Sunday, August 2, 2020

using nofollow, noreferrer and noopener attributes on external links

Hi guys,

1) Should I use "nofollow" attribute on external links from my blog posts? I like the sources I am linking to, and I would be totally happy to give out some of my pagerank juice.

2) Should I use "noreferrer" attritube? I am blogging on Wordpress and I was extremelyto find out that Wordpress automatically places the "noreferrer" attribute on all external links that open in a new tab. The point is that recepients won't be able to see that I am generating traffic for them in their GA console.

Amazingly, the only option bloggers have is to make the external links open in the same tab. This is just very bad UX and SEO because folks will leave your site and then will need to click back to go back to your site.

3) I think that the "noopener" is a must for security reasons, right?

Thanks for your tips.

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