Want to check if a link is dofollow or nofollow? And want to check it on Gogle’s chrome without using the help of any extension?

It’s easy!

Please find below practical ways to check the nature of any URL.

All about how to check if a link is dofollow or nofollow without using any extension?

Ever heard about blog commenting services?

Nearly a decade and half of a decade back, commenting on anyone’s blog used to be the smartest and quickest way to get a back link for your own blog.

This made people spam the internet with blog comments – filling up unrelated and low quality comment on good pieces of articles.

But it didn’t end there.

Gradually, spammy sites started ranking better – in many cases outranking the high quality sites.

Google had to do something to contain the outbreak of spammy comments

Then in 2005 Google added the nofollow attribute into their search algorithm – which was eventually followed by other search engines

It allowed websites to link to external sources while telling Google not to trust them. In response, Google would simply ignore the link.

Whereas; dofollow is actually a link in its default state. It sends Google the signal to trust it and not ignore it.

HTML tag for nofollow link –

<a href=”http://www.example.com/” rel=”nofollow”>Link Text</a>

Pls note the (rel=“nofollow”) is the special attribute that makes the link nofollow

HTML tag for dofollow link –

A dofollow link however doesn’t consist of any special attributes in the link

How to check if a link is dofollow or nofollow on Google Chrome without any tool

Option #1 (Inspect Page)

• Go to the link you want to check
• Then right click on it and click “Inspect” option
• Now a window will show up on the right side of the page with the HTML version of the link highlighted

In the above example, the link is dofollow because the rel=“nofollow” special attribute is not added.

Option #2 (View Page Source)

• Another way to accomplish this task is to –
• Now right click on a page and click “View Page Source” option.
• This activity will open a new window containing the HTML code for the entire web page. Press CTRL +F and type in the desired URL.

If you can spot rel=“nofollow” attribute (which is available in the above case) then it is a no follow link

Are nofollow links good?

Nofollow links ask Google to ignore them, but they don’t stop human readers from clicking them. There are many examples where nofollow links earned a website due benefits.

Let’s talk about it ….some other time?

Thanks for reading!