How to Check if the Blog Comment is Dofollow or Nofollow?

March 19, 2017

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Link building is the major segment of blogging which should be done along with generating the quality content to your blog. One of the best ways of link building is to comment on dofollow blogs which transfers page rank to your blog. Before continuing to our main topic about checking dofollow blog, let me explain a bit on do-follow vs no-follow tags in links.

What are dofollow and nofollow links?

“No-follow” is nothing but a HTML tag that tells search engines to not follow the links of the page, it is usually written as rel=”no-follow” combined with the link. No-follow attribute can be also specified in the page meta by entering content=”nofollow” which instructs search engines to not crawl any links of the page.

Dofollow blogs transfers their page rank to targeted links hence commenters usually write comments on such blogs to get higher page ranks. But how to check if the blog is dofollow or nofollow? Because by default WordPress comes with “no-follow” attribute and only few people allow dofollow to their comments. So here is the simple trick to check whether the blog you are about to comment is dofollow or nofollow.

You can also get dofollow links from Commentluv blogs: Read how to search Commentluv enabled blogs using Google

How to find blogs without nofollow tag?

Google Chrome has some useful extensions to highlight dofollow links. The nofollow chrome extensions we have discussed below draws outline to nofollow links. To filter links-

First of all install any one of the Google Chrome extensions given below
Go to the blog post which already have some comment(s)
Have a look at any comment already written, if the author link of the comment is outlined then it is a nofollow blog else it is dofollow blog. Notice these two comments, first one is dofollow as it is not outlined and the second one is no-follow blog.

Free Google Chrome Extensions to Find Out DoFollow and NoFollow Links

NoFollow

NoFollow checker extension outlines no-follow links and along with this it detects and displays no-follow and noindex meta tags on webpages in a small popup on the bottom left corner of the screen area. You can also customize the outline with CSS in option panel.

Nofollow Spotter

Nofollow Spotter adds red background along with red border to no-follow links. Check out this simple chrome plugin over here.

Astral Nofollow Checker

Astral nofollow chrome extension displays “follow” or “no-follow” text in a popup on hovering your mouse over a link. Try it over here.

Along with these plugins you can also give a try to SEO for Chrome and SEOquake to check nofollow and dofollow blogs. If you are using Firefox, you can install “no-follow checker firefox“.

69 COMMENTS

Bob June 25, 2013 At 4:15 am

Great! I just installed the NoFollow plugin on Chrome. This is a lot better than the way I was doing it…. manually entering the url at SEOrankings.

Thanks!

Jave July 10, 2013 At 6:17 am

Thank you for this simple yet straight to the point article. I’ve installed the Nofollow extension and can now see that this comment has a rel:nofollow to it! haha.. 🙂

- Shrinivas July 10, 2013 At 9:37 am
  
  Glad you liked this article Jave.. 🙂
  
Evinizi Yenileyin July 19, 2013 At 9:12 am

Well, if you have Google Chrome, you may also check by right clicking on the comment name and selecting “Inspect element”, but I guess this also works out as well. Thanks!

Davetiye July 19, 2013 At 7:35 pm

Great! I just installed the NoFollow plugin on Chrome. This is a lot better than the way I was doing it…. manually entering the url at SEOrankings.

- Vikas March 6, 2014 At 4:08 pm
  
  Thanks for the suggestion my friend.
  
hassam July 23, 2013 At 3:23 pm

Really thanks you for suggest No follow plug for chrome

Nia Rianti July 25, 2013 At 5:36 pm

Thank you for the info…

Easy to follow article. Installed mine on my browser

- Shrinivas July 25, 2013 At 6:22 pm
  
  Thank you Nia.. Nice to hear 🙂
  
Bobbie August 3, 2013 At 9:36 am

I have heard little bit about watermarking but now i have a clear mind after read your blogging archives.

Shrinivas August 7, 2013 At 10:24 am

Thank you Allii, It doesn’t matter much, most of the blogs who write sponsored post are nofollow..

David Collett August 8, 2013 At 7:51 am

Ha! this is cool! added the extension and now the comments on this page are clearly all no-follow (which is not a problem).

A very convenient way to check follow/no-follow links for websites…

Does setting a blog/website to follow instead of no -follow have any affect on its ranking since there will be many outbound links?

