Will disabling External Links as no-follow affect my previous posts?

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  • Resolved Jacquas

    3 years, 8 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Hello, I used the option of marking external links as no-follow. On my website, every external link is marked as no-follow but now I have changed my mind and in the future, I want to add appropriate do-follow links from the external site but I can not over-ride that setting for individual links.
    I have a question that if I disable that option, will it affect my previous posts also? Will all of my external links be converted to do-follow automatically?

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  • Prabhat

    3 years, 8 months ago

    Rank Math agency

    Hello,

    Thanks for contacting us.

    We do not change the actual code on the website and all the settings that are related to code modification (like adding the NoFollow attribute), are processed on runtime.

    So, if you change the settings, then all the posts that were affected previously will still get updated. Meaning that if you disable the NoFollow External Links option, then all the links that have NoFollow attributes will be affected.

    For more details, please refer to our tutorial guide:
    https://rankmath.com/kb/general-settings/#no-follow-external-links

    Hope this helps.

    Thanks.

    Jacquas

    3 years, 8 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Well, I request you to forward this issue to your Developer team because this needs to be solved. I unchecked that option today and noticed that all of the external links were automatically converted to Do-Follow.
    How is it possible to edit all of the previously added posts and make their links no-follow again one by one. This is not possible for me. I need a solution for it

    Reinelle

    3 years, 7 months ago

    Hello,

    Thank you for the update, and sorry for the delay.

    The absence of no-follow automatically means do-follow. If you enable the Nofollow External Links, you should see the Nofollow Domains option:
    No-follow

    You can put there all the domains you wanted to only have the no-follow attribute to your external links. This means only the links to the domains listed in the NoFollow Domains will be no-followed, the rest of the links will be followed.

    If you leave that option blank, all of your external links will have the no-follow attribute.

    I hope that helps. Thank you, and please don’t hesitate to contact us anytime if you need further assistance.

    RankBot

    3 years, 6 months ago

    Hello,

    Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.

    If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.

    Thank you.

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