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[#22305] - Stop search engines from making false clicks on banners
- Closed
- 21 Sep 2018
- Medium
- Build: staging
- # 22305
- Diff
- jurihahn:staging
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Pull Request for Issue # .
Summary of Changes
add rel="nofolow" to banners A tag
Testing Instructions
code review
Expected result
the "a" banner tag requires "nofollow" in the "rel" attributes to stop the search engines to make false clicks
Actual result
Search engines follow the URL of the banner and make false clicks on banners
Documentation Changes Required
No...
| Status | New | ⇒ | Pending |
joomla-cms-bot
- | Category | ⇒ | Modules Front End |
franz-wohlkoenig
- | Category | Modules Front End | ⇒ | com_banners Front End Modules |
| Status | Pending | ⇒ | Closed |
| Closed_Date | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 | ⇒ | 2018-09-21 16:44:21 |
| Closed_By | ⇒ | brianteeman |
| Category | Modules Front End com_banners | ⇒ | Modules Front End |
jurihahn
- comment
- 21 Sep 2018
Can I then make a parameter in the module? It will be standard as before. Those who want to be able to switch.
The search engines will still make the "false clicks" they just wont take the link into account when making their calculations
This would change the behaviour of all existing sites and very many people would not want this nofollow
This is a file that you can create an override for if you want this change on your site (https://docs.joomla.org/J3.x:How_to_use_the_Template_Manager#Creating_Overrides)
For all these reasons I am going to have to close this pull request