Nofollow Post Links is out!

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I wanted to let you know that my first plugin designed specifically for ClassicPress has been published on the ClassicPress directory: Nofollow Post Links.

Nofollow Post Links is a plugin for managing nofollow attributes in the contents of posts, pages and custom post types. It allows granular attribute management (i.e. for each individual link inserted), global nofollow assignment or removal, mapping of manually assigned nofollows and attribution/removal by domain. It also includes a whitelist.

Nofollow post links is an “advanced” tool, compatible with Classic SEO (the advice is to leave Classic SEO’s automatic nofollow attribution disabled), and it works in three modes of your choice:

  • Javascript. Attribution and/or removal occurs at the javascript level.
  • Content filter. Attribution and/or removal occurs at the content output level.
  • Content edit. Attribution and/or removal occurs by editing the post.

I created this plugin essentially for myself, but I’m happy to share it with the ClassicPress community in the hope that it will be useful. If you decide to use it, please let me know if there are any bugs. Although I have tested it on demo sites and on my website, I have not yet found any significant bugs, and the minor ones have all been fixed. :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

Further information can be found on the plugin page: Nofollow Post Links | ClassicPress Plugin

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What about the “noindex” tag? Can that also be managed from this plugin? Thanks!

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No sorry. It doesn’t handle the noindex tag. The name of the plugin says it clearly: it only deals with the nofollow attribute to apply to links. The noindex tag can still be managed via Classic SEO, which allows the tag to be applied page by page.

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Indeed… although mine is “Nofollow Post Links” (note “links” and not “link”).

The description seemed clear to me. Maybe when I update the plugin, I will make it even clearer. :slight_smile:

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Your explanation is quite clear to anyone who previously knows what adding a nofollow attribute means or has used code or a plugin to do that before.

Outside of the SEO world, most people don’t know what a nofollow link is. So they probably wouldn’t be searching for this plugin anyway.

I do have a question, though. Are you aware that Google announced two additional nofollow attributes (sponsored and ugc) we’re supposed to be using?

Search Engine Journal explains them here.

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Nofollow Post Links is a tool. Obviously anyone interested in making it will use it.
Having said that, of course I know the new rel attributes introduced by Google (sponsored and ugc), but nofollow is the attribute that is still the most popular for inviting search engines not to follow the link. Furthermore, precisely in the presence of these new attributes, the plugin checks for the presence of rel attributes other than “nofollow” so that global or post actions do not affect their presence.

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Ok, thanks. It would still make it easier to add the other attributes by just changing nofollow to one of the others and leaving the rest as is.

Thanks for making the plugin.

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Yes. In fact it is an idea for future development: letting the user choose which type of rel he wants to manage.

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How to use it?

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Hi, welcome to ClassicPress Forum :slight_smile:

You need to install the plugin like any plugin for ClassicPress (or WordPress if you’re coming from WordPress). Once installed, you can manage the links you have inserted into your post, from the post or page editor (or custom post type editor if you have one or more). Scroll down and you’ll see a metabox with a list of the links you’ve placed in your content (if you haven’t inserted a link, obviously you won’t see anything). From there you will be able to establish which of these should have the “nofollow” rel tag (which suggests to search engines not to follow that link) and which should not.

From the plugin settings page you can manage nofollows globally. For example, assigning “nofollow” to all external links on your site, or removing “nofollow” from all external links on your site. You can also establish a whitelist of links that will ignore this rule. And more that you can see in the settings.

Remember that the plugin only handles external links, while it ignores internal links.

Furthermore, note that there are three ways of assigning or removing nofollows rel tag. I recommend using only the “javascript” or “content filter” modes, which assign or remove nofollows only in the content output. The third mode (“content edit”) instead modifies the post and precautionally requires a database backup.

I hope this is a good start to understanding how to use the plugin. :wink:

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