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Originally Posted by Soto

The point of this hack has been missed. The code does not stop spiders from indexing your pages, only from following links that posted on the pages.

Cretins get high ranking by using loopholes in the way that search engines rank sites/pages. Essentially if a search engine "sees" a url that has numerous other pages linking to it it thinks that that site is popular. This may be the case, but if I were to visit every single one of the users sites from this forum alone and posted a link to my board on each one suddenly my sites ranking will increase as the bots "see" lots of links to my site. This is the essence of "google bombing" (like search on Feeling Lucky for WMD in google for example).

By making it so that links POSTED IN THREADS have no follow means that the search engine bots IGNORE links in posts but will index your pages and follow all the other links in your pages unless you've messed with robots.txt or put the nofollow elsewhere.

I think that explains it....


*INSTALLED*

Thank you.

I kinda thought that was obvious, but thank you for spelling it out so well for those people who seem to think this is some kind of 'Stop Spiders from indexing your site' hack, which..quite frankly, would be a retarded idea.