Remove nofollow links from Product Pages

  • Resolved albertandbrown

    (@albertandbrown)


    4 years, 2 months ago

    Hi all,

    We run WordPress 5.4.2 and Woocomerce 4.2.2 with Storefront theme 2.7.0 and Yoast 14.9 – otherwise the site is fairly plain vanilla.

    We’ve just discovered that many of our Category and product pages have nofollow links. This is apparently not a good thing for our SEO. Having looked at the page source code it seems that the nofollow is in the Related Products Section.

    I can’t find where this nofollow is added as the Product settings in Yoast are set to follow.

    Any help in finding what is generating the nofollow would be appreciated.

    thanks.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Support wpnomad a11n

    (@wpnomad)

    Hi @albertandbrown ,

    WooCommerce by default uses nofollow links for certain things like the “Add to cart button URL.

    While there isn’t an option in WooCommerce to change the link attribute, you cna one of the code solution that are mentioned here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41240087/how-to-remove-nofollow-link-from-woocommerce-add-to-cart-button-using-woocommerc

    I hope this helps!

    Thread Starter albertandbrown

    (@albertandbrown)

    Thanks wpnomad, the problem here is that the nofollow is in the Product listings, it seems to be in the Related Products code. The folks at Yoast tell me that it is generated by the Storefront theme.

    Plugin Support wpnomad a11n

    (@wpnomad)

    Hi @albertandbrown ,

    Thanks wpnomad, the problem here is that the nofollow is in the Product listings, it seems to be in the Related Products code. The folks at Yoast tell me that it is generated by the Storefront theme.

    I see a total of 5 nofollow links on the product page you have shared (https://albertandbrown.com/shop/product/thymox-ext/), please see screenshot: https://d.pr/i/karN4l

    These nofollow links are added for the following:

    1. Reviews tab link
    2. For the “Select Options” button (for Ultrasound gel product under “Related Products”)
    3. Read more button for Myo-ther Genie Plus Table Cleaner product
    4. Select option button for Accel Wash Instrument Cleaning product
    5. Add to cart button

    Other products (like the Related product) are linked from the product page via the “Read more/select option” buttons and via the thumnbails (i.e the product images as well as the product name). The thumbnails are not “nofollow”, and that ensures that the linked related products continue to get indexed, please see screenshot: https://d.pr/i/FXIkrD

    I hope this gives some insights on why some links are set as “nofollow” by default. There isn’t an option in WooCommerce or Storefront to remove the “nofollow” attribute from other links though. You may need help of a developer to filter the links and remove the “nofollow” attribute, a similar discussion is located here: https://github.com/woocommerce/woocommerce/issues/21922

    I hope this helps!

    Thread Starter albertandbrown

    (@albertandbrown)

    Thanks for the investigation and explanation. It would therefore seem to me that the Ryte.com analysis found nofollow links and flagged them as problems, when it actually isn’t a problem and that the SEO structure is in fact valid and the nofollow links are in fact valid and should not be removed.

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