Wordpress Plugin- Add rel=”nofollow” to links in posts in chosen categories

This plugin will add “nofollow” attribute to all links in every post in chosen categories. You can choose categories on the plugin’s setting page:

So this:


<a href="http://de77.com">Click here</a>

will be automatically converted into this:


<a href="http://de77.com" rel="nofollow">Click here</a>

What will this give you? Here’s an explanation from Wikipedia:

“Google announced in early 2005 that hyperlinks with rel=”nofollow” attribute[4] would not influence the link target’s PageRank. In addition, the Yahoo and Bing search engines also respect this attribute.”

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15 Responses to “Wordpress Plugin- Add rel=”nofollow” to links in posts in chosen categories”

  1. Storm Says:
    April 9th, 2010 at 10:19 am

    Hi,

    Plugin works great! just a couple of questions:

    1. Is there anyway to add a site wide exception? Say, some of my posts had links to another blog of mine and I didn’t want to nofollow those links, but the posts also contained links to external sites, which I did want to nofollow.

    2. If the plugin is deactivated, or uninstalled, do the rel=”nofollow” tags remain in place, or will I have to repeat the process, say after a WP or Theme upgrade?

    Thanks

  2. Free Wordpress Themes Says:
    April 11th, 2010 at 7:05 am

    Nice Post… Thanks :)

  3. admin Says:
    April 12th, 2010 at 1:47 pm

    1. I will try to add this feature in the next release of the plugin.
    2. If you deactivate the plugin then rel=”nofollow” will dissapear.

  4. Info Says:
    April 17th, 2010 at 4:49 am

    Adding a site wide no follow will only hurt your rank, google likes to see “trusted” out going links. They only really shun “paid” links or “affiliate” links. You want to also keep links that deep link into your site as this adds to your google luv.

  5. Noel Says:
    April 26th, 2010 at 8:13 pm

    Thanks. This is exactly what I was looking for as I run an affiliate blog.

  6. xbox 360 console Says:
    July 26th, 2010 at 6:34 pm

    Hi

    It is a nice plugin, unfortunately it isn’t working for me not sure why. I have removed and readded all posts to see if it adds no-follow only on the new posts only but nothing seems to be happening.

    Any suggestions are welcome.
    thanks

  7. admin Says:
    July 28th, 2010 at 7:36 pm

    Have you set what categories should be filtered? Are your posts in these categories? Do you use any caching plugin?

  8. anuj Says:
    August 22nd, 2010 at 1:40 pm

    thanks buddy

  9. ravi Says:
    October 18th, 2010 at 6:43 pm

    well thanks mate this what i am looking for :)

  10. ravi Says:
    October 22nd, 2010 at 4:13 pm

    thanks mate that is what i am looking for

    cheers :)

  11. lingerie sexy Says:
    January 13th, 2011 at 12:39 pm

    Thx man…

  12. Consumer Proposal Says:
    May 22nd, 2011 at 1:13 am

    Thanks! Great Plug-in!

  13. Josh Says:
    May 26th, 2011 at 9:02 pm

    Thanks for this plugin. Works great !!

  14. Y8 Says:
    June 22nd, 2011 at 7:31 am

    Thanks! I was really looking for this plugins…

  15. John Says:
    July 29th, 2011 at 10:27 am

    I am glad I found this as I keep forgetting to do it manually. Thanks :)

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