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How to Add Rel Nofollow

How to Add Rel Nofollow to External Links.
by JamesLynch


How to Add Rel Nofollow to External Links.

Rel nofollow (rel="nofollow") is a value that's added to a hyperlink which specifies that the hyperlink should not be afforded additional rank or value. Adding this attribute to external links lets the search engines know that you don't want to give that link additional "link juice."

The search engines will give additional value to any external links on your website if you don't add rel="nofollow," which in turn will take away "link juice" from your website and will hurt your seo rankings.

It's okay to link to external sites however you want to keep the link juice on your website. You don't want to help your competitors rankings, yet each time that you don't add this code to your links it helps to boost their seo rankings.

How to Add Rel="Nofollow" to Links:

a rel="nofollow" href="/ExampleSiteHeredotcom"

It's important to make sure that you add rel nofollow with quotes around nofollow and add it before you see href. Don't forget to add the equals sign after rel too.

Rel Nofollow is a form of on-page seo and it's important to follow proper on-page search engine optimization techniques if you want your content to show on the first page of Google.

Some of the important factors that go into on-page seo are proper h1, h2, and h3 tags on every post, alt tags set for all images, internal links, proper keyword decoration, and having the keyword in the title, url, and description box.

If you don't know how to follow all of the techniques that go into proper on-page seo then I recommend purchasing a Wordpress plugin called Seo Pressor. This plugin takes away the pain of doing seo yourself.

It's important to realize that both off-page and on-page seo plays an important factor in achieving top search engine rankings. Just missing one of these factors above could mean the difference between your content showing on the first page of Google or never showing at all.

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