On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 03:51:11PM +0200, Sander Lepik wrote: > I was trying to find something from dev-ml archives with google and > found nothing. Then i checked our archives source and found '<META > NAME="robots" CONTENT="index,nofollow">'- is there some good reason for > "nofollow"? Or should i use something else to search our archives?
Normally you'd set nofollow on individual archived messages. The general index page should NOT have "nofollow". This ensures that if some spam arrives to an "free to post" mailing list (e.g. the sysadmin one), it doesn't put the spam site higher in Google. IMO this is good to do, and it also should indicate to Google that you're not a spam site yourself (e.g. I assume Google lowers sites which have loads of links to spam sites). -- Regards, Olav
