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[gray Friend grayJoin date: October 2009Posts: 957Downloads:0Uploads:17 Thanks: 28 Thanked: 292 times in 230 posts]

#171848

The issue relates to the fact that search bots are following the email button, which is trigging the Admin Tools security exceptions. So, it’s not an issue (you’ll not see any warnings) if there is no firewall component installed. Still, the fact that Google and others are following and indexing in particular the “Send to Friend” page, which useless for SEO, is not good thing.

So, what I did. In files:
/templates/ja_teline_iv/html/com_content/article/default.php
/templates/ja_teline_iv/html/com_content/category/blog_item.php

found[PHP]<?php echo JHtml::_(‘icon.email’, $this->item, $params); ?>[/PHP]
and replaced with [PHP]<?php echo JHtml::_(‘icon.email’, $this->item, $params, array(‘rel’ => ‘nofollow’)); ?>[/PHP]
This added “nofollow” attribute to the email link (such an attribute is added by default to the print icon by Joomla, why it’s not to the email button – that’s a good question…).

Moreover, in robots.txt I added
# Do not index email to friend button
Disallow: /component/mailto/*
Disallow: /index.php?option=com_mailto*

[Blaine Friend BlaineJoin date: August 2007Posts: 1443Downloads:0Uploads:25 Thanks: 98 Thanked: 177 times in 154 posts]

#431983

Thanks Gray!
I am sure this will be of much use to many members!
keep up the good work!

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