How to find the number of DoFollow links on the homepage
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Dear SEOmozzers,
I just have a quick question. Can you please tell me how I can find out how many DoFollow links I have on the page of a site? I did a link exchange with a person who claims that she found 50+ DoFollow links on my homepage. How did she do that? What tool did she use to find out the number of DoFollow links on my homepage?
Thank you.
- Sal
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Hi Journeyman,
Thank you for the reply. One question I'd like to ask: is it bad to exchange links? The fact is that I have been offered a decent amount to show three links on my homepage. It's the only three links I am selling. I know that Google is against the sale of links, but do you think that only external three links on the homepage will signal Google that I have sold links?
Thank you and have a fantastic day.
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I used different tools for that, but just yesterday I installed SeoMoz Toolbar and it's very nice. You just click the type of link you want to see when you are on homepage and it highlights it.
Good luck
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One of the tools I use is seoquake. However, I turn off every feature except the "strike-through no follow and no-index." That way I can just quick glance at a page to see what kind of links are on there.
Also, hopefully you aren't just exchanging links to improve your link total.
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