Rereplacer Plugin for Nofollow in Joomla
Google is a funny beast when you want to have your webpage listed at the top of the search results. There are so many things to do to get to the top but you can also help yourself out by doing some of the following listed below. This is regardless of what Matt Cutts might say today or has said in the past.
Is there any reason to have your “Lost Password” button indexed by Google? Are you really expecting someone to search in Google for that? What about Privacy policies? Terms and Conditions? Maybe FAQs and Contact Us are good things to have in Google.
If Google and the others index those pages then there is a chance they are not indexing pages you want. Ontop of that if Google and the others can get to that page are you losing your Page Rank power to useless pages via useless links? Matt Cutts says you are not – well he did say it once but they change their minds and everything is secret in Google. So our advice is to stop Google and the others getting to these pointless pages. Humans can still get there by clicking on the links but there is no need for all the search bots to get there. This way you can be nearly 100% sure you are not losing your Page Rank power to useless pages. Thus giving your page rank power to the real links on your page that you want this juice to flow.
For one of our clients who was using Joomla we used the usual robots.txt to stop some pages but others are really hard to stop. Things like password links can be blocked in the robots.txt but then it gets too big and complicated. You might accidently block pages you want indexed as in our clients case.
Another choice is to hack the Joomla code and force the rel=”nofollow” link within the code – but what happens with upgrades?
So we have been using another solution Rereplacer Plugin from here http://www.nonumber.nl/extensions/rereplacer it is free. What it does is allows you to replace whatever you want on your entire site. It is extremely powerful but does not affect the code nor does it change your database. All it does is change the page code as it is rendered. So if you deactivate the plugin all changes are gone.
Here is how we have used it for one of our clients:
In the search field we wrote this:
faqs.html,Lost-user-name.html,Lost-password.html,Create-an-account.html,Policies/terms.html,Policies/security.html,Policies/privacy.html,Policies/contact.html
In the replace field we wrote this:
faqs.html" rel="nofollow,Lost-user-name.html" rel="nofollow,Lost-password.html" rel="nofollow,Create-an-account.html" rel="nofollow,Policies/terms.html" rel="nofollow,Policies/security.html" rel="nofollow,Policies/privacy.html" rel="nofollow,Policies/contact.html" rel="nofollow
And it has added nofollows to the links we wanted to keep Google and the others away from.
The team at Web Hosting Plans
http://www.webhostingplan.com.au/blog
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