How to add No Follow to WordPress Blogroll
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With the recent updates in PageRank, and yet again my site being missed out, it was time for me to solve this and work towards getting my PageRank back…
I did have a PageRank of 2 about 5 months ago so I have been penalized by Google.
As most of us advertise on our blogs whether it’s a banner or a text link, we can solve this problem for simply adding rel=”nofollow” but we can’t this to our BlogRoll. Typically this is where we use our text links and the way to add the rel=”nofollow” is by modifying our WordPress code.
So here is how we can modify our code in WordPress PHP file.
Steps
1. Find this file inside WordPress /wp-admin/edit-link-form.php
Now make a back up of this ( please dont skip this step)
2. Now modify the file, by finding this code
<tr>
<th scope=”row”> <?php _e(’identity’) ?> </th>
3. Now on the line above, add the follow code
<tr>
<th scope=“row”> nofollow </th>
<td>
<label for=“nofo”>
<input class=“valinp” type=“checkbox” name=“nofo” value=“nofollow” id=“nofo” <?php xfn_check(‘nofo’, ‘nofollow’); ?> />
nofollow</label>
</td>
</tr>
4. Now save the file.
5. Enter your control panel > blogroll > edit (existing blogroll)> link relationship
6. Now you can see there is a new check button with the words “nofollow” , by clicking this you can individually add the rel=”nofollow” to any link in your blogroll.
By adding the rel=”nofollow” you will help get into Google’s good books
As ‘DOFOLLOW’ link to your advertisers is a violation of Google’s quality guidelines for webmasters and it is recommended to apply the rel=”nofollow” to your blogroll and it’s a good way to reduce the link of PageRank from your site at the same time.
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It will look like this: How to add No Follow to WordPress Blogroll
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Homebizseo.com said:
The no follow rule may not help with improving your page rank. Google changes algorithms often and the # outbounds vs inbound will change. You should build for the reader and not google. If a person wants the inbound link and you have the “no follow” you may lose traffic fast. I have chatted with several bloggers that stated they would not blog with bloggers with no follow. Google wants quality content.
March 18th, 2008 at 3:53 pm -
Simon said:
There will be benefit, but how much, thats the question, as you mentioned the algorithm is always changing.
I use no follow for advert banners and all my minor outward bound links, but still have do follow for my blogroll.
March 18th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
