The wiki itself is probably going to have to stay nofollow, but it might be
possible to tell the autoexport template (
http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/tapestry/tapestry-site/branches/post-5.2-site/autoexport_template.txt)
to do something like:
$body.replaceAll("nofollow", "")
or maybe
$body.replaceAll("rel=\"nofollow\", "")
That might not be the exact syntax needed, but it looks like replaceAll is
being used in the template already so I think something along these lines
has a good chance of working.
Mark
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Howard Lewis Ship <[email protected]>wrote:
> Thanks, those are good points. We're limited in that we use a shared
> instance of Confluence; those NOFOLLOW attributes are part of
> Confluence and even if that's configurable, I don't know that we can
> turn it off.
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Mark <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I noticed that the Tapestry website uses nofollow on all the external
> > links. Perhaps there is a reason for this, but I wanted to point out a
> > few thoughts about how it might be less than optimal from the
> > standpoint of spreading information about Tapestry.
> >
> > When nofollow was first introduced the search engine optimization
> > benefit that wasn't passed to nofollow links was available for other
> > links. So if you put nofollow on all external links it helped you
> > push more SEO value to your internal pages links that didn't use
> > nofollow. This meant that adding nofollow to external links could
> > help your internal pages rank better. This is no longer the case.
> > The seo value that would normally be assigned to external links is
> > simply lost when they are marked as nofollow.
> >
> > So there is no advantage to http://tapestry.apache.org in marking each
> > external link with no follow. However, there is a significant
> > advantage to the Tapestry community by making Tapestry related
> > resources easier to find in search engines. For example, if you do a
> > search for:
> >
> > Tapestry 5 IDE
> >
> > I'd expect to find at least the following pages in the first pages
> results:
> >
> > 1. Tapestry's pages and wiki articles talking about IDE integration and
> setup.
> > 2. Jet Brain's page about their Tapestry integration
> > 3. The loom plugin
> >
> > 2 and 3 don't show up in the search results unless you dig down a few
> > pages into the results. It is much more likely they would show up on
> > the first page if the links on
> > http://tapestry.apache.org/community.html were not marked with
> > nofollow.
> >
> > Another example is what you get when you just search for the word
> > Tapestry. The top result is http://tapestry.apache.org. This is
> > good, but if you look down the page, you'll see that all the other
> > results are all about fabric. This isn't too unexpected.but here is
> > basically how Google is thinking. Google recognizes that Apache
> > Tapestry is the most important website for someone looking for the
> > word Tapestry. Then it looks to see what websites Apache Tapestry
> > considers important. All it finds is a bunch of links that Apache
> > Tapestry has flagged as "don't trust these, they might be spam".
> >
> > Anyway, there is some food for thought. There may be some reasons
> > that it needs to be this way, but I wanted to make sure we aren't just
> > doing something out of habit because it was beneficial 5 years ago
> > when it might be detrimental today.
> >
> > Mark
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