suggested to highlight nofollow links => http://tinyurl.com/c4rcgz
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This is not something that I do, since I am philosophically against the principle of this nofollow tag. The only place where this comes into play is that I am more inclined to comment on blogs where the commenter’s URL is without a nofollow tag. Otherwise it takes a lot to drag a comment out of me.
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I use the SEOmoz toolbar. Used to use SearchStatus but the dotted line around the highlighting is a bit messy and the extra pixel can mess up some page layouts, esp for images. MozBar’s one is much neater, plus i use the mozrank / moztrust metrics all the time.
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Mercy Livi Reply:
April 9th, 2009 at 4:54 am
I use the same.
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How about Aaron Wall’s SEO For Firefox!
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IrishWonder Reply:
April 16th, 2009 at 9:14 am
yes SEO4FF has the same functionality
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Don’t forget NoDoFollow: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5687
Together with my Web Developer Toolbar I must use this Firefox extension more than any other
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Fabio Ricotta Reply:
April 9th, 2009 at 3:54 am
I use same as you.
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I remember using SeoQuake, but dropping it for being overly annoying in promoting their paid version. Has anything changed since last year?
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Ann Smarty Reply:
April 9th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
I guess they still promote it but I am so used to them that never notice that
So that wasn’t annoying to me.
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I am very surprised that none of the links in you comment section are nofollow.
thanks!
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Ann Smarty Reply:
April 9th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
Yeah, we follow all comments
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I’ve tried a few programs but never really got into it, I might have to try again, thanks for the reminder!
Oh and a post about how and why to use no follow would be awesome!
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I use Greasemonkey and the nofollow script, similar to “search status” that you’ve mentioned here.
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I love to use SEO4Firefox which you can download from SEO Book.com.
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I use search status although my distrust of automated tools leads me to checking the source quite a bit
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I use a Stylish ext. for Firefox and style Highlight Nofollow Links and Images for this.
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Great tip(s) and information, great blog… I’ll have to try some of these. Thanks!
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10x for sharing this, will use it alot
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Thanxs to @AndyW for the rec to the NoDoFollow FF plugin. Pretty cool.
P.S. After hitting the “submit comment” button - i’m getting an error page stating javascript and cookies not enabled. But they are - so not sure if this comment is getting through. I think i’ve tried to leave comments here before and they don’t go through, because of that error page. Please look into it. Thx!
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Ann Smarty Reply:
April 11th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Thanks, Missy, we’ll look into that.
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this is a great tool especially for when you are link building!
the search status bar also has some other pretty handy tools which mean you don’t have to remember long search operators!
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I use nofollow in my internal linking.
I use it for links between pages that aren’t landing pages….
Started to do it after reading one of Rand Fishkin’s posts over at SEOmoz.
I read their posts… but I understand yours.
thanks for making it easy.
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I’ve used Quirk SearchStatus for a while now - it’s great! Easy to use and highlights NoFollow links well. Occasionally I’ve found it misses some for some reason, but most of the time it’s spot on!
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The text you add, is the same type of text that appears as a description for the bookmarks on browsers and on bookmarks on social bookmarking sites.
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I am really pleased to be here because this blog allow us to share the ideas without any moderation
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Thanks for the post - new tools for me. Would be useful to check a new website design before sign-off.
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Now I understand! Thanks!
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Thanks for the post - new tools for me. Would be useful to check a new website design before sign-off.
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Good firefox add on show nofollow links, alexa rank and back links etc,. I’ll download it.
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I have no idea about seoquake and searchstatus tools. I’ll use this tool and thanks for information.
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