# Voorkom dat trefwoorden een hyperlink worden
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-keywords-to-become-hyperlink/208652
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [9 november 2021 om 09:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-keywords-to-become-hyperlink/208652 "2021-11-09T09:31:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@leo.proctor](https://meta.discourse.org/u/leo.proctor)
#### Post date: [9 november 2021 om 09:31 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-keywords-to-become-hyperlink/208652/1 "2021-11-09T09:31:44Z")
Can I prevent certain words to become hyperlink? e.g users often type certain keywords e.g [Abc.Net](http://Abc.Net) that becomes broken hyperlinks. which is harmful for seo considering there are many such broken links.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [9 november 2021 om 11:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-keywords-to-become-hyperlink/208652/2 "2021-11-09T11:14:40Z")
You can remove/edit the TLD ext links in your admin settings. Have a search in there for “markdown linkify tlds”.
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [9 november 2021 om 11:45 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-keywords-to-become-hyperlink/208652/3 "2021-11-09T11:45:02Z")
> [@leo.proctor](#):
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> which is harmful for seo considering there are many such broken links.
I don’t pretend to know about SEO, but unless the user is tl3 then the links should be marked `nofollow`. So shouldn’t they be ignored as far as SEO is concerned? (but I think I saw somewhere that `nofollow` was more of a suggestion than a rule).
If they always use the same one (e.g., `xyz.net`, which I have never seen anyone use before in places that I have seen) you might be able to use watched words to replace them.
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [9 november 2021 om 12:25 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-keywords-to-become-hyperlink/208652/4 "2021-11-09T12:25:05Z")
Broken links don’t affect SEO anyway. And nofollow is just a suggestion and search bots follow it or not. And if there is nofollow or not, it has nothing to do with backlinkvalue either.
So, broken links bother only users.
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### Author:  [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [9 november 2021 om 12:41 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-keywords-to-become-hyperlink/208652/5 "2021-11-09T12:41:14Z")
If it’s a particular user who just wants more control over what they’re unintentionally auto-linking, they can add something like `` to break up the extension.
Eg.
`abc.Net`
abc.Net
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [10 november 2021 om 01:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-keywords-to-become-hyperlink/208652/6 "2021-11-10T01:39:12Z")
And an easier version of that is just to wrap with backticks or use the `` tool in the composer like `xyz.net`. Maybe it’s just a user education issue
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### Author:  [@Jagster](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Jagster)
#### Post date: [10 november 2021 om 07:04 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/prevent-keywords-to-become-hyperlink/208652/7 "2021-11-10T07:04:35Z")
> [@pfaffman](#):
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> Maybe it’s just a user education issue
Just? Sure it is an education issue. But it is really big UX and UI issue too. Such tricks than breaked html-tag are
- not logical (unless one is coder or similar)
- must remember one (useless) detail more
- different than anywhere else
And then is wondered why there is difficulties to get people in Discourse-based forums and why markdown is not that widely loved than here quite often so many thinks 😉
In Discourse is already too high demand to know HTML to write an ordinary forum post, and if Ordinary Joe/Jane must learn how to break html-tags it is just too much (I don’t know if that trick has anything to do with html-tags but if it looks/smells/tastes like tag in bad UX it will be a zebra 😉 )
There is no easy AND good solutions, I reckon. The closest to good would be a black list. There is still big chance that someone will use something like [mywebsite.com](http://mywebsite.com) and get a functional link — but it is matter of high Ts and staff. And there we can educate — but it can’t be counted as final or even good solution.
An ordinary user has learned that URLs doesn’t work all the time — Facebook teached it 😉 That’s why so many knows the most common trick: mywebsite .com.