Whit
12-13-2003, 01:20 PM
I could be way off base here, but I'm going take a stab at it anyway.
It almost sounds cryptic the way all of the Google Guru's keep saying the same two things over and over. "Have well structured sites" & "Get back to the basics". This kept running round and round in my head and while I was editing some code for my phpBB board I noticed something in the code that I never make use of.
<LINK rel="prev" href="blahblah"> It stuck out at me because it is something I just never to bother use.
As I got to thinking about it I realized that a lot of people don't include these because the reader never sees them. What purpose do they really serve? I mean, you would have to be looking at the code before this was of any use to you right?
search engines see these
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html#h-12.1.2[/url]]
Links specified by LINK are not rendered with the document's contents, although user agents may render them in other ways (e.g., as navigation tools).
Even if they are not used for navigation, these links may be interpreted in interesting ways. For example, a user agent that prints a series of HTML documents as a single document may use this link information as the basis of forming a coherent linear document.
This is an excellent way to directly show a search engine how you intend for the reader to go through your site. A really cleaver search engine might even take a logical progression like this as a good indicator that it wasn't just staring at a doorway page, but instead a page that is truly intended for the visitor to make good use of.
My site is very structured by nature, so it won't hurt me to include this tag in them.
For anyone who is wondering the w3.org doc on these is here (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html#h-12.1.2).
Once again, I could be way off base here. If I'm not though, remember who said it. :)
Just a thought.
It almost sounds cryptic the way all of the Google Guru's keep saying the same two things over and over. "Have well structured sites" & "Get back to the basics". This kept running round and round in my head and while I was editing some code for my phpBB board I noticed something in the code that I never make use of.
<LINK rel="prev" href="blahblah"> It stuck out at me because it is something I just never to bother use.
As I got to thinking about it I realized that a lot of people don't include these because the reader never sees them. What purpose do they really serve? I mean, you would have to be looking at the code before this was of any use to you right?
search engines see these
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html#h-12.1.2[/url]]
Links specified by LINK are not rendered with the document's contents, although user agents may render them in other ways (e.g., as navigation tools).
Even if they are not used for navigation, these links may be interpreted in interesting ways. For example, a user agent that prints a series of HTML documents as a single document may use this link information as the basis of forming a coherent linear document.
This is an excellent way to directly show a search engine how you intend for the reader to go through your site. A really cleaver search engine might even take a logical progression like this as a good indicator that it wasn't just staring at a doorway page, but instead a page that is truly intended for the visitor to make good use of.
My site is very structured by nature, so it won't hurt me to include this tag in them.
For anyone who is wondering the w3.org doc on these is here (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/struct/links.html#h-12.1.2).
Once again, I could be way off base here. If I'm not though, remember who said it. :)
Just a thought.