"Mark Board as Read"

[TechieGeek]

I was looking through my site's Google Webmaster Tools pages and I noticed that one of the most common link keywords was "Mark Board as Read". I have selected to treat bots as guests, and there's no reason for guests to have that link in the footer, right? My suggestion is to hide that link from the footer for guests (or maybe just from bots).

[TCWT]

Good idea.

[3DKiwi]

I agree as clicking on this link when you're a guest does nothing. You get get the same VNC results before and after clicking this link.

3DKiwi

[Amy T]

I agree as well.

[Amy T]

I agree as well.

[Olivier Turbis]

I'm 90% sure that forums who enable guests to view content set a cookie for them to know if a topic was read and whatnot.

So might be a good idea to turn it off for robots only.

[TechieGeek]

I edited the globalTemplate file and set this to be a nofollow link. It would still be better to delete it altogether :/ and I don't think this will have the effect I want because nofollow will just stop the pagerank, but I'll see what happens.

[.Ian]

Surround anything you want hidden with

<if test="!$this->member->is_not_human">

your code

</if>