How to Fix Internal Nofollow Links in WordPress

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Internal nofollow links are links within your website that have a “nofollow” tag. This tag tells search engines not to follow the link or pass authority to the linked page. Sometimes, these tags are added accidentally, which can hurt your site’s SEO. Fixing internal nofollow links can:
  • Improve your site’s SEO
  • Help search engines find and index all your pages
  • Distribute link authority throughout your site

1. Install a Linkilo management plugin

  1. Open the link management plugin
  2. Look for “Link Analysis”
  3. Review your internal links
  4. Find the column showing link attributes
  5. Check to see if your internal links is with a “nofollow”
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  1. Use a tool like Screaming Frog SEO Spider (free version works)
  2. Scan your website
  3. Export the internal links report
  4. Filter to show only internal nofollow links

2. Edit affected pages

  1. Go to your WordPress dashboard
  2. Open Pages or Posts
  3. Find and edit each page with nofollow links
  1. Switch to the HTML or Text editor view
  2. Find the internal link with nofollow. It looks like this:
   <a href="https://yoursite.com/page" rel="nofollow">Link Text</a>
  1. Remove the rel="nofollow" part
  2. The fixed link should look like this:
   <a href="https://yoursite.com/page">Link Text</a>

4. Update and check

  1. Save the updated page or post
  2. View the page on your site to make sure the link works
  3. Do this for all pages with nofollow links you want to fix
  • Check your internal links regularly
  • Be careful with plugins that add nofollow tags automatically
  • Use a link management plugin to keep track of your links
  • Remember some nofollow links might be on purpose (like login pages), so check before changing them
 
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