WP No Follow Driving me insane!

Discussion in 'Blogging' started by MasterKool, Oct 21, 2009.

  1. #1
    Ok i have a wordpress blog www.wordofmouthband.net
    And i want to the links on the blogroll on the right to be Do-Follow
    However they are no-follow according to a firefox plugin called: Searchstatus
    which colours no follows red.

    I have tried everything and i can't seem to get the links as DO-FOLLOW
    Please help!
     
    MasterKool, Oct 21, 2009 IP
  2. dmssrinivas

    dmssrinivas Well-Known Member

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    #2
    All the links in your sidebar are do-follow according to my version of FF.
     
    dmssrinivas, Oct 21, 2009 IP
  3. rogan4567

    rogan4567 Active Member

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    It's because you have this:

    
    <meta name='robots' content='noindex,nofollow' />
    
    Code (markup):
    in your blog's header text. Likely your blog's privacy settings are excluding search engine robots, or you're using the 'meta robots' plugin (or something similar) and accidentally nofollowed / noindexed your blog.

    To change Wordpress' privacy settings:

    Login to the WP Admin / Dashboard area
    On the left, click on 'Settings'
    Choose 'Privacy'
    Select 'I would like my blog to be visible to everyone, including search engines (like Google, Sphere, Technorati) and archivers'
    Click 'Save Changes'

    Otherwise, it could be hard-coded in your template's theme (not likely). You just have to edit the header.php and remove the meta robots tag that says 'noindex,nofollow'.
     
    rogan4567, Oct 24, 2009 IP
  4. mizaks

    mizaks Well-Known Member

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    Appear to be dofollow for me as well.
     
    mizaks, Oct 24, 2009 IP
  5. rogan4567

    rogan4567 Active Member

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    The links are not 'nofollowed', but the meta robots is declaring all the links on the page to be 'nofollow', so they <a href> tags don't need the declaration. It's not just the home page, either -- all the links on the entire site are nofollow, and all the pages are noindex.
     
    rogan4567, Oct 24, 2009 IP