How to make all WordPress Posts or Pages External links Nofollow?

In this article I will show you how to make your all external links in wordpress posts or pages nofollow. An external link is a link from your wordpress post or page pointing or linking to the page of other website or domain. Nofollow attribute stops the Google from following that page and it also do not allow pagerank to pass on that page or website.

When you insert any external link in your Post or Page the link is dofollow in nature by default. Well this might not be any issue for some people but some bloggers does not like it. This is because the dofollow links allows pagerank to flow to the external pages or domain where the external link is pointing. Also to be on safe side in the eye of Google some people make all the external links nofollow. Now the question comes how to do it. Well there is a very simple way to achieve this task with the help of plugin called ‘Nofollow for external link’.

Here is a Step by Step Procedure on how to make external links nofollow in WordPress

1.       1. Download the Plugin ‘Nofollow for external link’ from here

2.       2. Install the Plugin in WordPress

3.       3. Activate the Plugin

4.       4. Done. All your Posts/Pages External links are Nofollow

Nofollow for external link plugin not only makes all the posts and pages external links Nofollow but it also makes the external link to open in a window. This plugin will add rel=nofollow and target=_blank attributes for all the external links of your blog/website posts/pages. Internal links will not be affected by this plugin.

How to check whether the External link is made Nofollow by the plugin

Open your post or page in any brower and then right click and select view source option. Here look for the external link that you have inserted and there you will see the attributes rel=nofollow and target=_blank before the external link as shown in the image below.

Download Nofollow for external link WordPress Plugin