Link directory - SEO

I have installed Link Directory in my vb forum (http://www.mydomain.com) ..

few questions around this topic.,

1) Does this link directory impacts my site page rank or SEO ?

2) When i add Link directory widget in the home page it changes font style for the entire page ..

3) Do we need add vbseo rewrite for this so that it gets submitted to search engines ? Does it impact my site SEO

4) I did not find any link directory custom RR here , Can anybody help ?

Thanks

1) I would suggest no-following all external links

2) This is something you need to address with the mod you are using.

3) You can code an add-on for the sitemap generator, or simply add the urls to the extraurls.txt file. You can create CRR's for any dynamic pages for vbseo to re-write them. It will not do it by default.

4) post a few urls. It's usually very straight forward

# 1 , Can you please explain how to write no-following all external links with an example?

#4 ,

The links are located here
http://www.mydomain.com/vblinklist.php

Thanks

Adding rel="nofollow" to the anchor is all that is needed. How to do it will depend on the app you are using. Consult the mod author for support.

You can make CRR's such as

Code:

^vblinklist\.php$' => 'links/'
^vblinklist\.php\?do=showcat&catid=(\d+)$' => 'links/cat-$1/'
^vblinklist\.php\?do=showentry&id=(\d+)$' => 'links/entry-$1/'

1) I do moderate all the links heavily so is it necessary to add nofollow all external link ?

Thanks

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

1) I would suggest no-following all external links

2) This is something you need to address with the mod you are using.

3) You can code an add-on for the sitemap generator, or simply add the urls to the extraurls.txt file. You can create CRR's for any dynamic pages for vbseo to re-write them. It will not do it by default.

4) post a few urls. It's usually very straight forward

Yes, i would still nofollow everything. this ensures that google will not pass weight from you to them.

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

Yes, i would still nofollow everything. this ensures that google will not pass weight from you to them.

Thanks Brian,

I just checked the code it looks like the following

<a onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Outgoing', 'www.externaldomain.com', '']);" class="comments_member_avatar_link" href="http://www.externaldomain.com" target="_blank">
<img src="" border="0" onload="if (this.width&gt;50) this.border=1;>
</a>

So i just need to modify like below right ?

<a onclick="_gaq.push(['_trackEvent', 'Outgoing', 'www.externaldomain.com', '']);"
rel="nofollow"
class="comments_member_avatar_link" href="http://www.externaldomain.com" target="_blank">
<img src="" border="0" onload="if (this.width&gt;50) this.border=1;>
</a>

Also one more question , Is this something can be done via vbseo for all external links ?

This is already built into vbseo. You can set all external links to no follow, and then simply whitelist the good ones you want to be followed.
/vbseocp.php#ext_rel