- From: Eric Shtivelberg <shedokan1@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:35:53 +0200
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Markus Ernst <derernst at gmx.ch> wrote: > Trying to find a solution to tell robots not to follow these links, I came > across microformat Robots Exclusion Profile > http://microformats.org/wiki/robots-exclusion and the @rel=nofollow > attribute. While the latter does not look robot-specific to me (it actually > states that the author wants to discourage from following the link), I must > admit that I don't fully understand the Robots Exclusion Profile approach. > If this approach is serving the purpose, please feel free to ignore this > proposal. It might then be helpful to add some hint on this somewhere in > 4.12 of the HTML spec. > 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 So suggesting another attribute or something that not everyone will follow is useless. So yeah everyone can ignore it :) Regards,
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