[WikiEN-l] Nofollow

Fri Jun 30 04:44:03 UTC 2006

On Jun 28, 2006, at 12:16 PM, Theresa Knott wrote:

> How did you check it. Is it written up somewhere because i couldn't
> find anything on it.

Each link in an Talk page has the attribute rel="nofollow"

as in

<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/article_name  
rel="nofollow">Article name</a>

But this applies to  links to articles only, not to links to user pages.

I better approach would be to add a meta tag

<meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">

to all pages not in the article namespace.

In any case, note that many search engines ignore the nofollow tags  
both in metatags and HREF tags.

-- Jossi