Add NoFollow Tag To Your BlogRoll Links
January 25, 2008 – 2:30 pm
Yesterday, I blogged about the Caroline Middlebrook free Ebook which teaches you how to create niche website with WordPress. I also said that you could give your feedback or suggestions. I did.
A section is dedicated to the blogroll, but there is something I was wondering for some times. I didn’t know how to add the nofollow tag to my blogroll links in some of my blogs. You see, when you edit your blogroll in WordPress, there are several link relationship options, but no rel nofollow.
So I asked Caroline if she knew it but she didn’t. I asked to her as I asked few days ago on DigitalPoint, but didn’t get an answer. I posted in the SEO section, because Google recommends affiliate links to get tagged by nofollow for SEO purpose.
Yesterday, I logged in on DigitalPoint again and asked for this same question, this time in the Blogging section and had a quick answer from user Richie_Ni. It lead me to 2 solutions.
He provided me with this nofollow relationship to wordpress blogroll solution from mydigitallife.info. You have to edit a file, nothing complicated, this will add the nofollow relation to all your blogroll links.
Now maybe some of your links are affiliate links or other links you don’t want to give weight to, but you feel some deserve some too. I just watched the comment, and the right solution was there, from Justin Cook’s blog : How to add nofollow to wordpress blogroll links.
Another file to edit, very easy, just copy and paste the code provided, and here is the result :
In your blogroll editor, you now have the option to add the nofollow tag to your links, individually. Save changes and you’re done.
I could post the codes directly here, but I’m sure the author would prefer to hear your personal feedback (and a little backlink).
If you want to add a nofollow tag to a link in a post for example, here is how it should look in your code view :
<a rel=”nofollow” href=”url” mce_href=”url”>Click Here</a>
