Hello, I'm Dan Thies. I've been writing about, teaching, and practicing search engine optimization for over 12 years.
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WordPress WYSIWYG Editor "Nofollow Links" Plug-In
Stompernet member Jim MacKay has come up with a neat little plug-in to allow nofollow on individual links in WordPress posts. In the WYSIWYG editor for posts, it adds a checkbox to the dialog box on the "insert link" button. There are other ways to do this, but Jim's plug-in looks like a nice time saver for those who frequently link to sites that don't deserve any link love.
Now that Semiologic is once again stable and great (serious credit to Denis & the new team for an excellent job), I'll be testing Jim's plugin a bit. If you try it out, I'd like to hear your comments here as well.
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I've been adding nofollow manually until now. I like Plug-Ins that do just what I want and nothing more. Looks good, I'll install it and see. Cheers, schikowski
SO why bother going to each other's blog and leaving comments if everyone will get in a scarcity mindset and not allow the love to follow
Michele, this plug-in is for managing links in blog posts, not in comments. There are plenty of reasons why we would want to create links with nofollow in posts – you can already do this without the plug-in. The point of the plug-in is to make it easier.
Nofollow on comments isn't about having a scarcity mindset, it's about deterring spam. I would hope the point of your comments was to participate and contribute to the community, and help people find you. Right?
I just started a new Website for my new Network Marketing Health Product, Enlyten
As any new site, I need links in and out. My concern is when I am linking out, do I need to be concerned with folks who use rel="nofollow". And will that really help them to get credit for the out link, but does not delute the pagerank?
How do I now if they are using the plug in?
Thanks, Brian Fitzgerald http://www.enlyten1.com
GREAT plugin for WordPress. This saves me all kind of time I used to waste manually adding nofollow tags. Thanks for your work!
This is so helpful, thanks Dan! I will test this out. Manually doing selective "nofollow" tags is tedious.
After installing this I couldn't find the check box that is supposed to be in TinyMCEAdvanced. I even tried installing, deactivating, and then re-installing it again and still couldn't find that nofollow check box you say is supposed to be there. I'm using WP 2.9.1. If I already had TinyMCEAdvanced installed, shouldn't the check box appear on there somewhere after I activate the nofollow plugin? Or was I supposed to install the version of TinyMCE Advanced that was included with the plugin? I contacted the developer but haven't heard back from him yet. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you very much.