Someone must have told you the importance of using the link nofollow attribute. This might have prompted you to use the nofollow addition at page level.
You may be reluctant to adding nofollow attributes to individual links, but it's going to kill your site. Read on to know why.
Google bots look for "link rel" attributes for every link they get on your site. Adding a link nofollow attribute at page level means that it's modifying each and every link on your page.
As a result, internal links to your own pages get nofollow attributes.
Let me now explain the real essence of a nofollow attribute.
A link with nofollow is downgraded. Google gives less attention to them. In a page with both dofollow and nofollow modifications, only the dofollow links are discovered.
The nofollow links are ignored. If it's a page that has already been indexed then it'll rank low because you don't trust your own pages (you added nofollow to your own links).
If on the other side, you are a new blog and you add nofollow, your pages will take very long to get discovered by Google and eventually longer to get indexed.
Take an example. If you add a nofollow at page level on your homepage, all your new posts with links on only your homepage won't be discovered by Google unless you submit a sitemap or link to that post in another page.
Nofollow links mean so much to a new site that you shouldn't even use them if you don't truly understand their working.
How to use nofollow link attribute
1. Use on individual links
This is the first rule. If you want to nofollow links in a page, do it one link after the other.
2. Use on only external links
As a new site, you want Google to discover most of your urls. To do so, you shouldn't put nofollow attributes on your internal links.
3. Never use it at page level
I don't know why you would want to use a nofollow attribute at page level. It will hurt you badly. Each page on your site has footer links, related posts links and many more internal links.
Adding nofollow at page level will affect all those links.
4. Use automated features
If you can, you can code a Blogger gadget that helps you in nofollowing all external links. This requires JavaScript and HTML knowledge.
It will help you use nofollow external links at page level. That Blogger gadget isn't existent, but hopefully, we as x-droov will build it and make it available for you.
I really hope that I explained what needs to be understood about using nofollow at page level.
Thanks for reading to the end. If you have any questions, let me know in the comments section.
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Emmy Jayson
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