Should internal links in my table of contents be tagged as nofollow?

[nomad_blogger]

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.

[Martijn_Scheijbeler]

Don't add nofollow to them, I'm also assuming that these are not original links but actually just link to an anchor # on the page itself (at least they should). If not, then I would advise you to make them work like that. In the end, I would never add nofollow to these links. The number of links doesn't matter that badly and in this case, it's actually helping users. I would say, there is many more other things to worry about in SEO than the number of internal links on your site.

[nomad_blogger]

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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