XF 1.3 rel=nofollow for external links

[Marcus]

Whenever I post a link at my community, the link is displayed without any "no follow notice".

I want that everytime a link is added, a "rel = "nofollow" statement is added to the link.

How can i do that?

 

[Marcus]

How could I activate the rel=nofollow for administrators?

 

[Alpha1]

Google has practically nulled the usefulness of rel="nofollow". According to Google; even if you add it, it will still leak your PR, while missing out on the benefit of linking to authoritative sites. The unknown is if Google is speaking the truth though. As there is a constant battle between SEO specialists / webmasters who need higher ranking and Google who needs useful results, it would not be the first time for Google to publish tainted information.

 

[Marcus]

I was told from google directly to add a nofollow tag.

My question in this thread is how to do that in xenforo.

 

[Mark_]

Chris D built an add-on:
http://xenforo.com/community/resources/control-nofollow-urls.1389/

Hope this helps.

 

[Mark_]

Also solution from Jake Bunce here:
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/make-all-links-nofollow.28833/#post-416350

 

[Marcus]

Chris D built an add-on:
http://xenforo.com/community/resources/control-nofollow-urls.1389/

Hope this helps.

Thanks, although this addon lets me to specify more usergroups that can post links without a nofollow attribute. I want all mods and admins have nofollows. The addon can not do that. I will write my own

 

[Marcus]

This works:

Ok, I'm using this now.

Nofollow for everyone (Also Moderators and Administrators)

Edit this file:
library/XenForo/ViewPublic/Helper/Message.php

find

        $options['states'] += array(
            'noFollowDefault' => $options['noFollow']
        );

and replace with

        $options['states'] += array(
            'noFollowDefault' => true
        );

Thanks to Jake
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/make-all-links-nofollow.28833/

It's not ideal to edit files, but this is the only option now.