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Link Attribute Checker

Paste HTML and analyze all link attributes: rel values (nofollow, sponsored, ugc), target, title, and anchor text. Batch audit with summary.

Tested tool guide Tested browser tools Checked August 16, 2026

What Link Attribute Checker does and how it behaves

Link Attribute Checker turns a pasted HTML fragment into a link-by-link audit. It identifies links, displays their anchor text, and reports rel values such as nofollow, sponsored, and ugc alongside target and title attributes. A batch summary helps reveal missing or repeated values without inspecting every anchor manually. A common source of confusion is that target and rel describe different things: opening a link in another browsing context does not make that link nofollow, sponsored, or user-generated.

How the result is produced

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Per-link inspection

The checker examines the anchor elements present in the supplied HTML and creates a separate result for each detected link. It surfaces the visible anchor text and the relevant rel, target, and title values. This makes combinations such as rel containing both sponsored and nofollow visible without requiring a manual search through the markup.

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Token and summary reading

The rel attribute is a space-separated set of link-type keywords, so one anchor can carry multiple values at once. The audit treats nofollow, sponsored, and ugc as distinct findings rather than interchangeable spellings. Its summary should therefore be read as an inventory of attribute usage, not as a set of mutually exclusive categories whose counts must add up to the link total.

Good uses

  • Review affiliate or paid-placement HTML before publication to confirm which anchors contain sponsored or nofollow values and which links still need editorial attention.
  • Audit a block of forum comments, profile links, or other user-submitted markup to locate anchors marked ugc and inspect any combined rel values.
  • Compare link markup during a content migration to catch lost target or title attributes, changed anchor text, and inconsistent rel tokens across many links.

Limits and checks

  • The report covers only the HTML pasted into the tool. It cannot account for links added later by JavaScript, links inside omitted templates, or a newer version of the live page.
  • Finding or not finding a rel keyword does not predict indexing, ranking credit, referral traffic, or how every crawler will treat the destination. The checker reports markup, not search-engine behavior.
  • Reported anchor text may be empty or uninformative for image-only, icon-only, or context-dependent links. A title attribute is separate metadata and does not by itself prove that a link has an adequate accessible name.

Common questions

Does target=_blank mean a link should appear as nofollow?

No. The target attribute selects where the linked resource is opened, while rel describes the relationship between the current document and that resource. The checker reports them separately and does not infer nofollow from target=_blank. If nofollow is required for your use case, it must be present as a rel token.

Can the checker prove that a link is dofollow?

No. Dofollow is not a standard rel keyword that positively guarantees search treatment. The audit can show that nofollow, sponsored, or ugc is absent or present in the pasted markup, but it cannot guarantee whether a search engine will crawl the destination, index it, or pass ranking signals.

References and verification

The behavioral notes were checked against the browser implementation. Standards and primary references below define the relevant format, formula, or platform behavior.

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