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I think it could be this code right here in the head section:

name="robots" content="index,nofollow"/>

Hi Chris:

Thanks for the information but what you mentioned is not necessary what I am referring to. I want to know if there's a way that a link can appear WITHOUT the rel="nofollow" in it's specific code, but STILL BE a nofollow thanks to any additional code which might be hiding through the page or in the header of the page?

Is it possible? Or is the only way for a link to be no follow is for it to have the rel nofollow tag its code?

Good day:

I understand guest articles are a good way to pass linkjuice and some authors have a link to their website on the "Author Bio" section of the article. These links are usually regular links.

However, I noticed that some of these sites (using wordpress) have several SEO plugins with the following settings:

Nofollow: Tell search engines not to spider links on this webpage.

My question is:

If the setting above was activated, I would assume the author's website link would look like a regular link but some other code could still be present in the page (ex, header) that would prevent this regular link from being followed. Therefore, the guest writer would not experience any linkjuice.

Any idea if there's a way of being able to see if this scenario is happening? What code would we look for?