How do you NOFOLLOW all links on a website.`

I have a forum that I want to make sure all links are treated as nofollow.

How would I do this if I am going to have my index page redirect to the forums?

 

a href="link" rel="nofollow"

 

i am aware how to make individual links nofollow. I want to be able to make all outbound links on my site nofollow the easiest way possible.

 

Do you want to make comment section Nofollow?
If yes then install nofollow wordpress plugin.

It is better to free Nofollow If you want traffic, daily visitors and comments. Once your blog gets good reputation then you can make all links Nofollow

 

it is a forum and I am looking at making everything nofollow

 

What kind of software is the forum run on?

 

That's probably not a good idea.. BUT.. wouldn't you just put nofollow in the search engine meta tags up top?
If you make everything nofollow, your site will basically cease to exist. Google won't go from page to page to index your pages.

 

Never make your forum outbound links Nofollow.
If you made it then no one will register. Give some benefits to them and gain their profits.

 

alright, i guess I will leave it all follow. But will need to moderate out the blatent spammers.

 

Do you mean a noindex? There is no such thing as putting a nofollow in the meta tags.

You can easily weed out the spam by making all different kinds of outbound links nofollow with most kinds of BB software. SEO Chat wrote their own script that allows posters their top link to be a follow, then the rest of all the links on the entire site are nofollow. They are in the top 10 for nearly every SEO related search so there you go.

 

I am messing around with PHPBB forums and was wanting to come up with something to minimize the penalty for outbound links

 

yes, you can't no follow the entire thing. Best will be to use a robots.txt file and then ban individual folders from being read by the search engine.

 

If you are using something like drupal then you dont have much problem.
Use some scripts which will not allow user to post more than 3 or 4(as you wish) comments per day.
Dont allow 2 registrations from one IP.

With these 2 steps you can stop spam by 70%. Remaining you can moderate.
But be friendly with users.

 

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=616374

That should help

 

Thanks that link did exactly what I needed it to.

Now I can allow regular links in signatures, and nofollows in posts.

Gonna try to rep ya

 

Sure there is. Make a meta tag for your page with the name ROBOTS. Make the value "index,nofollow" (without the quotes), if for example you want the page indexed but nofollowed.

 

checkout this link: http://www.phpbbstyles.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&p=91174
Hope you will get complete info over there..

 

it can be done pretty easy, a str_replace() somewhere, I'm sure you'll find all you need in the phpbb support forum

 

Edit, you learn something new everyday!

That still doesn't help when you're talking about outgoing links however.

 

Hmm, you should be able to nofollow individual outgoing links, too. The software I use (Freeway for Macs) allows any individual links (internal or outbound) to add a rel ... nofollow very easily. I've nofollowed a number of individual outbound links.