External links behavior with regards to SEO (target="_blank" and nofollow noopener noreferrer)
demondragong opened this issue · comments
Hi!
I'm not an SEO expert so I might be missing something but I notice all external links (mainly social profiles and projects) have the following attribute settings:
target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"
My understanding is that target="_blank" and noopener together are for UX (forcing a new tab) and security purposes. I know there's debate online whether to do this or not. Maybe a separate issue.
But I'm wondering if the choice to have nofollow and noreferrer is also intentional as I would imagine people linking to their own products and online profiles could prefer to not have these (for SEO and analytics purposes).
Hey @demondragong and thanks double checking that! It was certainly intentional for social profiles but I agree that it does not make sense to have nofollow as a default for project links.
Making it optional for everything besides social profiles sounds good to me 👍
Hey @demondragong !
I just published a new version that removes the nofollow attribute. I kept the noreferrer as it might be a security concern on older browser.