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This tutorial will show you two ways to insert the nofollow tag in links. Once you understand these methods this is very easy to do.

I have provided TWO ways, the “Automatic Way” using your website editor tool and the “Manual Way” where you play around with the code yourself.

Truth be told: Both are super easy to do. Knowing the manual way has its own benefits, because once you get used to it you’ll find it extremely efficient.

Method #1: The “Automatic Way”

Open your website editor tool, in this example I’m using NVU, and open the page that contains the links.

If you have a different website editor tool the process should be the same more or less.

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Now just double click on the text link, OR right click on the link and select Link Properties.

Now click on Advanced Edit… button and you’ll see this:

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Type rel in the first box (Attribute:) and then if something appears in the second box (Value:) remove it and type in nofollow

Here’s screenshot of how it now appears:

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Just click Ok, then OK again.

Done.

To verify you did it correctly you can install a FREE plugin in your browser. This plugin only works with Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox currently. It’s called SEO Aid you can download it from: http://www.linkbuilderexpert.com/seoaid.html Then follow the instructions to install it.

To use it, save the webpage you edited, upload it via FTP, then visit the page in your browser. Right click on the plugin (in Mozilla Firefox) or click it once (in IE) select Highlight Nofollow and if the link has the nofollow tag it will be highlighted.

Method #2: The “Manual Way”

After you practice this a couple times you find this simple to do as well.

You’re about to discover slightly technical related material here.

First of all a normal link code looks like this:

<a href=”http://www.yahoo.com/”>Click here!</a>

Why I said normal?

Because sometimes the code contains extra elements, such as those that make the link BOLD, ITALICS, FONT COLOUR, etc.

The link code may look like this:

<a style=”font-family: Arial; href=”http://www.yahoo.com”>click here</a>

That code has also the FONT element in it.

Anyways, you want to insert the rel=”nofollow” tag in the link code.

Where?

Right before the first > I like to call this the closing tag.

Therefore:

<a href=”http://www.yahoo.com/” rel=”nofollow” >Click here!</a>

Notice I placed a space before and after the nofollow tag, you can do this too, you can also don’t put spaces at all if you choose to. The reason I put spaces is because it becomes easier to put the tag.

So if the link code includes other elements we still have to put the rel=”nofollow” tag before the first >

Therefore:

<a style=”font-family: Arial;” href=”http://www.yahoo.com” rel=”nofollow” >click here</a>

So remember put the nofollow tag ALWAYS before the first >

One final word: remember that you have to insert the nofollow tag exactly like this:

rel=”nofollow”

Don’t do it like this:

rel=’nofollow’

Why the “Manual Way” is very effecient?

Your computer already has the program called Notepad.

Now that you know how to edit link code manually to insert the nofollow tag, you can use this program to edit links.

You can open your webpage using Notepad. You will only see the code that makes up the webpage.

But you can easily modify the code manually.

I like to use notepad a lot to edit code, because it’s fast to use. Knowing a bit technical material like this helps, because you can be more efficient and don’t have to call your webmaster or programmer each time.