rel="nofollow"??? It is actually easy, trust me.

I have been blogging longer than, well pretty much nothing at this point.  I just got started about a month ago and I am still on the straightaway of the learning curve.

I was quite impressed with myself when I had completed my first dozen posts, it seemed like I was moving into a place where I could claim some badge of experience.  Then I logged in and saw this helpful article on my blog dashboard:

I have written 4 of my first 12 articles about my product reviewing experiences.  This issue warranted some attention, immediately.

The initial article seemed straight-forward enough: Comply with Google Webmaster Guidelines &  mark links with a no follow instruction.  Now, how do I do this?  Hmmmm... Let us click on the link in the article that says "nofollow tag."

...and down the Rabbit Hole I go!  I selected Blogger as my foyer into this world, as it was billed as being simple, tidy, and possibly fool proof.  Code, programming, and tags were never part of the package when I signed on.

I searched Google for "how to add rel="nofollow" to Blogger."  The results returned more technically specific articles.  I tried the same search in Youtube and found a video that provided instructions for how to do this in WordPress.  I thought this video would be a good baseline and then I could poke around Blogger and try to recreate the process.

It turns out that none of that is necessary.  rel="nofollow" is as simple as checking a box.

Write your text and create your link as you normally would, by clicking the "Link" option from the top menu bar. 

When the link dialog box appears, you will populate your link as usual.  AND THEN be sure to check the box to add the 'rel=nofollow' attribute.  

Yes, it was that easy.