Remove nofollow attribute from comments section in the blog post

  • There is a nofollow attribute in the comments section of every blog post on my website. How do I remove that and why is it there in the first place?

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  • Moderator Felipe Santos

    (@foosantos)

    Hi @claus90,

    It would be probably to avoid spam and unwanted referrals.

    Do you have any specific use case that you think it would make sense to search engines to follow and index those links added in the comments?

    Most people would want only to consider links that they added themselves and not those added by visitants.

    Thread Starter claus90

    (@claus90)

    Hi, I recently did a SEO site audit, and it came up with issue of pages being blocked from appearing in search engines due to nofollow attribute. https://blog.trading-joe.com/ is one of them. It makes sense to use nofollow for links in comments, as long as it does not interfere with SEO for the page itself

    Moderator Felipe Santos

    (@foosantos)

    I’m not sure why this SEO audit would say that. Maybe this tool misunderstood recognizing it as a comment.

    Also, I don’t see how this could negatively impact the page’s SEO by adding a nofollow to an external site URL — it would only impact the SEO of the linked site.

    The only negative aspect is in case you’re adding links to your own site on the comments.

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