[release]nofollow links

[frostschutz]

This user has been denied support.

Yes, I know, I get that a lot too with my Google SEO plugin, even though I'm trying my best to make decisions based on "facts" (provided by offical Google docs) and not "views" (as in personal opinions or things heard from others).

Google explains nofollow like this:

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters...swer=96569

In both text and video they say that it's a good thing to /not/ use nofollow for links posted by trusted users; which is basically what I was trying to say in my earlier post just with a lot of more words.

And the main reasons to use nofollow (untrusted user comments, comment spam in guestbooks) do not really apply to MyBB forums since MyBB already does plenty to prevent and fight spam (captcha, moderation, it even comes with akismet as automatic anti spam plugin although I don't have the need to use that).

The only thing I would use nofollow myself for is "Crawl prioritization", which may be what you had in mind when you said it keeps search engine spiders on site. However that crawl prioritization only works for links to your own site - such as "register here" or "sign in" or "sort", things that Google not need to follow. However, robots.txt is the more powerful option to block those.