Hi,

I was wanting to hear from people who may no how to do the follow:

I want to make the rel="nofollow" tag be on the man nav menu on one of our sites, but not on the footer menu (that we will contain in an iframe).

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Dallas

are you using th sef patch?
SEO patch for Joomla release 1.5 Stable
on www.joomlatwork.com/products/products.html
you can choose which menu items (links) are followed using this - and it does some other fundamental SEO stuff too

It is my understanding that the addition of a nofollow tag does not prevent the search engine following the link, but the passing of link love to the linked page. Assuming this is the case, why would you want to prevent the improvement in ranking for your internal pages?

Cheers,

Hi,

It more about PR sculpting then stopping PR from flowing. Some pages simply don't need PR passed like contact, privacy policy type pages. The other reason its for siloing to prevent theme bleeding, and even though this can be achieved with sections, categories, articles and menu's, the problem happens when the same menu displays on the other silos.

Having the main nav with rel="nofollow" solves this, and making a manual footer nav, that is contained in an iframe (without sql queries etc), means that only one document contains the follow links, and its only a matter of getting external links to each silo/theme.

Does this make sense?

Cheers - Dallas