Can someone offer direction as to how to add a rel="nofollow" tag to the "Read More" link that occurs in my posts? I do not want Google indexing these links.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Jeff
Add rel="nofollow" to <!--more--> tag link (6 posts)
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jmraab
Posted 5 years ago # -
Why would you not want Google to index those pages in particular?
Anyway adding a nofollow to the link is not the right way to prevent that sort of thing. If you want to stop Google from indexing certain pages, use a robots.txt file.
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Posted 5 years ago #Let me rephrase. From an SEO perspective, I do not want Google to give any value to the "Read More" link.
The Read More link points here:
http://www.domain.com/post-name/#more-17The problem is that I would need to add some type of /#more wildcard to the robots.txt file, but because each post is unique (/#more-17, /#more-18, etc) I don't think there is an easy way to do this.
The title already links to the permalink for the post, so I don't need all of the /#more pages in Google's index.
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Posted 5 years ago #Okay, I found the fix for this. Here is what I edited:
in wp-includes/post-template.php I edited line 102 to include class=\"more-link\" within the link structure.
The only problem with this workaround is that whenever I upgrade, I'll need to also make this hack in the new files. Maybe something for WP developers to consider?
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I would expect Google to be smart enough to know that
http://www.domain.com/post-name/#more-17 and
http://www.domain.com/post-name/ both point to the same page. The #whatever is a standard way of pointing to the interior of a page, Google is not going to treat it as a separate URL.You can add the nofollow if you want, but it doesn't achieve what you think it does.
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ravetildon
Posted 4 years ago #But it will bleed off page rank juice to that URL even if it doesn't index it. So it's just one more step to getting those # 1 rankings.
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