An external link that I added to Wikipedia was indexed by Google overnight - even with the "rel=nofollow" tag.
Is it possible that the Google spider is following the 'urlexpansion' text?
Notes: Google search: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=yellowikis
source code from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxfam:
External link added feb 14 05 ...<li>Yellowikis lists Oxfam's <a href="http://www.yellowikis.org/wiki/index.php/Oxfam" class='external' title= "http://www.yellowikis.org/wiki/index.php/Oxfam" rel="nofollow">Contact details</a><span class= 'urlexpansion'> (<i>http://www.yellowikis.org/wiki/index.php/Oxfam</i>)</span></li>...
nofollow only affects the rank Google gives to the site that is linked to; it does not have the same function as a bots.txt or <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow, noarchive" />. The spider will still spider the links.
Another reason to not use it on active wikis.
Ben
On Tuesday, February 15, 2005, at 05:30 PM, admin Yellowikis wrote:
An external link that I added to Wikipedia was indexed by Google overnight - even with the "rel=nofollow" tag.
Is it possible that the Google spider is following the 'urlexpansion' text?
Notes: Google search: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=yellowikis
source code from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxfam:
External link added feb 14 05 ...<li>Yellowikis lists Oxfam's <a href="http://www.yellowikis.org/wiki/index.php/Oxfam" class='external' title= "http://www.yellowikis.org/wiki/index.php/Oxfam" rel="nofollow">Contact details</a><span class= 'urlexpansion'> (<i>http://www.yellowikis.org/wiki/index.php/ Oxfam</i>)</span></li>... _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@wikimedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
Ben Brockert wrote:
nofollow only affects the rank Google gives to the site that is linked to; it does not have the same function as a bots.txt or <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow, noarchive" />. The spider will still spider the links.
Can someone explain to me why they called it 'nofollow' and not 'norank'?
Another reason to not use it on active wikis.
I don't understand this. This is all the more reason to use rel="nofollow".
Timwi
On Fri, 2005-02-18 at 18:04 +0000, Arne Heizmann wrote:
Ben Brockert wrote:
nofollow only affects the rank Google gives to the site that is linked to; it does not have the same function as a bots.txt or <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow, noarchive" />. The spider will still spider the links.
Can someone explain to me why they called it 'nofollow' and not 'norank'?
Google ranks pages based not just on their content, but on the content of pages that link to them. So in the above scenario, the source page would not be marked as one pointing to the destination, and thus the content on the source would not effect the destinations rank.
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