[wp-forums] Post editing and removing posts

[James Huff]

Yeah, I think nofollow was nuked a long time ago.


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On Nov 15, 2010, at 2:17 PM, Michael B wrote:

> Pardon an old timer (just kidding) chiming in, but I thought I remember a time when profiles were quote "nofollow" for the concern that people would game the forums by randomly answering posts and getting juice.  I see now that's not the case from what I can tell.  Does that mean someone could potentially be gaming the forums by creating a crappy site on purpose, posting a bunch of questions (seemingly legit) in the forums linking to their site, fixing it quickly, but then getting links to those posts/site indexed?
> 
> I'm no SEO guy,  but based on the reply of "forums could come higher in search results than site" seems like a way to game a system made me think.
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 15, 2010, at 10:07 AM, Rich Pedley wrote:
> 
>> On 15/11/2010 15:04, andrea_r wrote:
>>> I don't get why they can't just type in the URL without the http:// or
>>> www in front. Sure, then we have to copy-paste, but :
>>> 
>>> - it's not linked
>>> - google or bots can't follow
>>> 
>>> and while I can understand people not wanted bots hitting their site
>>> while it's under development, surely after a few months, traffic is a
>>> *good* thing....
>>> 
>> 
>> It is.
>> 
>> It seems to be a trend for 'new' web developers to make out that they are experts, then post on the forums asking for help. But they don't want their client knowing that they asked for help etc etc.
>> 
>> Plus I suppose on occasion the result on the forums could come higher in the search results than the site itself...
>> 
>> Rich
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