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Old 10-12-2007, 07:04 PM  
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Originally Posted by pornask View Post
Thanks a lot for your help, Grouchy, though I'm not sure this is exactly what I'm looking for. I actually don't want to prevent members (in my case bots for the most part) form posting links. I just want the search engine spiders to ignore all URLs posted.
That's all it does. It sets links to have rel='nofollow' in them.


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As an alternative - can I maybe modify my robots.txt the way so the site is entirely spidered, but no external links are followed? Is there a way to achieve that with robots.txt?
robots.txt does not work that way.
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