On 30/01/07, Mathias Bank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > At the new plugin list (http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins), all links are > marked as nofollow. That's of course to prevent spam. But I think, > that is no good idea for this page. > > There are some reasons why the links should not be marked as nofollow: > * we want to have a complete list of all available plugins. We can > support this by not using "nofollow" because the plugin author will > have a good back link. > * The plugin page is visited a lot of times. There is no need to > mistrust the links. Most of them (I think even all of them) are proved > to be valid and to be helpful links. > * jQuery needs links to be pushed at search engines (the good PR has a > reason). In this way, jquery should link back to plugin developers, > who makes jquery what it is. > > I think, "nofollow" is not a bad idea of search engines (but that's > not the subject). But surely, it has to be used sensible. It doesn't > make sense to use this attribute in a controlled environment like the > plugin list. > > Mathias
A good idea, especially since the plugin authors normally link back to the jQuery site. _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
