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Nofollow tags added to all external links
f0dder:
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-f0dder (June 09, 2008, 06:31 PM)
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Would have no affect. Nofollow is for Anchor tags.
-Veign (June 09, 2008, 07:16 PM)
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Yeah, but the idea is that applying it to the quote block would nofollow the <A> tags inside the quote... including the ones that are automatically constructed from entering a http://plain.old.hypertext.com without manually using a bbcode URL blog.
mouser:
A follow up:
App scolded me this morning for not living up to DC spirit of giving love to other sites because of our severe nofollow tags being added to all links.
She was right -- a major goal of DC is to give some attention and recognition to small sites and it wasn't fair that all links on our forum were being marked as nofollow.
So I've just finished making some some changes to the policy and code. Now all links in the bodies of messages posted by anyone with 3 or more posts are linked normally, without any nofollow tags. Same with blog items.
Links in signatures and profile, and profile website and other icon links on the left under member name, are still marked as NOFOLLOW since they are not reflective of organic discussion content.
mouser:
by the way if you are a web designer, this is a useful extension which can toggle display of nofollow link coloring, very helpful:
http://www.zacharyfox.com/blog/free-tools/nodofollow-a-firefox-extension
jgpaiva:
Thank you mouser!
I'm sure the owners of websites linked on DC will be thankful too ;)
Oh, and thank you app for pressing mouser to do this!
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