How to make all external links to social media nofollow

Hi guys,

I just found out that there are thousands of dofollow links to social media (Facebook, Google+, Pinterest, Twitter) generated through the post end social buttons. Please see an example here.

How can I generally nofollow all links to social media?

Thanks.

Hi,

thanks for the reply. Can I add a rel=”nofollow” to each row in the file you mentioned?
If that will solve my the problem, where exactly should I add it?

Like this:
<a rel=”nofollow” class=”td-social-sharing…
or like this
<a class=”td-social-sharing…-facebook” rel=”nofollow” href=”… ?

You are saying that I cannot add a nofollow to multiple links at once. What do you mean? If the above example works, can I just add the nofollow to each row in the code for the different social media?

Thanks

Hi DaveS,

I use newspaper for years now and set my external links via plugin to rel=”nofollow”. I am currently using “WP External Links” for that.

best,
Norman

It’s not worth installing a plugin just because of this. I would prefer to avoid an unnecessary install.

Hi,

Thank you. Btw I’m not using the first set of buttons (at the beginning of the page). Can I just remove their code from being executed?
If yes, what is the exact snippet that has to be removed?

Thanks.