Register And Login: How To Remove Links

[Boris_yo]

Hi.

I am concerned with Register and Login links under META in 90 Day Challenge template.

I my statistics show me, people try to login and surf to unauthorized to them pages. Additionally these links confuse them and they probably take website for some kind of service where they think they can register account.

I am affraid this can grant them access to Admin section of WordPress and who knows what they will do there.

I don't want to assume that there is nothing to worry about.
I want to know how to hide these links.

Any ideas?

[nasph]

Just go into side bar.php, look for the code that has the meta login and reg data in and delete the <div> and </div> around to make them disappear.

It's probably bots that have clicked on the links anyhow, but I too have removed them, cleans the blog up and makes it look more professional.

[Kangaroo Jack]

Originally Posted by nasph

Just go into side bar.php, look for the code that has the meta login and reg data in and delete the <div> and </div> around to make them disappear.

It's probably bots that have clicked on the links anyhow, but I too have removed them, cleans the blog up and makes it look more professional.

or

<!-- div>

</div -->

This will comment out the code within the div tag.

[nasph]

David,

Yes, but bots will still see it in your HTML code.

[Kangaroo Jack]

Originally Posted by nasph

David,

Yes, but bots will still see it in your HTML code.

True.

Another question. Even though the code is commented out, can the bots can still follow the link or attempt to activate the link?

[nasph]

Yes, but if you put a 'no follow' attribute in your robots.txt file then they won't activate the link and spider it.

[Kangaroo Jack]

Originally Posted by nasph

Yes, but if you put a 'no follow' attribute in your robots.txt file then they won't activate the link and spider it.

I understand robots.txt that's not a real problem.

Adding the bot to the robots.txt may not work as some bots do not follow the rules. So this leads us back to the original. If they don't follow the rules then your solution (deleting the code) would be more appropriate.

I was just on a fishing trip, I just didn't know what I was fishing for

[nasph]

lol - no probs

It doesn't really matter if the bot does go to your login/register page anyway. I'm sure all the major search engines understand that these pages are to be ignored - considering there are millions of blogs about with the same thing.

I don't think it's an element of exposure etc, I just think removing the meta information is for cosmetic and personal purposes - everyone knows what the URL would be anyhow - bots included.