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#131845

Hi Everyone

Quick question please.

I want to embed the

rel="nofollow"

in all paid-for banners on my site.

Is this as simple as just typing the above line of code into the Customer Banner Code area of the banner screen, like this?

That seems way too easy! 🙂

Thanks
Chris

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#264305

Anyone, please?

This is now getting urgent as my site launches in 10 days! 😮

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#264333

There is another way.
Open your robots.txt file on the server.
Normally it starts like this:

Disallow: /administrator/
Disallow: /cache/
...

It means that robots are not allowed to seach in these folders.

Create a folder on your server for the banners that should not be followed by the robots.
Then modily the robots.txt file by denying access for the folder you have just created.
Insert this line:

Disallow: /banned_banners (or any name you want)/

Advantage: in this case you do not need to modify the code of your banners.
Disadvantage: if you move the banner from this folder to another, you need to check that it is referred from the new location

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#264383

Hello chris,
Yes you should probably be able to use that. I do belive you are afraid of to manny forward links that can hurt your rating. I have the same problem and will try this on my linkshare ads.
BUT I am not 100% sure it works. I know for sure that some SE dont read the nofollow. Google does and we all have to please the goog!
You could also set up a meta tag with the no follow like this:
<blockquote>
<meta name=”robots” content=”index, nofollow” />
</blockquote>
But then you need to be sure that you have a sitemap that takes care of the internal links or you will newer be indexed. BTW make sure your sitemap generator takes care of nofollow so you dont give acces trough that one.

About Disallow in robots text:
This dosent help to fix the links from a banner just prevent Google and yahoo for not spider them. MSN just ignores it it seems!

Also: Get the Lynx reader or use somthing similar to check with a tex only reader. That is how most boots see your page.

Bosse

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#264434

Thanks both, yes indeed, I’m worried about the forward links hurting the page ranking!

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#264895

<em>@questbg 71840 wrote:</em><blockquote>
That seems way too easy! 🙂
</blockquote>

And, of course, that was way too easy!!

I tried this today by adding the code in Custom Banner Code like this:

But, when I publish, the banner doesn’t appear, just the code:

PLEASE can somebody tell me how to do this. 🙂
Thanks
Chris

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#264921

Chris,
Can you post the HTML code? I do think you might have put it in the wrong place.
Bosse

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#264997

Hi Bosse

You can see in the screengrab above where I placed the code. I just typed it into the “Custom Banner Code” section.

Maybe I need more ‘tags’ than that!!

Cheers
Chris

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#265147

Hello Chris,
You got me on this one! I have not been messing around with the banner module so sorry for my stupid answer.
There must be a way and I will try to find it. But got a bit bussy with the latest havoc from JCE…..

In general: Dont worry of a few forward links for now if this is the only banners you are going to run.
Just get some good back links from your friends when you are up and running. (this is a hint);)

Bosse

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#265149

A quicky (I dident try it but it might work),
Hack mod_banners=>helper.php
Line 89


// cases are slightly different
case 1:
// open in a new window
$a = '<a href="'. $link .'" target="_blank">';
break;

case 2:
// open in a popup window
$a = "<a href="javascript:void window.open('". $link ."', '', 'toolbar=no,location=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes,width=780,height=550'); return false">";
break;

default: // formerly case 2
// open in parent window
$a = '<a href="'. $link .'">';

Try to insert the nofollow in to the abowe You might need to mess with the .'” a little not sure if this is corrct in the abowe.
I will try it on my test server later.

Bosse

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#265191

Thanks Bosse. Will try this out later (if I ever find time)!

I had this working fine on my non-Joomla site, code looked like this:

<a href="http://www.bestbgproperties.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">

So maybe introduce that somewhere in the .php file?

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#265193

Yes the place should be inside the codeblock I posted. How I dont really know but the logic say some ware in the a href tags. I did a quick one and triggerd a 500 error so…

Bosse

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#266878

Hi quesbg !
you can add it to “<a > ” tag rounded banner following way below :
Open helper.php file in modules/mod_banners folder , find following code line at about line 92 :


$a = '<a href="'. $link .'" target="_blank">';


change to :


$a = '<a href="'. $link .'" target="_blank" rel="follow">';


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#266973

Thanks hainn84 – I will try that code right now!

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#266976

Hi hainn84. I think that works fine. I applied the changes to the helper.php file, replaced the orginal (took a backup first of course!) and refreshed the home page.

Now, when I view the pagesource I get:

<a href="/component/banners/click/9?lang=en" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.questbg.com/images/banners/dsken.gif" alt="Banner" />


Which I think is correct?

If so, thank you and please mark ‘solved’!

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