HTML Link Generator

Use nofollow on links you don't want to vouch for editorially — comment sections, forum signatures, or any link you can't fully verify. It tells search engines not to pass ranking credit through that link, which is the correct, honest signal for content you don't control.

Use sponsored specifically for paid placements, affiliate links, and anything exchanged for compensation — this is a requirement under Google's link scheme guidance, not an optional label. Use ugc for links inside user-submitted content, like blog comments or forum posts, so search engines can distinguish site-owner links from visitor-added ones.

You can combine multiple rel values in one attribute (e.g. rel="sponsored nofollow") when more than one applies — the checkboxes above will combine them correctly.

When a link opens in a new tab (target="_blank"), the newly opened page can, in older or unpatched browsers, gain partial access to the originating page's window object — a minor but real security consideration known as tab-nabbing. Adding rel="noopener" closes that access. noreferrer additionally stops the referrer header from being sent to the destination site, useful when you don't want the target site to see where the click came from.

Most modern browsers apply noopener behavior by default now, but explicitly including it is still considered good practice and costs nothing.

If you're building or buying backlinks as part of an SEO campaign, the rel attribute on the resulting link matters — a dofollow, contextual link inside relevant content behaves very differently from a nofollow mention for ranking purposes, even though both can be legitimate depending on the goal. Our guest post gigs and niche edit gigs show the link type upfront on every listing so there's no guessing after the fact.