Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: The rel attribute (Rel="nofollow")

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Posted by Jeff Davis on
I have been thinking that rel="nofollow" would be quit useful to limit googles (and others) spidering of link based filtering. An example is bug tracker where you have zillions of links which serve up filtered lists of bugs but none of which should be spidered other than the main unfiltered list.

If the sidebar links were rel="nofollow" I suspect it would
decrease the burden imposed by the google spider while at the
same time increase the number of "meat" pages visited.

There are other ways to get this done but that seems to be a good way to do it.