How Can We Know If A Forum Is Dofollow or Nofollow

[kyosukeminami]

as the title, i am trying to post an articles in a high page rank forum, and link the article to my site.

 

How could i know, that they use dofollow or nofollow methods?

 

Thanks.

 

 

[thepan]

Good evening

 

There is a plugin for chrome and firefox called "nofollow plugin" or something similar.

Also google is your friend: LINK

[parsifal]

Nowadays, the desktop versions of major web browsers have integrated developer tools which can help you find out.

 

For example, in Firefox you just need to visit the forum in question, find an existing link posted by another member, right-click it and select the option "Inspect element" (or one with similar wording in other browsers).

 

The browser should open a special panel which shows the HTML source of the whole page, focused on the part of the HTML that corresponds to the link in question. If you see something like that:

 

 

you have a straightforward answer to your question.