Don’t get me wrong, I am all for giving a nice backlink where it’s due. For example if I’m using a free theme for my Wordpress blogs I will always keep the theme creators link as do-follow. I will also reward regular blog commentors with a nice do-follow link too. But it is really not necessary to make every single link in every blog post a do-follow one, this may end up hurting your own rankings.
Unfortunately unlike in the comment area, Wordpress automaticaly makes all links in your blog posts do-follow ones. So how do we make them no-follow? Read on and you will find out.
The first thing we need to do is download, unzip and uplad the TinyMCE Advanced plugin to our plugins folder. Then login to your Wordpress dashboard, click on plugins and activate it. Next click on your “manage” tab at the top of your dashboard, and choose the “TinyMCE Advanced” option. You should then see a screen that looks like this:
On this page you will need to drag and drop the link button onto the bottom bar along with any other extra icons you want to use, then click on “save”. Now when you go to the “write new post” page you will see an extra toolbar with your added icons on it like this:
Now when you make a link in your dashboard and you want to make it no-follow you can follow these steps.
First write whatever words you want the link to look like, then highlight them. Click on your new link button that is in your extra toolbar. Type in the URL of your link like you would to make a regular link. Next click on the “advanced” tab and look to where it says “Relationship page to target”. This is automaticaly set to “not set”. Click on it and scroll down to the “no follow option and choose that. Then click on “insert”, and you have just made your link a no-follow one.
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