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Business SEO Basics Better SEO Through Code Noindex and Nofollow

Laura Hill
Laura Hill
13,674 Points
Posted by Laura Hill
Laura Hill
13,674 Points

The No-Follow tag

The video says to use the "no follow" tag to prevent search engines form thinking a blog endorses links included in spam posted in comment boxes, This is great news! but I am not sure how to apply it - I think he said to insert the no follow code into the code that generates the link. How could I do that? Can I engineer the comment box (through wp for example) ?

1 Answer

Gloria Dwomoh
Gloria Dwomoh
13,116 Points
Gloria Dwomoh
Gloria Dwomoh
13,116 Points

Hi Laura, you don't need to do it on your own, as WordPress 1.5 and above (now I think the latest one is WordPress 4.0), automatically assigns the no follow tag to comments from users etc. You can read more about that here, WordPress - Nofollow.

Matteo Simeone
Matteo Simeone
13,587 Points
Matteo Simeone
Matteo Simeone
13,587 Points

Thanks Gloria, it's a useful info for me too!

Gloria Dwomoh
Gloria Dwomoh
13,116 Points

Matteo Simeone - You are welcome!