For some reason I've got it in my head that nofollow is set for talk pages and user pages. But is this actually true? We treat talk pages as lower quality than article pages, but does google do the same? If I see linkspam on a talk page do I need to remove it or is it OK to leave it there.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Atkins_Nutritional_Approach#Spam_Clean-up for what prompted my train of thought.
Theresa
On 6/28/06, Theresa Knott theresaknott@gmail.com wrote:
For some reason I've got it in my head that nofollow is set for talk pages and user pages. But is this actually true? We treat talk pages as lower quality than article pages, but does google do the same? If I see linkspam on a talk page do I need to remove it or is it OK to leave it there.
I have just checked that this is definitely true for article talk pages.
Steve
On 6/28/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/28/06, Theresa Knott theresaknott@gmail.com wrote:
For some reason I've got it in my head that nofollow is set for talk pages and user pages. But is this actually true? We treat talk pages as lower quality than article pages, but does google do the same? If I see linkspam on a talk page do I need to remove it or is it OK to leave it there.
I have just checked that this is definitely true for article talk pages.
How did you check it. Is it written up somewhere because i couldn't find anything on it.
Theresa
On 6/28/06, Theresa Knott theresaknott@gmail.com wrote:
How did you check it. Is it written up somewhere because i couldn't find anything on it.
Easy, just examine the source code of any page which has a web address created from wikicode. If the web address looks like <A HREF="www.test.com"....nofollow=true> then, yes, nofollow is switched on.
Steve
On 6/28/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/28/06, Theresa Knott theresaknott@gmail.com wrote:
How did you check it. Is it written up somewhere because i couldn't find anything on it.
Easy, just examine the source code of any page which has a web address created from wikicode. If the web address looks like <A HREF="www.test.com"....nofollow=true> then, yes, nofollow is switched on.
Doh! Why didn't I think of doing that? Thanks.
Theresa
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
On 6/30/06, jf_wikipedia@mac.com jf_wikipedia@mac.com wrote:
Each link in an Talk page has the attribute rel="nofollow"
No they don't. Each *external* link has the attribute of rel="nofollow"
I better approach would be to add a meta tag
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">
to all pages not in the article namespace.
No it wouldn't. This lowers the number of links we have to our own pages as well as to outside sites. That completely misses the point of this change.
On Jun 28, 2006, at 11:42 AM, Theresa Knott wrote:
For some reason I've got it in my head that nofollow is set for talk pages and user pages. But is this actually true? We treat talk pages as lower quality than article pages, but does google do the same? If I see linkspam on a talk page do I need to remove it or is it OK to leave it there.
I do not see the metatag nofollow on talk pages, only rel="nofollow" on HREFS
-- Jossi