• Resolved makintracks

    (@makintracks)


    I have done a site audit with Semrush and this flagged up warnings in relation to internal links with the nofollow attribute. This is certainly no new problem as there are multiple tickets relating to this, but support agents seem to have indicated that this is not a Woocommerce issue and suggested it could be the theme or a plugin. So I have spent an entire day chasing down the issue so far by turning plugins off one at a time with no success.

    After asking about this in my theme developers forum, I was told by someone with arguably a lot more knowledge on these matters than myself, that I shouldn’t worry about it. However, I do not comprehend why any developer would add nofollow links that users (many of us are DIYers) would find almost impossible to find, check and/or remove.

    When I look at my category and product pages, it would seem that all the links to the products within the category or links to other products that may be of interest to the site visitor are all nofollow links.

    Why is this please?

    Clearly as a website owner, I would not consciously choose to set my internal links to nofollow. I have checked the settings in Rankmath and they are correct and not responsible for this.

    Some of these warnings on Semrush specify the ?add-to-cart bit, but others do not. Here is an example –

    Page url – https://dalesway.co.uk/product-category/screen-printing/artwork-preparation/

    Link url that is nofollow – https://dalesway.co.uk/product/screen-printing-software-filmmaker-rip/

    This is one of the products in the category.

    Page url – https://dalesway.co.uk/product-category/training/

    Link url – https://dalesway.co.uk/product-category/training/?add-to-cart=1696

    I hope you can shed some light on this problem and finally put my mind at rest about the reason these nofollow links are used and that they will not adversely affect my website.

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  • Plugin Support omarfpg a11n

    (@omarfpg)

    Hi @makintracks,

    I understand you want to know how to remove therel="nofollow" attribute from the add to cart button on your shop page.

    The?rel="nofollow"?attribute tells the search engines to ignore the link. This is important because the add to cart link does not link to the product but it is just for adding the product to the cart. If you observe the product link vs the add-to-cart button link, for instance:

    Product link structure:?https://dalesway.co.uk/product/screen-printing-software-filmmaker-rip/
    Add to cart link structure:?https://dalesway.co.uk/shop/?add-to-cart=1560

    The add to cart link, on accessing it, would add the product to the cart automatically which is why it should not be given to anyone or be followed/indexed by search engines. For this reason, the add-to-cart links are marked as rel="nofollow" by default which is useful.

    As of now, there is no such option in WooCommerce to remove the?rel=nofollow?attribute from add-to-cart links other than?code customization or plugins.

    I also took a look at our GitHub issues tracker and researched more about this, and found there are a couple of requests already open about internal nofollow links:

    You can follow both requests to stay up to date with any developments regarding them.

    I hope my answer was helpful! Please let us know if you have any other questions. ??

    -OP

    Thread Starter makintracks

    (@makintracks)

    Thank you for your reply. I understand about the add to cart links and accept that it is not necessary to remove the no follow links from those. But what about the product links?

    I specifically provided the product link in addition to the add to cart link because BOTH are flagged as no follow internal links. Surely that can’t be right?

    Plugin Support Zubair Zahid (woo-hc)

    (@doublezed2)

    Hello makintracks

    Thank you for your reply.

    I checked the HTML code of your site and noticed that the product link does not have a Nofollow attribute. It is the button for choosing a variation that has a Nofollow attribute.

    Here is a screenshot for your reference:

    Let me know if I missed something.
    I’ll be happy to assist you further. ??

    Best regards.

    Thread Starter makintracks

    (@makintracks)

    I really appreciate you checking this for me and I am fine to leave it at that. Thanks so much for the kind assistance.

    Plugin Support Shameem R. a11n

    (@shameemreza)

    Hi @makintracks

    I’m glad we were able to help! Should you have further inquiries, kindly create a new topic here.

    Meanwhile, if it isn’t too much to ask for – would you mind leaving us a review here?

    It only takes a couple of minutes but helps us tremendously. It would mean so much to us and would go a really long way.

    Thanks!

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