[wp-trac] Re: [WordPress Trac] #8919: previous_comments_link and next_comments_link needs nofollow to avoid duplicate content

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Thu Jan 22 20:10:29 GMT 2009


#8919: previous_comments_link and next_comments_link needs nofollow to avoid
duplicate content
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 Reporter:  DarkPepe             |        Owner:     
     Type:  enhancement          |       Status:  new
 Priority:  normal               |    Milestone:  2.8
Component:  Comments             |      Version:  2.7
 Severity:  major                |   Resolution:     
 Keywords:  comments, nofollow,  |  
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Comment (by DarkPepe):

 Replying to [comment:1 filosofo]:
 > The problem with this solution is that you're having search engine bots
 ignore all but the first page of comments.
 >
 > In making the post content be an excerpt for all but one page of
 comments, [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/seo-for-paged-comments/ my
 plugin's approach] is more consistent with how many themes avoid duplicate
 content for archives, category, and search pages.  And the comments
 themselves don't suffer the collateral damage of being ignored by Google.
 >

 Is a very good solution imo, do you think google wont take the excerpt as
 duplicated content?

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