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Add `nofollow` Attribute to Links on Account Pages

Open Showfom opened this issue 8 months ago • 1 comments

Describe the problem to be solved

Hello,

We've recently seen an increase in spam accounts registering solely to add promotional links on their account pages.

I noticed that the HTML anchor (<a>) tags on these pages do not include the rel="nofollow" attribute. To help discourage abuse and prevent SEO manipulation by spammers, I strongly recommend adding rel="nofollow" to all user-submitted links on account profiles.

Thank you for considering this suggestion.

Describe the solution you would like

Although the rel="ugc" attribute is already in place, it's advisable to include rel="nofollow" as well for added protection against spam.

Showfom avatar May 08 '25 21:05 Showfom

Hi,

From https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/qualify-outbound-links it seems nofollow conflicts with ugc

Chocobozzz avatar May 09 '25 07:05 Chocobozzz