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MarcelG
Retired Support Moderator
Netherlands
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 Posted - 19 February 2005 : 08:24:38
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I'm thinking of implementing the rel="nofollow" feature on my forums, but I'm not quite sure where to start.
My idea is to change the normal handling of [URL][/URL] and [ url="" ]txt[ /url ] to use the nofollow thing, and add a new tag for urls that don't need the nofollow tag.
For instance [grl][/grl] (good url  ) |
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aspwiz
Junior Member
250 Posts |
Posted - 19 February 2005 : 17:31:13
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it would be far better to redirect the url's via an asp page.
eg redirect.asp?url=moc.tfosorcim.www//:http (eg. microsoft.com un reverse)
some engines will just ignore the nofollow but the above will be effective if you put an exclusion to redirect.asp in your robots.txt file.
The good thing about this method, is that the engines cant follow the link if the link can only be reached from the redirect.asp page (and they are banned from that page via robots.txt)
The other good thing is that because the link is going via another asp page, you could do link tracking and see what the most popular outbound link is.
Hope this helps Marcel. |
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Etymon
Advanced Member
United States
2385 Posts |
Posted - 19 February 2005 : 22:44:02
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Hi,
This is a new issue for me to study.
Could you through out some key words and phrases along the line of this discussion? I went to the link in Marcel's post and read about Google's project.
What brought this about?
Cheers,
Etymon
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Podge
Support Moderator
Ireland
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20584 Posts |
Posted - 04 March 2005 : 03:51:13
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quote:
Originally posted by Podge
Marcel, did you ever do any work on this?
I went to my forum yesterday only to find Googlebot editing one of my topics !?
And how precisely was it doing that without being logged in ? |
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philwhite
Starting Member
Germany
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Posted - 04 March 2005 : 04:48:03
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Huw,
This appears to happen a lot on our Forum. Google "idiomacy" and the second hit at the moment is one of ours. ( http://www.wordwizard.com/ch_forum/post.asp?method=TopicQuote&TOPIC_ID=14594&FORUM_ID=15 )
Anyone can read posts and even click the "Reply" icon and get an edit window, but they can only actually post successfully if logged in. Thus, Googlebot can also "click" the "Reply" or "Reply with quote" icons. |
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HuwR
Forum Admin
United Kingdom
20584 Posts |
Posted - 04 March 2005 : 04:53:06
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| just because it can follow a link doesn't mean it was editing your topic. |
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MarcelG
Retired Support Moderator
Netherlands
2625 Posts |
Posted - 04 March 2005 : 05:49:56
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quote:
Originally posted by Podge
Marcel, did you ever do any work on this?
I went to my forum yesterday only to find Googlebot editing one of my topics !?
Then I remembered your post about the rel="nofollow" feature. I'm thinking I should add it to some of the icons on post.asp and possibly elsewhere.
I think the approach mentioned using the ROBOTS.TXT file is easier ; just exclude pages like post.asp, post_info.asp etc to the list, and GoogleBot won't access them. |
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Podge
Support Moderator
Ireland
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philwhite
Starting Member
Germany
47 Posts |
Posted - 04 March 2005 : 16:25:46
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Originally posted by HuwR
just because it can follow a link doesn't mean it was editing your topic.
Quite so, but it's not the ideal link to have on Google. |
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