HeyGoTo

<p>If you are looking to build your site’s rank in a natural and Google approved method, you know the value of having certain links set to NoFollow. But going back over your site with a fine toothed comb can be a trying and painstaking process. Especially, if you’ve got a lot of content built over the years. With the increasing importance of telling the search engines if they should consider a link worth following, it’s now more important than ever to get a handle on your outbound links.</p>
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<p>Wikipedia – nofollow:<br />
  nofollow is a value that can be assigned to the rel attribute of an HTML an element to instruct some search engines that the hyperlink should not influence the ranking of the link’s target in the search engine’s index.</p>
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<p>Agencies are often hired to help get it under control. So, whether you are an agency working for clients, or a site owner wanting to avoid the expense of an Agency, the Ultimate SEO NoFollow plugin will allow you to craft the link profile Google, Bing, Yahoo and others are looking for, without breaking the bank. This lightweight plugin will let you setup one or more rules to apply across your site on how to tag the links already on your site, as well as those you will add in the future.</p>
<p>Other typical use cases include links created by 3rd party commenters on blogs, affiliate product links, consulting or agency links, or links the author wishes to point to, but avoid endorsing.</p>
<h4>Example Case Study:</h4>
<p>You’ve been building content over time, including several affiliate links to products. By setting up a “rule” to target the base URL for your affiliate links, you can set the plugin to automatically go find those and add the all-important rel=”nofollow” to links buried on your site in long forgotten (but still active) posts, pages, sidebars and footers.</p>
<h4>Example Case Study:</h4>
<p>You’re an agency that has created websites for dozens of clients over the last 5 years and many of those sites have grown to hundreds or even thousands of pages. Each has a link back to you in the footer. Google has begun to penalize you for those thousands of inbound links.</p>
<h4>Installation Instructions</h4>
<p>Download the zip file from the WordPress repo, or search and install the plugin from the Plugin Add New feature in WordPress.</p>
<p>Once installed you can setup the rule(s) for the turning all footer links to your agency website over to rel=”nofollow” except for the link on the home page. You can also setup just links within a certain HTML tag, class or ID. You can optionally set it to NOT do all links within a class (reverse option).</p>
<p>See the <a href="https://www.heygotomarketing.com/plugins/ultimate-nofollow-seo/" rel="nofollow ugc">plugin site</a> for further examples, instructions and a setup video</p>


Ultimate NoFollow SEO

If you are looking to build your site's rank in a natural and Google approved method, you know the value of having certain links set to NoFollow.

madfishdigital

<p>Developed by Mad Fish Digital, this plugin saves webmasters time when finding and removing thin pages from search engine indexes.</p>
<p>The plugin provides an interface to sort posts by word count and character count, then bulk noindex or nofollow them. Categories and terms can be sorted by post count and managed the same way. Author archive URLs can now also be managed from a dedicated tab — useful for controlling whether author pages appear in search results.</p>
<h4>Please Keep in Mind</h4>
<p>After a page or category is noindexed, it can take search engines up to a few weeks before the page stops appearing in the search index. The amount of time will depend on how frequently a search engine crawls your website. We recommend using Google Search Console to further analyze how your pages appear in the search index.</p>
<h4>Advantages</h4>
<p>1) Reduce the time it takes to NoIndex/NoFollow each page, post, category, or author URL manually</p>
<p>2) Sort posts and pages by word count and character count to quickly identify thin content</p>
<p>3) Sort categories and tags by their number of associated posts</p>
<p>4) Manage NoIndex and NoFollow directives for author archive URLs from a dedicated Authors tab</p>
<p>5) Speed up search engine penalty recovery by bulk noindexing large numbers of posts and pages</p>
<p>6) Quickly noindex content identified by web crawlers such as Screaming Frog or DeepCrawl</p>
<p>7) Visualize all posts’, pages’, categories’, and authors’ noindex and nofollow statuses at a glance</p>
<p>8) Syncs with Rank Math, Yoast SEO, and AIOSEO to maintain and manage your existing robots directives</p>
<h4>Support</h4>
<p>For support related inquiries, visit the <a href="https://www.madfishdigital.com/wp-plugins/" rel="follow nofollow ugc">Mad Fish Digital plugin support page</a> to drop us a line or ask a question. Please note that responses to specific inquiries may take up to 24 hours.</p>
<h4>Why would you want to remove a bulk amount of pages from search indexes?</h4>
<p>At Mad Fish Digital, we use tools like Screaming Frog, LinkResearch Tools, Ahrefs, and SEM Rush to crawl and analyze web pages. Sometimes, you want to remove multiple web pages from a search engine’s index that contain no longer current content, old products and services, or outdated guidelines/regulations. In many of these cases, you need the pages to be temporarily dropped from Google’s index today, but may want to update the content at a later date. By noindexing a post or page, you can avoid having to set the status code of those pages to 404 (or 410).</p>
<p>This is where having a tool to bulk noindex/nofollow these pages can become handy. You can easily remove pages from the search index, then remove the noindex directive once the content has been updated.</p>
<p>This plugin allows you to bulk edit the meta robots index and follow directives for your site’s posts, pages, categories, and author archive URLs. This tool is compatible with your existing Rank Math, Yoast SEO, and AIOSEO settings. Syncing of category noindex/nofollow settings with Yoast and AIOSEO is not yet supported.</p>
<p>By keeping your pages in sync with the noindex/nofollow settings for Rank Math, Yoast, and AIOSEO, you never have to worry about duplicating efforts or which plugin is managing your robots directives.</p>
<h4>Fallback Protection</h4>
<p>If you disable your Rank Math, Yoast, or AIOSEO plugins, this plugin will continue to serve the appropriate meta robots tag based on the noindex/nofollow settings configured through the interface.</p>
<p>If you do disable any of these plugins, be sure to check the Bulk NoIndex/NoFollow interface (Tools menu) to confirm that your posts, pages, and author URLs are still noindexed and nofollowed accordingly. Robots directives set directly through the WP post editing interface may not always be tracked by this plugin if those SEO plugins were previously enabled but are later disabled.</p>
<h3>Installation & Usage</h3>
<p>1) Login as an administrator to your WordPress Admin account. Using the “Add New” menu option under the “Plugins” section of the navigation, you can either search for: “Bulk NoIndex & NoFollow Tool” or if you’ve downloaded the plugin already, click the “Upload” link, find the .zip file you downloaded and then click “Install Now”. Or you can unzip and FTP upload the plugin to your plugins directory.</p>
<p>2) Navigate to Tools -> Bulk NoIndex/NoFollow</p>
<p>3) Use the Posts, Categories, or Authors tabs to manage robots directives</p>


Bulk NoIndex & NoFollow Toolkit

Bulk set the noindex / nofollow robots tag for posts, pages, categories, and author URLs. Easily identify thin content and noindex it fast.

Ultimate NoFollow SEO vs Bulk NoIndex & NoFollow Toolkit