Hi Bloggers, we all want to gain as many links as we can pointing back to our blog. These links help increase our Page & Search Engine Rankings. I have over the past few months commented on many blogs that carry the NoFollow tags, but from a Internet Marketer’s point of view I needed to stay away from these. I agree partially with NoFollow tags because they reduce comment spam. Which to be honest is the worst part of running my blog. But if your like me, I only leave comment’s that add value to the blog post and sometimes it would be nice to get something back in return.

What are NoFollow Tags

NoFollow Tags were introduced to reduce comment spam

Search Engines give no link credit to site’s that carry the NoFollow Tags

A NoFollow Tag looks like this <a rel=”nofollow” href=”http://www.yoursite.com”>

How to find out if a Blog is using NoFollow Tags using the Firefox Browser

I have just recently moved browsers from ie to firefox which I should of done years ago I’m loving it. There is a Firefox add-on you can download that will easily let you find out which blog’s are using the NoFollow Tags. It is called Search Status all you need to do is download the add-on and reboot firefox and your ready to go.

Here’s how it works

Once you have rebooted firefox you will see a Q shaped symbol in the bottom left hand side of your browser. Right click on this and it will bring up a list just click on ‘Highlight NoFollow Links’. What’s great about this add-on also is you can do many more things with it, than just hightlighting NoFollow Links. You can view the whois, you can see robots.txt you can see how many pages are indexed. All in all its a great addition to your firefox browser.

Now that you have highlighted the NoFollow links when you go to someone’s blog if a link is NoFollow it will be highlighted in pink. It’s as simple as that.

Happy Blogging and Good Luck to all of you

The Part Time Blogger!

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