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[allkary]

Look, I don't want to start a SEO debate as it is not the right place, nor I'm interested in discussing about that here. I have my own reasons for nofollowing external links so please, if you can suggest a better plugin that separate internal from external and does work with last SMF version, I'd be happy to try it out 

[Kindred]

There is a mod for affecting links only to a certain post count, which is what we use here...  This prevent spammers from adding links, but will allow you to build search engine mojo with links from older members.

Also, as we have already noted, the so called seo pack is, for the most part, pointless, and will likely conflict with other things

[Arantor]

Except it is the right place. You're asking for advice, we are advising you that what you want to do is a bad idea, and even why it is a bad idea. Google already places huge penalties on UGC sites as it is, without you making it worse with 'advice' you've received from 'SEO experts' most of whom have not spent years working with UGC sites figuring out what works and what doesn't.

When even Matt Cutts from Google himself will tell you this... http://searchengineland.com/friends-dont-let-friends-use-nofollow-77922 for example... maybe it's better to listen.

It has always been more important to get good quality links in than it has to worry about lesser quality links out.

No worries, though, hope it works out for you.

[allkary]

That little words from Matt Cutts have been used to make people believe he was talking about external link. Instead, he was talking about internal linksactually and page rank sculpting (page rank sculpting is a tecnic used to make page rank flow from internal pages to get a readable and surfable site architecture for bots and spiders other than users).
The question regarding that particular answer was "Q: Does this mean "PageRank sculpting" (trying to change how PageRank flows within your site using e.g. nofollow) is a bad idea?" You can read the entire article here https://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/ [nofollow]. Anyhow it is outdated as it's from 2009...

If you want to get some more fresh informations about that, just look at this video from Matt Cutts itself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSEqypgIJME [nofollow]

[Arantor]

Except since Penguin we've seen huge penalties applied to UGC sites and *moreso* to those with nofollow. Even your advice is a year old and predates the last major algorithmic changes.

*shrug* Have fun with it.

[allkary]

Anyway, what was the name of that mod?

[Kindred]

I'm on a mobile device right now. So I can't really look it up for you. However I believe the name is something like anti-spam links

[Ninja ZX-10RR]

I'm on a mobile device right now. So I can't really look it up for you. However I believe the name is something like anti-spam links

Yup, searching those exact words brought me here --> http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=2404

[allkary]

Thanks a lot to everyone