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djbaxter · #10 03-04-2009, 04:57 PM

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This will do a number of things. First and most notably, it will stop spammers because search engines will no longer follow these links.

No, it won't. It may stop spammers from benefitting as much from those links but it won't stop them from posting the spam.

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It will also stop your pagerank from leeking onto other sites.

"PR Leak" or "PR Bleed" is a persistent and longstanding myth, but it is nonetheless a myth. Your forum pages don't lose PageRank by linking to other pages.

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Also, some people say that adding nofollow to your URLs will increase your Pagerank.

Those people, whoever they are, would be totally wrong.

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