SEO optimization rel=”nofollow” for mailto component

[Dave]

Hi,

I'm running the version 4.1.9 of the gantry framework and the default template. So in order to improve my site SEO and avoid duplicated content indexed by search engine like google, I would like to add the rel=”nofollow” tag for mailto component link inside an article.

So the original view page source code section :

<li class="email-icon">

   <a href="/component/mailto/?tmpl=component&amp;template=gantry&amp;link=9fe8df0cfac22750a6f21ca16dc66cfcb2bca504" title="Email" onclick="window.open(this.href,'win2','width=400,height=350,menubar=yes,resizable=yes'); return false;"><img src="/media/system/images/emailButton.png" alt="Email"  /></a> </li>

should look like this:

<li class="email-icon">

   <a rel=”nofollow” href="/component/mailto/?tmpl=component&amp;template=gantry&amp;link=9fe8df0cfac22750a6f21ca16dc66cfcb2bca504" title="Email" onclick="window.open(this.href,'win2','width=400,height=350,menubar=yes,resizable=yes'); return false;"><img src="/media/system/images/emailButton.png" alt="Email"  /></a> </li>

Any help would be appreciated in order to make such change.

Thanks

Dave

[Luke Douglas]

Dave,

If you are using the default Joomla contact form, click on each contact, click on Metadata Options and set the robots to No Index, No Follow.  That should do it.

Luke

[Dave]

Thanks Luke for the answer. But it's not exactly what I was looking for. I do want robots to index my content and follow links shown inside my articles. But I simply don't want that robots follow the generic mailto icon link such as the print icon link.

But I found a work around in order to solve my problem by editing the following file in Joomla (version 2.5.9):

/components/com_content/helpers/icon.php

and add the following code at line #59:

$attribs['rel'] = 'nofollow';

Is there a better way to do it?

Thanks

Dave

[Luke Douglas]

Dave,

You might want to create your own icon.php file in the Gantry 'html' instead of altering part of Joomla.  The reason is that an upgrade could undo your changes whereas if you have custom html code in the 'html' folder, that will never be overwritten, even by Gantry updates.

Luke

[Marian]

hi Luke,

I copied the icon.php on templatename/html/com_content/helpers and added that line but didn't work

the path for override is not correct ?

thanks!

2013/4/9 Luke Douglas <lu...@webbering.com>

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[Luke Douglas]

Theoretically it should work, maybe someone else has an idea. I draw a blank.