I notice on SO userpage all urls have rel="nofollow me" (i was thinking of putting nofollow on my site so i checked here to see what SO does). What does the 'me' part do?
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A:
This is a combination of two independent uses of the rel attribute.
rel="nofollow"tells search engines to ignore the link when ranking pages.- `rel="me" is a microformat
SLaks
2010-03-24 15:38:36
"nofollow" doesn't mean the link should be ignored, it means it **should** be followed but should not be considered an endorsement of the URL that is linked to. It is very badly named.
David Dorward
2010-03-24 15:52:27
@David: Thanks; edited.
SLaks
2010-03-24 16:02:35