[pmwiki-users] Robustness of PmWiki

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 07:14:04PM +0200, Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> Martin Bayer schrieb:
> > Am Sonntag, 25. Juni 2006 13:30 schrieb Joachim Durchholz:
> >> The wiki should set "nofollow" based on the URL it's linking to.
> >> Indiscriminately adding "nofollow" will do more harm than good.
> > 
> > The problem is, you can set only one "nofollow" META tag on each page, but
> > on all pages you have links to both, other pages and actions.
> 
> Um... wasn't there an equivalent option on links?
> And a "noindex" option on meta, so that a page wouldn't be indexed?

There is a rel='nofollow' convention for links, but it's not defined
by any real standard, and many robots are unaware of it or do not
honor it.  (In fact, there are still a number of robots that don't
understand the <meta name='robots' ... /> tag, although most of the
larger ones do.)

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