diff --git a/mod/tagger.php b/mod/tagger.php
index 4da4ecafb..c602613f1 100644
--- a/mod/tagger.php
+++ b/mod/tagger.php
@@ -44,6 +44,8 @@ function tagger_content(App $a) {
 	$item = $r[0];
 
 	$owner_uid = $item['uid'];
+	$owner_nick = '';
+	$blocktags = 0;
 
 	$r = q("select `nickname`,`blocktags` from user where uid = %d limit 1",
 		intval($owner_uid)
@@ -71,8 +73,13 @@ function tagger_content(App $a) {
 	$post_type = (($item['resource-id']) ? L10n::t('photo') : L10n::t('status'));
 	$targettype = (($item['resource-id']) ? ACTIVITY_OBJ_IMAGE : ACTIVITY_OBJ_NOTE );
 
-	$link = xmlify('<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="'
-		. System::baseUrl() . '/display/' . $owner_nick . '/' . $item['id'] . '" />' . "\n") ;
+	if ($owner_nick) {
+		$href = System::baseUrl() . '/display/' . $owner_nick . '/' . $item['id'];
+	} else {
+		$href = System::baseUrl() . '/display/' . $item['guid'];
+	}
+
+	$link = xmlify('<link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="'. $href . '" />' . "\n") ;
 
 	$body = xmlify($item['body']);