Feature Request: when amazon filter creates the link to Amazon, it should make them rel="nofollow"

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#3 amazon.nofollow.patch10.18 KBrfay

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rfay
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Location Palisade, CO, USA
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So nofollow affects whether Google ranks the Amazon page higher.... May I ask why you care?

I'm not opposed, would just like to understand.

I should mention that most of the instances of amazon links are managed in .tpl.php files, so you have complete control - copy the tpl.php to your theme and adjust it.

-Randy

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jarea commented

An abundance of links to external sites can result in one's site being lowered in organic search engine ratings. The search engine begins to view the site as a link farm.

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rfay
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Title: Feature Request links to Amazon be nofollow » Use rel="nofollow" on detailpageurl links (links to amazon.com)
Status: Active » Fixed
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new amazon.nofollow.patch10.18 KB

OK, done.

Committed to HEAD: http://drupal.org/cvs?commit=333444
This will be in tonight's dev release. Please test it and see how it works for you.

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.

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dparizek commented

I think it also gives you more control over where you send your page juice, so to speak. If the juice gets divided amongst all the links on a page, while I really do not care if I send some to amazon, I might not want to dilute that which I am sending elsewhere.