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How To Add Rel Nofollow To External Links

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Article Overview: Rel nofollow aka (rel="nofollow) is a specific value that's added to a link that says that the hyperlink should not be given additional value or rank. By adding this attribute to external links on your website it tells the search engines not to give additional weight or ranking to that particular site.

How To Add Rel Nofollow To External Links

Find out the proper way to add rel nofollow to external links on your website. Rel nofollow aka (rel="nofollow) is a specific value that's added to a link that says that the hyperlink should not be given additional value or rank. By adding this attribute to external links on your website it tells the search engines not to give additional weight or ranking to that particular site.

If you don't want to hurt your seo rankings and loose "link juice" then it's important to remember to add rel="nofollow" to any external links on your website.

It's important to make sure that you don't boost your competitors rankings when posting their links on your website. That's why it's so important to add this code every time that you post an external link on your website.

The Proper Way to Add Rel="Nofollow":

a rel="nofollow" href="ExampleSiteHeredotcom"

Note: You want to add rel nofollow with quotes around nofollow before href and add a space between the end quote and href. Make sure to add the equals sign after rel as well.

Rel nofollow is a type of on-page seo and it's crucial to follow proper on-page search engine techniques if you want to dominate the first page of Google.

Some of the important factors that go into on-page seo are proper h1, h2, and h3 tags on every post, alt tags set for all images, internal links, proper keyword decoration, and having the keyword in the title, url, and description box.

If you don't know how to follow all of the techniques that go into proper on-page seo then I recommend purchasing a Wordpress plugin called Seo Pressor. This plugin takes away the pain of doing seo yourself.

If you want to achieve top search engine rankings then it's important to follow both on-page and off-page seo techniques. If you miss out on following just one of these important factors then it could mean the difference of being on the first page of the search engines or never appearing at all.

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