[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #10550: nofollow attribute added to comment_reply_link function

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#10550: nofollow attribute added to comment_reply_link function
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 Reporter:  seo-dave      |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  3.1
Component:  Comments      |     Version:
 Severity:  minor         |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch   |
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Comment (by solarissmoke):

 Replying to [comment:15 joelhardi]:
 > I don't think you've got the distinctions between the robots exclusions
 standard (robots.txt and meta tag), canonical and nofollow not quite
 right.

 Yup, I was wrong about that. As things stand currently, duplicating
 indexing is a problem, which will be easily solved by adding a robots meta
 tag as you have proposed.

 > People assume that Googlebot hitting these URLs is bad, but if it's
 happening infrequently and at 3 a.m., does it really matter?

 IMHO we cannot assume that it will be infrequently and at 3am. Not all
 bots are as efficient and well behaved as Googlebot. However I do accept
 that there is no easily solution to this, and maybe we just have to live
 with it.

 At any rate the robots meta tag needs to be added. Possibly to 3.1.1 as
 well as 3.2, because it will be causing duplicate indexing.

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