Does Adding rel=”noopener noreferrer” to a Link affect SEO?


You may have recently noticed that WordPress has started adding rel=”noopener noreferrer” to links by default. You may want to know why this happening, and if it has any impact on SEO.
Why is WordPress Adding rel=”noopener noreferrer” to my links? How very dare they?
Well as it turns out, there is a very good reason to add these tags to external links by default – as doing so should stop a potential exploit that allows the new webpage (opened via target="_blank" or window.open()) to control the original parent page – which could result in phishing attacks and similar.
Does adding rel=”noopener noreferrer” to links have any impact on SEO?
You may have already heard about the rel="nofollow" tag, and how significant the SEO impact of this tag can be, and consequently be worried that the rather similar looking “noopener noreferrer” tag has a similar affect.
Well fear not, there is absolutely zero impact on SEO from using rel=”noopener noreferrer”.
This has been confirmed by Google’s John Mu in a direct answer to a webmaster’s question:
Does google still crawl, index, and count a good
Source: https://managewp.org/articles/15108/does-adding-rel-noopener-noreferrer-to-a-link-affect-seo




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