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No Follow Links |
jimlongo |
Jan 26 2012, 11:35 AM
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This is My Life Group: Members Posts: 1,128 Joined: 24-August 06 From: t-dot Member No.: 16 |
Is there a reason that all links are now treated with rel="nofollow"?
This wasn't originally the case. |
Christian J |
Jan 26 2012, 01:33 PM
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. Group: WDG Moderators Posts: 9,722 Joined: 10-August 06 Member No.: 7 |
This is to discourage signature link spamming and similar "SEO" tricks. I think it's been in use from the beginning of the current forum software in 2006.
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jimlongo |
Jan 26 2012, 01:37 PM
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This is My Life Group: Members Posts: 1,128 Joined: 24-August 06 From: t-dot Member No.: 16 |
No it wasn't always so. It's only within the last year.
What about legitimate signature links? |
pandy |
Jan 26 2012, 02:44 PM
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🌟Computer says no🌟 Group: WDG Moderators Posts: 20,753 Joined: 9-August 06 Member No.: 6 |
No, it has been that way if not from the beginning so for a long time.
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jimlongo |
Jan 26 2012, 02:50 PM
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This is My Life Group: Members Posts: 1,128 Joined: 24-August 06 From: t-dot Member No.: 16 |
As much as I hate to disagree with you, I used to have links reported from this site to mine in Google's webmaster tools.
They have disappeared within the last year. |
pandy |
Jan 26 2012, 05:02 PM
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🌟Computer says no🌟 Group: WDG Moderators Posts: 20,753 Joined: 9-August 06 Member No.: 6 |
Maybe a glitch. Nofollow is meant to be there anyway.
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Darin McGrew |
Jan 27 2012, 04:52 PM
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WDG Member Group: Root Admin Posts: 8,366 Joined: 4-August 06 From: Mountain View, CA Member No.: 3 |
QUOTE What about legitimate signature links? Signature links work just fine, and other forum users can use them to find out more about you.But as the others indicated, we configured this forum software to use rel="nofollow" on all user-provided links (including signature links) a long time ago. It's possible that we initially configured it to use rel="nofollow" on message links but not signature links, and then later configured it to use rel="nofollow" on both message links and signature links. But if so, we made the change a long time ago. |
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