TechieGeek Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCWT Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 Good idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3DKiwi Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy T Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 I agree as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy T Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 I agree as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olivier Turbis Posted May 10, 2011 Share Posted May 10, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TechieGeek Posted May 12, 2011 Author Share Posted May 12, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Ian Posted May 13, 2011 Share Posted May 13, 2011 Surround anything you want hidden with<if test="!$this->member->is_not_human"> your code </if> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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