I have a Real Estate site that generates homes with a plugin. This plugin generates the html in my site for the homes and into that html there are many outgoing links. For each property there is an outgoing link to an external domain. I can not control the links, so I can not put a nofollow tag to each one of these links. Do you think it is a good idea to block the outgoing links in robots.txt for google not to see so many? Thanks
If its HTML, even if generated by a plugin, you can edit the PHP code of the plugin and insert a nofollow there. As easy as: $content = str_replace( '<a ', '<a rel="nofollow" ', $content); $content is the HTML content that your plugin is generating.
Why not? Is the plugin PHP or javascript? If its javascript, it won't matter that much. If its PHP, you got the source code, you can edit it.
And what is wrong with the solution I propose? Is it not possible to block just one domain in robots.txt? I see its not possible with robots.txt Can you charge me a fee to modify the code of the plugin to add nofollow?
This is the discussion part of the forum so we're giving free advice to help you fix your own site. If you choose to hire someone for this incredibly simple task you can create a thread in our Buy/Sell/Trade section.
@chechogr Attach the plugin PHP file to this thread or send in a private message, will edit it for you. Mention the URL also where you want nofollow added. You will have to rename the .PHP file to .TXT if attaching it to a thread here.
So Sarah, I will make a post in the Buy/Sell section if I consider I need to hire someone. Are you an admin? if you are, you are not the best example for others telling them whats "incredibly simple" or not. Cos that depends totally on your background of study. About 7 billion people would agree with me on this.
Don't be. It's just everybody in humanity you would ask him or her something that they don't consider easy to do just because they didn't study it or its not their specialty.
You're in a discussion forum asking for advice. We're telling you that it's simple and you can do it yourself. That should be uplifting and empowering. Once you let us know what CMS your site is running and possibly what plugins there will probably be someone here who can give you the info you want so you can make the changes. Or we can say "sheesh, mate, that's a big job, you better be giving my buddy here some dollars to fix that. Dig deep though, it won't be cheap" We prefer to help and empower rather than rip people off.