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    Posted: 27 January 2009 at 8:31pm

An SEO guy told me that it would be beneficial to add rel="nofollow" to all outbound links in our forums.  What do you think is the easiest way to do this?

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This is already an option in the includes/setup_options_inc.asp file. Edit this file in notepad to add and change the following around line 110:-

Const blnNoFollowTagInLinks = False

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Const blnNoFollowTagInLinks = True

This will then add nofollow to any new links posted in your forum and also place this on any homepages that your members enter.

This will be an option from the admin area in version 10.


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Originally posted by WebWiz-Bruce WebWiz-Bruce wrote:

This will be an option from the admin area in version 10.


Speaking of V10... has any progress been made and when should we expect a beta release?
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I updated the nofollow flag in setup_options_inc and did an iis reset.  Then visited a forum post:
 
 
Unfortunately, the only nofollow tags that I see are for the internal links, nothing for any of the external links.  Does it only register for new links that are posted after the flag is set?
 
Am I missing something here?
 
 
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Originally posted by WebWiz-Bruce WebWiz-Bruce wrote:

This will then add nofollow to any new links posted in your forum and also place this on any homepages that your members enter.


You are correct!
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Originally posted by mysavings.com mysavings.com wrote:

I updated the nofollow flag in setup_options_inc and did an iis reset.  Then visited a forum post:
 
 
Unfortunately, the only nofollow tags that I see are for the internal links, nothing for any of the external links.  Does it only register for new links that are posted after the flag is set?
 
Am I missing something here?
 
 


As mentioned in my previous post, this will only effect NEW posts that are added to the forum and not posts that are already added.

After enabling this if you add a new post with an outbound link, when the link is passed by the security filters it will add the nofollow attribute to the link.
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Originally posted by iSec iSec wrote:

Originally posted by WebWiz-Bruce WebWiz-Bruce wrote:

This will be an option from the admin area in version 10.


Speaking of V10... has any progress been made and when should we expect a beta release?
I know this is hijacking the thread but I am interested in the roadmap for v10 too. The dev topic hasn't been posted in for months and I can't see any other topics. A brief update would be nice. Sorry to the OP for ruining the thread.
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The blogging tools are almost complete and over 100 new options have been added to the admin area.
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