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 How Do We Add Rel="nofollow To Urls?, OpenX v2.8.5 running on Apache 2, PHP 5.2.17 and MySQL 5.5.22-. |
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 Apr 24 2012, 03:17 AM
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How do we add rel="nofollow to urls?
OpenX v2.8.5 running on Apache 2, PHP 5.2.17 and MySQL 5.5.22-. Thank you. |
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Apr 26 2012, 11:06 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 65 Joined: 24-January 06 Member No.: 9,607 |
Anyone?
QUOTE (420 @ Apr 24 2012, 04:17 AM)  How do we add rel="nofollow to urls? OpenX v2.8.5 running on Apache 2, PHP 5.2.17 and MySQL 5.5.22-. Thank you. |
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Apr 28 2012, 08:54 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 65 Joined: 24-January 06 Member No.: 9,607 |
Is this a feature of your software or will we possibly need to switch to something else?
Not having a great time with tech support thus far, somewhat discouraging. Thank you. QUOTE (420 @ Apr 26 2012, 11:06 PM) Anyone? QUOTE (420 @ Apr 24 2012, 04:17 AM) How do we add rel="nofollow to urls? OpenX v2.8.5 running on Apache 2, PHP 5.2.17 and MySQL 5.5.22-. Thank you. |
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Apr 28 2012, 11:13 PM
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Mentor Group: Moderators Posts: 1,303 Joined: 12-November 08 From: San Francisco Member No.: 24,158 |
QUOTE (420 @ Apr 28 2012, 09:54 PM) Is this a feature of your software or will we possibly need to switch to something else? This is not a feature of any adserving software. If you want to add it, the code is open source and you can look into it and add it where necessary. Where is this requirement coming from? |
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Apr 28 2012, 11:21 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 65 Joined: 24-January 06 Member No.: 9,607 |
Thank you for your reply.
 We have advertiser footer text links on every page of our site on one footer file. Just last week, one of our advertisers came up for renewal and requested the following, in order to renew, saying... QUOTE We have a number of links on your site(s) for the following sites: http://www.xxx.com http://www.xxx.com Overall, we are currently happy with the results that we are receiving, however we would like, if possible, to add rel="nofollow" to all links. That includes the text links in the footer file as well as the banners. Would that be possible? And also, could it be done ASAP? If it is not possible to do, I'm afraid we will have to withdraw our advertising and support. Unfortunately the code does need to be in the HTML itself and not just the URL, that's the only way it will work. The only possible solution is trying this in the URL: http://www.xxx.com" rel="nofollow That would give the desired HTML of href="" rel="nofollow" but it certainly shouldn't work, as it would be a bit of a security risk if it did! If we are not able to do this in anyway then I'm afraid we won't be renewing the advertising for either site. QUOTE <a href="http://www.xxx.com" rel="nofollow">XXX</a> This is so the links are not cached by Google and the other search engines. QUOTE (rakshan @ Apr 28 2012, 11:13 PM) QUOTE (420 @ Apr 28 2012, 09:54 PM) Is this a feature of your software or will we possibly need to switch to something else? This is not a feature of any adserving software. If you want to add it, the code is open source and you can look into it and add it where necessary. Where is this requirement coming from? |
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Apr 29 2012, 02:31 AM
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Mentor Group: Moderators Posts: 1,303 Joined: 12-November 08 From: San Francisco Member No.: 24,158 |
You can create html banners and set this value through those.
Create a banner. choose "generic html" as the type. Put html in the banner area. This will be something like CODE <a href="{clickurl}http://whatever.com" rel="nofollow"><img src="URL of your banner image" border="0"></a> test it using firebug. Generally, google/bing bots dont follow ad links because there is a robots.txt file which tells them not to. |
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Oct 2 2012, 11:37 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 23 Joined: 12-October 06 Member No.: 13,185 |
Hi
Perhaps related to this [but if not sorry to hijack the thread], a client - for the first time - is asking me: " Is it possible to index them [his banners,which are supplied as jpg 468 x 60s] with follow so that we also receive the Google benefits as well as traffic benefits?" Presumably he's hoping for the banner to also somehow display a direct link to his sites from mine for an SEO advantage. His banners link to his website, but when you hover over the ad the link Firefox displays is something like: "http://www.myadserveraddress.co.uk/openx/www/delivery..... blah blah" and eventually the url to link to. If I've understood his request, is there a way to do what he asks within Open X? At a push, can you do it by displaying the url as text under the banner or some other way like that? Or can I use the code raksham suggests? Do I than have to change some robots txt file? Or should I request banners in a different format - can you embed the link into a flash banner, for example, to do what he asks? Or does the above thing about the robots file mean this won't work anyway?  Any help much appreciated. |
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