You may wonder why after several months of advertising and promoting your site and posting your link in many pages of blogs and forums, you still have a lower PR and few backlinks. This is because most of the sites where you posted your link does have a “nofollow” enabled.

There is a big disadvantage when linking from a “nofollow” site because search engines does not recognize your link from those sites. This is the main reason why your links cannot be seen in google or yahoo pages.

It is always advisable to post your link to blogs and forums that has “dofollow” enabled so that when a search engine crawls that certain blog or site (where your link is posted), your site will get recognized and will be indexed, especially by google.

So how to find out if the site is “nofollow” or “doffolow”?

Mozilla Firefox has a plugin where you can automatically see if the site you are browsing has a “nofollow” or dofollow” features enabled. This plugin is called Searchstatus.

Searchstatus is very useful and it automatically shows the PR and Alexa rank of the page you are browsing.  Here is an example of Searchstatus

showing PR and Alexa rank. It can be seen in your task bar and shows a lot of features. It can also show the page’s meta tags, link status, whois, and many more.

What important here is that, Searchstatus can actually detect if the page you are browsing has “nofollow” or “dofollow” enabled. It will highlight the links for “nofollow” if the blog has a “nofollow” enabled as you can see in the image below.

The image on the left shows that the posters’ links cannot be seen or followed by search engines when they crawl this page because this page has a “nofollow” enabled.

All you need to do is to right click on that @ sign of your Searchstatus firefox plugin to see the option and check the “Highlight nofollow links”.

Mine is always turned ON because every time I stumbled into a “dofollow” blog, I always leave a comment. A single comment in a “dofollow” blog means 1 backlink so it’s very useful.

The image below, on the other hand shows that the page is a “dofollow” site. You may noticed that the posters’ names are not highlighted even though your Searchstatus “nofollow” plug-in is enabled. Others needs to check the meta tags of the page header to know if the site is “nofollow” or “dofollow” but remember that not all sites show the “follow” status on meta tags.

If your Searchstatus “nofollow” is ON and you stumbled into a blog where names of the posters are not highlighted (like what we have on the image above), you may post your comment as well linking your name to your site.


How can a “Dofollow” feature can help your blog to attract more visitors?

I turned myseoblog.net to “dofollow” so that my visitors are attracted to post their comments with their links. When google or other search engines crawls myseoblog.net, their links will be seen and will be recognized as valid backlink.

Pretty simple: If your site is a “dofollow” site, many visitors wants to post their links because they know that they can have a valid backlink from your site.

Lastly, if you are running a wordpress script, it is very easy to turn your blog into “dofollow” using the “Dofollow WordPress Plugin”

Please leave a comment below if you have any question.