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Nofollow Signature Links

Started by vbgamer45, August 01, 2019, 10:08:48 AM

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vbgamer45

Link to the mod

Nofollow Signature Links

For SMF 2.1.x, SMF 2.0.x and SMF 1.1.x


This mod makes any signature link a nofollow link. This reduces the value of links for SEO spammers

License: BSD License
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vbgamer45

I made it mainly since getting a lot of spammers lately.
And  did not want all links nofollow just links in signatures.
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Diego Andrés

Yea they can be really annoying recently.
It's a good idea I will use it for sure.

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-Rock Lee-

A good modification, I have not had so many problems with spambots but I do see the increase in their attacks and I stay tuned to avoid it.


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alexetgus

Why only signatures?

On my site, all links are in "nofollow". Whether it's a message or a signature.
It's much more careful!

;)

Arantor

It's also actually not good for you to nofollow every single outgoing link. It tells Google you don't trust anyone and you actually get downmarked for it.
Holder of controversial views, all of which my own.

shadav

could it be permission based?
for example I have a mod so that no new members can use signatures to help prevent spam
i'd like to further that by using this for the next tier or two of the post based groups, so that they can use signatures but their links will be no follow until I'm sure they aren't miscreants :p

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thatjustit

Nice mod, as for links in posts google introduced rel="ugc" recently. I wonder if it will be used at all.

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shadav

Quote from: vbgamer45 on September 25, 2019, 09:11:41 PM
No, not easily.

ok thank you though :)
I may still end up using this as signatures are really meant more for the users than for search engines.....

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