Best link juice plugins for WordPress
The most popular link juice plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Link Juice Optimizer leads with 5K+ active installs, ahead of Backlinks Saver (3K+) and NoFollow jQuery Links (fewer than 10). All 4 plugins tagged “link juice” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 3 link juice plugins
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Link Juice OptimizerThe most installed link juice plugin, with 5K+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.4.14.
- 2.
Backlinks Saver3K+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 5 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39.
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NoFollow jQuery LinksFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
All 4 plugins tagged “link juice”
Link Juice Optimizer
Down in the last 7 days:2#2,989by Fede Gómez2 years ago
Replace links with a clickable <span> tag, add the nofollow attribute or remove the href attribute to optimize link juice.
- Installs
- 5K+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 22/day
Backlinks Saver
Down in the last 7 days:15#4,034by Nimrod Flores9 years ago
Backlinks Saver helps you save the link juice from existing backlinks to non-existent pages on your site by redirecting them to the home page with 301 …
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.2(5)
- Downloads
- 12/day
NoFollow jQuery Links
#55,337by nexist2 years ago
A simple TinyMCE Plugin to add a js link solution for linking pages together in order to stop search engines crawlers going through those pages.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day