XFN defines "nofollow" to invalidate rel="me"

http://microformats.org/wiki/xfn-clarifications#me_nofollow_interaction

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 10:25 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> According to
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html
>
> Q: Will Google recognize the 'nofollow' keyword when it's part of a
> space separated list? According to the HTML spec, the value of the
> 'rel' attribute is a space separated list of link types.
> A: Absolutely. We'll practice the "be liberal in what you accept"
> philosophy, which means recognizing spaces, commas and, in fact, most
> punctuation. But we strongly recommend using spaces as separators to
> follow the specification.
>
> So as long as your tags are space separated, it looks like having
> multiple rel tags should be supported.
>
> ~Arne
>
>
> On Aug 14, 12:26 pm, xgene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In an application that allows users to create and add their own links,
> > for blogs etc. everyone adds nofollow tags. However, for opensocial
> > apps we are adding rel="friend" etc. tags.
> >
> > Can you add multiple tags? Will Google treat a friend tag as a
> > substitute for nofollow without penalizing the site (if users are
> > linking off to sites that would otherwise put you in a 'bad
> > neighborhood' bucket)?
> >
>

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