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James Huff
(@macmanx)
Volunteer Moderator
rel=”external” = “This is an external link” (most are)
rel=”nofollow” = “Do not catalogue this link”
rel=”external nofollow” = “This is an external link, do not catalogue it.”
http://codex.wordpress.org/Nofollow
The interesting thing is that even if it is pingback from another post in your site, it simply treats it as external!
Personally I prefer to disable nofollow via plugin.
[code]rel="external nofollow"[/code]
So is having two variables in there OK?
Also I still don’t understand why it needs to be labeled as “external”
Thanks.
Moderator
James Huff
(@macmanx)
Volunteer Moderator
“So is having two variables in there OK?”
Yeah: “The value of this attribute is a space-separated list of link types.”
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html#adef-rel
Ok, so does the Google Bot (the one that actually indexes) follow rel=”external nofollow” ?!?
And or does it not follow links with that code in it?
David Martinez
http://www.seidon.com/
“Ok, so does the Google Bot (the one that actually indexes) follow rel=”external nofollow” ?!?”
It follows such links, it just does not weight them for SEO purposes. That meant that Googlebot continued to index everything, but it would not appeal to spammers seeking to generate zillions of links in the hope of upping their PR. Flawed argument in the first place though.
