How to Nofollow a Link

Adding “nofollow” to links can increase your blog’s rankings by decreasing unnecessary PageRank flow. Here’s how to do it.

First of all, here’s what the HTML code for a link might look like:

<a href="http://wordpress.jdwebdev.com">WordPress Expert</a>

The link, when rendered, would look like this:

WordPress Expert

To add nofollow, you would change it to this:

<a href="http://wordpress.jdwebdev.com" rel="nofollow">WordPress Expert</a>

You may be able to find links to manually nofollow by going to your Theme Editor (under Design) and scanning the sidebar and footer files. You should nofollow links to any page for which you don’t care about the ranking. For example, you may want to nofollow links to your RSS feed, since there isn’t much point in that appearing in a standard web search.

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4 Comments

  1. perde
    Posted October 29, 2008 at 8:29 am | Permalink

    thank you

  2. Perde
    Posted November 25, 2008 at 6:27 pm | Permalink

    I did not know that giving an external link decreases pagerank.

    Thanks for the tip :)

  3. Posted February 22, 2009 at 12:17 am | Permalink

    Informative source for new beginners Seo.

  4. New Gal
    Posted March 18, 2009 at 5:53 pm | Permalink

    Wow! Am I ever glad I found this site. Thank you soooooooo much for these posts that answer a lot of my questions. I think I can now start my new blog with all of the great information you provide. I was ready to give up, but I think there is still hope for me. Thanks!

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