Arrow Icons and rel="nofollow" tag

[princet]

Since it's impossible to remove the arrow icons on the index page, I was hoping to develop an easy solution. (At least I hope so)
I'm working on making my version of reviewpost so search engine friendly as possible.
It's not an easy task, but if you use robots.txt you will come a long way.

Regardless I have one important task left, before I have gotten rid of all duplicate url's
/showproduct.php/product/301 these url can't be ruled out using robots.txt
note that I want all my product urls to include the category details, so that the url will look like this /showproduct.php/product/301/cat/21

Since the url's is not closed we can't use a 301 redirect with .htaccess, so the only solution I can find is to prevent these urls being indexed by the search engines.

On my site these urls are getting indexed by the arrow icons on the index page, since they are direct links from my main page, they are getting a lot of link strength my correct url's should have.
So as a last effort to suceed in my project I want to add rel="nofollow" behind the arrow icon urls.

Please tell me that there is an easy fix to make this happen

[Chuck S]

You can try adding your no follow html to the urls in pp-inc.php

Feel free to open a modification discussion in the mod corner if you want to discuss code modification.

[princet]

<a href=\"{$Globals['maindir']}/showproduct.php/product/$lastphoid\"><img border=\"0\" src=\"{$Globals['idir']}/nonewposts.gif\" alt=\"{$Globals['pp_lang']['vlastposted']}\" /></a>

This is the code that need editing.
This is the one most plausible <a href=\"{$Globals['maindir']}/showproduct.php/product/$lastphoid\" rel="nofollow">
but it just causes a parse error.

Do you have any suggestion as to where to put in the nofollow code without causing errors in the script?

[Chuck S]

You need to escape quotes like so

Content visible to verified customers only.

[princet]

That worked - and it's a great fix.
Thank you so much!

[MoMan2]

Originally Posted by princet

Since it's impossible to remove the arrow icons on the index page, I was hoping to develop an easy solution. (At least I hope so)
I'm working on making my version of reviewpost so search engine friendly as possible.
It's not an easy task, but if you use robots.txt you will come a long way.

Regardless I have one important task left, before I have gotten rid of all duplicate url's
/showproduct.php/product/301 these url can't be ruled out using robots.txt
note that I want all my product urls to include the category details, so that the url will look like this /showproduct.php/product/301/cat/21

Since the url's is not closed we can't use a 301 redirect with .htaccess, so the only solution I can find is to prevent these urls being indexed by the search engines.

On my site these urls are getting indexed by the arrow icons on the index page, since they are direct links from my main page, they are getting a lot of link strength my correct url's should have.
So as a last effort to suceed in my project I want to add rel="nofollow" behind the arrow icon urls.

Please tell me that there is an easy fix to make this happen

Speaking of the search-engine friendliness- I actually got vBSEO to work on my reviewpost installation after just 2 new lines of code in pp-inc.php and a single .htaccess change. Instead of a URL like /showcat.php?c=1, I have /category-SMC-Pentax-Lenses.html. Works like a charm!

[princet]

Damn, that would really make an impact on my site.
I will try the vBSEO fix, I'm thinking of adding a forum anyways.
But first I'm off to a one week vacation in Spain.

[DrSKiZZ]

Originally Posted by MoMan2

Speaking of the search-engine friendliness- I actually got vBSEO to work on my reviewpost installation after just 2 new lines of code in pp-inc.php and a single .htaccess change. Instead of a URL like /showcat.php?c=1, I have /category-SMC-Pentax-Lenses.html. Works like a charm!

Do you happen to have a link to those edits and .htaccess? Do you have a link to your forum?I am considering switching to vB from IPB if this works well.

Thanks