Suggestion: publicise the 'nofollow' tag used for all external forum links

alecmyers

Joined: 2006-08-01
Posts: 4342
Posted: Sat, 2008-09-20 18:53

It might be worth pointing out prominently to posters and potential posters that all links included in posts (such as signatures etc) are automatically tagged with rel="nofollow" which prevents them being used for ranking purposes by Google and other seach engines.
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html