# Add rel="nofollow" admin setting is not working right, its making parent domain link as nofollow
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-rel-nofollow-admin-setting-is-not-working-right-its-making-parent-domain-link-as-nofollow/29226
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2015 年 5 月 25 日午後 6:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-rel-nofollow-admin-setting-is-not-working-right-its-making-parent-domain-link-as-nofollow/29226 "2015-05-25T18:50:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 16
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2015 年 5 月 27 日午前 12:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-rel-nofollow-admin-setting-is-not-working-right-its-making-parent-domain-link-as-nofollow/29226/21 "2015-05-27T00:20:18Z")
We are going to need an extra site setting.
if `forum.ninjas.co.uk` then `www.ninjas.co.uk` should be followed.
if `beta.forum.ninjas.com` then `www.ninjas.com` should be followed.
So we need a site setting here for:
`follow_links_domains` which user can set. Which will help for lots of other cases. Like `ninjas.community` wanting `www.ninjas.com` followed.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2015 年 5 月 27 日午前 12:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-rel-nofollow-admin-setting-is-not-working-right-its-making-parent-domain-link-as-nofollow/29226/22 "2015-05-27T00:20:25Z")
Yes this only applies to the domain part of the URL.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2015 年 5 月 27 日午前 12:30 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-rel-nofollow-admin-setting-is-not-working-right-its-making-parent-domain-link-as-nofollow/29226/23 "2015-05-27T00:30:28Z")
However, I think our default behavior is correct now.
`meta.discourse.org` should only include follow for `a.meta.discourse.org` etc. Otherwise we need to carry around logic that tells us who is a TLD
eg:
`.community` vs `.com` vs `co.uk` vs `co.il`
OR we need to do DNS queries and add extra complex logic.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2015 年 5 月 27 日午前 12:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-rel-nofollow-admin-setting-is-not-working-right-its-making-parent-domain-link-as-nofollow/29226/24 "2015-05-27T00:31:32Z")
No we don’t need to do any of that, we just need to add one more site setting: it contains
`discourse.org`
or
`example.com`
`example.co.uk`
`example.website`
We know that anything with a period added to the front of that is allowed. **If this setting is not specified, then nofollow is super strict.**
Note that @techapj said he fixed a bug with the current handling that seems kind of severe..
> [@techAPJ](#):
>
> Also there was bug when domain like [foo.com](http://foo.com) is added in exclude\_rel\_nofollow\_domains setting, then domain like [nofoo.com](http://nofoo.com) was also being allowed to be excluded from nofollow. Fixed that too.
So we need that fix..
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2015 年 5 月 27 日午前 12:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-rel-nofollow-admin-setting-is-not-working-right-its-making-parent-domain-link-as-nofollow/29226/25 "2015-05-27T00:33:20Z")
Sure, just saying current behavior is correct.
Also site setting should allow for a list of domains, not just one.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2015 年 5 月 27 日午前 12:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-rel-nofollow-admin-setting-is-not-working-right-its-making-parent-domain-link-as-nofollow/29226/26 "2015-05-27T00:33:55Z")
According to @techapj current behavior is _not_ correct (at least for `exclude_rel_nofollow_domains`)
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [2015 年 5 月 27 日午前 4:20 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-rel-nofollow-admin-setting-is-not-working-right-its-making-parent-domain-link-as-nofollow/29226/27 "2015-05-27T04:20:25Z")
> [@sam](#):
>
> So we need a site setting here for:
>
> follow\_links\_domains which user can set.
Yes, I agree. However I think we should just rename setting `exclude_rel_nofollow_domains` to `follow_links_domains`, because `exclude_rel_nofollow_domains` is essentially doing the same thing. So:
- By default `meta.discourse.org` will only follow `meta.discourse.org`, `a.meta.discourse.org`, etc.
- If the user adds `discourse.org` to `follow_links_domains` setting then `meta.discourse.org` will also follow `discourse.org`, `www.discourse.org`, `try.discourse.org`, etc.
Sounds good?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2015 年 5 月 27 日午前 4:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-rel-nofollow-admin-setting-is-not-working-right-its-making-parent-domain-link-as-nofollow/29226/28 "2015-05-27T04:31:57Z")
I think this is fine:
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/93ab03966ea9395f86b39fded3ef8f70e274857a](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/93ab03966ea9395f86b39fded3ef8f70e274857a)
I don’t want rename this site setting, seems pointless.
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### Author:  [@lovechopra1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lovechopra1)
#### Post date: [2015 年 6 月 3 日午前 4:33 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-rel-nofollow-admin-setting-is-not-working-right-its-making-parent-domain-link-as-nofollow/29226/29 "2015-06-03T04:33:20Z")
Is it fixed? If I upgrade to latest version will it work or do I need to wait for next release?
Also do I need to do anything for old posted links or ‘no-follow’ will automatically get removed from older root domain links?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2015 年 6 月 3 日午前 5:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-rel-nofollow-admin-setting-is-not-working-right-its-making-parent-domain-link-as-nofollow/29226/30 "2015-06-03T05:38:20Z")
It works fine but you need to plugin the domain name into the site setting
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### Author:  [@lovechopra1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lovechopra1)
#### Post date: [2015 年 6 月 8 日午前 9:06 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-rel-nofollow-admin-setting-is-not-working-right-its-making-parent-domain-link-as-nofollow/29226/31 "2015-06-08T09:06:13Z")
@sam its working fine for newly add links but for older content it is still adding rel=“nofollow”, please suggest how can I remove rel=“nofollow” for all the older content for my parent domain?
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [2015 年 6 月 8 日午前 9:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-rel-nofollow-admin-setting-is-not-working-right-its-making-parent-domain-link-as-nofollow/29226/32 "2015-06-08T09:22:08Z")
Rebake the previous content – look up the command to rebake all posts.
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### Author:  [@lovechopra1](https://meta.discourse.org/u/lovechopra1)
#### Post date: [2015 年 6 月 8 日午前 10:21 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-rel-nofollow-admin-setting-is-not-working-right-its-making-parent-domain-link-as-nofollow/29226/33 "2015-06-08T10:21:57Z")
Thanks a lot, it work like a magic 😄
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### Author:  [@Aaron\_Seminoff](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Aaron_Seminoff)
#### Post date: [2015 年 6 月 14 日午前 7:47 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-rel-nofollow-admin-setting-is-not-working-right-its-making-parent-domain-link-as-nofollow/29226/34 "2015-06-14T07:47:49Z")
Sorry guys I am a newbie with nofollow and have a question: I want to take content from by blog on my normal site and also post it as a thread on my discourse site which is a subdomain of my main site ([animalhearted.com](http://animalhearted.com) vs. [community.animalhearted.com](http://community.animalhearted.com)). Do I need to add a rel cononical tag to each thread I post individually so that google won’t penalize me for having duplicate content on my site? Please let me know what I need to do in order to post duplicate content and not get an seo dock from google.
Thanks so much!
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### Author:  [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [2015 年 6 月 14 日午後 2:15 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-rel-nofollow-admin-setting-is-not-working-right-its-making-parent-domain-link-as-nofollow/29226/35 "2015-06-14T14:15:51Z")
Typically what’s done is the embedding feature, which will put a short excerpt on Discourse with a “Show Full Post” button.
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [2025 年 12 月 4 日午前 11:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/add-rel-nofollow-admin-setting-is-not-working-right-its-making-parent-domain-link-as-nofollow/29226/36 "2025-12-04T11:35:57Z")
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