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Phplb Owners! Are you passing PR without knowledge??

Discussion in 'Directories' started by humm, Jun 9, 2007.

  1. #1
    Hi phplb owner,

    Time for another change in your templates!

    Are you passing PR without knowledge??

    The detail page of your site passes PR to prtool.info, there are many who are totally unaware about this.

    Look out for the following code in the Link.Tpl file

                <td valign="middle" nowrap><a href="http://www.prtool.info/" title="PageRank Checker"><img src="http://www.prtool.info/free-pagerank-display.php?u={link_url}&a=getCode&s=Technical" title="Free PageRank Display Code" border="0px" alt="PageRank" /></a></td>
    
    PHP:

    change it as:

                <td valign="middle" nowrap><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.prtool.info/" title="PageRank Checker"><img src="http://www.prtool.info/free-pagerank-display.php?u={link_url}&a=getCode&s=Technical" title="Free PageRank Display Code" border="0px" alt="PageRank" /></a></td>
    
    PHP:
    I shocked with this kinda link baiting technique from its developers.
    All other links were promptly give nofollow leaving their own site. Instead making this function integrated, they have preferred to link to their own site for serps and PR benefits!

    All I can say is bad work! I am not happy seeing this! :(
     
    humm, Jun 9, 2007 IP
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  2. an0n

    an0n Prominent Member

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    #2
    Good find Sunny. I'm sure people were unaware of this.
     
    an0n, Jun 9, 2007 IP
  3. britishguy

    britishguy Prominent Member

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    #3
    Thanks for the 'heads up' :eek:
     
    britishguy, Jun 9, 2007 IP
  4. MeetHere

    MeetHere Prominent Member

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    #4
    Thats always necessary to include nofollow to unnecessary links on a directory to help maximum to its listings.

    Good find :)
     
    MeetHere, Jun 9, 2007 IP
  5. SearchBuster

    SearchBuster Peon

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    #5
    Thank you, I did not see this, green coming your way.
     
    SearchBuster, Jun 9, 2007 IP
  6. loredan

    loredan Well-Known Member

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    #6
    Thanks for the "heads up"
     
    loredan, Jun 9, 2007 IP
  7. amitpatel_3001

    amitpatel_3001 Results Follow Patience

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    #7
    Good find may be he was trying to get some benefit for his integrated tool :)
     
    amitpatel_3001, Jun 9, 2007 IP
  8. madtay

    madtay Peon

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    #8
    Thankyou for this humm.
     
    madtay, Jun 9, 2007 IP
  9. deluxdon

    deluxdon Catch Me If You Can...!!!™ Staff

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    #9
    Nice find sunny. Just checked this with my bidding directory :eek:

    Changed as per your instruction. Thanks for the 'heads up' :)
     
    deluxdon, Jun 9, 2007 IP
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  10. vic_msn

    vic_msn Well-Known Member

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    #10
    but as this is from the script owner and nofollow has been put on other links in the script then we can put nofollow for this too.
    but we can keep it too its up to you.
     
    vic_msn, Jun 9, 2007 IP
  11. maldives

    maldives Prominent Member

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    #11
    Nice find. I am sure many owners are not aware of it until now.
     
    maldives, Jun 9, 2007 IP
  12. George55

    George55 Peon

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    #12
    If a link is "unnecessary" it should not be there!

    Are there PR anonymous meetings for all you PR addicts?
     
    George55, Jun 9, 2007 IP
  13. jl255

    jl255 Well-Known Member

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    #13
    just to be the devil's advocate, don't they have the right to do this being the developers of the script?

    just like the sponsor fields on WP themes, this cld be their form of 'sponsorship' for phplb. However, seems like they did not put a requirement that this line must be kept, so I guess, its up to you to remove it. I feel that it cld be kinda underhanded, but it is their right afterall....
     
    jl255, Jun 9, 2007 IP
  14. centime

    centime Peon

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    #14
    why put no follow , I not disagreeing, but I am all for supporting tool developers
     
    centime, Jun 9, 2007 IP
  15. humm

    humm बहादुर बच्चा

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    #15
    Wp themes are released free and hence sponsorships... here we pay for the script. The question of sponsorship should not raise at all.

    If the script is free.. its their wish they can add whatever they want in interms of getting sponsors to keep the script free.

    I hope you getting what I mean! ;)
     
    humm, Jun 9, 2007 IP
  16. jl255

    jl255 Well-Known Member

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    #16
    actually, not true. Not free doesn't mean it cannot come with sponsorship. It cld be MORE EXPENSIVE without sponsorship, u get what i mean? There is nothing that says if its not free, it cannot be sponsored too. It's just something that we have gotten used to. It's just like subsidies. The govt may sponsor a portion, but u have to pay the rest. It cld very well apply to this case....
     
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  17. centime

    centime Peon

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    #17
    Actually, having reviewed the link, I am definitely keeping the link un blocked,

    A link is a vote for another site, if I had to no-follow any link that I have the power to prevent, I would rather delete it all together,
     
    centime, Jun 9, 2007 IP
  18. iPod

    iPod Notable Member

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    #18
    That's a good catch once again Sunny :)

    I hope the rest of the links,pages and tools and all the social tools on the details page are not passing PR...
     
    iPod, Jun 9, 2007 IP
  19. aspidov

    aspidov Well-Known Member

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    #19
    now wtf is this, gabe?
     
    aspidov, Jun 9, 2007 IP
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  20. d-crafts

    d-crafts Banned

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    #20
    really great.
     
    d-crafts, Jun 10, 2007 IP