I'm a friendly, non-dev, cisgender guy from NC who enjoys playing music/making noise, hiking, eating veggies, and hanging out with my best friend/wife + our 3 kitties + 1 greyhound.
The "noindex" and "nofollow" tags are occasionally added to posts if someone's article has been marked as low quality by DEV moderators.
We take a pretty strict stance against articles that we feel are too self-promotional or potentially used to build backlinks for other sites, so that's certainly something to be thoughtful and cautious about. We're also pretty quick to flag articles that we feel are too listicle heavy, i.e. if a post includes a long list of tools, resources, etc. we may act to lower visibility on these posts because we've heard from lots of users that these posts (despite gaining traction with lots of reactions) are crowding the feed and covering up really great, original content.
Hope this advice helps!
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Hey Marko 👋
Thanks very much for dropping this question!
The "noindex" and "nofollow" tags are occasionally added to posts if someone's article has been marked as low quality by DEV moderators.
We take a pretty strict stance against articles that we feel are too self-promotional or potentially used to build backlinks for other sites, so that's certainly something to be thoughtful and cautious about. We're also pretty quick to flag articles that we feel are too listicle heavy, i.e. if a post includes a long list of tools, resources, etc. we may act to lower visibility on these posts because we've heard from lots of users that these posts (despite gaining traction with lots of reactions) are crowding the feed and covering up really great, original content.
Hope this advice helps!