[Mageia-dev] Mailing-list archives and robots

[Sander Lepik]

26.11.2012 16:52, Olav Vitters kirjutas:
> 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).
>
Good point! So we are probably missing links to our archives (as i can't
find anything that links to mageia-dev archives).

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Sander