No follow in links?

[pokerextras]

Sorry if this is a dumb question, but is there an easy way to find out if any unscrupulous webmasters have no followed any of the link exchanges we've done?

[sipka]

Look at the page source and search for rel="nofollow" at your link, also make sure the link is constructed using "<a href" and not with some Javascript code.

Download the website's robots.txt (xwww.otherdomain.com/robots.txt) or check it with a robots.txt editor on the web and see if the directory your link is placed in is not disallowed for the robots. (If your link can be found for example on the page: www.site.com/links/partners.html then look for entries in the robots.txt for the directory "links", and for the partners.html page too).

Hope this helps.

[Mr-AJ]

I love the SEO quake Toolbar. You can mark nofollow links which is very accurate and you can even find out if the page is cached or not in just a few clicks.

[Unknown Webmaster]

Edit: Just use the toolbar TrickyPlay mentioned, or the one from SEO Book.

Look at the code for the link - If it contains rel="nofollow" it is nofollowed.

[PTC]

Edit: Just use the toolbar TrickyPlay mentioned, or the one from SEO Book.

Look at the code for the link - If it contains rel="nofollow" it is nofollowed.

SEO book highlights nofollowed links in red if you choose, so no need to scan through source code. its good for checking your own sites too. You might find accidental nofollows or lack of nofollows where you want them.

[pokerextras]

Thanks everyone

[Unknown Webmaster]

If you do manual checking by reading the code, you should also look for
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOFOLLOW">

It makes all links on a page nofollow.

[Michael Martinez]

Some people may also use meta tags for specific search engines to nofollow their links. Sometimes SEOs do this to "drop off the radar" of popular link-research tools, which mostly use Yahoo! for backlink research.

[pvc]

I only use nofollow for links such as join, login etc which google don't need to index. Never use them for external links.

[CK]

SearchStatus | Firefox SEO Toolbar Extension

download this than right click the little q icon and select highlight no follow links. I leave mine on all the time but its quick and easy. Comes with a bunch of other features to but I like the nofollow one

I love the SEO quake Toolbar. You can mark nofollow links which is very accurate and you can even find out if the page is cached or not in just a few clicks.

Ive had issues with seo quake running to many queries that it gets buggy at times. I only use it when I absolutely need to