Add 'nofollow' attribute to SkinObject links#6890
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enhancement/nofollow-login-register
Fixes #6889
Summary
This PR improves default SEO hygiene for authentication-related links in DNN by addressing unnecessary crawler discovery of low-value URLs.
Changes included:
rel="nofollow"to Login and Register links inUserAndLogin.ascxwhen the user is not authenticated.Disallow: *?returnurl=*rule to the defaultrobots.txtto reduce crawling of parameterized authentication URLs.Rationale:
Login and registration links are typically rendered site-wide (often in headers) and can generate multiple URL variations containing the
returnurlparameter. These URLs do not provide search value and may contribute to crawl traps, wasted crawl budget, and noisy index coverage reports.The changes are minimal, backward-compatible, and do not affect user behavior, while helping reduce crawler link-following and discovery of authentication endpoints by default.
No functional behavior changes were introduced.