search engines do not see signatures

[Markas]

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<!-- IF S_USER_LOGGED_IN --><!-- IF postrow.SIGNATURE --><div id="sig{postrow.POST_ID}" class="signature">{postrow.SIGNATURE}</div><!-- ENDIF --><!-- ENDIF -->

I already have such line which means that guests do not see signatures, how to make signatures not visible for search engines too? because when I click on results "Cached", I can see that search engines find those signatures.

Thanks for the help and I hope you understand

[SeO]

It's because bots are logged in users.

Use :

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<!-- IF S_REGISTERED_USER -->...<!-- ENDIF -->

If you want both bots and guest not to see something and :

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<!-- IF not S_IS_BOT -->...<!-- ENDIF -->

if you only want to hide something to bots, but be careful, this is going close to cloaking where the first solution is not.

[notrick]

so that means If their are certain forums which i don't want google to see In fact I dont want any one but my registered member to see, It will be counted as cloaking by google and other search engine?

[dcz]

Well not exactly, the only matter could be if you allow bots to crawl private forums (eg non visible by guests), cause it would technically be cloaking.

About the signature, I was just mentioning that filtering content for bot is cloaking where filtering for guest is not.

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[mreider]

I wouldn't worry too much about it. Even matt cutts in his blog says :

- For some reason, I hate signature links. Hate them. Your odds of getting a comment approved are much slimmer if you drop a sig in the body of the comment.

Now here's a question. Would it be possible to hide signature links for all users except maybe those over a certain post threshold ( for example users over 100 posts) or moderators?

I'm thinking because I have lots of people show up, make like 10 bullshit posts and then add 5 links in their signature. I'd like to reward regular quality users with them being able to have links in their sigs, and not allow it for other users.

Possible?

[dcz]

You mean like on phpBB SEO ?
In viewtopic.php we use :

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      'SIGNATURE'         => ($user_cache[$poster_id]['posts'] > 99 && $row['enable_sig']) ? $user_cache[$poster_id]['sig'] : '',

[mreider]

wicked awesome

[MrGroove]

Exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks guys.

[MrGroove]

You mean like on phpBB SEO ?
In viewtopic.php we use :

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      'SIGNATURE'         => ($user_cache[$poster_id]['posts'] > 99 && $row['enable_sig']) ? $user_cache[$poster_id]['sig'] : '',

how do you handle this now with phpbb 3.x?

I'm in the process of updating the site with the latest premod. figure i might as well throw this in.

[dcz]

This trick is for phpBB3

[MrGroove]

Right...... Well, I've never claimed to be a Developer. I'm an engineer who only plays a Dev. on T.V.



I'll try to figure it out.

[Typo]

If you need any help, just ask, we are here for just that reason.

For the edit mentioned above to allow signatures after a user has made so many posts....
OPEN:

/viewtopic.php

FIND:

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'SIGNATURE'         => ($row['enable_sig']) ? $user_cache[$poster_id]['sig'] : '',

REPLACE WITH: (replace 99 with the desired number of posts they should have to be able to have a signature.)

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'SIGNATURE'         => ($user_cache[$poster_id]['posts'] > 99 && $row['enable_sig']) ? $user_cache[$poster_id]['sig'] : '',

Typo

[MrGroove]

Thnx Typo.

I used this a few months back but never actually said thank you. It sure helps cut down the SPAM signatures on a forum.