Removing ref="nofollow noreferrer" from internal link

light

Hey guys, I realized Flarum automatically assigns the "nofollow noreferrer" attribute to all links (including internal links).
This will have a serious effect on SEO. Is there any way to solve the issue?
Any help would be much appreciated.

JoshyPHP

You should probably create an issue on GitHub for it.

For future reference, there are 3 points in time when you can determine whether a link should carry a nofollow attribute:

At the time it's posted.
At the time the page is sent to the client. (server-side)
After the page has been sent to the client. (client-side)

For search engines, I assume only 1 and 2 matter. The first is efficient, the second is more dynamic. Changing domains could be an issue too.

light

JoshyPHP Thanks for your suggestion. Changing domain really is an issue but usually, we keep and redirect old domain to new one. So I think its not a big deal. ?

JoshyPHP

It's not the first time that discussion pops up: JoshyPHP

First step is to remove the nofollow attribute from the template. Then you can either add an attribute to URL tags that's set at parsing time in a tag filter and use it in the template to determine whether to add nofollow. The attribute could be a basic true/false thing, or a value for rel or maybe the URL's domain name. XSLT has some basic string functions that can be used but no regexp support.

Maybe the attribute could be set at rendering time in PHP using the replaceAttributes method. It's all a trade-off between features and complexity.

heyitsritesh

It's been 5 years and it's still not solved yet 🙁

Flarum can never be SEO friendly if this can't be solved.

Hari

heyitsritesh https://discuss.flarum.org/d/30981-set-all-internal-links-to-dofollow/10 +luceos is working on it, Wait 2-3 weeks. 😉

CyberGene

I asked this on another similar discussion but I will ask here too. Correct me if I'm wrong but using links in Flarum posts would potentially affect the ranking of the websites that you link to, not your own Flarum forum. Then why do you care? Furthermore, the question is more specifically regarding internal links, which I understand as linking to a Flarum post in another post on the same Flarum forum. Why would the search engine use that for SEO? It's a self-link and it shouldn't count for the ranking of the same page, otherwise people will start posting such links to improve their SEO.

heyitsritesh

Hari Awesome news!