Hi

I used the rel nofollow command in my outbound links. then noticed that yahoo are counting these links to the site I linked to, when the whole reason of using nofollow is to stop this.

Here is my site.

http://www.a-place-in-the-sun.com/

here is the link code:

<tr>
<TD class=righttext><a target="_blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://www.depanneplage.be" class="blink">Visit our latest linked advert In <B>Other</B></a></TD>
</tr>

but if you do a backlink search on http://www.depanneplage.be you will see I have given them about 20 links, as all my pages display the same link display.

Anyone know of a better way to curtail links, (with php?) so that I dont leak like a sinking ship..

thanks for any insight

So basically you don't want spiders to see the link I'm assuming. Well spiders see exactly what users see so if you were to do it in PHP, PHP would run when the script is called for and then it'll display all the HTML. The only thing I can think of is for you to verify if who is viewing the page is a spider or a user. I'm not too sure how to do this exactly but you can try finding a tutorial online. I know I've seen it done before, mostly on counter scripts that tell you how many users and spiders have visited your site.

leak what ???

used the rel nofollow command in my outbound links. then noticed that yahoo are counting these links to the site I linked to, when the whole reason of using nofollow is to stop this.

I think that that nofollow directive is a Google creation - which probably almost guarantees the other engines will not want to use it. As far as I can see this is a knee jerk reaction to Google realising how screwed up linking has got since people worked out that links = PR = position.

One way to get around this would be to use a redirect script, but block the search engines from seeing that using the robots.txt file. Have to ask though - why link to something if you don't want them to benefit?

PHP would run when the script is called for and then it'll display all the HTML. The only thing I can think of is for you to verify if who is viewing the page is a spider or a user.

You can do this by checking user-agent - most interpretations of Google T&Cs (and other engines) would put this as a definite black-hat technique.

This page (about 1/2 way down) discribes why Google intoduced nofollow and has a javascript tequnique you could use...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog_spam