Hello Readers, in this post I will tell you how to remove
hyperlinks from the comment section of your blogger blog for better SEO
optimization. Comments are the soul of every blog and it shows us the
popularity of every blog. But sometimes people just spam their hyperlinks in
your comment section for their link building. You do all the hard work to write good quality blog posts and people don't even care about writing a good
comment for your article rather than they just leave a hyperlink to their Webpage.
To stop this kind of link spamming I am writing a tutorial which will remove
the hyperlinks from your comment section and will leave simple text behind.
Before we start with the tutorial, there are a few questions
that I would like to answer. Let us see these FAQs:
Why should you remove hyperlinks?
A few years ago people used to spam their hyperlinks in high
PR blogs and website to gain good rankings easily. Though Google has updated its algorithms to fight
with this kind of link building but still some people follow this technique. Hyperlinks can harm
you in many ways like if you have not made your comment section nofollow yet;
you are unknowingly gifting back links to many websites. Too many back links
will affect the overall SEO optimization of your blog and will result in a
lower Google PR or even 0PR.
What should you do?
I recommend you to remove the hyperlinks from the comment
section or at least make them nofollow so that it won't affect your site much.
If you don't do this, you will allow your traffic and link juice to flow to the
external WebPages.
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Got own hyperlinks in Comments?
Sometimes we help our online readers by providing them our
own links in comments. Don't worry you won't lose them, this script will only
external hyperlinks.
Will it affect the Page Load time?
No, it won't affect the page load time. We will be using a
small Jquery script which is a lighter and stable version of JavaScript. This
script will run after the page load so you need not to worry about the page
load time, it will remain the same.
Now let us start the tutorial, I will post two methods to
remove/replace the hyperlinks from the comments section. In the first method,
we will replace the original hyperlinks with the hash (#) and in the second one
we will completely remove the hyperlinks.
Method I:
This method will help you replacing the hyperlinks with hash
(#).
- Login in to your Blogger Account and navigate to the Dashboard.
- Take back-up of your blogger blog. It is recommended to take back-up before any editing to the blogger template.
- Now click on Edit HTML.
- Press CTRL+F to find the starting <head> tag.
- If you don't have Jquery included in your blogger template, add the following code just under head tag:
<script src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.0/jquery.min.js' type='text/JavaScript'/>
- Now under this code, add the following lines of code:
<script type='text/JavaScript'>
$(document).ready(function()
{
$('.comment-content a[href*="http://"]:not([href*="YOUR_WEBSITE_NAME_HERE"])').attr("href","#");
});
- </script>
- Click on Save and then view blog.
Open any post on which you have hyperlinks in comments and
check it. The original hyperlinks are replaced by hash (#) and clicking on them
won’t take you anywhere.
Note: The above method will not remove the hyperlink styling and it will look like the original hyperlink with a hash in “href” attribute.
Method II
This method completely removes the hyperlink and hyperlink
styling. Follow the same steps mentioned above till point number 5, which is
adding the Jquery.
- Now add the following lines of code under the Jquery code:
<script type='text/JavaScript'>
$(document).ready(function()
{
$('.comment-content a[href*="http://"]:not([href*="YOUR_WEBSITE_NAME_HERE"])').removeAttr('href').css('text-decoration','none').css('color','black');
});
</script>
- Click on Save Template and then view blog.
Note: In my case I wrote my blog name without http:// and www but you might need to write it. Check it with/without http:// and www.
You have successfully removed the hyperlinks and hyperlinks
styling. To check open any post in which you have hyperlinks. You will find
plain text at the place of hyperlinks. The above two methods are developed and
tested by me. I am using the Method-II and it is working fine on my blog. You
can check my article 10 killer SEO tips, it has only one hyperlink now and that
too is my own hyperlink. If you face any
problem with the above tutorial or have any doubt, you can comment here. I will
be Glad to assist you.
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