[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:  closed
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:
Component:  Comments         |     Version:  3.1
 Severity:  minor            |  Resolution:  wontfix
 Keywords:  has-patch close  |     Focuses:
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Changes (by joostdevalk):

 * status:  reopened => closed
 * resolution:   => wontfix


Comment:

 @joelhardi: Sorry, you're understanding me wrongly.

 I'm absolutely not in favor of removing them. Nofollow still works. In
 fact, the third case in the examples on
 [https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96569?hl=en this page] shows
 exactly why. If you have 1,000 posts, you require commenters to be logged
 in, Googlebot sees 1,000 different links to the login URL. Having nofollow
 on these links prevents Google from crawling tons of unneeded URLs.

 This improves crawling enormously, therefor the nofollow should stay. As I
 said above, I've discussed this with Google, they agree, end of story.

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