Comments on: Adding NoFollow to Any Links Generated by WordPress

By: Louis Liem

Louis Liem — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:40:30 +0000

It depends. But for whatever reason, I’ll leave them followed since excessive use of “nofollow” may alarm Google.

By: Life of an Investment Banker

Life of an Investment Banker — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:41:49 +0000

But the main question still remain unanswered. Should we add nofollow to all author links or not?
I guess yes.

By: Louis Liem

Louis Liem — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:37:24 +0000

I see.. for plugin generated links you mentioned, since the links are pointing to pages inside your own blog you’ll need to modify the plugins themselves

you can do this via “Plugin | Editor”. Look for the lines with “a href” and add ” rel=”nofollow” ” after the “a” tag.

Do it one “a” at a time, then refresh your page to see if it has any effects. If not, restore the change you made and look for another “a href” to add another ” rel=”nofollow” “.

You’re suggested to make a backup for the plugin by copy-pasting the script to notepad FIRST and save it to your hard drive before making changes.

And if I may suggest, inbound links you mentioned above are just okay in my opinion. It’s ok to have them dofollow as they are

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:08:57 +0000

Louis, you’ve done a wonderfull job here with this php snippets.

Still I’m looking to make no-follow only the wordpress sidebar links, which are generated by some plugins (most readed articles, top commented articles,etc).

Do you know any way to accomplish this? Though I’m not mastering php, so the solution should be a easy one

Thanks!

By: Louis Liem

Louis Liem — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 05:55:21 +0000

what links are on your sidebar? links going out or to your own pages? Since there are various kinds of links, you may need to add the nofollow manually or use the NAVT plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-navigation-list-plugin-navt/

By: ken

ken — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:13:12 +0000

Excellent post but unfortunately doesn’t answer to my question, how to add rel=”nofollow” to all sidebar links in wordpress? Any help?
Thanks a lot!

By: Louis Liem

Louis Liem — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:26:48 +0000

Hi Tech Frog,

glad to know that this short tutorial helps people. However, a couple of months earlier, news about Page Rank sculpting using nofollow is no longer recommended to spend most of SEO efforts on.

A lot of nofollow usage in a page may trigger Google’s suspicion and decrease a site’s rank.

This way, I’m inclined to suggest to delete links that are less important than giving them nofollow attribute.

By: Tech Frog

Tech Frog — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 17:03:38 +0000

Thanks a ton mate. My site now is totally nofollow. You guys just rock
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By: Louis Liem

Louis Liem — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:53:14 +0000

Using SEO Smart Links, you can check the “Add nofollow attribute” at the bottom of the settings page if this is what you’re looking for. Good luck!

By: Francesco

Francesco — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:13:35 +0000

I use “SEO Smart Links” but it looks like it does not apply the “nofollow” everywhere… I’ll check out this “Platinum SEO”… thx for the tip !!

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By: On The 45 SEO and Design

On The 45 SEO and Design — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:38:08 +0000

Thanks for the step by step tutorial Louis, this is very helpful.

By: Louis Liem

Louis Liem — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 09:28:24 +0000

Thanks, John. It’s just a modified Revolution Church theme
I see you think the same way about http://easybilling.com/blog/listen-then-act/ too

By: web design Brisbane

web design Brisbane — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:44:57 +0000

You know what, the first thing I saw when I click on your site is your template. Looks neat. Sorry, but as a designer, I appreciate such beauty. And you have a nice post as well. Thanks for sharing.

By: Louis Liem

Louis Liem — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:47:53 +0000

Hi Ted. Yes, I also use Platinum SEO for my other blog and it does have more options offered. As soon as Platinum is proven to provide extra benefits, I’m replacing the ol All in One

By: Ted

Ted — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:10:16 +0000

Replaced All in One SEO Plugin with Platinum due to more options offered.
Judging from the output some polishing is still needed and your post will have a part in it.
My policy is DoFollow versus comments links.

By: Louis Liem

Louis Liem — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:49:09 +0000

I have the Platinum SEO plugin installed on my new blog. But haven’t got the time to play with it. I’ll take a look.
Yeah, I agree. I found that in every Wordpress update I’ll need to make changes on the links if I choose to modify the core scripts. However I also added an alternative using the plugin I mentioned above. This is what I do now.

The reason I nofollow my homepage is because I wanted to prioritize the rank for my individual posts.
Update: But remember that I also need to anticipate a drop of my homepage’s rank due to a significant drop of links pointing to my homepage.

Feel free to add a follow up post to the article. I’ll look forward to read the article

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:11:43 +0000

Two points here:

1) Instead of making all those changes to core files, you should consider using Platinum seo plugin.
2) You should never nofollow a home link from your post.(If there is more than one home from your post, then you could nofollow all but one). i can make a post on this…

By: Louis Liem

Louis Liem — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:25:15 +0000

That works too. But at times I would like to see how ranks are passed more to my individual posts.

By: Dallas Web Design

Dallas Web Design — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 14:50:38 +0000

I don’t recommend getting rid of all the links to the homepage by using no follow. It is beneficial to have 1 link in the footer or elsewhere with SEO’ed anchor text. I agree though that all links to “Home” should be no followed.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:58:14 +0000

very good post. I did not know any of this and will start adding it to my sites. Thanks for the help. Take care. Bills last blog post..Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac Bailout

By: Louis Liem

Louis Liem — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:55:54 +0000

To make your pages hidden at all, it’ll be better to use the NOINDEX tag on individual pages or controlling access using robots.txt. Because with nofollow, your page will still appear in search results if there’s another site linking to your page. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/02/robots-exclusion-protocol.html

We can also use sitemaps for that purpose. Here’s a sitemap plugin I use. http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-home/

By: Jim Gaudet

Jim Gaudet — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:34:40 +0000

Am I correct when I say this;

That when you add a nofollow to your links the search engines cannot find them. So the only way to get the search engine to recognize them is to create a sitemap.

I believe that Wordpress has a plugin that will allow you auto generate your sitemap for your blog.

Then this scenario of nofollows will work well.

~ Jim