How To Highlight nofollow Links In Firefox and Opera

Avinash

14 years ago

Building backlinks is the important task for building the authority of a website in Search Engine Ranking and leaving comments on other popular blogs of your niche is more popular way to get back links and traffic to your blog(s).Leaving comments on blogs with dofollow means the link is given importance by search bots during the bot crawl indirectly increasing organic traffic and also improving backlinks and to your blogs.

But identifying blogs with dofollow attribute is a bit hard, using browser addons and greasemonkey scripts makes it easy to identify dofollow links.Here’s a simple script that does the job on the fly.

If you are a firefox user and having installed GreaseMonkey Addon, then you can install the nofollowhighlight script, which highlights the nofollow links in pink color.The back ground color of the link can be changed by editing the “nofollowhighlight.user.js” file or the nofollow links have a strike through by changing the code in the javascript file.

To change the background color
change theStyle += "background-color: pink";
to
theStyle += "background-color: #EFE5D7";

To strike through nofollow links change –
theStyle += "background-color: pink";
to
theStyle += "text-decoration:line-through;";

If you are using Opera, Read How To Install GreaseMonkey Scripts in Opera.

Note : This scripts helps identify blogs for building better backlinks.Sometime the popularity of the site on which you leave comments also helps bringing in traffic even though its a nofollow site.So always leave good comments on all blogs/websites you follow.

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