Comments on: WordPress starts adding noopener noreferrer tags automatically

By: Anand Khanse

Anand Khanse — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 06:02:00 +0000

In reply to John. Yes you can use: target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener"

By: John

John — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 03:45:00 +0000

I use “_blank” for all the links whether internal or external. What in this case nofollow or noopener…or both can be possible in same link…?

By: Anand Khanse

Anand Khanse — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 03:38:00 +0000

In reply to John. Use WordPress plugin 'NoFollow Link' by Alex Jose (Ginger Codes). One should use noopener only along with target=”_blank" to prevent Reverse Tabnabbing.

By: John

John — Sat, 24 Feb 2018 03:30:00 +0000

I am looking for nofollow help. How to add nofollow and noopener together?

By: Alex Web

Alex Web — Sun, 12 Nov 2017 00:54:00 +0000

In reply to Anand Khanse. I'm really concerned about the affiliate sales. Because some affiliate platforms might need the referring url to get details regarding the user that sent the sale, in case the sale will not fire directly on their platform.

By: Esha Upadhyay

Esha Upadhyay — Sun, 23 Jul 2017 08:48:00 +0000

You can remove these tags from your link using https://wordpress.org/plugins/udinra-noopener-noreferrer-remove/ plugin as functions.php code changes get wiped out with new theme update

By: Anand Khanse

Anand Khanse — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 18:14:00 +0000

In reply to Tyler Stokes. You can use 'target=_blank + the rel=noopener noreferrer'. I use it too. Using dofollow is not a must.

By: Tyler Stokes

Tyler Stokes — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 14:48:00 +0000

In reply to Anand Khanse. When I source articles in my posts, I like to have the links open in a new window. But I do want to link with "do follow" as these sources I link to are reputable websites. So is there anything wrong with the target=”_blank” + the rel=”noopener noreferrer" in this regard? Or should I just remove the open in a new window altogether?

By: Anand Khanse

Anand Khanse — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 04:56:00 +0000

In reply to Flavia Andrews. No, the tags are different. Nofollow tells search bots to not follow the link. Noreferrer tells the browser to not collect HTTP referrer information when the link is visited.

By: Flavia Andrews

Flavia Andrews — Mon, 05 Jun 2017 20:20:00 +0000

Hello, thanks for such valuable information. Is the ‘noreferrer’ tag equivalent to the ‘nofollow’ tag? I am asked to add nofollow tags when I am reviewing products or writing sponsored (paid) posts.

Thanks!

By: Financial Samurai

Financial Samurai — Thu, 04 May 2017 15:16:00 +0000

Fascinating stuff. Just saw this and was wondering!

By: FidoSysop

FidoSysop — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 21:03:00 +0000

Just noticed that in an old post updated today. I appreciate your article as i was searching Bing for ‘noopener noreferrer’ and your article came up first. Wonder why WordPress did that? Sure to get penalized as Google will think the link points to a dark-net site or worse.