# Add rel="nofollow" admin setting is not working right, its making parent domain link as nofollow

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**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [25 مايو 2015، 6:50م 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")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [27 مايو 2015، 12:31ص 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")

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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](#):
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> 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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