Mozilla’s Firefox web browser is a hugely popular addition to the web design toolkit due to its support of standards-compliant web coding and also due to the range of plugins and add-ons that can extend what your web browser can do. One of our favourite extensions to the standard web browser is SearchStatus which can be found under Tools -> Add-ons.
Once installed, a range of additional features are available form the bottom bar of your web browser, allowing you to check the page rank of the site your are visiting and to check whether the links on that page are visible to the search engines when they crawl that site. If the “Highlight No Follow Links” option is ticked, any links that are hidden will be highlighted in pink. Sites with good page rank and non-highlighted links will be excellent places to try and get a link to your site for SEO value. If they are linking to other sites, ideally similar to your own, it might be worth contacting the webmaster of the site to see whether they would consider adding a link to your website.