Nofollow on some comment URLs?

  • There are some comments that are marginally spammy; the author has clearly read the article and is responding to it, but at the same time it’s clear the main reason for the comment is to post a link to his own site.

    I would rather not delete the comment altogether, but I don’t want the link to hurt my pagerank. If the link is in the body of the comment, then it should have rel=”nofollow” in it (or I guess I can edit the link to add it manually).

    But comment forms include, as well as a name and email, a URL that is automatically linked with the author’s name. This link doesn’t have a rel=”nofollow” in it.

    How can I add rel=”nofollow” to these links (preferably on a case-by-case basis)?

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  • Nofollow Case by Case

    Thread Starter iayork

    (@iayork)

    Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, I just tried it and it doesn’t seem to work in the context I described. The author says to add “/dontfollow” to the end of URLs, and they should be converted to ” rel=nofollow” — however, he seems to only talk about the content of comments, and when I tried the /dontfollow trick on the URL section, it did not convert the modified URL to the nofollow option.

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