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

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Wed Aug 31 13:55:14 UTC 2011


#18547: Add rel="nofollow" to reply to comments link
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 Reporter:  pearsonified  |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:
Component:  Comments      |     Version:  3.2.1
 Severity:  minor         |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  close         |
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Comment (by KingdomGeek):

 I did read those. It doesn't make sense to argue so convincingly to
 _remove_ the nofollow attribute from the link, and then insert a meta tag
 to tell Google to ignore the ?replytocom pages anyway. It's unnecessary
 server overhead any way you look at it.

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