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This little hack will edit all the URLs within posts and signatures and add a rel="nofollow" attribute to them.

This will do a number of things. First and most notably, it will reduce spammers because search engines will no longer follow these links. It will also stop your pagerank from leeking onto other sites. Also, some people say that adding nofollow to your URLs will increase your Pagerank. This is more of a matter of opinion, make up your own mind about it

Change Log
1.0.0 - Released
1.1.0 - Added option - Change links in signatures

SİMAR · #52 08-11-2009, 10:58 AM

everyone but nice plug kullanmiyor vBSEO thank you

KrisP · #53 08-12-2009, 10:05 PM

So it ads nofollow to internal links in posts. I am wondering if that is a disadvantage in any way?

(Works perfectly on 3.7.4)

djbaxter · #54 08-12-2009, 10:22 PM

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Originally Posted by KrisP

So it ads nofollow to internal links in posts. I am wondering if that is a disadvantage in any way?

Yes, for Google it is a disadvantage now. See https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showpost....4&postcount=49

You have a link in one of your posts to another thread or post on your forum. Potentially, that could spread some PageRank to the other thread. If you nofollow that link, you don't get the PR benefit and all you've managed to do is decrease the amount of PR available to be passed with any othr links on that forum page.

That dumb move by Google means that you should not nofollow ANY internal links any more. I would also question whether the use of nofollow for any link at all makes any sense at all from a Google SEO standpoint today.

KrisP · #55 08-12-2009, 10:39 PM

Dosent this argument imply that you could increase PR just by floating your site with internal links.

djbaxter · #56 08-12-2009, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by KrisP

Dosent this argument imply that you could increase PR just by floating your site with internal links.

No. You can only pass along a portion of what PR you already have. However, internal links can spread PR more evenly throughout a site.

Google the term "PR sculpting". What some/many people used to advocate was using nofollow on certain internal links to maximize the funneling of PR to the most important pages. With the change of policy by Google, this no longer happens.

KrisP · #57 08-12-2009, 10:56 PM

Well, the only page that has a pagerank on my forum is the frontpage. The rest is zero. As long as this is the case, I presume then nofollow on internal links will have a minimal impact?

djbaxter · #58 08-12-2009, 11:24 PM

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Originally Posted by KrisP

Well, the only page that has a pagerank on my forum is the frontpage. The rest is zero.

Doubtful. You're talking about Toolbar PR, not actual PR.

Quote:

Originally Posted by KrisP

As long as this is the case, I presume then nofollow on internal links will have a minimal impact?

Nope. Read my posts again.

ricardoNJ · #59 08-23-2009, 03:51 AM

Testing....

MozyMac · #60 08-23-2009, 08:43 AM

thanks but already using vBSEO

neeshu · #61 09-12-2009, 05:11 AM

it seems that even the internal links have become no follow useless because the crawler will not be able to crawl the site anymore

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