Hallo all,

According to some analysts, outgoing links in a website could count in its rating negativelly if they lead to "punished" or irrelevant websites. (read relevant at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow )
For this, it is suggested that if you dont control the outgoing links to use the nofollow.

In Fireboard (and of joomlaboard previously) I have been doing the necessary changes to make the links in the posts to have the nofollow.

For links not in bbcode, the change is the following:
in the file componentscom_fireboardtemplatedefaultsmile.class.php in the lines 890, 895, 900, 905, 910, 915

I change the
[code:1] target="_new" [/code:1]
to
[code:1] target="_new" rel="nofollow" [/code:1]

I have not investigated yet how to do the same for the bbcode. If someone knows, please share it. Else I will research it and post it here.

But, I believe that it should be at least a configuration parameter to have that nofollow in the links (both the bbcode and the non bbcode ones)

Ok, to do the same for the bbcode, the solution is very simple.
In the same file as above, in lines 75 and 76
[code:1]target="_blank"[/code:1]
change to
[code:1]target="_blank" rel="nofollow"[/code:1]

Many thanks for this info! I've been wanting to do this for a while, I'm all for this being included as standard in FireBoard.

Do you know if this also does the trick on signature links?

Thanks,
Tom.

You guys are awesome! Need to add this right away...

tomthornz wrote:

Do you know if this also does the trick on signature links?

Never needed it really: I have the signatures to appear only to logged in members (so search engines do not see signatures)
Will have a look.

koyan wrote:
tomthornz wrote:

Do you know if this also does the trick on signature links?



Just did the change on my test server and YES it covers signature links.

Thx again!

koyan wrote:

For links not in bbcode, the change is the following:
in the file componentscom_fireboardtemplatedefaultsmile.class.php in the lines 890, 895, 900, 905, 910, 915


For some reasons the line-numbers where off in my case. Might be a different version of the file. Anyway a search will find the proper lines. I first stepped through them and then performed a replace. Same for the bbcode tag.

This, in 1.0.4 does not work!

Somebody? Please help!

Thanks!

Will look at it.

Ok, to start with:

file sources/interpreter.fireboard.inc.php

EDIT OF POST: code still does not show in the bbcode here....

So I am rephrasing: you must change the lines 68, 80 and 337