- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:27:24 +0000 (UTC)
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011, Markus Ernst wrote: > > Viewing the logs of applications I wrote, I noticed that a considerable > number of requests are from robots following links of types such as "Add > to shopping cart" or "Remember this item" - links that typically point > to the same page they are clicked on, with some GET variable that > triggers an action on the server. That's mis-use of GET. The right solution is to not use a link. Because of this, I haven't added a new feature for this request. On Sat, 26 Nov 2011, Eric Shtivelberg wrote: > > The rel="nofollow" does serve a purpose and it is even supported by all > major search engines, but there's a big "but" - some of them do follow > it but don't use it, see: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow#Interpretation_by_the_individual_search_engines Technically rel=nofollow doesn't mean that robots shouldn't follow the link, it means that authority shouldn't flow through the link in systems that attempt to rank pages (e.g. search engines). -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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