loginlink() and printlink() causing unneccesarry traffic

[cmb]

Hello Developers,

I've just noticed that loginlink() and printlink() are causing unneccessary traffic from bots, as both functions do add &login resp. &print to the current page URL, but don't use rel="nofollow". Additionally this might result in DC -- I'm not sure, if e.g. ge_canonical caters for this.

Christoph

[Gert]

Hi Christoph,

both functions are causing <meta name="robots" content="noindex">,

Gert

[cmb]

Hi Gert,

so there's no problem regarding DC. But however, the bots will see this only after they've visitied the page, so there's still the small issue with unneccessary traffic (I assume bots revisit pages with "noindex" after a while, to see if that has changed).

Christoph