In this article i am sharing a list of nofollow WordPress Plugins. but before sharing a list i just want to say about What is nofollow actually.

What is nofollow

About rel=”nofollow”

“Nofollow” provides a way for webmasters to tell search engines “Don’t follow links on this page” or “Don’t follow this specific link.”

Originally, the nofollow attribute appeared in the page-level meta tag, and instructed search engines not to follow (i.e., crawl) any outgoing links on the page. For example:

 <meta name="robots" content="nofollow" />

Before nofollow was used on individual links, preventing robots from following individual links on a page required a great deal of effort (for example, redirecting the link to a URL blocked in robots.txt). That’s why the nofollow attribute value of the rel attribute was created. This gives webmasters more granular control: instead of telling search engines and bots not to follow any links on the page, it lets you easily instruct robots not to crawl a specific link. For example:

 <a href="signin.php" rel="nofollow">sign in</a>

How does Google handle nofollowed links?

In general, we don’t follow them. This means that Google does not transfer PageRank or anchor text across these links. Essentially, using nofollow causes us to drop the target links from our overall graph of the web. However, the target pages may still appear in our index if other sites link to them without using nofollow, or if the URLs are submitted to Google in a Sitemap. Also, it’s important to note that other search engines may handle nofollow in slightly different ways.

Top list of nofollow WordPress Plugins:

WP No External Links : Mask all external links to internal! In your own posts, comments pages, authors page… It does not change anything or write to base – just processes output.

Now you don’t need to worry about your page rank or index, dropping because of spam bots. You write any kind of http link – and it becomes internal or hidden! You can configure plugin to work with your own posts, pages comments and authors’s profiles. you can also disable link rewriting, and use “rel=nofollow” and <noindex> tag instead of it.

Ultimate Noindex Nofollow Tool : Improves your blog’s search engine optimization by “noindexing” pages you choose.
Add the noindex robots meta tag to archives, categories, search pages, tags, author pages, login, admin pages or any other page you choose.

Add the rel=”nofollow” attribute to individual pages listed by the wp_list_pages function or the Pages widget. Also, add the rel=”nofollow” attribute to archive links, category links, registration and login links

Nofollow Reciprocity : Most big sites by default use ‘nofollow’ tags therefore not trusting external links nor users that post those links there. This means that they don’t give any credit (in the form of PageRank) to those links and are essentially considering them spam.

This plugin detects links to above mentioned sites, and puts ‘nofollow’ tags on them.

Nofollow Case by Case : Simply add /dontfollow to any comment link you do not like and it will automatically become a nofollow link. That`s it!

JR_NoFollow : This plugin allows you to enable/disable the nofollow tag on your comments.
You have the option to disable nofollow on the website url field links, as well as disabling it for links in the comment body field.

How to Install Plugin:

  1. Upload the complete folder wp-noexternallinks to the /wp-content/plugins/directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. [Optional] Configure plugin via admin options->Wp-NoExternalLinks link
  4. Write posts with any kind of links, watch comments with links – and enjoy