Comments on: How Wikipedia killed the Internets

By: greg

greg — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 11:21:42 +0000

rel=’external nofollow’
rel=’nofollow’

both of these are essentially the same in that they tell the search engines not to weigh the link that these attributes are attached to. The search engine can still follow the link, they just aren’t supposed to count it as a link or pass PR and fun stuff like that. Adding the ‘external’ to the attribute, just tells the search engine that the link points to a different site (that the link is external)

Hope this helps!

By: Webmast Forum

Webmast Forum — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:57:20 +0000

Hi there I followed a google search for ‘external nofollow’ definition here.

Actually I’ve been searching for it for an hour :/ .. can you please tell me the exact definition of ‘external nofollow’ ?

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By: greg

greg — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:31:43 +0000

“clearly the creator IS part of the definition”

perfect.

By: Michael-Ann

Michael-Ann — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 21:05:39 +0000

You make a very good point…

I think credit SHOULD be given where credit is due - happy surfing internet peoples SHOULD be directed to the site of the SMO creator when one is attempting to offer the definition of SMO… after all, clearly the creator IS part of the definition.

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Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:18:01 +0000

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By: Stefanie

Stefanie — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 12:27:40 +0000

That is too bad about being shafted by the new rule. Hopefully the posting will have a ‘trickle-down effect’ where other sites will start linking to you while referring to Social Media Optimization based on their reading of Wiki… so maybe all is not lost?