Nofollow on currency links

Hi Leigh,
Unfortunately there’s no option for this now.
At the moment, please open the file under wp-content/plugins/woo-multi-currency/frontend/design.php and search for rel=”nofollow” to remove it manually. In future updates, I will add a filter for it so that you can customize it without modifying the plugin.
Best regards

Thanks. I’ll do that in the meantime.

Can I ask: was there a specific reason why you kept those links as nofollow?

Hi again, I have another suggestion for the choose currency links. It would be good to have an option to place this widget anywhere on the page e.g. a snippet for the header that displays text links. Something like this: Choose currency: USD | EUR.

We find the widge fixed to the side causes uses for UX:

– It can get in the way of items the user needs to click or see
– When you accidentally rollover it, it activates, and when this happens on mobile, it’s difficult to get the window to close again

Hi,

Can I ask: was there a specific reason why you kept those links as nofollow?

It’s to avoid creating duplicated urls when google indexes your site.

Hi again, I have another suggestion for the choose currency links. It would be good to have an option to place this widget anywhere on the page e.g. a snippet for the header that displays text links. Something like this: Choose currency: USD | EUR.

There are shortcodes for you in this case, please read https://docs.villatheme.com/woocommerce-multi-currency/#page_section_menu_3872
Best regards

Hi,

Thanks for the information about the shortcode. I had missed that. That should work well for us.

Regarding the nofollow link: I’m not an SEO expert, but our SEO person is telling me that this doesn’t avoid creating duplicate urls. There will be a separte url for each currency but with the use of the canonical tag, all the pages will be consolidated into a single url (the one without any parameters). And apparantely using nofollow on links is no longer recommended as it can prevent bots from crawling the pages of the site that you want the them to crawl and index. I think this is why it was flagged as a potential SEO issue. Hope that helps.

Thanks again.

Hi,
Thank you for your information.
I’m not a SEO expert, either. The term “canonical tag” is quite new to me and no other users have ever mentioned it. Our team will try to make more researches about it and update the plugin if needed.
Best regards

No problem. Just as a quick example: we have these 3 urls, all with identical content.

https://www.shanore.com/shop/
https://www.shanore.com/shop/?wmc-currency=EUR
https://www.shanore.com/shop/?wmc-currency=USD

If you look inside the head tag of the source code for each one it shows this canonical tag:

<link rel="canonical" href="https://www.shanore.com/shop/" />

So, the idea is that Google looks at all 3 urls and instead of assuming there’s 3 different pages duplicating content, they understand that first one is the master url and the others are effectively ignored.

So, it’s our understanding that if canonicals are properly in place that it makes the nofollow link redundant.

Here’s a good post about it:
https://www.semrush.com/blog/canonical-url-guide/

• This reply was modified 3 years, 6 months ago by leighmaher.

Hi,
Thank you very much for explanation as well as the useful link.
I notice that Yoast SEO plugin also supports canonical tags so I think I will add an option to enable/disable rel=”nofollow” in url of currency switcher buttons so that our users can use it with their own purpose.
Best regards

Sounds great. Thanks.