On 4/29/05, Lars Aronsson <lars(a)aronsson.se> wrote:
But shouldn't rel="nofollow" also be
used for the edit, history
and diff links? These pages avoid Google indexing by having the
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow" /> tag in their
<head> section, but Google only sees that after having visited the
page. The visits by Google to these pages are not productive, but
still add load on Wikipedia's servers, and this could be avoided
by adding rel=nofollow on the edit, history and diff links.
Edit, history, and diff pages are served from /w/ urls, which
robots.txt disallows for all user-agents that obey the robots
protocol. So google doesn't visit these pages at all.
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John Fader