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That nofollow Thing

15.Feb.07 | 24 Comments

As many are aware, by default WordPress adds a rel=”nofollow” to the URLs in comments. The genesis of this seems to be from a couple years ago when blog spam (I’d imagine trackback spam in particular) was getting worse and the options we have now weren’t around or as refined.
I’ve noticed some of the [...]

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