How to check nofollow or dofollow links on blog or website

So many web masters around Internet arena want to increase their pagerank and for that they want to links back from related higher page rank sites to their site. Here comes two terms nofollow tags and dofollow tags. If a link comes with rel="nofollow" attribute then that link will be treated as nofollow link. And if a link comes without any rel attribute then that link will be treated as dofollow link.

These dofollow and nofollow are important measure for google pagerank because google pagerank algorithm checks whether a backlink to a site is dofollow or nofollow. If the backlink is dofollow links and it is related site then that backlink is counted otherwise in case of nofollow links google does not count the links to determine the site's pagerank.

Following is the example of a dofollow and nofollow links.
1)Nofollow Example:
<a href="http://arjudba.blogspot.com" rel="nofollow">http://arjudba.blogspot.com is nofollow here</a>
which will look like below.
http://arjudba.blogspot.com is nofollow here

2)Dofollow Example:
<a href="http://arjudba.blogspot.com">http://arjudba.blogspot.com is dofollow here</a>
which will look like below.
http://arjudba.blogspot.com is dofollow here

At the very first after seeing both examples you can't say which one is dofollow link and which one is nofollow link. But still many ones want to determine whether a link is dofollow or nofollow. I have tried to present a list of ways by which you can check whether a link is dofollow or nofollow.

Way 01: Through Blog Compose option.
This way sometimes give me a quicker way to determine whether a link is dofollow or not. As I frequenly access blogger account, so I just copy the hyperlink, and just paste that hyperlink to my new post blog or to an existing blog in "Compose" mode. Then if you click "Edit Html" you can see whether the link is dofollow or nofollow.

Way 02: Right click on the page and view the source.
Almost in every browser has this facility. Right click on the page to which you want to check dofollow/nofollow links. Then select view page source. You will find the HTML of the page in which you can determine whether the link is dofollow/nofollow. In case of firefox browser you can highlight code and then you can select "view selection source" after right clicking in order to determine link attribute.

Way 03: Using SeoQuake plugin
If you are a firefox user then you can use thrid party plugin tool to determine nofollow or dofollow attributes. SeoQuake plugin is a good plugin I ever seen. So you can use SeoQuake to determine the list of links in a page and the attributes of those links. To do that,
- Install SeoQuake plugin. Just google search and install it.
- Restart firefox browser in order to effect plugin installation.
- Enable the SeoQuake plugin tool.
- Open the website/webpage on which you want to analysis nofollow or dofollow links.
- You will see "Links" on top bar of the plugin tool. There you can see both Internal and External links. Click those. You will find nofollow column and can check the attributes of the links in same page.

Way 04: Using firefox Properties
This is very easy way if you are a firefox user.
- Open the page in firefox to which you want to check link.
- Right click on the link.
- Select properties from the menu.
- You will see the link properties in a pop up window. If the relation field shows "nofollow" then the link is "nofollow". And if there is no relation field then the link is "dofollow". The following image will explain it,



Way 05: Any firefox Add-ons:
With any firefox add-ons tool you can use all links in a page whether no follow or not. For example you can use http://www.quirk.biz/searchstatus/ or https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5687 mozilla firefox plugin tool.
The procedure is like below.
- Download and install the plugin.
- Restart firefox after installation.
- Enable add ons.
- Open the page.
- From Tools menu select NoDoFollow or as the name there for your toolbar.

Related Documents
http://arjudba.blogspot.com/2009/10/seo-link-building-directory-article.html
http://arjudba.blogspot.com/2009/06/how-to-get-targeted-backlinks-to-your.html