<p>Yes we are. I will leave nofollow to Yoast.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 6, 2012 4:34 PM, "Angelo Bertolli" <<a href="mailto:angelo@bertolli.org">angelo@bertolli.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Backlinks to the theme's home page could have nofollow in them, although<br>
I suspect that not too many people would do this.<br>
<br>
Anyway, I will correct myself: we're just talking about guidelines, right?<br>
<br>
<br>
On 03/06/2012 05:32 PM, Emil Uzelac wrote:<br>
> Why would you use nofollow?<br>
><br>
> On Mar 6, 2012 4:30 PM, "Angelo Bertolli" <<a href="mailto:angelo@bertolli.org">angelo@bertolli.org</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:angelo@bertolli.org">angelo@bertolli.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> So are theme developers also restricted from using nofollow? It is<br>
> functional.<br>
><br>
> I don't think theme developers should be restricted from using<br>
> rel="canonical" just because some of them may use it wrong, or because<br>
> Google treats it a certain way for search results.<br>
><br>
> On 03/06/2012 05:24 PM, Chip Bennett wrote:<br>
> > The criterion for me is Presentational vs Functinoal. I think that<br>
> > rel=canonical clearly falls under "Functional", and therefore is Plugin<br>
> > territory.<br>
> ><br>
> > Chip<br>
> ><br>
> > On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Emil Uzelac <<a href="mailto:emil@themeid.com">emil@themeid.com</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:emil@themeid.com">emil@themeid.com</a>><br>
> > <mailto:<a href="mailto:emil@themeid.com">emil@themeid.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:emil@themeid.com">emil@themeid.com</a>>>> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > I was reading from my phone....<br>
> ><br>
> > I agree that Themes should not mess with rel="canonical" at all.<br>
> > Majority people are devs not SEO consultants. Required not to<br>
> use is<br>
> > what I believe we should do.<br>
> ><br>
> > On Mar 6, 2012 4:17 PM, "Joost de Valk" <<a href="mailto:joost@yoast.com">joost@yoast.com</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:joost@yoast.com">joost@yoast.com</a>><br>
> > <mailto:<a href="mailto:joost@yoast.com">joost@yoast.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:joost@yoast.com">joost@yoast.com</a>>>> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> > It has nothing to do with using my plugin or not. It's<br>
> something<br>
> > even my plugin can't fix :-)<br>
> ><br>
> > Best,<br>
> > Joost<br>
> ><br>
> > Sent from my iPhone<br>
> ><br>
> > On 6 mrt. 2012, at 23:14, Emil Uzelac <<a href="mailto:emil@themeid.com">emil@themeid.com</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:emil@themeid.com">emil@themeid.com</a>><br>
> > <mailto:<a href="mailto:emil@themeid.com">emil@themeid.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:emil@themeid.com">emil@themeid.com</a>>>> wrote:<br>
> ><br>
> >> If they do not use your plugin would this hurt the SEO?<br>
> >><br>
> >> On Mar 6, 2012 3:47 PM, "Joost de Valk" <<a href="mailto:joost@yoast.com">joost@yoast.com</a><br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:joost@yoast.com">joost@yoast.com</a>><br>
> >> <mailto:<a href="mailto:joost@yoast.com">joost@yoast.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:joost@yoast.com">joost@yoast.com</a>>>> wrote:<br>
> >><br>
> >> Hi all,<br>
> >><br>
> >> tldr version: I would like a guideline that tells theme<br>
> >> developers to /not/ include a rel=canonical link in their<br>
> >> theme as it hurts people more than it helps in a lot<br>
> of cases.<br>
> >><br>
> >> long version:<br>
> >><br>
> >> As some of you probably know, I do a lot of SEO<br>
> >> consultancy. Some of it is related to people who have<br>
> >> suddenly lost all their rankings and want me to help fix<br>
> >> it for them. Today I helped out a blogger, unpaid because<br>
> >> I just liked his blog as it was about children with Down<br>
> >> Syndrome.<br>
> >><br>
> >> He had recently switched themes /and /started using my<br>
> >> WordPress SEO plugin, and of course he was blaming my<br>
> >> plugin for his sudden loss of rankings. What I found out<br>
> >> though, was that the theme had the following rel=canonical<br>
> >> link in the header.php:<br>
> >><br>
> >> <link rel="canonical" href="<?php echo home_url(); ?>" /><br>
> >><br>
> >> above the call to wp_head. This was causing each<br>
> >> individual post to have a canonical point back to the<br>
> >> homepage. Now you should know that Google especially sees<br>
> >> a canonical as somewhat of a "soft 301 redirect". It<br>
> >> basically takes a page that has a canonical pointing<br>
> >> elsewhere out of the rankings. The effect is quite<br>
> dramatic.<br>
> >><br>
> >> This was a premium theme, whose authors I have since<br>
> >> emailed. It got me thinking though: is this in the WP.org<br>
> >> <<a href="http://WP.org" target="_blank">http://WP.org</a>> guidelines? Apparently, it's not.<br>
> >> WordPress itself adds a rel="canonical" through wp_head on<br>
> >> single pages, and there's a patch in Trac to add it on<br>
> >> more pages. There are several themes in the repository<br>
> >> though that have absolutely 100% wrong canonical links in<br>
> >> their header.<br>
> >><br>
> >> This one: <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/digu" target="_blank">http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/digu</a> is an<br>
> >> example. It's not popular and hasn't been updated in ages<br>
> >> so I wouldn't normally care too much, but I wanted to use<br>
> >> it as an example. It has the following code:<br>
> >><br>
> >> <?php if(is_single()){ ?><link rel="canonical" href="<?php<br>
> >> echo get_permalink($post->ID),"\n";?>" /><?php }?><br>
> >> <?php if(is_home() || is_tag() || is_category() ||<br>
> >> is_month() || is_year()){ ?><br>
> >> <link rel="canonical" href="<?php bloginfo('url');?>"<br>
> >> /><?php echo "\n"; }?><br>
> >> …. snip ….<br>
> >> <?php } ?><br>
> >><br>
> >> Using that theme on a live site could kill your rankings<br>
> >> instantly, as it would make all category listings etc have<br>
> >> canonicals linking back to the homepage. In most cases<br>
> >> this would prevent Google from spidering the links to the<br>
> >> posts on those pages.<br>
> >><br>
> >> Now some themes, like Thematic and Hybrid, have somewhat<br>
> >> more sensible canonical functions, which makes this a hard<br>
> >> discussion. I would vote to call it plugin territory<br>
> >> though and keep it out of themes completely. Would love to<br>
> >> hear your opinions.<br>
> >><br>
> >> Best<br>
> >> Joost<br>
> >><br>
> >><br>
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