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In Advanced Mode, SEO-Browser will show links that have “no follow” tags. Let’s look at an example.

Recently, Chris Boggs wrote an article called “SEO Tools — Worth the Time and Money?” on SearchEngineWatch that included a link to www.seo-browser.com.

While I was reading the article I wondered if this page on SEW was an actual link or if they had used a “no follow” tag to prevent passing on any link love. The former being ideal.

Using SEO-Browser it is easy to see that the link is real and that all the love is being passed on to our humble tool.  [Thanks Chris!]

Here is how you check.
1. Copy the URL of the page you want to look at. In this case, http://searchenginewatch.com/3635712.
2. Go to SEO-Browser and paste the URL into the Address field, then click Parse.
3. Click on Advanced Mode.
4.  In the details section you will see a section called “# of Links” and beside that the number of links with a “no follow” tag. By the way, 29 links that are not followed is quite a few and concerned me at first.
5. Click on the number “29″ and a small embedded window will pop-up showing all the links. Here you will see that the link to SEO-Browser.com is not on the list. Excellent.
6. If you click on the number beside External you will see that there is a link to SEO-Browser on that list. This is good.
7. But there is another way to tell if a link has a “no follow” tag. If you scroll down the page in SEO-Browser, you will see some links are red. All red links have “no follow” tags; all blue links are actual links.

Tags: no follow, no follow tag

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