[scribus] Scribus Wiki: Last Call for "Success Stories", for 2008

[John Beardmore]

Julian Robbins wrote:

>>>> But sorry to sound mean, but is there anyway that if I add a link on
>>>> your wiki to an example PDF created in Scribus on our website, that I
>>>> can at least use it as a link with good incoming Google Page Rank ? I
>>>> see that the links already on the wiki are of the 'nofollow' type which
>>>> means that linking to my PDF's from your site won't help me with my SEO
>>>> (Search Engine Optimisation) work. e.g. From John Beardmore's entry
>>>>
>>>> <a href="http://www.T4sLtd.co.uk/" class="external free" title="http://www.T4sLtd.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://www.T4sLtd.co.uk/</a>
>>>     
>> Well, this controversy http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Nofollow is well
>> beyond the scope of this list (I guess) and my scope of interest (I'm
>> sure). Scribus Wiki uses Mediawiki as-is, with all its pros and cons.
>> But if you'd like to convince a Scribus Wiki admin to change this
>> default behaviour, I'd suggest submitting a feature request to
>> bugs.scribus.net.

It might be nice to have the option to turn off nofollow.

We've not really paid much attention to playing search engine ranking 
games, but it might be an advantage to have a normal link in.


Cheers, J/.
-- 
John Beardmore, MSc EDM (Open), B.A. Chem (Oxon), CMIOSH, AIEMA, MEI
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