Attribute rel wikipedia
What's that - attribute rel wikipedia?
Inside some code there is found attribute rel=“wikipedia”. Is the attribute rel wikipedia a new ninja technique in search engine optimization?
REL attributes are heavily used in microformats. Here are some (confusing) samples of rel attributes:
- Attribute rel=”nofollow”
- means that search engines SHOULD NOT afforded any additional weight or ranking to the linked to web page.
- rel=nofollow "indicates that the link is not endorsed by the original author or publisher of the page, or that the link to the referenced document was included primarily because of a commercial relationship between people affiliated with the two pages." It was invented by Google and standardized within the microformats community. The thinking was that if "nofollow" links did not pass on PageRank, spammers would give up trying to post spam comments on weblogs. That didn't happen, but rel=nofollow persists.
- rel=nofollow The presence of rel=nofollow does not mean that the Googlebot will not follow the link. It will — after all, that is Google’s objective, to follow links and index the web. But it will not pass page rank from the linking site. So the Googlebot respects the intent of the attribute, which is the important thing. Perhaps it would have been better to call it rel=no-page-rank, but that might have been too Google-specific...
- Attribute rel=”home” to a hyperlink, used for site navigation purposes, links to the homepage of the site in which the current page appears.
- Attribute rel=”ext” to define a link as being to an external website.
- Attribute rel="external" indicates that the link is leading to a document that is not part of the site that the current document forms a part of.
- Attribute rel="external" Indicates that the referenced document is not part of the same site as the current document.
- Attribute rel="wikipedia" Can anyone tell us, why does the attribute rel wikipedia exist? Superstition? Well, it tells code-eaters that this link brings to Wikipedia. But isn't the same obvious from the href attribute? Is attribute rel = "wikipedia" just for beauty of game?
Websites should be as semantic as possible, but it requires a lot of work. So for small websites the rel attribute is not worth the time. Why should websites be as semantic as possible?
2011
Is attribute rel wikipedia a new search engine optimisation technique?