djbaxter
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By default, external links are nofollow for all regular forum members. However, for Administrators and Local Search Experts all links are dofollow.
But there are times when we want to force a link to be nofollow, e.g., to comply with Google guidelines for paid reviews.
To do that, I have created a custom NOFOLLOW BBCode. Note that this is not needed unless you are an admin or a Local Search Expert.
Click on nofollow icon to insert this into the text box:
This inserts the following into the text editor:
Now add the URL after the = sign and the anchor text after the first closing bracket:
to get this
Psychlinks Web Services
If you check page source, you will see this:
But there are times when we want to force a link to be nofollow, e.g., to comply with Google guidelines for paid reviews.
To do that, I have created a custom NOFOLLOW BBCode. Note that this is not needed unless you are an admin or a Local Search Expert.
Instructions for NOFOLLOW BBCode:
Click on nofollow icon to insert this into the text box:
This inserts the following into the text editor:
[NOFOLLOW=][/NOFOLLOW]
Now add the URL after the = sign and the anchor text after the first closing bracket:
[NOFOLLOW=https://psychlinks.ca]Psychlinks Web Services[/NOFOLLOW]
to get this
Psychlinks Web Services
If you check page source, you will see this:
<a href="https://psychlinks.ca/" rel="nofollow">Psychlinks Web Services</a>