All external links are nofollow (so it seems…)

  • Resolved KingOfTheHill

    (@kingofthehill)


    2 years, 4 months ago

    Hi all,

    I’m having a hard time solving this weird problem I encountered. I manage a few websites (did not built any of them, I just ‘inherited’ them from my predecessor) that have a lot of links between them. So I wanted to measure how much traffic is going from one site to another. However… one particular site isn’t showing up as referral in any analytics of the other websites.

    So I checked the links. Some of the indeed are nofollow noreferrer. Okay, fair enough. But others don’t have a rel atribute at all! And still, If I click on them and check the realtime google analytics data, I can see my visit, but the referral is not registered. The other way around, links from any other website to my ‘problem’ website, DO show up in analytics instantly.

    Just to be sure: I haven’t messed with the Yoast setting under Advanced (https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/tell-search-engines-what-to-do-with-links/) to set the entire page to nofollow. Are there other Yoast settings I should check?

    Anyone got any idea what is wrong with my site? On the provided link, you can find multiple links to one and the same website. Buttons include noreferrer, but the links in text are just plain.

    Here’s to hoping someone can come up with a good idea!

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Support devnihil

    (@devnihil)

    @kingofthehill We’re sorry to hear you are experiencing this issue on your site.

    Regarding your issue, if you are seeing rel="sponsored nofollow" on the links for the page, but haven’t changed the global page settings under the Advanced area of the Yoast SEO metabox for ‘Should search engines follow links on this Post’, we’d recommend checking the individual links settings in the actual WordPress editor for the link.

    To check this, you’d just need to click on the link in the editor and in the link settings dialog box you’ll see options for both ‘Search engines should ignore this link (mark as nofollow)’ and ‘This is a sponsored link or advert (mark as sponsored)’ and from here you can toggle this setting On/Off (see image here).

    If you find that the nofollow is not added here either, it’s likely being added by another plugin or your theme. In that event we’d recommend checking your other plugins/theme settings or performing a conflict check to determine which is causing it if you aren’t sure.

    This thread was marked resolved due to a lack of activity, but you’re always welcome to re-open the topic. Please read this post before opening a new request.

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