- From: Ricardo Vercesi <rvercesi@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 16:08:55 +0000
- To: Jake Archibald <jaffathecake@gmail.com>
- Cc: Richard Ferrers <richard.ferrers@ands.org.au>, "public-html5spec@w3.org" <public-html5spec@w3.org>
I agree with Jake. However, if you wish to make further distinction perhaps using something more semantic friendly as rel="external" . Sent from my iPhone On 05/02/2013, at 14:11, Jake Archibald <jaffathecake@gmail.com> wrote: > Although there isn't a specific "disagree" annotation, there's > rel="nofollow" http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/links.html#link-type-nofollow > > This is already supported by search engines. > > On 5 February 2013 01:30, Richard Ferrers <richard.ferrers@ands.org.au> wrote: >> Dear html5spec team >> >> Problem: Google uses the <a> tag as a vote on the usefulness of the resource >> linked to. >> Not all links may be of the same or even positive value to the page creator. >> >> For instance: >> The <a href="http://www.ands.org.au">ANDS website</a> is an appalling >> example of web design. >> >> Google would register this link as data indicating the positive useful value >> of the target resource of the link. Yet the text around the link may suggest >> a negative value connection with the resource linked. >> >> Solution: I suggest a new attribute for the <a> tag to indicate whether you >> agree or disagree with the resource linked to. >> For example: >> The <a href="http://www.ands.org.au" agree=false>ANDS website</a> is an >> appalling example of web design. >> >> Google could see this 'agree' element and take it into account when ranking >> the page. >> Multiple inclusion of the link could indicate degree of >> negativity/positivity. >> Default: agree=true. >> Style: an alternate style could separate the status of the agree flag. >> >> For more detail a tag/s could be added to indicate the nature of the >> agreement/disagreement in the above examples eg tag=design. >> >> For your consideration. >> Richard >> >> -- >> Richard Ferrers >> Research Data Analyst | Client Liaison Officer >> >> Australian National Data Service (ANDS) >> Physical Address: Level 6, Building F, Monash Caulfield VIC 3145 AUSTRALIA >> Postal Address: c/o Monash University, PO Box 197, Caulfield East, VIC 3145 >> AUSTRALIA >> T: +61 3 990 20569 >> F: +61 3 990 20585 >> M: 0422 368 061 >> E: richard.ferrers@ands.org.au >
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