What does rel=norewrite in thumbnail anchor do?

  • jonathanlow

    (@jonathanlow)


    10 months ago

    Hi,

    YARPP includes template_thumbnail.php ln 40:
    $output .= “<a class=’yarpp-thumbnail’ rel=’norewrite’ href='”

    What’s that intended to do?

    Couldn’t find in any docs related to YARPP or WordPress and, as far as I know, it isn’t an attribute in HTML standards. It just seems to do what it says : add rel=norewrite to links.

    Some SEO audit tools pick this up as a “ internal links?contain nofollow attribute“. That’s not correct as the attribute is norewrite not nofollow. Still, I’d rather not have it there even if it is a false positive.

    Wanted to know why that’s there before I edit the plugin.

    Any info?

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  • Hi, it’s been a while since you asked this, and I would assume that in the mean time you found some information about why it’s added to the links in the related posts items.

    In case you did not:

    “There may be instances when you wish to turn off the Affiliatize Links app on specific links while leaving the app running on the remaining links on your site. If you would like to exclude?a specific?link, you can use the rel=”norewrite” function to make sure the Affiliate Links app will not affect that link. When a link’s rel attribute includes “norewrite”, that link will not be affected in any way by Shareaholic (e.g. Clicks will not be counted, and the link will not be affiliated).”

    Source: https://support.shareaholic.com/hc/en-us/articles/201426209-Affiliatize-Links-How-to-exclude-individual-links

    Makes sense to me ??

    Cheers!

    • This reply was modified 5 months, 3 weeks ago by Blamedutchie. Reason: added link to the source
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