Comments on Florida Venture Blog by Dan Rua: Highlight NoFollow Links: Chrome "Plugin"

Personally, I'm a fan of using a line-through on n...

2009-09-30T20:48:31.135-04:00

Personally, I'm a fan of using a line-through on nofollowed links. It just feels more intuitive to me. You can easily modify this plugin to do this by replacing:

style.background='yellow'
with
style.textDecoration='line-through'

More themes and plugins can be found at http://ch...

2009-09-07T03:09:50.864-04:00

More themes and plugins can be found at

http://chromespot.com

Hey Dan, great tool. I created this same tool awhi...

2009-06-08T17:03:49.529-04:00

Hey Dan, great tool. I created this same tool awhile back, but the problem is there are so many variables people put in the rel attribute a simple "equals" statement doesn't cover it. I recommend using an "indexOf" search to find ALL links that a nofollow'ed. Here is my post on it: http://www.adamwlewis.com/articles/google-chrome-nofollow-tool

nice blog

2009-03-26T06:09:00.000-04:00

nice blog

@JDevereux: great suggestion, done!

2009-03-14T12:13:00.000-04:00

@JDevereux: great suggestion, done!

Thanks, nice little hack, but many sites use rel='...

2009-03-14T11:56:00.000-04:00

Thanks, nice little hack, but many sites use rel='external nofollow' instead of rel='nofollow'. Would be nice to highlight those too.

I'm not sure what you mean by "ignore" -- the tool...

2009-03-14T11:41:00.000-04:00

I'm not sure what you mean by "ignore" -- the tool just highlights based upon whether the nofollow exists.

BTW, none of those pagerank-passing experimental links are paid links. Most are to portfolio companies of mine or personal/family/friend projects.

Does it ignore the paid links in your left sidebar...

2009-03-14T00:17:00.000-04:00

Does it ignore the paid links in your left sidebar under "experiments?"

First, this isn't a webmaster tool that highlights...

2009-03-12T15:26:00.000-04:00

First, this isn't a webmaster tool that highlights links ongoing, for all visitors. It's just a tool for a specific Chrome user who wants to check links on a page they visit.

I guess the "value" depends upon whether and why a visitor checks. If they don't check, it probably has zero impact on the visit. If they do check and they support nofollow use, the existence of nofollow links could be a positive. If they do check and they do not support nofollow use, the existence of nofollow links could be a negative.

What's the saying "Tools don't kill people, people kill people"?

Doesn't that visually devalue a no-follow link, su...

2009-03-12T15:14:00.000-04:00

Doesn't that visually devalue a no-follow link, such as those required by Google in sponsored blogging campaigns?