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voip-dude 
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 Topic: rel="no follow" for links?
Posted: 23 February 2006 at 7:08pm |
How do I make it so all hyperlinks add the rel="no follow"? i.e. <a href="www.zzz.com" rel="no follow">zzz</a> This is so spammers don't add any PageRank.
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Posted: 24 February 2006 at 9:11am |
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This would require you find every single link in all the files and manually add this to them all.
A simpler way would be to edit the header.asp file and add in the meta tag:-
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
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Posted: 24 February 2006 at 1:45pm |
Well I want Google to index my forum posts I just don't want spammers earning PageRank within each post. I know it can be done since MovableType blogging software and several other blogging software packages have a simply plugin that automatically adds the ref="nofollow" code to all hyperlinks at the time it gets published. For instance, this MovableType plugin - http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/movable_type_nofollow_p.html
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Posted: 24 February 2006 at 1:50pm |
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Use the following in the top of your forum_posts.asp page:-
<meta name="robots" content="nofollow">
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Posted: 24 February 2006 at 1:55pm |
Again, that doesn't make sense since that would prevent my forum posts from being indexed. I just want URLs within posts to get the rel=nofollow tag. Here's a code change to VBulletin forums that does this as well. http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=74703&page=2Should I be posting this in the Feature Requests forum room?
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Posted: 24 February 2006 at 2:06pm |
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The page that the meta tag is on will be indexed, but the pages that link from that page will not be followed, so external links from within posts won't be indexed or followed, but your forum will be.
This should do what you require for the moment.
I may if I get time look into adding such a feature to version 8.
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Posted: 25 February 2006 at 12:58am |
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Link spammers are after click-throughs, not page rank. using nofollow will not significantly reduce your link spam.
Using nofollow in a blog significantly reduces your blogs capabilities. Blogs earn and share page rank with one another through an interlinked network of trackbacks and comment links. Nofollow makes it look like no one comes to your pages and your pages go nowhere. No one want to link to you or comment on your posts because they get nothing for it.
MovableType, Wordpress, and virtually all other blogging software have other ways to reduce or eliminate spam as most of the blogging community has found that nofollow is not as effective as was hoped and carried it's own penalties.
Edited by dpyers - 25 February 2006 at 1:00am
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