[WikiEN-l] unintended consequences

[Stephen Bain]

On 5/27/07, David Mestel <david.mestel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That seems a bit pointless to me: either we want people to find an article
> or we don't.  If we don't, I have a better solution: delete it.  If we do,
> why not let the search engines index it?

Well, there's always internal links, and internal search (which is not
so good at the moment, but testing of Lucene 2 is happening as we
speak, and it looks promising).

That said, removing or deleting material is indeed preferable to the
possibility of letting things "slip under the radar".

As to the original question, us having nofollow turned on means
nothing in terms of the rank of our pages; people who link to us would
need to have nofollow turned on for it to be affected.

-- 
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com