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June 11, 2020 Rahul Vithala

How To Add Nofollow Tag To Links In WordPress

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Every site owner is aware of what is a nofollow link. If you are searching for “How To Add Nofollow Tag To Links In WordPress” in Google you probably concentrating on page SEO. The On-Page SEO play an important role to get better rank in search engines especially in Google. A good SEO practice is giving a dofollow link to trustworthy and authoritative sites and nofollow for affiliates and other source links. Adding a nofollow attribute to an external link will stop passing the link juice to the website. To turn your links into nofollow simply follow below guide.

Adding Nofollow Manually in WordPress

As we know WordPress is a very popular and user-friendly content management system. But unfortunately, WordPress doesn’t have any simple solution to add a nofollow attribute to a website which we don’t pass our juice. We have to manually add the nofollow tag to each link if you are willing to.

Adding a nofollow attribute to a WordPress is really a simple job. All you need to add this below code in the WordPress text editor mode. Now, here in the below code replace your website and Alt text in your website. It is a manual method to add nofollow tag to unwanted links.

<a href="http://example.com/" rel="nofollow">Example Website</a>Rel Nofollow Checkbox

Adding Nofollow using Rel Nofollow Checkbox WordPress Plugin

Alternatively, we have Rel Nofollow Checkbox Plugin for WordPress to easily add a nofollow tag. To get started, simply add and activate the Plugin. The Plugin doesn’t’ have any additional settings to tweak the usage. It works directly on the Insert/Edit checkbox. To add a nofollow tag simply click on the checkbox to add the tag.

External Links nofollow settings

How To Set All External Links To Nofollow

The above two methods are suitable for those who want to add nofollow attribute to optional links. If you want to turn all external links into Nofollow this simple Plugin will help you to change. External Links is a WordPress Plugin that turns all links into nofollow. After activation of the Plugin, it automatically adds the nofollow attribute to all existing external links.

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Rahul Vithala

A WordPress Expert who has been working with several WordPress websites for over 7 Years.

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