XF 2.1 add nofollow to attachments links

[DavidXLD]

Hello,
Do you know if there is a simple way to add rel="nofollow" on all attachments links in the forum.
I have a website in which there are thousands of excel file and I want to be sure that they will be not indexed by Google.
Thanks for your help
David

 

[DavidXLD]

Hi,
Would you recommend me to post in another forum category in order to have an answer?
Thanks
David

 

[Paul B]

It would require custom development.

 

[DavidXLD]

Ok, thanks for the answer

 

[dethfire]

I have a website in which there are thousands of excel file and I want to be sure that they will be not indexed by Google.

This is not the purpose of "nofollow". You want to block the attachments folder in robots.txt

 

[DavidXLD]

Even with robots.txt attachments are crawl if I do not put "nofollow".
I have following message in Google Search Console about attachments : "Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt"
Thanks
David

 

[dethfire]

Even with robots.txt attachments are crawl if I do not put "nofollow".

Nofollow tag is a misnomer. It's about passing pagerank to another page, not about allowing access. It will do nothing for you.

I have following message in Google Search Console about attachments : "Indexed, though blocked by robots.txt"

It takes time. Sometimes months for Google to drop content, but they will if blocked by robots.txt for long enough

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[DavidXLD]

Thank you very much, I wll have a look next weeks or months then ;-)

FYI, I have also this reference which is a bit confusing :

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