Interested… questions though…

  • Resolved shaunjbaird

    (@shaunjbaird)


    6 years, 1 month ago

    Hi.. Ive just finished up editing manually 80+ pages over the last 2 weeks to updated the rel attributes for all the links.

    So your plugin adds the rel attributes “on the fly”? I need to understand how Google reacts to this.

    I believed that Google uses their bots to scan my web pages html code and looks for the rel attributes.

    Surely if the rel attributes are not set (until a user clicks on a link) in the actual html code then Google cannot see it.

    Google are as you know need to see “sponsored” attached to the rel attribute of affiliate links. So am I right in thinking this way?

    I genuinely dont know the answer.

    I would love to see a plugin that offers check boxes for nofollow, sponsored and open in a new tab (thus adding noreferrer noopener to those links) in the options when you highlight text, and insert a link… same for images too.

    Please help me understand.
    Thanks
    🙂
    Shaun

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  • Plugin Author Alexandru Tapuleasa

    (@talextech)

    6 years, 1 month ago

    Hi,

    WP External Links is perfectly compatible with Google. It adds the attributes you choose when the page is generated on the server side, not client-side with JS. So as far as Google is concerned those attributes look the same as if you had added them manually to the links 🙂

    Yes, the “sponsored” attribute is for links where you get paid is some way for that you otherwise wouldn’t have added to your website ( ads, sponsored links, affiliate links etc.)

    Thread Starter shaunjbaird

    (@shaunjbaird)

    6 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks for replying. Just so it’s clear in my head.. when google crawls my website, area you saying that a crawl generates a page load server side? I wasnt sure as I thought pages only loaded when it was called in a browser.

    Many thanks 🙂
    Shaun

    Plugin Author Alexandru Tapuleasa

    (@talextech)

    6 years, 1 month ago

    Yes, the pages are served by the server. So anything that opens your website gets the pages receives them from the server 🙂

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