The Peristaltic Testator (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} peristaltor) wrote,@ 2008-09-05 22:03:00 |
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Avoiding "Google Juice for the Woo"
Swoopy over at Skepticality interviewed Tim Farley at What's the Harm? recently. He had some excellent advice I, as an internet thumbs-typist, should take to heart.
We all like sharing websites on our journals that reflect the absolute bottom feeders society on the intertubes has to offer. Schadenfreude must be appeased by being shared. However, every time I or anyone else out there offers a link to God Tube, Conservapedia, or Answers In Genesis, these links add to the spider crawl count Google and other search engines consider when ranking the importance of the sites on the search requirements . . . meaning we linkers are inadvertently making these sites more important just by mentioning them.
I do not want!
Therefore, to avoid giving these sites "Google Juice for the woo" (referring to the supernatural theremin-sung "Woooo-oooo-ooo" nature of the snake oil they peddle), Tim recommends the No Follow tag in the html link. I hope I've gotten it right: You put " rel="nofollow" " right after the link, separated by a space, before closing the tag bracket. Supposedly, this puts the spider off the scent by marking derisive content as other than meaningful.
If you are (as I'm sure many of you are) html savvy, I apologize for the n00b note. It was written for My Kind and My Kind only. We are Legion.
Swoopy over at Skepticality interviewed Tim Farley at What's the Harm? recently. He had some excellent advice I, as an internet thumbs-typist, should take to heart.
We all like sharing websites on our journals that reflect the absolute bottom feeders society on the intertubes has to offer. Schadenfreude must be appeased by being shared. However, every time I or anyone else out there offers a link to God Tube, Conservapedia, or Answers In Genesis, these links add to the spider crawl count Google and other search engines consider when ranking the importance of the sites on the search requirements . . . meaning we linkers are inadvertently making these sites more important just by mentioning them.
I do not want!
Therefore, to avoid giving these sites "Google Juice for the woo" (referring to the supernatural theremin-sung "Woooo-oooo-ooo" nature of the snake oil they peddle), Tim recommends the No Follow tag in the html link. I hope I've gotten it right: You put " rel="nofollow" " right after the link, separated by a space, before closing the tag bracket. Supposedly, this puts the spider off the scent by marking derisive content as other than meaningful.
If you are (as I'm sure many of you are) html savvy, I apologize for the n00b note. It was written for My Kind and My Kind only. We are Legion.
