Set all internal links to do “follow”

  • Resolved tsampa

    (@tsampa)


    2 years ago

    Hi! I just run a SEO check on my website and it turns out that all internal links are set to nofollow. This sums up to 801 links that should be changed… Most of the links come from tags and categories.
    I.e. https://tzampas.de/tag/regional/ with link https://tzampas.de/tag/regional/?add-to-cart=15655

    I could not find a global option to change the links to “do follow” nor do I have any idea why links are “no follow” at all. All I read is that the standard should be “do follow” for internal links.

    Any idea how to change internal links globally to “dofollow” and also avoid “nofollow” in the future?

    Theme: mr. tailor
    Wordpress: 6.0.3.

    Thanks!
    Best Nicolas

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  • Hi! I just run a SEO check on my website and it turns out that all internal links are set to nofollow.

    This is not quite true, and I would ignore this tool’s recommendation.

    First, there’s no such thing as “dofollow” tag. Links are followed automatically, unless marked as “nofollow”.

    So, if anything, you should be seeking to find out what’s setting the “nofollow” so you can disable it, rather than looking to set “dofollow” (which doesn’t exist).

    But I checked a couple of pages on your site, and I didn’t find “nofollow” on any link that matters. None of the links to posts/pages/archives (what I’d consider actual internal links) have the nofollow attribute on them.

    The only “nofollow” attributes I see are on links like this:

    <a href="?add-to-cart=15413" data-quantity="1" class="button product_type_simple add_to_cart_button ajax_add_to_cart" data-product_id="15413" data-product_sku="810201" aria-label="?Golden Milk - Die K?mpferin (16x40g)“ zu deinem Warenkorb hinzufügen" rel="nofollow">In den Warenkorb</a>

    This is the shopping cart icon you have in the lower-right corner of your screen:

    1) This is not a link to a separate page: it’s just code to open the shopping cart overlay on top of the current page. So it MUST be marked as nofollow, else you’ll have a ton of duplicate content issues.

    2) The code above uses relative URL so that the shopping cart can be clicked/opened from ANY page. And the cart is all pages of your site, that’s why you’re seeing so many “nofollow” links when you scan the entire site.

    Again, there’s no nofollow on links to posts, pages, category/tag/page archives, or any destination that matters. The nofollow is ONLY on the shopping cart icon, and that’s the CORRECT thing to do.

    Good luck!

    If you still have doubts about this, I’ll recommend you seek additional opinions from SEO gurus in an SEO forum (eg Moz Community), referencing this thread.

    Good luck!

    Thread Starter tsampa

    (@tsampa)

    Hi George,
    thanks for looking into this and for giving such a detailed feedback. Much appreciated!
    Apparently this tool (Plesk SEO toolkit) gave misleading information.

    All the best
    Nicolas

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