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Nofollow Plug In For Unnatural Outbound Links

Last week, some bloggers received an email from Google stating that their blogs have unnatural links, here’s a copy the email received:

And because of unnatural links (which has been tagged as paid links/ sponsored links), Google has applied a manual spam action to their blogs.

What does Google manual spam action means? It has been observe that blogs that received this manual action got penalized with a PR0, this may also mean disappearing from search engine. YIKES! No blogger would want that!

As mentioned on the email, you can submit a reconsideration request provided that you add rel=”nofollow” to paid links.

EASY? yeah if your blog is relatively new and have 100 or less post.. 100 is still a lot no? The best way to do this is to install a NOFOLLOW plug in (if you’re in WordPress of course).

Here’s a tutorial if you’re using Blogger as a platform>> How to Make Nofollow All External Links Automatically in Blogger

The best NOFOLLOW plug in for me is Nofollow for external link. This plug in automatically adds rel=”nofollow” to all external links, while maintaining a dofollow attribute to all internal links.

External links> any links outside your blog (other blogs, website etc)

Internal links> any links inside your blog (old post, etc)

Out of all the NOFOLLOW plugins listed, this one seems to be the most effective. All plugs in have the same problem> it automatically nofollow all links, new and old. I choose this one because of the rating and user reviews.

If you’re creating a new blog post and requires  dofollow links, just add rel=”dofollow” to the link.

No Follow vs Do Follow

(from techpehpot.com)

Do follow links are links that is followed. That’s easy. Followed by whom? and where? Example, if your link is here in my blog and if it is a do follow link, the search engines will follow that link and will associate your site to my website.

A no follow link is simply a way of saying that a link should not be associated to your site. This is best done for sites that you think have malicious contents. So if you don’t wanna share your page ranks and all, use rel=no follow on your links.

In human terms, do follow means we’re friends and you know what they say about friends, tell me who your friends are and I will tell you who you are. And with no follow it means you are not friends.

Advertisers will always ask for dofollow link since they want the PageRank juice from a blog, but this is against Google’s Webmaster Guideline, as PageRank manipulation is a part of search engine optimization (SEO).

 

Comments

  3. OMG. That happened to me last year when I was still on Blogger! I ended up removing several posts that I thought contained unnatural links. But it was such a tedious task because these paid post links are not the only types of links that Google can deem “unnatural”. That time, I already had about 600+ posts. So, I gave up and instead transferred my blog to WordPress. Haven’t encountered anything like this again so far.

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  5. that’s a very helpful post especially for beginners like me. thanks for the information. I;m also reading your past articles.. they are helpful!

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  8. Very nice summary of no-follow and do-follow links! Sharing this with my network of marketers because a quick refresher is always great! Please write more information like this and I will be happy to share!

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    • If you’re using this plug in, all external link is nofollow but if not, all links inside a blog post a do follow and links from comment section is no follow 🙂

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  11. Nowadays google penalizing those blogs which are providing huge amount of dofollow external link so in this regard such plugins are really helpful to avoid such penalty.

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    • hmm around $50, sometimes less, actually some would accept as low as $5, it all depends to the PageRank of the blog 🙂

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  15. Hello Mommy 🙂 I just have few questions, for example I add the no follow to the sponsored links will they detect it? How about my blog post with links to facebook pages of brands, do I have to add the no follow attribute sa links na yun? I have more than 600 posts sa blogger and most of the old links inalis ko na, better ba pag konti lang yung outbound links? Thank you so much!

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    • hmm I don’t think they can detect it that easily, but if they do and ask you to remove the no follow rel, just add dofollow 🙂

      as for the FB page links, better if it is a no follow link

      and yes, mas OK pag kaunti ang outbound links mo 🙂

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  23. This is a good tutorial for those who just started accepting sponsored posts. I used to do this but I grew tired of writing sponsored posts.

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  31. if that so, its a great info. It will be a very helpful info for me as a beginner in blogging. Thanks 🙂

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  32. I have been looking for a good no-follow plugin for my WP blog, because adding manually no-follow to all outbound links is just so annoying. Thanks for sharing!

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  33. I went through this a while back–now my blog is a no follow blog AND I add rel=”nofollow” to every single link as well–paid or unpaid–I do not trust Google!!

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  34. My blog was penalized by Google last year. From PR2, I was demoted to PR0. After a lot of cleaning up and an appeal, I finally got my PR back – after six long months. Google is god. o.O

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  37. I try to always do no-follow links, but I have a feeling once in awhile I forget! With over 612 posts I can see how that would be a huge pain to go back through and no-follow everything 🙁 That plug in would be a HUGE help!!

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    • yes even if you’re not on adsense, advisable din na i no follow mo ung links para hindi ka ma penalized ni Google at mawala sa search engine 🙂

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  43. I always use the nofollow tag for my blog posts (blogger). I’ve always been scared to get penalized. >.< I think I have a few link which are dofollow, but hopefully I haven't been penalized yet for those. Or hope the Big G sees them as natural.

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  45. Thanks for sharing this no follow pluggin. This is very helpful heads up. being non-techie, I wouldn’t want to be caught in such awful situation.

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