On 19/08/07, Simetrical Simetrical+wikilist@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