How to add nofollow link attribute to any link

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One of the basic rule of SEO is giving more importance to important posts by keeping it Dofollow and keeping other links as nofollow. The aim here is to increase the page value of giving more internal links to that post and not passing any link love which is not ranking anywhere in search result.

This can be easily done by adding nofollow attribute to any link either in your post or in your sidebar.

Specially link which refer to your advertiser and affiliate links are suppose to be nofollow.

How to add add attribute Nofollow to any link?

By default your link look like this

<a href="http://www.shoutmeloud.com">Technology blog</a>

To make it nofollow, simply add an attribute Nofollow to the link

<a href="http://www.shoutmeloud.com" rel="nofollow">Technology blogt</a>

If you have lots of outbound link from single page. I will suggest to keep atleast those links nofollow which doesn’t add more value to search engine. So that you will not pass your link juice to all of the links. Specially your advertisement links and affiliate links.

This is the same thing I have implemented in my previous post on The list of dofollow forum to increase your backlinks.

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1 Tech @ InkAPoint May 3, 2009 at 16:45: I am also using this method only.

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2 Sharon May 14, 2009 at 06:13: But how do you add the attribute Nofollow to a link within a pdf?

3 seo May 29, 2009 at 00:17: For giving nofollow to all the out bound links on a particular page, use this meta tag

4 Marketing Meerkat July 3, 2009 at 09:29: hey – pretty easy
thanks for explaining though
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5 saju August 22, 2009 at 12:03: Hi i using label in my blogger blog, can you tell me how to add no follow attribute to label url, archive urls
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6 Roschelle September 12, 2009 at 19:58: I had no clue that it even mattered. I do have quite a few affiliate links on my home page. Thanks for sharing.
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