# Links in popular links appear without nofollow

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-in-popular-links-appear-without-nofollow/68974>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [29 Agosto , 2017 08:26 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-in-popular-links-appear-without-nofollow/68974 "2017-08-29T08:26:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![fefrei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fefrei/32/119538_2.png) [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)\
**Post date:** [29 Agosto , 2017 11:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/links-in-popular-links-appear-without-nofollow/68974/4 "2017-08-29T11:31:50Z")

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While I’d like to see this added so spammers don’t even _think_ they can place a good link there, this isn’t an actual problem – these links are not visible to search engines. Here’s how this page looks like to Google:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/c/4c47f9b4cb5ee27446578ea7c5cf8b0ef3f17449.png)

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