This is an important issue for me. I have been moving my sites to PMWiki over the past few months and simultaneously have seen a dramatic drop in site traffic and ad revenue. I attributed it to the crappy state of the gubment and the economy, but perhaps I have inadvertently caused all my new content not to be indexed..
I find there are a half dozen or so references to 'nofollow' in pmwiki.php. From what I understand of the dialogue, adding the line to config.php should override these so the indexing will occur. Is this correct? Thank you, John Rigdon www.researchonline.net www.drit.us www.ecopres.net ------------------- > Thank you! Unfortunately, I wasn't even aware of this issue before. Now > I wonder whether "rel=nofollow" was the reason why my (not publicly > editable) wiki was under-represented in search engines. > > Maybe $UrlLinkFmt could be added to the sample config.php, but be > commented out by default? This might help people to notice. > > --StefCT > > > On 10/21/2013 03:31 PM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: >> Because comment spam, wiki spam, and blog spam have been such large >> problems in the past, I prefer PmWiki's current default of rel=nofollow. >> This makes more sense given that PmWiki defaults to an open editing >> model (i.e., a wiki) when it is first installed. >> >> The config already makes it possible to disable/enable rel=nofollow as >> desired by setting $UrlLinkFmt: >> >> # remove rel=nofollow >> $UrlLinkFmt = >> "<a class='urllink' href='\$LinkUrl' >> title='\$LinkAlt'>\$LinkText</a>"; >> >> Pm >> >> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 10:22:51AM +0200, Eric Forgeot wrote: >>> I guess most people are using PmWiki as a CMS and not as an open wiki >>> so it >>> could make sense to disable this no follow option (and make it possible >>> to >>> enable it again in the config) >>> Le 21 oct. 2013 10:15, "Simon" <[email protected]> a écrit : >>> >>>> I understand that the attribute rel=nofollow was added as an antispam >>>> measure some time ago, >>>> but I wonder if in fact it penalises PmWiki websites but not having >>>> their >>>> content counted and weighted by search engines? >>>> >>>> I'm thinking it would be better not to have the default being >>>> nofollow. >>>> >>>> Simon _______________________________________________ pmwiki-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users
