Backlink Platform Audit Finds Most “Dofollow” Sources Pass No SEO Value
A two-day audit of rel attributes across 20 link-building platforms found that the majority of sites commonly recommended for "easy dofollow backlinks" actually mark outbound links nofollow, ugc, or route them through redirects that strip their value entirely. The exercise, published on HackerNoon, used a simple curl-and-browser-console method to check what HTML each platform actually…