That is there only real purpose, being that you can use them to not vote for a site you need to link towards, ie. say your talking about something on your general blog, and it refers to a porn site, hate site, etc. Now linking to such things is not essentially a good thing, because you are in essence voting for that site if you link to it. But for your users, it is easier for them to just click the link... so the nofollow tag was created and implemented for this purpose. You can make your readers life easy, but not lose your sites trust or credibility from a mathematical viewpoint, which is all an algorithm views your actions as... a 1 or 0.I was always under the impression, that while robots like Google will still follow nofollow links, what they don't do if you use them. They don't pass on page ranking as much to other sites. Meaning in SE terms, your site keeps better page ranking, rather than losing it to another site if you don't use nofollow attribute on links.
The only thing you can do is use a robots.txt file to accomplish what you're asking... nofollow DOES NOT accomplish what you're otherwise asking.haha. everyone would have a different point of view on this. i would not like to have my 40,000 registered accounts indexed (majority of them are not actively participating on the forum of course) because that just add clutter to my google site search results. other folks might be more interested. i guess i can always use robots.txt file to block their indexing.
I'm sorry, you are simply wrong.I repeat, for seo purposes is better to use the robots.txt AND the nofollow attribute in profiles and non-relevant pages in a forum. See in the vbseo forums.
Traffic is generated by content that is searched for. If that profile contains enough instances of 'Kier' and 'vb4' for example, that profile might eventually rank above some vB content in Google for the query 'Kier vb4' (which it doesn't atm, but that may change when the PageRank or content changes).Sorry, but I fail to see how. Let's take your profile here on xenforo.com for example (paraphrasing here):
"keep up the good work"
"how do i buy this software?"
"great job, this is what vb4 was supposed to look like then!"
"you're perfect"
"were you in <town> today?"
I don't see how these are good content, while I agree that the other tabs have some good content, the "Profile Posts" tab doesnt generally have stuff you want in the SE's.
Is that really all that's needed for the robots.txt file?
I created something similar for vBulletin (in 2008, I think). It was a standalone product and not a plugin, per se. The user could select what type of pages to allow or disallow from being indexed. See the screenshot attached.it can provide options on what things can be blocked from indexing. like: search result pages (makes no sense anyways), member profile pages, pages, individual forums, and so on! user selects the relevant option. it gives out raw content. and if robots.txt is writable, it does the needful.
Probably the reason why I never published that code. It was an overkill!i suppose this is probably too much for something too little!
Surely as soon as the software is sold, all that will become common knowledge anyway?The Robot.txt file is actually currently VERY baddly created as you should never included hidden/private/restricted pages like the admin.php file in a robot.txt file... This is a level 1 PCI violation and also tells would-be hackers where your areas are located. Sometimes, that's half the battle.
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