Just to follow up on this. I like to think that the links I put on my PmWikis are of 'quality' and therefore support the sites I am referencing. Hence I will be disabling the default URL link format for external links.
Simon References http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/pagerank-sculpting/ https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96569?hl=en On 22 October 2013 21:15, StefCT <stef...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oh, sorry, I hadn't noticed that nofollow applied only to *external* > links. I blame the fact that it was late at night in Europe yesterday... > and also that I had accidentally used a full URL for an internal link in > at least one case. > > So I guess this isn't the reason why my site's subpages were almost > impossible to find in Google. I think it is simply because very few > external pages are linking to it. > > Anyway, I don't think any of the external links at http://hack.nylug.org > deserved a nofollow tag. This is why I wish I had known about this > feature (which certainly makes a lot of sense for open wikis) earlier. > > --StefCT > > > On 10/22/2013 03:44 AM, Patrick R. Michaud wrote: > > > > Well, let's make sure we're in agreement as to what rel=nofollow > > actually does. In PmWiki, rel=nofollow ends up on *external* links > > -- i.e., the links that lead *away* from your PmWiki site. > > > > _______________________________________________ > pmwiki-users mailing list > pmwiki-users@pmichaud.com > http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users > -- ____ http://kiwiwiki.co.nz
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