Paste any page and see every link on it classified as dofollow or nofollow — with sponsored and ugc flagged separately, internal split from external, and the whole set exportable. No signup, no credits.
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Any public page — a guest post you were placed on, a competitor's resource page, or your own article.
Each link is marked dofollow or nofollow, with rel=sponsored and rel=ugc called out separately and internal split from external.
Narrow to external or nofollow only, then download the whole set as CSV for your records or your client report.
There is no rel="dofollow" in HTML. A “dofollow” link is just a normal link with nothing telling search engines to discount it, and those are the links that can pass ranking signals. A nofollow link carries rel="nofollow", which since March 2020 Google treats as a hint rather than an absolute instruction — it may still crawl and understand the link, but you should not count on it for rankings.
Since 2019 Google has had three discounting values, not one. sponsored is for paid and affiliate links, ugc for comments and forum posts, nofollow for everything else you cannot vouch for. Most checkers collapse all three into “nofollow”. This one reports them separately, because a site that tags your paid placement sponsored is telling Google something specific — and you should know that before you pay, not after.
This is the fastest piece of due diligence in link building. Take two or three of a publisher's existing guest posts, run them through the checker, and look at the external links. If every outbound link is nofollowed, a placement there passes no ranking value however good the Domain Rating looks. The tool flags that case explicitly, because it is the single most common way a paid placement quietly fails to deliver.
Do not chase a 100% dofollow backlink profile — real sites do not have one. Mentions from news sites, forums, social platforms and comment sections are overwhelmingly nofollow, and their absence is itself a pattern. Nofollow links still send referral traffic and still build brand recognition with real buyers. Use this checker to know what you are getting, not to reject everything that is not dofollow.
Link attributes are one of four cheap checks worth running on any prospect before money changes hands. Pair this with a Domain Rating check for link strength, a domain age check to catch sites built last quarter, and a backlink profile check to see who actually links to them. Together they take about two minutes and rule out most of what is wrong with the average seller list. It is the same sequence we run before a site joins our own inventory — the full standard is in how we vet sites.
A dofollow link is an ordinary link with no rel attribute telling search engines to discount it. There is no actual rel="dofollow" value in HTML — "dofollow" simply means the absence of nofollow. Those links can pass ranking signals to the destination, which is why they are what people are usually paying for when they buy a placement.
A nofollow link carries rel="nofollow", which tells Google not to pass ranking credit through it. Google introduced it in 2005 to fight comment spam. Since March 2020 it is treated as a hint rather than a strict directive, so Google may still use it for discovery and context — but you should assume a nofollow link passes little to no ranking value.
Paste the page URL above and this dofollow nofollow checker lists every link on it with its rel value and classification. Doing it by hand means right-clicking a link, choosing Inspect, and reading the rel attribute on the <a> tag — fine for one link, impractical for a whole page. This tool does the entire page at once and lets you export it.
Google added both in September 2019. rel="sponsored" marks paid or affiliate links; rel="ugc" marks user-generated content like comments and forum posts. Both discount the link in a similar way to nofollow. This checker reports them separately rather than lumping everything into "nofollow", because knowing a link was tagged sponsored tells you something nofollow alone does not.
Because a nofollowed placement is usually not what you are paying for. Plenty of sites sell guest posts and then nofollow every outbound link, or apply rel="sponsored" site-wide. Run the seller's existing posts through this checker before you buy: if their external links are all nofollowed, you know exactly what you would be getting. It takes seconds and it is the single cheapest piece of link due diligence there is.
Mostly no. Linking out to genuinely useful sources with normal dofollow links is good practice and does not "leak" meaningful authority. Reserve nofollow for links you cannot vouch for, use rel="sponsored" for anything paid or affiliate, and rel="ugc" for comments. Blanket-nofollowing every outbound link is a dated tactic that mostly signals a low-trust site.
No. It analyses the HTML the server returns, which is what most crawlers parse first. If a page injects links client-side after load, those will not appear here. For the overwhelming majority of blog posts, guest posts and resource pages — the pages people actually check — the server HTML contains every link.
The checker reads up to 500 links per page and tells you when a page has more. There is also a fair-use rate limit so the tool cannot be turned into a free crawler, but ordinary checking will never reach it. It is completely free, with no signup and no credits.
Not worthless, just not a ranking asset. Nofollow links from high-traffic sites still send referral visitors, still build brand awareness, and still get seen by real buyers — and a natural backlink profile contains plenty of them. A profile made up of nothing but dofollow links looks manufactured. Judge a link on the traffic and relevance it brings, not the rel attribute alone.
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