UK Expert SEO

If you are in the business of getting links placed and you want to do a fast ‘take’ on a website to see if

a. the links are clean:
You roll your mouse pointer over the links in question and see of the link address is the same as the advertised destination. (If you look at the bottom left corner of firefox, you will see the link address) If its not, then its not a ‘clean’ link.

b. they have ‘nofollow’
This is a tag which means ’search engines don’t go here’ - the problem is that on default firefox, unless you do ‘view source’ and trawl through the code, you won’t see the offending tag…bummer

Aside: I’m a big firefox fan, in fact most of the power user community seem to rave about it and for good reason!
Why? because you can do neat tricks like this….
Spot that nofollow tag fast !

(for XP users with firefox 2.0)
go here: C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\res\html.css ( or where you have put your firefox install)

and open it with whatever editor you uee (wordpad does nicely)

and add this at the bottom of the page

a[rel="nofollow"]
{
background-color: red !important;
color: white !important;
text-decoration: none !important;
}

Save and restart firefox and youre done !

Thanks to http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2005-01-19-n34.html for the css and the basic inspiration on this.