On Jun 28, 2006, at 12:16 PM, Theresa Knott wrote:
How did you check it. Is it written up somewhere because i couldn't find anything on it.
Each link in an Talk page has the attribute rel="nofollow"
as in
<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/article_name rel="nofollow">Article name</a>
But this applies to links to articles only, not to links to user pages.
I better approach would be to add a meta tag
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">
to all pages not in the article namespace.
In any case, note that many search engines ignore the nofollow tags both in metatags and HREF tags.
-- Jossi