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Nofollow internal link

links.internal_nofollow
Priority
Low
Severity
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What we look for

These pages link to other pages on the same site with rel="nofollow" (a note asking search engines not to follow or give credit to that link).

Why it matters

Search engines may not follow these links or pass credit through them, so the pages they point to can look less important than they are.

How to fix

Remove rel="nofollow" from links between your own pages, in the CMS or page template. To keep a page out of search results, mark that page noindex (a rule telling search engines not to list it) instead.

Where you’ll see it

The id is stable, and every surface uses it, so it’s the thing to search for or hand to an agent.

Terminal
When it is one of the five findings under Fix first, raptor crawl prints the id under it.
Check: links.internal_nofollow
crawl.json and the CSV
The crawl JSON names the finding by this id, and so do the CSV and raptor_query.
"check_id": "links.internal_nofollow"
The HTML report
This link opens the finding in the report, and each finding shows its id.
crawl.html#finding=links.internal_nofollow
MCP
raptor_findings with this check_id returns the finding in full, with a fix brief ready to paste into a task. If it didn’t fire, it says why.
raptor_findings {
  "job_id": "...",
  "check_id": "links.internal_nofollow"
}