How to make “more” or “continue reading” links on excerpts nofollow?

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I tried to make each one of my post excerpt’s link to the full post “nofollow” like this: 

<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="nofollow">&rarr; Continue Reading</a>

However, that doesn’t seem to work. I’m pretty new to WP / PHP, so what do I need to do?

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  1. In your theme’s functions.php:

    /* Returns a "Continue Reading" link for excerpts, with 'nofollow' set */
function your_theme_continue_reading_link() {
    return ' <a href="'. get_permalink() . '" rel="nofollow">' .
        '<span class="meta-nav">&rarr;</span> Continue reading</a>';
}
/* Replaces "[...]" (appended to automatically generated excerpts) */
function your_theme_auto_excerpt_more( $more ) {
    return ' &hellip;' . your_theme_continue_reading_link();
}
add_filter( 'excerpt_more', 'your_theme_auto_excerpt_more' );