- Shrinivas August 9, 2013 At 5:03 pm
  
  Thank you David.. Your website transfers its Google page rank (PR) to outbound links if you make your website do-follow..
  
vinay kumar August 12, 2013 At 7:25 pm

HI,

thanks for sharing this list of do follow blog commenting site list

Emaniuz Collection August 15, 2013 At 9:29 am

this is way more easy way than checking the section manually or via inspect element in chrome.

Mitchell Hoost August 18, 2013 At 7:19 am

Just what im looking for thanks for the share m8, do you know a tool that can test a list of url’s ??

- Shrinivas August 18, 2013 At 6:45 pm
  
  I am glad you liked this article, ScrapeBox comes up with bulk do-follow and no-follow checker tool, but it’s a shareware..
  
Brian August 19, 2013 At 5:46 pm

Wow this plugin actually works like a charm. I am glad I came across this article, this is going to surely save me time. Thanks a lot.

- Shrinivas August 19, 2013 At 6:20 pm
  
  Thank you Brian 🙂
  
John August 26, 2013 At 11:11 pm

Thanks for sharing. This comes in when I needed it. However, I downloaded the NoFollow extension for Chrome but I actually don’t understand how it works. The chain icon will show up in some websites while it won’t on other websites. Does it mean it won’t show up on blogs with dofollow links?

- Shrinivas August 28, 2013 At 11:29 am
  
  Hi John, to know do-follow or no-follow blog install the suggested plugins scroll down to any blog’s comment section, if the author link has outline then it is no-follow else do-follow.
  
Sonal Sharma August 27, 2013 At 4:35 pm

Well everyone today is looking for do-follow comment blogs but they forget that Google don’t like it when you have only dofollow links since it will make the links un-natural and your site will get penalized by Penguin. Links should be combination of Do-follow and no-follow… What do you say?

- Shrinivas August 28, 2013 At 11:22 am
  
  Well said..
  
isstrani August 31, 2013 At 10:01 pm

Thank you for your tips…

Pritam August 31, 2013 At 11:58 pm

Great post !
I just searching out for do follow blogs.
You article really helped me.
Thanks

- Shrinivas September 1, 2013 At 12:50 pm
  
  Hi Preetam.. I am glad it helped you..
  
tarikblog September 3, 2013 At 7:53 pm

Thanks for sharing. This comes in when I needed it.

Stephen Lin September 7, 2013 At 12:30 am

It’s a useful way to distinguish nofollow from dofollow. Thanks for sharing

- Shrinivas September 7, 2013 At 8:16 am
  
  Thanks for the feedback Stephen..
  
kajalarora September 9, 2013 At 1:31 pm

thanks for sharing your thought because from your tips i can got great benefit.

thanks again

Selena September 15, 2013 At 11:44 pm

Nicely written post on how to find out that any blog’s dofollow or nofollow. It will surely help me to find out suitable blogs for link juice. Thank you very much for sharing this valuable info.

Sagar Desai September 18, 2013 At 1:20 am

Really informative post. With these extension it is quite easy to find the dofollow and nofollow links.

- Shrinivas September 18, 2013 At 8:24 am
  
  Thank you Sagar.. Google Chrome has made our job easy..
  
Devashree September 23, 2013 At 11:24 am

Just found what I was looking for 🙂 Nice post, helped me a lot as I am a Newbie in this blogging world. Thanks a lot!!

- Shrinivas September 23, 2013 At 11:31 am
  
  We are glad this resource helped you Devashree.. 🙂 Thank you..
  
Dejvis Devic October 10, 2013 At 4:33 am

Oh.Really nice tool,really makes things simple.Thanx

- Shrinivas October 10, 2013 At 8:24 am
  
  Thank you Dejvis..
  
Isagani Esteron November 5, 2013 At 7:35 am

Thanks for sharing. I use nofollow chrome extension and makes my life so much easier.
It is quite frustrating that most blogs are nofollow by default, although I think that a mix of dofollow and nofollow make a good backlink profile. Thanks.

- Shrinivas November 5, 2013 At 7:54 am
  
  Thank you for your compliment Isagani Esteron, we are glad this article helped you 🙂
  
Shrinivas February 4, 2014 At 8:26 pm

Hi Ananad, thanks for dropping by.. By default WordPress uses no-follow tag and it is good as it won’t transfer the pagerank..

Rafay Ansar February 13, 2014 At 9:39 pm

Finally came to know what is dofollow and what is nofollow. Thanks a lot for help.

Top Eleven Token Hilesi February 20, 2014 At 1:42 pm

Thank you, its a good idea.

