I have always wondered - why does every theme I come across have the post title link as rel="bookmark"? Why not rel="tag", wouldn't that be more useful? Or is that a no-no?
question about rel (8 posts)
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When all you have is
rel=tag, everything looks like a<nail />? :)But yeah, the post title can rarely work as a technorati type tag/keyword. If it works for you, replace it :)
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Well I'm just wondering then, why was bookmark used in the first place? Is it special somehow? Do technorati, or anyone else like them for that matter, recognize bookmark as special?
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Not yet, but it's nice permalink metadata--most extract that from the feed though.
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Hehe not yet? So you're saying they will, or you think they will?
So if it is extracted, we may as well convert to using tag as generally speaking, it's more useful to use as WP users, in terms of places that use it.
Is it also respected by the big search engines? Do they treat bookmark or tag differently? I suppose with google's blog search coming out, they might?
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Tags are like keywords or categories.. when was the last time you loaded http://technorati.com/tag/The+Ashes,+Back+Home+At+Last just for fun? It's useless.
As for the rest of the question, I don't expect
rel='bookmark'to have much value in the near future. -
Okay, yes you're right of course.
Well, good to know anyway. Was just curious why it was there in nearly every theme.
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Ah. That's because it's in the HTML spec--but more importantly--I believe it's part of the Classic theme, from which it probably crept into the Default one, etc.
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