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I have a small doubt, i.e., How to identify the blog has no-follow attributes.

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Quick addendum to the thread: several replies (for example , , , and ) pointed toward checking source or using browser helpers. Those are fine quick checks, but a modern, reliable routine looks for a few specific things beyond just the literal string "nofollow" — the link-level tokens rel="nofollow", rel="ugc" and rel="sponsored" and page-level directives like a robots meta tag or an X-Robots-Tag header. Google now treats those rel values as hints (not absolute rules), and ugc is the recommended marker for user-generated links such as comments. (developers.google.com)

Practical checklist to follow on any comment thread: inspect the final anchor element in the browser’s Elements/Inspector panel and look for a rel attribute on the <a> (it can contain multiple tokens, space- or comma-separated, and is case‑insensitive). Don’t rely only on the raw page file you first received: JavaScript can add or change rel attributes after load, so use DevTools to see the live DOM. (developer.mozilla.org)

Page-level rules can override link signals: check the page head for a <meta name="robots" content="..."> and check HTTP headers for X-Robots-Tag. A quick server-header check (or DevTools Network tab) will show X‑Robots‑Tag entries. Example curl test to fetch headers: 

curl -I https://example.com/path/to/post | grep -i X-Robots-Tag

If that header or a noindex,nofollow meta appears, search engines may ignore links on the whole page. (developers.google.com)

One last practical note: many WordPress installs began adding rel="ugc"/nofollow to comment links by default (since WP 5.3), so seeing ugc on comment links is common and expected. Also remember that marking a link nofollow/ugc/sponsored signals preference; it’s not a guaranteed block of all indexing or crawling. Inspect the anchor token(s) and the HTTP/meta directives for the authoritative answer. (wordpress.org)

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Member Avatar for webwest

Either view the page source code for nofollow or download an seo toolbar that has "show nofollow" links built into it

Member Avatar for victoriawinters

SEO toolbar is the answer.

Member Avatar for bettsnirvana

download a seo search status from seo book. a site that was shade of red show that sites are no follow site.

Member Avatar for rogermatin

hi,
You can check follow & no follow by using SEO tool bar otherwise right click on web page and then check page source code of that particular web site.

Member Avatar for Allison2009

Thanks for all the help. It was very helpful.

Thanks again

Member Avatar for theemerchant

If you're not familiar with the donofollow addon on firefox, you can easily go to every post where the comment is present, press CTRL U , or view source, and then press CTRL F for find, and type in the word 'no-follow'. If it's there, there yoir comment id definitely in a no follow page.

Member Avatar for josephajain

Go to the selection source of that link and see in that whether no-follow is written or not...

Member Avatar for family checkout

just google for all dofollow blog so you won't have to check the source code of the blogs your commenting.

Member Avatar for redesignunit

Many toolbar available in google just search with related keyword

Member Avatar for goclarkanderson

Simply go into the source code of the website.
:-)

Member Avatar for AirForceOne

I think seoquake add-on for Firefox would help you for this purpose. It has a feature called 'line-through nofollow and noindex'. :)

Wish this help,

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I have a small doubt, i.e., How to identify the blog has no-follow attributes.

You can install addons on Mozilla about identifying DoFollow and NoFollow. Here's the link:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=dofollow&cat=all

Just a simple extension to highlight links in a page according to nofollow / dofollow status.

Member Avatar for Angela12

There is a addon in mozilla firefox which helps to know whether the blog is do follow or no follow. Just put no follow addon in google and you will get it.

Member Avatar for redesignunit

SEO 4 Firefox can help so download

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