FREE NOFOLLOW CHECKER
Nofollow and dofollow link checker
Enter a page URL to see every link it makes to other websites and its rel value: nofollow, sponsored, ugc or none of them, which SEO people often call dofollow. The checker also flags page-level nofollow set by a meta robots tag or the X-Robots-Tag header.
Check a page's links
What the labels mean
nofollow asks search engines not to associate your site with the linked page. sponsored marks paid or affiliate links, and ugc marks links in comments, forums and other user-generated content. A link can carry more than one. Google treats all three as hints rather than strict rules.
"Dofollow" isn't an HTML value. The "No link qualifier" count means a link has none of nofollow, sponsored or ugc. It says nothing about whether the link helps rankings or passes value. Tokens such as noopener and noreferrer concern browser behavior; they are not Google's link qualifiers.
Page-level nofollow
A page can make all its links nofollow at once with <meta name="robots" content="nofollow">, the none rule (noindex plus nofollow) or the same rules in an X-Robots-Tag HTTP header. <meta name="googlebot"> and a header starting with googlebot: apply only to Google. Header rules for other crawlers are listed with their crawler name; meta tags for other crawlers aren't read.
A page-level rule applies separately from the anchor's markup. It does not add rel="nofollow" to anchors with no link qualifier.
What the checker reads
LinkBunny's server makes one request for the page, follows up to five redirects and reads the HTML it gets back, up to 2 MB within 10 seconds. It doesn't run JavaScript, so links a script adds after loading won't appear. It never requests the linked pages.
Links to the page's own registrable domain count as internal, including subdomains: blog.example.com and example.com are the same site. On shared hosts such as github.io, each site is its own domain. Relative links are resolved against the final URL and any <base href>. The list shows up to 500 external links. Inspection stops at 5,000 anchors and does not resolve URL values over 2,048 characters. Counts cover inspected anchors; partial inspection is labelled.
The page's site sees an ordinary request from LinkBunny. LinkBunny doesn't store the URL or the results. Its logs keep counts and timings, not URLs. See the privacy policy.
Checking one expected link?
This tool lists every external link on a page. To confirm that a page links to one specific URL, with redirects and the destination's response checked, use the backlink placement checker. The placement guide explains how to read its results.
Which rel qualifier should I use?
Google prefers sponsored for advertisements and paid placements; nofollow remains acceptable for paid links. Use the qualifier that describes the relationship, then check what your CMS published.
| Relationship | Markup | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Advertisement or paid placement | rel="sponsored" | Google's preferred paid-link qualifier. Existing nofollow is still acceptable. |
| Forum or comment contribution | rel="ugc" | Describes user-generated content. It does not moderate spam or certify the contributor. |
| Paid user contribution | rel="ugc sponsored" | More than one relationship can apply. |
| LinkBunny assignment | rel="nofollow" | LinkBunny requires nofollow on the anchor. Add other qualifiers when they describe the relationship. |
Spaces, commas and multiple values
Google accepts rel="ugc nofollow" and rel="ugc,nofollow". The checker interprets both and keeps the comma in the displayed markup. Qualifier totals overlap: one link can count under both ugc and nofollow. Duplicate tokens do not create extra links.
Google treats these qualifiers as hints about which links to consider or exclude in Search. No qualifier proves ranking credit. Read Google's outbound-link guidance and its nofollow explanation.
Page indexing is a different check. Use the noindex and canonical checker for observed response controls, or the new-site checklist to choose a useful next backlink task.
Questions
How do I check if a link is nofollow?
Enter the page's URL above and find the link in the list. Its label shows nofollow, sponsored, ugc or dofollow. Check the page-level nofollow box too, since a meta robots tag or header can make every link nofollow.
Do nofollow links help SEO?
Not for rankings in any way you can count on. Google treats nofollow as a hint and says it generally keeps such links out of ranking, though a relevant nofollow link can still bring readers. The guide Do nofollow links help SEO? covers what Google documents and when a nofollow link is worth getting.
I added rel="nofollow". Why does the checker show no link qualifier?
The page the server returns doesn't include it. Common causes are a CMS editor or plugin stripping or rewriting rel, a cached copy of the page, or a script that adds the attribute in the browser after load. View the page source to compare.
Why is a link to my subdomain missing?
Links to the same registrable domain, including its subdomains, count as internal and aren't listed. The internal count in the results includes them.