rel="nofollow" is automatically added by wordpress to a link
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Why is a rel=”nofollow” tag added to a link I made in my blog.
can I get rid of it (I tried adding rel=follow but the nofollow is still added afterwards) ?
The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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What is the link you are trying to put in the blog, and where are you trying to put it? All links in the comments, for instance, are nofollow.
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thank you for your reply raincoaster.
Why would it matter what the link is? just a regular short http link to a website home page of the form http://www.blahblahblah.com
I want to know if it is possible to remove the nofollow that wordpress appear to have put there.
Or maybe there is some algorithm that wordpress uses for certain types of links?
I’ve noticed that the PR of my site is probably 1 point lower than it ‘should’ be (IMHO) maybe there is some setting wrong somewhere that is making things nofollow and google is penalising me for this???
many thanks
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For example on this post http://the5krunner.com/2011/08/22/5k-sub-20-minute-5k-running-and-training-plan/ the word ageist link to Wikipedia with a nofollow. It wasn’t that particular link I was bothered about but that is an example
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ah sorry, I missed it the first time and answered the second of the two questions.
so in the above link there is the Wikipedia example and also the example where the words “more scientific approach to a 5k plan” are linking to within my site
also on this page: http://the5krunner.com/2012/01/04/5k-how-much-mileage-do-i-need-to-do-how-much-do-i-need-to-train/ a nofollow is added to the following link http://www.scienceofrunning.com/2009/10/is-9mi-once-better-than-45mi-twice.html
Just trying to find out how to remove it.
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It looks like you’re copy pasting in content, because you have a ton of HTML errors (unless you really meant for some bits to be BOLD and some not to be).
Look at the actual code of that Wikipedia link:
<a class="zem_slink" title="Ageism" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageism" rel="wikipedia">ageist</a>
See that “class=”zem_slink” bit? Take it out. It was in there when you put the link in.
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And don’t EVER use pointy brackets to enclose words. Browsers read that as active commands. Change the pointy brackets to round ones or none at all and Update that post.
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Hi there. As far as I know I’m not intentionally pasting in content. I would imagine that the ageism/wiki thing came from a zemanta tag.
Anyway, thank you for the pointy bracket tip. That makes a lot of sense.
HOWEVER I have removed those from the link in this page: http://the5krunner.com/2012/01/04/5k-how-much-mileage-do-i-need-to-do-how-much-do-i-need-to-train/ to the following link http://www.scienceofrunning.com/2009/10/is-9mi-once-better-than-45mi-twice.html and replaced by normal brackets.
the nofollow link is still there. how can I remove it please?
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Your link to that site here in the forums is ALSO nofollow. To me that indicates that the site has been “bozo’d” for linkbaiting, ie staff here won’t outright ban it, but linking to it will not increase its search engine ranking. It will always be a nofollow link.
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hmmm. thank you for that.
it seems that MANY of my links are nofollow. So maybe my site has been bozo’d. You’ve seen m y site; obviously it’s a ‘proper’ site.
can you get one of the happiness engineers to advise if my site has been blacklisted in any way
many thanks
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Your link to that site here in the forums is ALSO nofollow. To me that indicates that the site has been “bozo’d” for linkbaiting, ie staff here won’t outright ban it, but linking to it will not increase its search engine ranking. It will always be a nofollow link.
We don’t do any such thing. All links in the forum have always been nofollow, and we don’t “bozo” sites for linkbaiting.
the5krunner2, if you had previously used Zemanta, the links entered by the tool have been tagged as nofollow. This has absolutely no negative affect on your site whatsoever. A nofollow tag simply instructs search engine bots, like the GoogleBot, to not follow through to the linked site while indexing yours. This only means that the linked site will not receive a boost in search engine ranking from your link alone, it won’t harm your site or your search engine ranking.
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thanks for the replies. I am talking about a link in the main body of a blog post on wordpress.com not on the forum
All I want to do is to know how to get rid of a rel=”nofollow”
if I can’t do that myself then I would like to know
1.why wordpress insert them (ie what am I doing wrong) AND,
2. what I need to do to to ensure I get a “dofollow” in occasional specific circumstances when I want one -
1. The nofollow tag cannot be removed at the moment, as the link was inserted via one of Zemanta’s tools. You aren’t doing anything wrong.
2. The tag is currently added to items inserted by Zemanta. The only way to not add the tag to a link would be to not insert the link via Zemanta.
Again, I’d like to assure you that a nofollow tag has no negative affect on your site.
A nofollow tag simply instructs search engine bots, like the GoogleBot, to not follow through to the linked site while indexing yours. This only means that the linked site will not receive a boost in search engine ranking from your link alone, it won’t harm your site or your search engine ranking.
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I understand about negative thing now thank you.
This is the link that I added myself not through zemanta or anything else. Just a normal link normally added by me to a site that I presume is fine. There are several other (non zemanta) examples that I can give from my site that are similar
http://www.scienceofrunning.com/2009/10/is-9mi-once-better-than-45mi-twice.html
it has the nofollow tag.
why please?
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Could you please give me a link to the post on your blog that the link in question is a part of so I can investigate?
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Never mind, I found it at http://the5krunner.com/2012/01/04/5k-how-much-mileage-do-i-need-to-do-how-much-do-i-need-to-train/
The link in that post is not nofollowed. The full link tag is:
<a href="http://www.scienceofrunning.com/2009/10/is-9mi-once-better-than-45mi-twice.html">There’s more discussed (here)</a>
Why do you feel it was nofollowed?
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