Title: question about rel
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# question about rel

 *  [jbbrwcky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbbrwcky/)
 * (@jbbrwcky)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-rel/)
 * 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?

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 *  [Firas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/firas/)
 * (@firas)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-rel/#post-261802)
 * 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 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [jbbrwcky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbbrwcky/)
 * (@jbbrwcky)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-rel/#post-261803)
 * 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?
 *  [Firas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/firas/)
 * (@firas)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-rel/#post-261805)
 * Not yet, but it’s nice permalink metadata–most extract that from the feed though.
 *  Thread Starter [jbbrwcky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbbrwcky/)
 * (@jbbrwcky)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-rel/#post-261807)
 * 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?
 *  [Firas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/firas/)
 * (@firas)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-rel/#post-261812)
 * Tags are like keywords or categories.. when was the last time you loaded [http://technorati.com/tag/The+Ashes,+Back+Home+At+Last](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.
 *  Thread Starter [jbbrwcky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbbrwcky/)
 * (@jbbrwcky)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-rel/#post-261813)
 * Okay, yes you’re right of course.
 * Well, good to know anyway. Was just curious why it was there in nearly every 
   theme.
 *  [Firas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/firas/)
 * (@firas)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-rel/#post-261897)
 * 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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## Tags

 * [REL](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/rel/)
 * [tag](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/tag/)

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 * Last activity: [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/question-about-rel/#post-261897)
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