How and Why to add No Follow and Target Blank

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9 years ago

Why to add a "nofollow" tag

If you write a sponsored post and use an affiliate link, Google considers that as a paid link. Every time link to that company’s website, you run the risk of being dropped from the Google search engine results pages. That's why you add a "nofollow" tag to that link.

Why to add a "target blank" tag

You add a target blank tag, when a link on your website leads your visitor to another website. If you don't add a target black, you will probably loose your customer.

How to add a "nofollow" and "target blank" manually

How Pretty link plugin can help you

Add the pretty link plugin

Click on add new link

1. Paste your link at no.1
2. Give your link a name, do this without spaces. When you add spaces you get liks like this in your browser. E.g. go to google
   http://aloesvera.siterubix.com/go20%to20%google20%
   when you add gotogoogle it will look like this
   http://aloesvera.siterubix.com/gotogoogle
3. Click on advanced options
4. Check the box behind the "No follow"
5. Check the box behind "Tracking" you can see how many clicks there are
6. Create link
7. Copy and paste the pretty link into your post

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