What happens when I nofollow links if…

Hi,

We would expect that that single link on the xyz.com page to be treated as follow link, even though the page itself is a nofollow.

I see. And what if I deindex that page too? Will search engines ignore the xyz.com link then?

Or alternatively, what if I exclude the post with a link to xyz.com from the plugin’s influence and choose the nofollow option in the Yoast plugin? Will search engines ignore the link then (the reason for me asking this is getting rid of some links that should remain on the website but could potentially lead to a manual penalty)?

If you set a page to noindex, search engines will stop crawling the page. This means all the links that appears on the relevant page will be ignored as well.

Alright, thank you for clarifying that. It seems like too extreme though.

If I keep using the nofollow external links plugin but exclude the post(s) with a link to xyz.com from the plugin’s influence and choose the nofollow option in the Yoast plugin, will search engines ignore the link in that case?

We recommend you please refer to these following articles on Yoast.com to find out more information about the index, noindex, follow, and nofollow robots meta to the exact answer of your queries.

• https://yoast.com/robots-meta-tags/
• https://yoast.com/which-pages-noindex-or-nofollow/
• https://yoast.com/wordpress/plugins/seo/yoast-seo-robots-meta-configuration/

Thank you for these articles but I already read these and many more on the Yoast website and I understand the meaning of the things mentioned in the article. My question here refers to Yoast working with another plugin and I’m curious to know what happens in a scenario in which I use a nofollow plugin for all posts.

Let’s say I exclude post ABC from the nofollow-all-external-links plugin’ rules and go to ABC post and mark it as nofollow in Yoast’s advanced section. Will all links be nofollowed by search engines when I do that? Is it possible to receive a manual penalty from Google for a post in which the links are marked as nofollow by Yoast’s advanced section?

Hi @dankiteski,

If you use the “nofollow” option in the Yoast Metabox, in the Advanced section, the whole page will get a “nofollow” tag added to it in the meta tags. This means ALL links on the page will be nofollowed”.

When you add the “nofollow” tag to the meta tags of the page (as the Yoast plugin will do when you enable the option in the Advanced tab), it will affect all links on the page.

This thread has been marked as resolved due to a lack of activity. You’re always welcome to re-open this topic.

Thanks for understanding!