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| Re: how to hide [message #161562 is a reply to message #161558] |
Fri, 08 January 2010 12:01   |
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Sure. At the site a lot of messages (about 11000). Many of them have links to other pages (external links, not good for SEO). Can we make sure that these links are invisible to unregistered users? Common example: "hidden text. You have to register to see hidden text.
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| Re: how to hide [message #161583 is a reply to message #161576] |
Mon, 11 January 2010 13:31 |
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I keep messages in the SQL. Solved the problem this way: one query UPDATE adds to each link ref = nofollow tag and <noindex> </ noindex> (for Yandex). Thank you.
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| Re: how to hide [message #164356 is a reply to message #164355] |
Sat, 29 January 2011 15:23 |
barefootliam
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Registered: September 2010
Location: Milford, ON, Canada
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Ernesto, well, I meant as an option. And from working on pagerank 9 and 10 pages, I know that rel="nofollow" still does make a difference because of being contacted by people at Google. (Of course, pagerank is only one of over 200 metrics used by Google in ranking earch results, and has much less effect that it used to). But the other difference it makes is that it discourages some kinds of link spam. So, I'd like it as an option. I am not, by the way, suggesting presenting one thing to one search engine and another to users, and, some external links are good and some can be bad. Or maybe we can agree to disagree on whether it's bad or good or makes a difference, and agree only that some people might like an option to have such an attribute added in some cases, OK? 
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| Re: how to hide [message #164359 is a reply to message #164356] |
Sun, 30 January 2011 05:35 |
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If it had a bearing on page rank (it actually used to, long ago) then people start adding it everywhere to linkshape. Since then google for example, doesn't follow the links, it means that the end users, meaning the ones that searches on google, will get a worse experience, since googlebot can never find anything, since everyone added rel="nofollow" to increase their pagerank.
It is a counter-productive practice and to follow the google motto: "Make the pages for users, not for search engines" applies.
If you have a problem with spam, that is another issue and not something that should be solved by rel="nofollow", since that would "ruin" all legitimate links.
While I agree that options are good, what if everyone still believes old rumours that it will make their page appear better in google search results, well, then everyone will enable it and boom, link crawling has effectively either been put out of comission, or search engines will be forced to ignore the rel="nofollow" tag.
Best practice is to use the nofollow tag on things you do not want the engine to follow, for example "Reply" "Register" "New Topic" etc.
( http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=965 69)
http://searchenginewatch.com/3633972
http://twitter.com/mattcutts/status/2013680604
Quote:Hey, did you hear our latest inside tip? Make relevant content. 
That is of course just my opinion and I can be wrong like everyone else
Ginnunga Gaming
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