Adding 'No Follow' to external blog links

Adding 'No Follow' to external blog links

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How can I set all external blog links to 'no follow'. Is this possible through the control panel?

Currently, external links from our blog posts are negatively affecting our SEO activity.

Thanks,

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  • There are a couple of approaches that could be taken - both would require some level of custom development:

    * An event based plugin that hooks into the Blog Comment Create or Render event, adding nofollow onto all anchor links.

    * Write a custom Scripted Widget Extension that adds nofollow to all anchor tags in the input string, and then modify the blog commetn list widget to

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  • Just wondering if this was answered or figured out :) Thanks! I would like to be sure as well since we will be linking to various external blogs. We are using the 7.0 platform

  • There are a couple of approaches that could be taken - both would require some level of custom development:

    * An event based plugin that hooks into the Blog Comment Create or Render event, adding nofollow onto all anchor links.

    * Write a custom Scripted Widget Extension that adds nofollow to all anchor tags in the input string, and then modify the blog commetn list widget to

  • Thanks Alex. I investigate further both suggestions above. Regards, Ciaran