[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #16881: Remove all unwanted 'nofollow' attributes from 'reply to comment' links
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#16881: Remove all unwanted 'nofollow' attributes from 'reply to comment' links
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Reporter: joelhardi | Owner:
Type: defect (bug) | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Future Release
Component: Comments | Version: 3.1
Severity: minor | Resolution:
Keywords: has-patch commit 2nd-opinion |
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Comment (by solarissmoke):
Replying to [comment:9 joelhardi]:
> Not exactly ... canonical isn't meant to stop double indexing, it just
provides info that Google uses when determining how to return results. See
[http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=139394
here].
Ok, my mistake.
> So, I think adding the noindex to these pages is an appropriate
improvement regardless of whatever the links to these pages look like.
Agreed.
> The obvious solution to totally stop unwanted crawling is `Disallow:
/*/?replytocom=` in robots.txt. When the "correct" fix is such a trivial
webmaster task, I don't think it's a good idea for !WordPress to do lots
of incorrect things to try to mimic the same function. It shouldn't abuse
HTTP or nofollow specs the way it was doing with nofollow, or would be
doing with POST to simulate links.
Maybe you're right - after all the only people that will notice the added
overhead are likely to be those that are able to create/manage robots.txt
files. I still don't like that we're generating a whole new bunch of pages
for crawlers to have to visit, though.
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Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/16881#comment:10>
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