How to Nofollow all external links in WordPress

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Do you want to nofollow external links on your WordPress website? While you can easily nofollow individual links, what if you want to nofollow all external links? In this article, we will show you how to nofollow all external links in WordPress.

Why and when you need to nofollow all external links
Automatically nofollow WordPress links

Search engines view links as a ranking signal for the linked URL and domain. When you link to an external website, you are passing your link juice to that website.

Link juice is a kind of SEO scorecard. If you link to more websites than the list of switzerland cell phone number websites that link back to you, then you lose authority.

For this reason, many SEO experts recommend using the nofollow attribute.

Example of a link with nofollow attribute:

<a href="http://example.com" rel="nofollow">Beispiel-Website</a>

By default, WordPress does not allow you to automatically add nofollow to external links. You must manually add this to outbound links to external websites.

An easier way is to use the Title and NoFollow For Links plugin . It adds a title field and a nofollow checkbox in the insert link popup. You can nofollow the links as you add them.

Title and NoFollow Fields in the Insert Link popupHowever, if you run a multi-author website, the chances of your authors forgetting to check the box for some external links increase. In this case, you need a solution that does not require user input.