Re: "nofollow" meta tags [was: Lycos ...]

In a message dated 9/19/2003 3:25:06 PM Pacific Daylight Time, gunnar@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

It just struck me... What do you think about:

<meta name="robots" content="index,nofollow">

That would tell the spiders to index the page, but ignore links to
other pages. It wouldn't remove URLs that have already been indexed,
of course, but might prevent future redundant indexing.

     I thought about that as an option, but it would also cause ring members to lose the advantage of getting their pages indexed by the search engines as well.
     If I left it as it is, do you think search engine owners would consider my site a spamming site and delete it entirely, or would they simply remove the abundant entries?
     I do have another idea, which might work. How about using:
<a href="">Next 5 Sites</a>
at the bottom of the list pages? It won't fail the W3C inspection like target="_top" or target="_blank" does. I'm thinking that the search engine won't consider it a real URL.

Sincerely,
Tzabaoth

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