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XFN links made useless by use of 'nofollow'
Currently, all the profile links and links to a user's website on their profile page use both the 'me' and 'nofollow' in the rel attribute of the anchor tag. This is kind of senseless.
Quite apart from the fact that nofollow is one of the worst spam reduction ideas around, having it as part of the rel attribute renders the me part useless. The whole purpose of 'me' is to allow XFN parsers (such as Google's Social Graph) to identify relationships between sites, however parsers will (mostly) ignore the link because of the 'nofollow'.
http://microformats.org/wiki/xfn-clar...
Please remove the 'nofollow' for the other profile and blog links.
Quite apart from the fact that nofollow is one of the worst spam reduction ideas around, having it as part of the rel attribute renders the me part useless. The whole purpose of 'me' is to allow XFN parsers (such as Google's Social Graph) to identify relationships between sites, however parsers will (mostly) ignore the link because of the 'nofollow'.
http://microformats.org/wiki/xfn-clar...
Please remove the 'nofollow' for the other profile and blog links.
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Inappropriate?Good point. I was actually copying what Twitter was doing when they show a users link under the description area. I went ahead and removed 'nofollow' from the other profiles list. I'm leaving it on the links list because my gut tells me to be concerned about spam since that's a free-form field. I'm going to do a little more research to see specifically how search engines react to rel='me nofollow'
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Inappropriate?Quick work, thanks Nathan. I'd like to see it removed from the link list too (since that links to my blog). That, and I'm hugely skeptical about the efficacy of nofollow in the first place. I understand your concern though.
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