[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     |     Focuses:
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Comment (by joostdevalk):

 OK so as far as I'm concerned, this change is nonsense. To make sure that
 it wasn't just me I pinged a contact at Google and he said the same thing.

 There are no penalty's for internal nofollows, despite some SEOs claiming
 the opposite, because they think that'd make sense. In this particular
 case, on a blog with registration required for commenting, we'd create as
 many extra crawlable URLs as there are posts in a site. This happens
 simply because they all link to the login page with the post as the return
 parameter and that makes it a "unique" URL. Extra value in terms of SEO:
 none. In fact, because search engines would spend the time crawling those
 URLs, they wouldn't be crawling other pages on the site, so the actual
 benefit is negative.

 My advice: close as wontfix.

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