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How To Stay Fixed – Nofollow

You’ve gotten your Nofollow Fix from The Blog Fixer® applied – yes!

Now what?

Whether you want to go it alone or let us do the work, we’ve got you covered.

Don’t want to worry about doing this manually every time? Check out our Live Fix option to have The Blog Fixer do it for you automatically. Otherwise, to do it yourself, see the instruction section below according to the WordPress editor you use.

  • Adding Nofollow in Gutenberg
  • Adding Nofollow in Classic Editor
  • Adding Nofollow Automatically – Any Editor!

Adding NoFollow in Gutenberg

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When you add a link in Gutenberg, you may get a popup that allows you to toggle a setting for nofollow to be added to your site. This is run via Yoast. We’ve heard of times that it doesn’t work, but our tests all yielded good results.
Link to Amazon with the nofollow toggle activated

Make sure you do that for every single affiliate and sponsored link!

If you don’t have Yoast, or you are having trouble with it, you will need to switch to “Edit as HTML” for that text.

Gutenberg dropdown screen with Edit as HTML as an option

From here, find the link that you added (it should start with <a href=” and then the page you linked to). You need to make sure that the link has rel=”nofollow” as a part of the HTML. It may already have something else tagged as rel, such as rel=”noopener”. In this case, you would combined them together, like rel=”nofollow noopener”. The order does not matter, so that’s one less thing to worry about!

Before

HTML for a link to Amazon

After
HTML for link to Amazon with rel=nofollow added

This must be done for all links that should be nofollowed, which includes anything that you can earn money or goods from, including sponsored links and affiliate links. See our Nofollow Links: 7 Things You Need to Know post for more details.

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Adding NoFollow in Classic Editor

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After you have added a link Screenshot of a link button that needs to be nofollowed, switch from Visual to Text in the upper right-hand corner of your editor.

Two tabs labeled Visual and Text

From here, find the link that you added (it should start with <a href=” and then the page you linked to). You need to make sure that the link has rel=”nofollow” as a part of the HTML. It may already have something else tagged as rel, such as rel=”noopener”. In this case, you would combine them together, like rel=”nofollow noopener”. The order does not matter, so that’s one less thing to worry about!

Before

Link tagged with rel=noopener After

Link tagged with rel=noopener nofollow

This must be done for all links that should be nofollowed, which includes anything that you can earn money or goods from, including sponsored links and affiliate links. See our Nofollow Links: 7 Things You Need to Know post for more details.

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