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I have to link some other external sites.
I know when to use nofollow. But I am not clear when I should use rel=noreferrer.
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rel=noreferrer is same as rel=noopener. The only difference is that if you use rel=norefferer the owner of the destination page will never know that you are linking to his/her site. Because this attribute blocks the browser to transfer the HTTP referral header to the destination site.
Adding the nofollow attribute to a link that includes rel=”noopener noreferrer” allows you to link to other websites without appearing to approve their content or perspective.
Simply put, the rel=”noopener” attribute is added to a link that opens in a new tab/window. When you add a link in WordPress you have the choice to select if the link will open in the same window or in a different one.
rel=”nofollow” will inform search engines not to pass the link juice to the linked page, and it will not pass PageRank. You can consider it as a value that is used when you want to link to another page but without “endorsing” it.
In short, the noreferrer link type hides referrer information when the link is clicked. A link with the noreferrer link type looks something like this:
<a href="http://www.example.com" rel="noreferrer">Click here for more info</a> If someone arrives at your site from a link that uses this link type, your analytics won't show who refered that link. Instead, it will mistakenly show as direct traffic in your acquisition channels report.
If you have an external link to someone else's site you don't trust and you want to hide referrer information then you can combine both and use
<a href="http://example.com/sample_page/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">Other Domain Link</a> I advise you to use nofollow links for the following content:
nofollow the outbound links
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