[maxicep]

vbSEO users already have that but thanks anyway ..

[1Unreal]

Originally Posted by maxicep

vbSEO users already have that but thanks anyway ..

Alot of people don't want to buy vBSEO so this is a nice free alternative

[River_rush]

Google announced in early 2005 that hyperlinks with rel="nofollow" attribute[3] would not influence the link target's PageRank. In addition, the Yahoo and Windows Live search engines also respect this tag.[4]

How the attribute is being interpreted differs between the search engines. While some take it literally and do not follow the link to the page being linked to[citation needed], others still "follow" the link to find new web pages for indexing. In the latter case rel="nofollow" actually tells a search engine "Don't score this link" rather than "Don't follow this link." This differs from the meaning of nofollow as used within a robots meta tag, which does tell a search engine: "Do not follow any of the hyperlinks in the body of this document.".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow

[1Unreal]

Originally Posted by River_rush

Google announced in early 2005 that hyperlinks with rel="nofollow" attribute[3] would not influence the link target's PageRank. In addition, the Yahoo and Windows Live search engines also respect this tag.[4]

How the attribute is being interpreted differs between the search engines. While some take it literally and do not follow the link to the page being linked to[citation needed], others still "follow" the link to find new web pages for indexing. In the latter case rel="nofollow" actually tells a search engine "Don't score this link" rather than "Don't follow this link." This differs from the meaning of nofollow as used within a robots meta tag, which does tell a search engine: "Do not follow any of the hyperlinks in the body of this document.".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow

Thanks for clarifying some stuff there. The pagerank thing is believed by some people, I was sceptical though

[YsTyle]

thanks installed

[AzzidReign]

Thanks! This will work well on my sites that don't have vBSEO installed

[BSMedia]

First and most notably, it will stop spammers because search engines will no longer follow these links.

It doesn't stop any spiders or bots from following links.

[1Unreal]

Originally Posted by BSMedia

It doesn't stop any spiders or bots from following links.

Major search engines like Google, Yahoo, Ask, ect...wont follow these links.

[djbaxter]

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.

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.

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

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

[1Unreal]

When spammers realise that you have nofollow links they will stop spamming you. So it reduces spam...

And there is such thing as PR leek. For example, iframes regularly leek PR. Although it's not benefitial to anyone.

[pein87]

Thanks installed.

[Brandon Sheley]

nice mod, good idea for those not using vbseo already
but I'll have to agree, this mod shouldn't state that it will "stop spam"
I understand what you are saying, but many will just argue with this statement

/me clicks install

[projectego]

/me clicks install

[C138 Kaysone]

Is it good if i can use both? i have vbseo installed but this looks good to use too