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Forum Name: Web Wiz Forums Modifications
Forum Description: Mod's and Add-on's for Web Wiz Forums.
URL: https://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=26898
Printed Date: 29 March 2026 at 10:57pm
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Topic: rel="nofollow"

Posted By: mysavings.com
Subject: rel="nofollow"
Date 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?

Thanks!

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Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 28 January 2009 at 9:23am

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

To:

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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Posted By: iSec
Date Posted: 28 January 2009 at 7:45pm

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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Posted By: mysavings.com
Date Posted: 28 January 2009 at 8:28pm

I updated the nofollow flag in setup_options_inc and did an iis reset. Then visited a forum post:

http://www.mysavings.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=15471" rel="no follow - http://www.mysavings.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=15471

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?

Posted By: russnj2
Date Posted: 29 January 2009 at 3:31am

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!

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 29 January 2009 at 9:10am

mysavings.com wrote:

I updated the nofollow flag in setup_options_inc and did an iis reset. Then visited a forum post:

http://www.mysavings.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=15471" rel="no follow - http://www.mysavings.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=15471

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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Posted By: remy
Date Posted: 29 January 2009 at 10:49am

iSec wrote:

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.

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 29 January 2009 at 12:21pm

The blogging tools are almost complete and over 100 new options have been added to the admin area.

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Posted By: mysavings.com
Date Posted: 29 January 2009 at 1:52pm

Thanks!

Is there a database column or way that I can update all older posts to have the nofollow attribute?

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 29 January 2009 at 5:58pm

There isn't.

The only way would be to read in every single posts, parse each link within the posts and save them back to the database. It would be allot of work and could course all sorts of issues.

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Posted By: mysavings.com
Date Posted: 26 February 2009 at 9:03pm

I noticed that WWF actually inserts 'rel="no follow' with the flag is set to true. I did some research, and it turns out that it should be 'rel="nofollow"' (with no space)!!

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=96569" rel="no follow - http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=96569

So I used a sql cursor and went in and removed all of the rel="no follow" tags from my messages, and then I set the flag back to false, and just added a line of code in forum_posts.asp to manually add it as all message are read.

' if the post contains a link, then add nofollow tag to it.
If InStr(1,strMessage, "target=""_blank""",1) then strMessage = replace(strMessage,"target=""_blank""","target=""_blank"" rel=""nofollow""")

That's much cleaner in my opinion, so that it doesn't have to be stored in the database, which is alot harder to work with, especially with "text" datatypes.

Hope that helps!

MySav

Posted By: rchrd
Date Posted: 31 May 2009 at 11:31am

WebWiz-Bruce wrote:

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

To:

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.

Can the 'nofollow' tag be applied to forum members' signatures?

Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 31 May 2009 at 12:43pm

Yes, the tag is set to signatures as well as posts.

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Posted By: rchrd
Date Posted: 31 May 2009 at 3:03pm

Scotty32 wrote:

Yes, the tag is set to signatures as well as posts.

Actually Matt, if you check the source of this webpage, you will notice that neither of the two URLs in your signature include the 'nofollow' tag. This was why I asked the question! Smile

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 31 May 2009 at 3:38pm

The nofollow tag is only applied to new content added to the forum, so it will only be added to new signatures and edited signatures once it is enabled as the nofollow tag is added to signatures and posts when they are saved.

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Posted By: rchrd
Date Posted: 01 June 2009 at 7:42am

WebWiz-Bruce wrote:

The nofollow tag is only applied to new content added to the forum, so it will only be added to new signatures and edited signatures once it is enabled as the nofollow tag is added to signatures and posts when they are saved.

So, if Matt just re-saves his signature in his control panel, the 'nofollow' tag will become inserted into the code? Correct?

The signature code currently appears as follows:

<div class="msgSignature">
                           S2H.co.uk - <a href="http://www.s2h.co.uk/wwf/"
                             target="_blank">WebWiz Mods and Skins</a>
                 <br />MyCountry.co.uk - <a href="http://www.mycountry.co.uk"
                             target="_blank">Interactive, online database for the UK</a>
          </div>

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 01 June 2009 at 7:45am

Yes the nofollow tag would be added once the signature is re-saved.

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Posted By: rchrd
Date Posted: 01 June 2009 at 5:19pm

WebWiz-Bruce wrote:

Yes the nofollow tag would be added once the signature is re-saved.

Thank you! Clap