Messages posted by: D.A.

No, I don't need to read up on it. You need to stop posting stuff that will confuse people who don't know. We are not talking about the same thing, but you can't seem to understand that maybe because you don't realize that some people want their guestbook indexed and are not excluding the robots. THE SUGGESTION IS FOR PEOPLE WHO DO NOT USE THE ROBOTS.TXT EXCLUSION.

Carbonize is right, the rel="nofollow" will not stop people from spamming, it will only stop the spammers from getting their rankings improved because of it.

Can you read?

The (rel="nofollow") is for guestbooks that you want indexed

If you want them indexed, you would not put the noindex,nofollow in the robots.txt file. You would do as Lloyd Borrett suggested and make a simple change to your templates/url.php file.

So, there are two choices:

Do not allow spiders = robots.txt file meta tag

or

Allow spiders, but disallow the following of hyperlinks = edit templates/url.php

I think you all are wrong. The robots metatag does not achieve exactly the same thing. The robots.txt "noindex, nofollow" is to keep your guestbook from being indexed by the search engines. The (rel="nofollow") is for guestbooks that you want indexed but you do not want the hyperlinks appearing in the guestbook to get credit. See the difference?

Try emailing Paul Dupre or amber222. Email addresses in previous posts.

Thanks.