Nofollow attributes appearing in all menu links

Hello,

I apologize for the issue you are facing with the Nofollow attributes appearing in all menu links on your website. This warning from Semrush about more than 1000 Nofollow attributes in outgoing internal links can indeed impact your website’s SEO.

Based on the information you provided, it seems like the Nofollow attributes are automatically added to all menu links on your WordPress website. This could be due to a setting within Rank Math that is applying Nofollow attributes globally to all external links.

To resolve this issue and prevent the automatic addition of Nofollow attributes to menu links, you can follow these steps:

1. Navigate to your WordPress admin area.
2. Go to Rank Math SEO → General Settings → Links.
3. Check if the Nofollow External Links option is enabled. If it is enabled, disable it to stop adding Nofollow attributes to all external links.

4. Save the changes by clicking the Save Changes button at the bottom of the page.

By disabling the global setting for Nofollow External Links in Rank Math, you should be able to prevent the automatic addition of Nofollow attributes to menu links on your website. This should help resolve the SEO impact caused by the excessive Nofollow attributes.

If you need further assistance or have any other questions, please feel free to reach out. We are here to help!

Thank you for bringing this concern to our attention.

Sources:
Should You NoFollow External Links? » Rank Math
Using Link Controls in Rank Math
How to Nofollow Specific External Links in WordPress With Rank Math SEO » Rank Math
Using Rank Math’s ‘Quick Actions’ Admin Menu Item

Hello,

Thank you for contacting us and sorry for any inconvenience that this issue might have caused.

Please note that Rank Math can only set your external links to nofollow via this option:
https://rankmath.com/kb/should-you-nofollow-external-links/

Assuming you are using the latest version of all the plugins and the themes (please update if not yet), to determine which plugin or theme adds the nofollow to your internal links, please follow this troubleshooting guide:
https://rankmath.com/kb/check-plugin-conflicts/

Here is a video you can follow as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcIWRhcUP2c

Only the site admin would know and your users won’t be affected by this troubleshooting.

Hope that helps.

Hello,

Rank Math does not add nofollow to internal links.

Since you have already disabled Rank Math and the issue persists, then you should continue to disable your plugins one by one to determine the culprit.

You should also switch your theme to default to check if it’s your theme adding that to your internal links.

Hope that helps.

Hello,

We are glad to hear that this issue has been resolved. Thank you for letting us know. This ticket will be closed now, but you can always open a new one if you have any other questions or concerns. We are here to help you with anything related to Rank Math.

We appreciate your patience and cooperation throughout this process.

Thank you for choosing Rank Math.