Comments on: Seeing nofollow links

By: John Harris

John Harris — Tue, 31 May 2011 16:11:49 +0000

“Alan June 4, 2007 at 10:16 pm

Eventually, all links will have a nofollow tag and google’s system of the value of links will be stone dead. And the google index will be reduced to a few million pages – all of them on google properties.”

Sad, but true. I really do feel Google has lost sight of the fact it’s a search engine. Or at least, was It’s fast become a jack of all trades, and master of none, with it’s saving grace being that it’s been branded so well, impeccably in fact, that it’s still *the* #1 ‘SE’ of choice.

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:22:55 +0000

Isn’t there a faster “plug&play” solution? Like installing an addon or something? Don’t want to mess around with code .

By: Wedding Invitations Guy

Wedding Invitations Guy — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 09:49:54 +0000

Actually there is a ready-made easy to install extension for firefox named NoDoFollow. Mine is version 1.1. What is does is actually put a link to your “right-click” menu that activates/deactivates the nofollow link detection.

This add-on works similar as you described here Matt. Reds the unfollow and greens the dofollows.

Cheers,

By: Bruce Smeaton

Bruce Smeaton — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 10:17:17 +0000

Hi Matt… I am wanting to know if rel=’external’ (as opposed to rel=’external nofollow’) prevents page rank from being passed on?

Cheers,

Bruce

By: Omri

Omri — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:27:18 +0000

Say I have a site linking to one of my pages and this page has the robots meta tag set to “noindex”, “nofollow”. Will this incoming link still count as an incoming link for my domain?

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:16:40 +0000

Thanks, that helps alot. I wanted to know about back-linking pages and if its smart to prevent the search enginge from seeing or spidering them. By back-linking pages, I mean a page thats designated to use for links to link back to partners.

By: Haldia

Haldia — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:57:13 +0000

Hi,
I have no idea why I found your page so late. I was always facing problem with nofollow and dofollow. Your solution is really helpful. Thanks

By: Larimar Rings

Larimar Rings — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 01:00:25 +0000

what is funny is I implemented this hack as you described, then i waded through the comments and saw Craig Raw say that he put this into his SearchStatus plugin. as it turns out i’m already using that plugin and i had no idea it had that option! its actually better since you can toggle it on and off at will without having to edit the chrome and restart firefox. cheers for the great idea though

By: Neil

Neil — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:02:13 +0000

This is a good tool people – go to big G and search for “firefox nofollow” – you will see the Add on for Firefox. It’s a simple extension to highlight links in a page according to nofollow / dofollow status. This tool is a must have! Enjoy.

By: Henrik

Henrik — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 20:44:57 +0000

I once had this supersweet nofollow plugin for Firefox, it only showed nofollow links as red, not anything else, just cant seem to find the right one, I keep bumping into these SEO packs with too much info I find elsewhere.