Does search engine robots follow the external links in your forum?

Discussion in 'Link Development' started by Neorics, Mar 8, 2008.

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    Does search engine robots follow the external links:

    * in the signatures of your members
    * in the profile columns beside the posts e.g. extra text they put that shows with their posts
    * other external links inside your forum
     
    Neorics, Mar 8, 2008 IP
  2. speci4list

    speci4list Peon

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    They do if they are "live" links. You can disable robots from following certain internal links by editing the robot.txt file, and using No follow tags for external links.

    rel="nofollow"
    Code (markup):
     
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    Most profile home page urls are no follow some sigs are follow. I do not think google gives any Pr for sig links anymore. They do follow links but that is about it.
     
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    mightyb Banned

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    They will still follow nofollow links its just they might not give these links as much value.
     
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    contbd Active Member

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    Yah they follow every outgoing link in this forum, but when you apply the link condom [rel="nofollow"], it won't help that site to get a value from search engine to get ranked top.
     
    contbd, Mar 8, 2008 IP