: Nofollow without modifying the link itself We use third party software on our website. Part of the license agreement means not modifying the "copyright" line. I have no intention of breaking

@Megan663

Nofollow can only be applied at the link level or the page level. I assume you don't want to nofollow every link on the page by adding this meta tag to your head section:

<meta name="robots" content="nofollow">


Otherwise, to apply a nofollow to a specific link, you will need to modify the HTML code for that link. If you are contractually obligated not to change it, you are out of luck.

It might be worth asking if you could modify the copyright line to add the nofollow. Sitewide external links can damage the site being linked to. It is more dangerous for their site than for your site to leave that link dofollow. If you explain that, they may have no problem with adding the nofollow and may even do it for you.

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