View External Nofollow Links in Google Webmaster Tools
A few days ago I posted a feature request for Google Webmaster Tools to provide some nofollow information on external links. More or less right after I posted the request, I started putting together my own Greasemonkey script to provide the functionality I was seeking. When I was nearly complete with my Greasemonkey script, I revisited my post in Google Groups and saw that someone mentioned a Firefox addon that provides PageRank and nofollow status for external links in Google Webmaster Tools. The Firefox addon does exactly what I was looking for plus it also provides PageRank information.
Yoast SEO Link Analysis Firefox Addon
Rather than let my hard work go to waste, I figured I would go ahead and post my Greasemonkey script here. I’m not crazy about how the Yoast script has the information displayed. I prefer the way I simply added a column without changing the “look and feel” of the page. I will probably add PageRank functionality to it when I find the time. I’ll just add another column that has the linking site PageRank, once again to preserve the look and feel of
Google Webmaster Tools. I’ll either have to find a service with an API for PageRank or find a nice PageRank checking site to scrape (I’m open to suggestions if you have any).
Screenshot of My Greasemonkey Script
My script does have one feature that the Yoast script does not have. By default it will remove rows that are either nofollow or where a link to the page was not found. That way you will only see links that can be verified to be contributing towards your PageRank. You can turn this feature on or off in the Greasemonkey
User Script Commands menu. To disable the features, just click the
Cancel button on the popups you get on the menu commands. To (re)enable them, just click
OK on the popups. I was too lazy to make a better interface for enabling/disabling the row removal feature, but what I have works (and does so with very little code). My script also displays a “Loading…” message for each row, although I’d hardly call that a feature.
Install the Script
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My buddy heman showed me this. Dude this rocks the socks off all the blocks. w00t.
Thank you very much for that greasemonkey script, works an absolute treat and it's neat & tidy too. Good job
Webマスターツールnofollowリンクを排除できるgreasemonkeyのスクリプト・No……
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Thx 4 sharing this.
This is what I look for.
Thanks for this tool, working really great.
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Yes, there is firefox addon you can use to see which links are nofollo won the fly. You can also look at the page souce but firefox addon is easier
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I think that nofollow is slowly dying out. It has been proven that even nofollow links have some weight now.
Very nice. Thank you
Thanks for sharing the script
[...] “View External Nofollow” adds 2 columns to Google Webmaster Tools table: Nofollow flag (’Yes’/’No’) and the linking page PR. The tools also by default deletes the lines with the nofollow attribute or with the non-existent links and show you only “valid” links and thus saves much of your time. [...]
Today I just found some links showed in google webmaster tool are no-follow,thanks for this useful script
Google Webmaster tools shows you exactly which links google has taken into account as to be your backlinks.
Thats a great help for webmasters too check there backlinks no matter it even shows the ones which you might havent seen in any of the backlink checking tools.