Free Dofollow Link Checker
Call it a dofollow link checker or a dofollow backlink checker: same thing, same read. Paste the page that links to you and your site, and one fetch reports what actually matters: is the backlink there, is its rel dofollow or nofollow, and does the page let Google index it at all.
This is one fetch of one page. ShipDR runs the same verified check on every directory listing you track, on a schedule: live, dofollow, indexable, still there tomorrow. $10 once, per website.
How this checker reads the page
It fetches the URL you give it and parses the HTML the way a crawler does. Every anchor pointing at your domain is read for its rel attribute: no nofollow, ugc or sponsored means the backlink is dofollow. In the same pass it reads the meta robots and googlebot tags plus the X-Robots-Tag response header, because a dofollow backlink on a noindex page passes nothing: the page never enters the index. Pages that render their links with JavaScript are reported as such rather than guessed at; inside ShipDR those go through a real browser.
Also worth testing: the noindex checker for any page on its own.
Fair questions
What is a dofollow link?
A dofollow link is an ordinary HTML link whose rel attribute carries none of nofollow, ugc or sponsored. Search engines may follow it and count it toward the linked site. "Dofollow" is not a value you write; it is the absence of the blocking ones.
How do I check if a backlink is dofollow?
Open the page that links to you and read the rel attribute on the anchor. This tool does that for you: it fetches the page, finds the link pointing at your domain, and reports the rel it actually carries, dofollow or nofollow.
Does a dofollow link always pass value?
No. If the page carrying it is noindex (via a meta robots tag or the X-Robots-Tag header), search engines drop the page and the link passes nothing, however clean its rel looks. That is why this checker reads the robots signals in the same fetch.