nofollow for threadview pages exept for page one

hello,
on my forums, guests are only allowed to view the first page of a thread
on all other pages 2,3,etc there is no content but a small error message that guests are not allowed to view more than the first page of a thread

now, i want to set the attribute nofollow for every page exept the first one, so the crawlers won't access them
how can i do that?

can anybody help me?

Hello Diver,

this is an interesting question (and forums configuration).

vBSEO doesn't have an option to add rel="nofollow" to 2+ showthread pages separately.

However, you can do something like this:

1. Set "Multiple Page Thread URL Format" in vbseocp to:

more/[forum_title]/[thread_title]-[thread_page]-[thread_id].html

Notice the first part of the URL.

2. Add the following to your robots.txt:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /more/

Perhaps that will make URLs a bit de-organized, but it allows to move your "registered-only" content to a virtual subfolder.
Does it make sense?

thank you so much for this great solution

is it also possible to include only the first page of a thread into the vbseo sitemap?
i don't want loosing pagerank by this modification

Hi,

great

As for sitemap entries exclusion, you can do the custom code modification to achive this.
in vbseo_sitemap_functions.php file
FIND:

$totalpages = ceil($totalposts / $perpage);

REPLACE WITH:

$totalpages = 1;