UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums Resources and Customizing How Do I? nofollow

Been checking some back links on one of my sites. It appears my forum is saying nofollow on the links from users to the site. Any way to fix this? Apparently nofollow is not a good thing. Only thing I could find was allow html by users under forum permissions. Not sure if that fixed it or not.

Nofollow is a wonderful thing, it tells search engines that you aren't responsible for your users links and don't want your sites reputation to help them build their link base; helpful with spammers.

But yeah, there is a setting for that:
CP -> Master Settings -> Primary Settings -> General Tab -> Advanced Options Dropdown -> " Add nofollow to links in user posts?" and " Add nofollow to links in signatures?"

Is great to put nofollow links to avoid spam... thanks gizmo for this!

Well, nofollow is not good if you use it too much. Google will start to wonder, why all the outbound links of this forum are nofollow. Well, i'll have to do something with this!

Absolutely not true.

You can learn more about what nofollow attributes are at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow

You can also learn more about how Google handles nofollow attributes at:
https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96569?hl=en

Here is an info-graphic about when and how to use nofollow attributes:
http://searchengineland.com/infographic-nofollow-tag-172157