Thanks Martijn. I am indeed referring to heading links with an anchor #.  Just to confirm, these should not be tagged with nofollow?

I'll take your advice and not fuss too much about the number of links. I just realised that it's also counting all 15 of my blog post sharing links.

Anyway, I'm just perplexed at why these plugins even add the ability to make table of content links no follow and add  tag if it would hurt SEO. They've even placed these settings under an SEO title. Do you think they know something we don't?

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Hi All,

I have the LuckyWP Table of Contents plugin installed. I recently noticed that you can tag your internal links with  and nofollow.

I understand that it's always a good idea to link internally and to pass link juice to my own content.  But with detailed posts that have over 20 headings, I'm thinking that internal linking for headings may actually hurt me because it takes my links well above 100.

Any ideas what the best practises are in this scenario?

Thanks.

Hi All,

I have an issue on Google Search Console. It seems all my affiliate links are being crawled. Is this a bad thing? The reason I found out is that all but one link was flagged with a warming. It goes on to say that it was blocked by robots.txt. The strange thing is that I've not set any links to be blocked in robots.txt.

Also, should affiliate links be nofollow?  I'm asking because I was recently sent this article by Yoast on how to properly cloak my affiliate links without using a plugin. https://yoast.com/cloak-affiliate-links/  In the method, they apply the nofollow and noindex rules to the links. I'm just a little confused on how to go about affiliate links the SEO friendly way.