If you remember, I posted an entry on the do follow and no follow tags for comments.  We received a comment from one of readers which goes (thanks for commenting, btw):

I am new to dofollow, nofollow. I understand that no-follow means no backlink, do follow means you can get a backlink, but how do you tell if a site is do follow or not? BTW, nice blog, I found you from Cour’ts D-List
Medic

So indeed, how do you know if a blog is a do follow or a no follow?  One easy “trick” to do so is this:

-Use Firefox to do your browsing.
-Click on the comments section of the blog in question.
-Right click on any link from a comment.
-Click Properties.
-Look for the value corresponding to Relation.
-If it says External, then it is a do follow blog.  If the value is External nofollow then it is a no follow blog.

I am not sure but I think the default for most blogging templates is to have a no follow tag.  So, if you want to have do follow blog, there are some things that you can do to change that.  We’ll talk about this in another post.

On the subject of finding do follow blogs, however, you can look for the I Follow logo.  Other than these things, I do not know how to find out if a blog is do follow or no follow.  Any ideas?

7 Comments to "Do Follow Or No Follow?"

  • Marc Klein said: On 05/26/2008 at 11:16 am

    Well the thoughts expressed by the reader in his comments are worth considering. He has very wisely commented on the blog.

  • Eerik said: On 05/27/2008 at 6:55 pm

    I also removed the nofollow from my blog, xptricks.net. It seems to attract more visitors..

  • Halim said: On 06/01/2008 at 2:49 pm

    I’m not understood about no follow or do follow, does these mean other people cannot see the URL of commenter?

  • Gout Treatments said: On 06/02/2008 at 1:50 am

    Thank you for the explanation. I use firefox and tried this on this page so I could practice what you said to do and it said under properties “external no follow” for Eerik’s name and “no follow” for his link.

    Since you are do follow, do you use a time frame to do follow or am I just doing the process incorrectly?

    Thanks,

    Medic

  • JCH said: On 06/05/2008 at 2:52 pm

    If you use FF there is a simple plug-in that renders every nofollow link an attractive bubblegum pink. I am still trying to remove nofollow by editing the widget html in my blog but so far with no success. I’ll try one of the plug ins you have listed on theGetting Rid of No Follow posts and see if I have more luckwith that. Thanks for the info.

  • Data Entry Services said: On 07/11/2008 at 12:21 pm

    I didn’t find a Relation property when I clicked on your comment links but I know you are dofollow?

    Thanks!

  • John Doro said: On 07/14/2008 at 9:43 am

    I just join the dofollow club, too.

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