Yeah, would be nice to get some SEO-Advice for this Plugin.
I dont think nofollow will resolve your problems. Got some access denied error from google here too. What kind of errors do u have?
Should we block the Plugin-Cache with robots.txt`?
Plugin Author
Ste-Bi
(@ste-bi)
The Affiliate-Links do have the nofollow attribute.
And as I can see, thats just on the button, not on the image #bug.
If you need them for the Devoloper link, you can add this around line 262 where the output HTML is build.
Plugin Author
Ste-Bi
(@ste-bi)
This is the output-section from line 261 to 267 with nofollw:
$output .= '<span class="apps">'.$spanOverlay;
$output .= '<a class="Bild" href="'.$AffLink.'" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">';
$output .= '<img class="Image" align="left" src="'.$cacheimageurl.'" alt="'.$trackName.' (AppStore Link) " /></a> ';
$output .= '<span class="Titel">'.$trackName.'</span><br /> ';
$output .= '<span class="Hersteller">'.$langDeveloper.' </span> <a href="'.$sellerUrl.'" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">'.$sellerName.'</a><br /> ';
$output .= '<div><span class="Freigabe">'.$langAgeRating.' </span>'.$contentAdvisoryRating.$ratingHTML.'</div> ';
$output .= '<span class="Preis">'.$langPrice.' </span>'.$formattedPrice.' ';
I am getting a bunch of 200+ Crawling Errors from Google with this URL. It says “403” to those links, but the App-Links are working:
wp-content/plugins/appstore/AppStore.php?appid=
Much worser: i get many many “not selected” URLs vom Google (about 5000 an rising with every new link!) also regarding to the Plugin.
Any Ideas?
Thread Starter
mroizo
(@mroizo)
I’m having like lots of denied access errors for the plugin.
I don’t know how to fix them. I supose that with the nofollow attribute will fix them, but I don’t really know.
I will try it with the solution of Ste-bi
thanks for your support
Nah, mroiz, i think you are wrong. I have also the denied access errors for the plugin since monday. But i do not think that the cause from the developers links within the plugin.
I will deactivte those links now. Please tell the community if the developers-solution works.
Thanks!
Thread Starter
mroizo
(@mroizo)
Definitely it’s not working. I have try those nofollow atributes in the code but I still having denied access errors.
There is some who knows how to fix them?
Thanks for your time!
Thread Starter
mroizo
(@mroizo)
I have read about disallow google robots to ge inside the plugin. I’m trying to disallow them, so i think i wil solve the problem. I have done it right now, so i will tell you what’s happening.
Plugin Author
Ste-Bi
(@ste-bi)
Please tell me if this is working so I can implement this in the next version of the Plugin.
Thread Starter
mroizo
(@mroizo)
As soon as i try it i will tell you.
thank you
Thread Starter
mroizo
(@mroizo)
I think the problem has end.
You have to disallow the access to google to the plugin directory. You have to add to your sitemap file
Disallow: /wp-content/plugins/appstore/
and the problem will dissapear, the thing now is if that movement will hurt the SEO of your web site…for now i´m not seen anything…but this things are not fast, so who nows…
