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nevali · 21st February 2007, 11:14am

That wouldn't be a bad idea, though in truth nofollowing everything is bloody stupid = defeats the point, and nofollow doesn't do what most people think anyway.

It's only spam we don't want nofollowed, and we kill that on sight anyhow.

**GreatKingRat** · 20th March 2007, 3:59pm

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If I sponsor the site can I have the nofollow tags removed from my sig links?

So is this a possibility?

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Originally Posted by nevali

That wouldn't be a bad idea, though in truth nofollowing everything is bloody stupid = defeats the point, and nofollow doesn't do what most people think anyway.

Who set up the nofollows? The site's full of 'em.

cupotea · 20th March 2007, 4:03pm

what is nofollow?

Fenntastic · 20th March 2007, 4:04pm

its like an elf.....

**GreatKingRat** · 20th March 2007, 4:07pm

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what is nofollow?

Basically, it's a tag within a link that instructs search engines to disregard any affiliation between the link and the domain/page it appears on.

Hammer · 17th April 2007, 1:25pm

Spotted a few ads about the site today, mostly little square Amazon ads in gig listings or articles. Are Sponsors going to have to live with these or is it a work in progress?

Exit_W0unds · 17th April 2007, 1:26pm

If you're a sponsor the banners are taken away, not the little ones.

nevali · 17th April 2007, 1:38pm

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Basically, it's a tag within a link that instructs search engines to disregard any affiliation between the link and the domain/page it appears on.

It's worthless, is what it is.

I'll look at it post-move if nobody else does; I think it's a setting buried in vB somewhere that's switched on by default, but I could be wrong.

**GreatKingRat** · 17th April 2007, 1:41pm

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It's worthless, is what it is.

Yeah, it's that too. There's also an awful lot of internal nofollow links here too, which may do more harm than good.

But I'm done with SEO now and look forward to starting my new CSS job on Monday.

Woolies · 17th April 2007, 1:44pm

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Originally Posted by Hammer

Spotted a few ads about the site today, mostly little square Amazon ads in gig listings or articles. Are Sponsors going to have to live with these or is it a work in progress?

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Originally Posted by Exit_W0unds

If you're a sponsor the banners are taken away, not the little ones.

Forbes' comment: http://www.altnation.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2982819
MAkes a fair point about gig ticket links but personally I'd go with the spirit of "remove all ads for sponsors" though. And that's not just because it was my oversight that added the amazon ads for everyone...

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Originally Posted by nevali

I think (rel="nofollow" is) a setting buried in vB somewhere that's switched on by default, but I could be wrong.

vBSEO setting, & I don't touch that, grr hiss spit

& rel nofollow is useful for getting spiders to not list bumph pages such as the "email to friend" things and the like that are still shown to guests, no?

nevali · 17th April 2007, 1:54pm

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& rel nofollow is useful for getting spiders to not list bumph pages such as the "email to friend" things and the like that are still shown to guests, no?

No; all nofollow does is say ‘I'm not related to this page (on another site), even though I link to it’, it doesn't actually prevent spidering and indexing at all. Having nofollow on internal links doesn't really make any sense at all; we already detect spiders, best off just hiding the chaff from them (within the normal acceptable boundaries of spider-specific content serving).

**GreatKingRat** · 17th April 2007, 1:58pm

Tagging internal links with nofollow can also damage your own search engine rankings, which seems odd for an SEO plugin to do.

**Ghostsuit** · 17th April 2007, 2:53pm

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Originally Posted by Woolies

Forbes' comment: http://www.altnation.com/forums/showthread.php?p=2982819
MAkes a fair point about gig ticket links but personally I'd go with the spirit of "remove all ads for sponsors" though. And that's not just because it was my oversight that added the amazon ads for everyone...

Yeah post THEE MOVE (dun dun dun and all that) were intending to remove them, I was more just throwing it back at stew due to the tone in which he asked

, though I might add in a buy this album affiliate link to album reviews and band info pages.

Hammer · 17th April 2007, 4:01pm

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Yeah post THEE MOVE (dun dun dun and all that) were intending to remove them, I was more just throwing it back at stew due to the tone in which he asked

, though I might add in a buy this album affiliate link to album reviews and band info pages.

Cool cool. I just hadn't noticed them before. You could always do an Xbox Live Arcade* and charge us more money to remove the Amazon ads

*I refer particularly to Lumines for Xbox, where you have to pay for the incomplete game and then pay more for additional game features which are standard on PSP versions of the game.

Stew · 19th April 2007, 5:29pm

How come none of the Sponsor AN logos are showing using the white skin under anyone's username?

Re-design or just disabled?