Avoid Google Panda Effect By Adding Nofollow Tags To Your Blog Label Links

It is the desire of all the bloggers to have a successful blog, but do you know that following your blog label links can cause a great harm to your blog? That is why it's good to share ideas, and that is the main essence of blogging, sharing your ideas with people.

Google Panda effect is the name most of you might heard. It is a strict Google new algorithm that looks for content farms and link farms and completely stops indexing the publisher. If your blog contains too many irrelevant content or duplicate content or your post quantity is less than 300 words and you have too many tags/category labels on your blog that makes no sense then you can be the next target of Google panda update. Your traffic will drop significantly.

If you are receiving 2-3K visitors per day, you will end up with just 400-500 visitors. It really shocked me personally when I surveyed official and un-official blogger templates and amazingly found that all category tags or label tags are dofollow. It is really sad on blogger part but I found the same problem on WordPress blogs as well. Even the tags in wordPress are dofollow but since now many expert SEOs have advised to nofollow the label tags therefore we must not delay any further else the consequences could be huge.

How to add nofollow tag to your blog label links

To get started:

• Go To Blogger > Design > Edit HTML
• Backup your template
• Check the "Expand widget templates" box
• Search for this,

<a expr:href='data:label.url' rel='tag'>

Replace the code above with the one below

<a expr:href='data:label.url' rel='tag,nofollow'>

Now your blog label links are successfully protected against google panda effect.

How to add nofollow tag to label cloud links (The one on your blog sidebar)

Note: This step is optional as it is added in your blog side bar, not the main blog, where the crawling takes place.

•  Search for the code below

<a expr:dir='data:blog.languageDirection' expr:href='data:label.url'><data:label.name/></a>

• Now replace the code above with the one below

<a expr:dir='data:blog.languageDirection' expr:href='data:label.url' rel='nofollow'><data:label.name/></a>

To check if you've correctly carried out the steps. Install Nodofollow in your Firefox browser to check it.

That has been all about adding nofollow tags to blog label links to avoid Google panda effect, feel free to drop your questions and contributions in the comment section.

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