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I just curious
what the reasone you added rel="external nofollow" on the support sites in the main wiki page?

To not attract spammers, since spammers usually target sites that DON'T use nofollow as those sites provide benefits from search engines (well Google actually), and since it has nofollow, even if they spam the wiki it will be of no value since Google won't count that as a valid link.

The wiki links are not meant to bring more traffic to external sites but rather provide additional information.

PwnEm Wrote:To not attract spammers, since spammers usually target sites that DON'T use nofollow as those sites provide benefits from search engines (well Google actually), and since it has nofollow, even if they spam the wiki it will be of no value since Google won't count that as a valid link.

but the mybb wiki require a mod to edit it, so no fear from spammer here

Jeff Wrote:The wiki links are not meant to bring more traffic to external sites but rather provide additional information.

yes thats totaly right, but my wonder becuase I see it has a good rank valu
so it may help the support sites the provided in it.
and I wasn't ask about remove the rel nofollow from all the wiki external links,
I meant the main page
that contain the addetional support sites in multi langauges see?

The front page is always a target for vandalism, so that's why only staff can edit the front page. If you contact a staff member, they will be able to add/remove your international support site.

Links can be posted by anyone, on most of the other pages, so that's why rel="nofollow" is required

DennisTT Wrote:The front page is always a target for vandalism, so that's why only staff can edit the front page.

agree with you

DennisTT Wrote:Links can be posted by anyone, on most of the other pages, so that's why rel="nofollow" is required

so thats right to use the nofollow.
thanks for the clarification man.