On 19/08/07, Simetrical <Simetrical+wikilist(a)gmail.com> wrote:
reverse. In light of this, it does seem like it would
be a good idea
to use rel="nofollow" on links to things like edit pages. Someone
just needs to code it.
As I stated in a previous post,
* rel="nofollow" *does not mean* "do not follow this link" - this is
a
known issue with the naming of the attribute value
* User agents are free to ignore it
* We offer up edit pages with "noindex,nofollow"
The context of the original post was in reducing "wasted" bandwidth,
which I have to point out is not going to be possible - if a URL
exists on the web, then it is liable to be accessed in some form.
Robots can and will ignore the so-called standards, and thus "waste
bandwidth". Adding rel="nofollow" to edit links won't affect those
robots which don't adhere to it, or which acknowledge the precise
semantic meaning of it (and follow it, but don't assign significance
to the page later).
It's therefore going to be of negligible benefit to do this, trivial
though it is; if a robot ignores the attribute, then it'll follow the
link, and if it ignores the "noindex,nofollow" meta tag, it'll index
it anyway.
Rob Church