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Developer builds PowerShell tool after Medium and GitHub links turn out nofollow

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A developer discovered that both Medium and GitHub now apply platform-wide nofollow attributes to all outbound links, invalidating roughly 30 minutes of SEO-focused content work. Medium rolled out the nofollow policy around 2023–2024 to curb SEO spam, while GitHub has enforced a similar rule on README links since approximately 2020. The developer found both issues after publishing, using a simple curl command that could have been run beforehand. To avoid repeating the mistake, a 40-line PowerShell script was written to automatically verify whether backlinks from target platforms are dofollow or nofollow each week. The episode highlights that cached SEO guides from 2020–2022 may no longer reflect current platform policies, making direct verification essential before investing content effort.

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