Best nofollow plugins for WordPress
The most popular nofollow plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. External Links leads with 80K+ active installs, ahead of Title and Nofollow For Links (Classic Editor) (10K+) and Nofollow for external link (9K+). All 70 plugins tagged “nofollow” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 nofollow plugins
- 1.
External LinksThe most installed nofollow plugin, with 80K+ active installs. Rated 4.3 from 247 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 2.
Title and Nofollow For Links (Classic Editor)10K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 23 reviews, updated 3 months ago.
- 3.
Nofollow for external link9K+ active installs. Rated 3.8 from 36 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.5.14.
- 4.
External Links8K+ active installs. Rated 4.8 from 36 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 5.
Rel Nofollow Checkbox4K+ active installs. Rated 4.5 from 26 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 6.
noindex SEO3K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 7.
Ultimate Noindex Nofollow Tool II3K+ active installs. Rated 3.1 from 8 reviews, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.4.14.
- 8.
DoFollow Case by Case1K+ active installs. Rated 4.0 from 8 reviews, updated 1 month ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
- 9.
Extend Link1K+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, updated 2 months ago.
- 10.
Type Attribute Warnings Removal900+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, updated 5 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
All 70 plugins tagged “nofollow”
External Links
Up in the last 7 days:1#497by WebFactory2 months ago
Internal links & external links manager: open in new window or tab, control nofollow, ugc, sponsored & noopener. SEO friendly.
- Installs
- 80K+
- Rating
- 4.3(247)
- Downloads
- 313/day
Title and Nofollow For Links (Classic Editor)
Down in the last 7 days:8#1,577by WPKube3 months ago
The plugin adds a title and a rel="nofollow" checkbox to the insert link popup box. Only for Classic Editor, NOT Block Editor.
- Installs
- 10K+
- Rating
- 4.5(23)
- Downloads
- 83/day
Nofollow for external link
Up in the last 7 days:4#2,256by CyberNetikz2 years ago
Automatically insert rel=nofollow and target=_blank to all the external links into your website posts, pages or menus. Support exclude domain.
- Installs
- 9K+
- Rating
- 3.8(36)
- Downloads
- 50/day
External Links
Down in the last 7 days:1#2,349by Denis de Bernardy9 years ago
The external links plugin for WordPress lets you process outgoing links differently from internal links.
- Installs
- 8K+
- Rating
- 4.8(36)
- Downloads
- 28/day
Rel Nofollow Checkbox
Down in the last 7 days:2#3,402by Fabio Santos9 years ago
Adds a checkbox in the insert/edit link popup for including rel="nofollow".
- Installs
- 4K+
- Rating
- 4.5(26)
- Downloads
- 17/day
noindex SEO
Down in the last 7 days:7#3,971by ROBOTSTXT.es2 months ago
Control search engine indexing with robots directives using HTML meta tags or HTTP headers.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 24/day
Ultimate Noindex Nofollow Tool II
Up in the last 7 days:3#4,102by texttheater2 years ago
Improves your blog's search engine optimization by "noindexing" pages you choose. Now also for page-based (as opposed to date-based) archives.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 3.1(8)
- Downloads
- 15/day
DoFollow Case by Case
Down in the last 7 days:3#6,605by apasionados1 month ago
DoFollow Case by Case allows you to selectively apply dofollow to comments and make links in pages or posts nofollow.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.0(8)
- Downloads
- 18/day
Extend Link
Down in the last 7 days:30#6,663by Alobaidi2 months ago
Add classes, IDs, titles, rel attributes, and download options to links. Includes H1–H6 heading support and built-in link status checker for SEO.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Type Attribute Warnings Removal
Down in the last 7 days:21#7,081by Sumit Malviya5 months ago
Remove type attribute from script and style tags added by WordPress
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 11/day
NoFollow Link
Down in the last 7 days:34#8,825by Alex Jose8 years ago
NoFollow Link adds a button to the post editor to add nofollow attribute to any links in the post.
- Installs
- 500+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Affiliate Link Marker
Up in the last 7 days:1#9,340by Johannes Kinast5 months ago
Mark your Affiliate Links with a *, add rel="nofollow sponsored noopener" to affiliate links and attach a disclosure at the end of e …
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Better WordPress External Links
Up in the last 7 days:1#9,782by Khang Minh12 years ago
Gives you total control over external links on your website.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Easy Noindex And Nofollow
Down in the last 7 days:2#10,233by Ivan Kristianto15 years ago
Easily add Noindex and Nofollow to post, page, search and category page.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
UGC Comments
Down in the last 7 days:1#11,135by Flector1 year ago
The plugin allows you to manage the values of the "rel" attribute in comment links ("ugc", "nofollow").
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Customize External Links and add Icon
Down in the last 7 days:69#11,424by Janine1 year ago
Customize link attributes, such as nofollow links, remove noreferrer, add icons to indicate external links
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.7(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Leaving Notice Popup For External Links
Down in the last 7 days:193#11,506by Jose Varghese2 months ago
Show an exit popup or leaving notice when visitors click external links. Add nofollow, noopener, noreferrer & more rel attributes. Add icons.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Nofollow Case by Case
Down in the last 7 days:52#11,746by fob13 years ago
"Dofollow" but Nofollow Case by Case allows you to selectively apply nofollow to your comments as well.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
NoFollowr
Down in the last 7 days:26#12,593by joel_birch9 years ago
Browsing a site as an admin, icons are added to external links indicating their nofollow status. Clicking the icons toggles nofollow status via Ajax.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 3.2(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Nofollow External Links (SEO)
Down in the last 7 days:90#13,463by ViitorCloud Technologies Pvt Ltd2 years ago
It automatically set all external links to "nofollow" in website content.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
External & Affiliate Links Processor
Up in the last 7 days:49#15,026by reikiman9 years ago
Process outbound (external) links to make useful changes, including adding affiliate ID tags, rel=nofollow or target=_blank attributes, and adding ico …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Better SEO Links
Down in the last 7 days:17#15,182by WP Help7 years ago
Adds a checkbox in the insert link popup box for including rel="nofollow", rel="sponsored", and rel="ugc" in links as yo …
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
SMu Manual DoFollow
Down in the last 7 days:35#16,264by Stefan M.11 years ago
SMu DoFollow has many DoFollow Options (Manual or Automatism) and included URL Validator (Manual, WP-Cron or Cronjob).
