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Hiding External Links From Search Engines

Added by Vidya Madabushi, last edited by Sarah Maddox on Jun 24, 2007
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Hiding external links from search engines helps to discourage spammers from posting links on your site. If you turn this option on, any urls inserted in pages and comments will be given the "nofollow" attribute, which prevents search engines from following them.

Shortcut links and links to other pages within Confluence are not affected.

To hide external links from search engines,

  1. Go to the 'Administration Console' and click on 'General Configuration' in the left panel.

  2. This will display the 'Options and Settings' screen. Click 'Edit'.

  3. Select 'On' beside 'Hide External Links From Search Engines'.

  4. 'Save' your changes.
RELATED TOPICS
Adding SSL for Secure Logins and Page Security
Anonymous Access to Remote API
Enabling or Disabling Public Signup
Excluding external referrers
Hiding External Links From Search Engines
Hiding external referrers
Managing External Referrers
Spam Prevention (Captcha)
User Email Visibility

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