Lilly Mae February 27, 2014 At 6:16 pm

the Add-on works great. thanks

sandy April 2, 2014 At 8:51 pm

Thank you for the info. Hope it will help me find the type of links.

Kereta Sewa Shah Alam May 14, 2014 At 10:10 am

Thank you for the info. i have added one of the extensions and realized I’ve been commenting to nofollow blogs all this while.

Great article.

Tiang lampu jalan May 27, 2014 At 2:10 pm

Shrinivas thanks for this how-to guidance!

Mahesh Gurav. December 17, 2014 At 2:31 pm

Hello Shrinivas..
Hope you doing well..Really good tips for identifying Do-follow and no follow Blogs because we always require Do-follow backlinks ..

- Shrinivas December 17, 2014 At 4:53 pm
  
  Thank you for dropping by Mahesh Gurav.
  
amlik December 30, 2014 At 9:45 pm

Thanks Shrinivas for this guide. Also, i stumbed on a site the other day that finds do follow links and edu gov links. Would appreciate if you know which one I’m talking about.

Microjoburi December 31, 2014 At 3:53 pm

Thanks for this article now know how to findofollow links .

Arslan Tahir January 11, 2015 At 6:14 pm

great sharing, i am newbie in blogging surely going to install this useful extension Great work keep it up

- Shrinivas January 14, 2015 At 7:39 pm
  
  Thank you for dropping by.. 🙂
  
jasa desain logo January 23, 2015 At 1:22 am

Great thanks brooo!! nice article, keep up the good work!

Marco January 24, 2015 At 2:59 pm

Excellent post and great resources. Unfortunately also this comment will be “NoFollow”, but I was able to find it thanks to your suggestion! .-) Thanks for sharing your content,
Marco

- Shrinivas January 24, 2015 At 4:35 pm
  
  I am glad the article helped you!.. 🙂
  
Paul Johnson January 28, 2015 At 8:11 am

This has been very useful. I just learned of this issue after investigating why much of my blog commenting has not yielded back links. Thanks!

Arindra Mishra February 7, 2015 At 11:31 pm

Hey Shrinivas, thank for for this tiny but very useful hack. It shall be of great help to the blogger and web builder community out here. Already there are so many comments here but another thank-you never hurts.

- Shrinivas February 11, 2015 At 7:35 am
  
  Thank you Arindra Mishra 🙂
  
Bibek March 8, 2015 At 11:13 pm

Howdy
i must say your blog page is really clear in view … nice set up
Talking about the blog post its a thumbs up post
thanx a lot

sandeep March 31, 2015 At 2:00 pm

hi
thank for sharing
it very useful to me

Krishna Mandrekar April 2, 2015 At 7:12 pm

Easy to follow article. Installed mine on my browser

Jageshwar April 3, 2015 At 3:44 pm

There is one great website, worldbank.org, which allowed dofollow links but suddenly stopped the linking of comment author and in body. What if they remove the link posted there?
The linking policy with respect to dofollow and nofollow must be declared just like privacy policy, my suggestion.

SEO is biggest driving force of Internet which need to be more clear in rules and ethics so that one can adopt it as full time career “with confidence”.

Sachin Bansal April 16, 2015 At 6:50 pm

Great article on DoFollow and NoNollow backlinks. The language used is simple to understand, even for a novice reader. Thanks!

sandeep May 12, 2015 At 12:21 pm

hi
Great post!! For any website, we need to know certain tips and you have shared tips on it.Thank you very much for discussing sharing interesting tips.it’s very helpful to me .
thank u

RiskSmart May 16, 2015 At 11:09 am

Thanks for writing this really impressive post.

Pankaj Gupta May 19, 2015 At 3:11 pm

Well everyone today is looking for do-follow comment blogs but they forget that Google don’t like, It should be combinations of both do-follow and no-follow. Excellent details being shared about do-follow and no-follow. Thanks for this information.

Arjan May 22, 2015 At 5:11 pm

But what if there aren’t any comments on that blog? Then how do I check if the backlink in my comment will be a do-follow backlink?

- Shrinivas May 22, 2015 At 6:26 pm
  
  Hi Arjan, the plugins mentioned over here needs minimum one comment on the post to know if they are do-follow or no-follow.
  
Julie Davis August 22, 2015 At 10:08 pm

Thanks. I also found one for Firefox as well https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/nodofollow/