Yoast adding external links?

  • Resolved Sdarter

    (@sdarter)


    2 years, 11 months ago

    In the post linked above the words “secretarial trainings” have an outbound link that the author did not put there. Thinking we had a spam link injection I contacted the host. Upon further investigation they declared the site was clean, but stated that the link had been inserted by Yoast.

    Is the plugin now adding outbound links?? If so, how do I stop it?

    From my chat with support:

    AGENT: Thank you very much for your patience Selena! I know it took me quite a few moments but I found the culprit

| wp_posts           | post_content | 1            | PHP  |
| wp_yoast_seo_links | url          | 1            | PHP  | 
AGENT: It looks like it's the Yoast plugin adding an SEO related link.

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

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  • Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    Hello Sdarter,

    Thanks for reaching out about the outbound link.

    Yoast SEO does not add outbound links to your posts or pages. The plugin’s SEO analysis scans your content to see if you have outbound links. If you do not, it recommends that you add it. But does not add the links itself.

    Please check that you do not have a third-party plugin that adds links.

    I marked this thread as resolved due to a lack of activity by the original poster. The original poster is always welcome to re-open this topic.

    If you are not the original poster but have a similar issue, please read this post before opening a new request.

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