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		jcampbell1 on Sept 27, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: As We May Think (1945) Don't do this if you care anything about SEO. It will make your site appear to Google as part of a reciprocal link scheme, and it will get nuked from the index.

reitzensteinm on Sept 27, 2012 | [–]

Marking the links as rel="nofollow" should prevent that from happening, shouldn't it?

gwern on Sept 27, 2012 | [–]

Well, I was kind of assuming that you would be doing a little filtering out of the worst links - only substantive discussions of your page.

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