Is there a hack or some code which will allow me to do this?

I'm really not at all bothered about guests seeing who is currently online, I just don't want hyperlinks for the spiders to follow.

Another solution might be to put a setting in VBSEO to nofollow links to user profiles. Is such a thing possible with VBSEO? I can't install VBSEO yet as I still don't have the domain sorted out yet.

In fact, I would rather like guests to see that there are a lot of users currently active.

I think that a busy looking site looks a more attractive proposition to potential new registrants. I just don't want spiders going down those links.

Yes, vbseo has an options to add nofollow to all profile links.
That's how I have ours setup here.
Or you can use robot.txt to disallow spiders to craw your members pages.

cheers

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