[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #18547: Add rel="nofollow" to reply to comments link

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#18547: Add rel="nofollow" to reply to comments link
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 Reporter:  pearsonified  |      Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |  Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  General       |    Version:  3.2.1
 Severity:  normal        |   Keywords:
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 This is an easy problem to diagnose and fix. Basically, the reply to
 comment links all contain a query parameter—?replytocom—in the destination
 URL.

 Google does a poor job of "deciding" whether or not these are unique URLs,
 and as a result, these URLs are often indexed. This leads to duplicate
 content issues, which leads to users bitching :D

 Here's a sample of some search results where the ?replytocom query
 parameter resulted in a bunch of duplicate indexing:

 http://www.google.co.in/search?cx=c&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=site:callingallgeeks.org+replytocom+#q=site:callingallgeeks.org+replytocom&hl=en&prmd=ivns&filter=0&fp=1&biw=1366&bih=667&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&cad=b

 Thanks!

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