Exclude LinkVault links from Analytics & rel=nofollow adds

StarBuG · #1 07-23-2007, 02:27 PM

Hi

I want to start using LinkVault again but I have set vBSEO that every external link automaticly gets the analytics and rel=nofollow code added.

Is there a way to exclude the linkvault links from these automatic edits?

Thanks

StarBuG

Keith Cohen · #2 07-23-2007, 02:30 PM

Add rel="novbseo" to the links.

BTW, LinkVault type things have been found to hurt a site's rankings.

StarBuG · #3 07-23-2007, 02:37 PM

I can't add rel="novbseo" to the links because they are dynamically created.

I enter a variable into my footer and a php file requests the links and writes them into a text file.
The links are static for every page (which is why lv does not hurt) but you get different links for every page.

Any other options?

If there is none, my suggestion would be to have a tag like:


everything in here is not touched by vBSEO


StarBuG

Oleg Ignatiuk · #4 07-23-2007, 03:32 PM

Hello,

you should modify your LinkVault php code to add rel="novbseo" to those links or disable corresponding options in vbseocp.

StarBuG · #5 07-23-2007, 06:31 PM

I have looked into the file and the links seem to be dynamicly pulled from the linkvault server.
There is nothing that creates a <a href link in this php file.

I am no php expert, maybe one of you could have a look?
I have attached the php file.

Would it technically be possible, as suggestion, to have a  html tag and let vBSEO ignore everything between the start and end tag?

Thanks

StarBuG

Keith Cohen · #6 07-23-2007, 06:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by StarBuG

Would it technically be possible, as suggestion, to have a  html tag and let vBSEO ignore everything between the start and end tag?

This has been suggested/discussed in the past, but was found to be too much of a performance hit. The suggestion can be revisited though.

StarBuG · #7 07-23-2007, 06:38 PM

That sounds good.

Thank you.

Oleg Ignatiuk · #8 07-23-2007, 07:40 PM

Try to modify the code:
FIND:

PHP Code:

  return $OutputThis;

ADD ABOVE:

PHP Code:

  $OutputThis = str_replace('<a ', '<a rel="novbseo" ', $OutputThis);
return $OutputThis;

StarBuG · #9 07-24-2007, 09:28 AM

Works like a charm.

Thanks for this great support

StarBuG

Oleg Ignatiuk · #10 07-24-2007, 11:01 AM

You are welcome!

StarBuG · #11 07-29-2007, 06:19 AM

Hi

I still have trouble getting the site active in LinkVault.
Somehow their validation script is not accepting my links.

Is there a way to exclude the novbseo from the test links?
Maybe this is the problem??

T2DMan from New Zealand Restaurants Guide & Food Reviews-Forum-Time2Dine NZ said the following:

Quote:

Originally Posted by T2DMan

You can't have the novbseo in your lv links

<a rel="novbseo" href="#">TestLink2</a>,

You also can't have the onclicks in there. Neither is acceptable for the link vault.

Basically, if you have link vault - you can't have the vbseo/google external link tracking turned on.

The vbseo suggestion was a great one, and it did get rid of the analytics onclicks, but unfortunately not quite there.

Sorry that I can't give an alternative. Hmmm. Could there be a final searchreplace to get rid of the rel="novbseo" as the last step before outputting the html? Have a try - see the plugin order for the last plugin before all the code is outputted....

I am no programmer so I have no clue how to solve this problem, can you help me with that?

Thanks

StarBuG

ps: is no one else using linkvault?

StarBuG · #12 07-29-2007, 07:13 AM

T2DMan gave me a solution for removing the novbseo from the links:

Quote:

Originally Posted by T2DMan

Seems like you have to get rid of the rel="novbseo"

Try adding the following in the vbseo global_complete vBSEO Global Hook

so that you have the following:

existing:

Code:

if(@include_once(($GLOBALS['vbpath']?$GLOBALS['vbpath'].'/includes':dirname(__FILE__)).'/functions_vbseo.php'))
    $output = make_crawlable($output);

revised:

Code:

if(@include_once(($GLOBALS['vbpath']?$GLOBALS['vbpath'].'/includes':dirname(__FILE__)).'/functions_vbseo.php'))
    $output = make_crawlable($output);
$output=str_replace("rel=\"novbseo\"","",$output);

Unfortunatly this did not solve the activation problem of linkvault. :(

Oleg Ignatiuk · #13 07-29-2007, 04:11 PM

rel="novbseo" should be removed by vBSEO automatically. Make sure that it is added right after starting <a> tag:
correct:

HTML Code:

<a rel="novbseo" href="">

incorrect:

HTML Code:

<a href="" rel="novbseo">

StarBuG · #14 07-29-2007, 07:56 PM

It is not removed from links like <a rel="novbseo" href="#">

That is why the code above is needed.

but slightly modifed then above:

Code:

$output=str_replace("rel=\"novbseo\"","",$output);

But I got it to work now and posted the solution in a separate thread

Thx

StarBuG