No follow on class - is it correct?

[oceanstorm]

Quetstion,

Due to some recent SEO issues on our website on an audit, we found that a potential risk could be all the semi-sitewide links derived from a buy now pay later provider's code in our source code.

Our developer implemented Rel= no follow in the following context...   <p class="afterpay-paragraph" style="display:block; margin-top:0.3rem;" rel="nofollow"></p class="afterpay-paragraph" style="display:block;>

Is what the developer has done, adding it as a class correct? and will it work correctly for SEO?  or should i tell the developer to go back and include the no follow code instead as    href="https://www.afterpay.com/terms" rel="nofollow">      and add the same to each external .png link too?

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|   | [https://www.afterpay.com/terms](<a class=)"> |
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|   | src="https://static.afterpay.com/integration/product-page/logo-afterpay-colour.png" |
|   | srcset="https://static.afterpay.com/integration/product-page/logo-afterpay-colour.png 1x, https://static.afterpay.com/integration/product-page/logo-afterpay-colour@2x.png 2x, https://static.afterpay.com/integration/product-page/logo-afterpay-colour@3x.png 3x" |
|   | width="100" height="21" alt="Afterpay"> |
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[oceanstorm]

Thanks that is what i suspected. Very helpful, many thanks.

[Xiano]

Hi,

Your developer hasn't added it as a class, he has added the attribute to the paragraph tag, however, it still isn't right.

The "rel" attribute can only be used with a or link tags. It does not cascade down, i.e. you can't put it higher up to cover all child tags, which is what I think the developer is trying to do.

As you've suggested, he needs to go back and change it.