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
NoIndex NoFollow All Posts
Up in the last 7 days:87#16,311by amodoke9 years ago
This plugin lets you Noindex Nofollow All Posts in a category.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Noindex Links
#17,773by Flector1 year ago
Плагин заключает любые ссылки в комментариях в теги <noindex></noindex>.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WPF Force External Nofollow
Down in the last 7 days:82#19,845by AfterDarkMike12 years ago
Automatically inserts rel="nofollow" into all the external links on your wordpress posts or pages.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
External Links Manager
#20,457by NewCodeByte5 months ago
Manage external links: new tabs, add rel attribute nofollow, noopener, noreferrer, sponsored, show icon on/off. SEO, secure, XHTML Strict compliant.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Daisy Links
#20,821by DaisyPlugins10 months ago
Manage external links effortlessly! open links in new tab, add nofollow attribute, disable right click on links.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Radar LinkHawk
Down in the last 7 days:1,068#25,303by insela6 months ago
Scan outbound links, find broken URLs, review redirects, and update selected links in bulk.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day
BBP DoFollow
#25,899by For Games7 years ago
A helpful tool to makes your bbpress internal links dofollow and external links nofollow.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Nofollow for External Link TAP
Up in the last 7 days:485#28,110by todoapuestas11 years ago
Just simple, if you use this plugins, rel=nofollow and target=_blank will be insert automatically, for all the external links of your website posts or …
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Nofollow More Links
Up in the last 7 days:109#28,472by Marvie Pons12 years ago
Adds the nofollow rel attribute to the more (read more) links.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Nofollow External Link
Up in the last 7 days:116#28,751by Dinesh S12 years ago
Insert 'rel=nofollow' and 'target=_blank' to all the external links automatically into your website posts or pages.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
no-nofollow
Up in the last 7 days:764#28,761by hgn18 years ago
removes the nofollow-attribute in links
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Nofollow External/Outbound Link (SEO)
Down in the last 7 days:64#29,482by Sumit Malviya5 months ago
Automatically add rel="nofollow" to external and outbound links to improve SEO, protect link equity, and control outbound link behavior.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Nofollow Home Internal Links
#29,656by igoseonet15 years ago
Home page internal links always take too much pagerank away from homepage.If you want to increase Google PageRank for your website Home page,try using …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Noindex/Nofollow links
Up in the last 7 days:783#29,706noindex-archives17 years ago
This plugin can add rel="noindex,nofollow" to archive, tag, and category links. You can configure exactly which links are given which attrib …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WPMU Automatic Links
Up in the last 7 days:238#30,316by iDo8p12 years ago
This plugin will automatically create links from words.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Anon Links
#30,596by Ali.Dbg11 years ago
Anonymiz, Anonymizer, Anonymous, hide referer, nofollow, target blank all external links.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Comment Link Manager
Up in the last 7 days:210#30,936by rrolfe15 years ago
CLM enables admins to disable author links, open links in new window, and remove the nofollow tag from links that are left in comments by visitors.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Auto External Link Nofollow
Down in the last 7 days:551#31,243by Viktor Androshuck1 year ago
Automatically adds rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" to all external links in post and page content.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
140follow
Up in the last 7 days:64#32,014by Daniel Bakovic17 years ago
140follow removes NOFOLLOW from author link if the comment has more than XXX characters.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Stop SpamCo
#34,162by Guillaume Desbieys13 years ago
Luttez contre le Spam de commentaire.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Nofollow Tags For Movies Sites
Up in the last 7 days:6,177#36,260by wiredcinema14 years ago
Nofollow Tags For Movies Sites adds the nofollow tag to all of your outgoing links to video hosting websites. Perfect if you're running a movies …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
NFCBC SEO Light
Up in the last 7 days:2,414#36,393by fob17 years ago
NFCBC SEO Light - The light version of [Nofollow Case by Case](http://www.fob-marketing.de/marketing-seo-blog/wordpress-nofollow-seo-plugin-nofollow-c …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
SEO Nofollow
#38,376by svenrochel7 years ago
Automatically add rel="nofollow" to links that point to a domain added to the list. This is an ultra light weight plugin.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Nofollow Links in Posts
Up in the last 7 days:4,497#39,242by Asad Zulfahri18 years ago
Adds the rel="nofollow" to links in posts within a selected category. Useful for sponsored posts.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Rel Nofollow Categories
#46,539by Marvie Pons14 years ago
Adds Nofollows to category links.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
NoLiP
Down in the last 7 days:903#46,641by patrickcurl17 years ago
Adds the rel="nofollow" to links in posts within a selected category. Useful for sponsored posts.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Genesis Footer Links Nofollow
Down in the last 7 days:13,125#47,138by Mike Hale8 years ago
Plugin makes all or specified links in the footer rel=nofollow. Use of Genesis Theme Framework is required.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day