[pmwiki-users] notice of current edit

[Joachim Durchholz]

Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 11:31:23PM +0200, Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> 
>>Patrick R. Michaud wrote:
>>
>>>There's another important aspect to this:  in looking through pmwiki.org's
>>>server logs recently, I've noticed that a lot of edit links get triggered
>>>by search engines.
>>
>>Shouldn't this be prevented by rel="nofollow"?
>>That's an attribute that should be added to most (if not all) action links.
>>
>>Though I'm not sure how many spiders are well-behaved in this way 
>>already. It's a relatively new convention.
> 
> Well, Google's definition of rel="nofollow" [1] doesn't say anything
> about whether or not a search engine will follow the link.  It simply
> says that such links won't get any credit when ranking the website.
> 
> Knowing Google's philosophy, I'd fully expect Googlebot to go ahead
> and follow the links if only so Google can increase its search
> database.

Ah, right.

Too bad.

(Good thing that spiders don't usually click on "Save" buttons. That 
would really be hurting wikis...)

Regards,
Jo