{"id":50,"date":"2005-01-25T09:28:12","date_gmt":"2005-01-25T09:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/2005\/01\/web-communication-link-relationships"},"modified":"2006-04-30T23:48:45","modified_gmt":"2006-04-30T23:48:45","slug":"web-communication-link-relationships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/2005\/01\/web-communication-link-relationships","title":{"rendered":"Web Communication Link Relationships"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I described in Link\r\n\t\tRelationships Revisited, Part 2<\/a>, I was in the process\r\n\tof writing a draft proposal for link relationships called Web\r\n\tCommunication Link Relationships<\/a><\/cite>. After spending most of the\r\n\tlast 5 days writing and editing the thing, and thanks to some contributions\r\n\tfrom Charl van Niekerk<\/a>, I\u2019m finally finished.<\/p>\r\n

These relationships don\u2019t directly address the problem that Google<\/a> attempted\r\n\tto solve with it\u2019s proprietary nofollow<\/code> value<\/a>;\r\n\tbut that problem really shouldn\u2019t be solved at the markup level anyway. However,\r\n\tthis proposal does include two relationships that fulfil both purposes of nofollow<\/code>:<\/p>\r\n

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  1. To identify links contributed by users.<\/li>\r\n
  2. To identify links that the author does not approve.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n

    The relationships to address these specifically are the contribution<\/a><\/code> and unendorsed<\/a><\/code>\trelationships,\r\n\trespectively. The idea is to apply contribution<\/code> to all links that\r\n\thave been contributed by users and to apply unendorsed<\/code> only to\r\n\tthose that have not been moderated.<\/p>\r\n

    The contribution<\/code> relationship,\r\n\t\tunlike nofollow<\/code>,\r\n\t\tis not designed to reduce the benefit of PageRank for legitimate contributors,\r\n\t\tbut is designed to semantically identify those links for user agents\r\n\t\tto use in whatever way seems appropriate for the user.<\/p>\r\n

    The unendorsed<\/code> relationship,\r\n\t\ton the other hand, is designed to be used like Scoble’s use for nofollow<\/code><\/a> (via Phil\r\n\t\tRingnalda<\/a>); though\r\n\t\tit is also allowed to be used on comments, as described in the\r\n\t\tunendorsed examples<\/a>, on the condition that it is removed after moderation.\r\n\t\tOf course, there are much better\r\n\t\tways to block spam<\/a> that should be looked at rather than with link relationships,\r\n\t\twhich won\u2019t work anyway, but that’s another issue.<\/p>\r\n

    Finally there are many other relationships included for things like permalinks<\/a>,\r\n\tcomment\r\n\tpages,<\/a> archive\r\n\tpages<\/a> , syndication\r\n\tfeeds,<\/a> the ability to express\r\n\tcommunication paths with via<\/a> and related<\/a> links\r\n\tand many more. So, let me know what you think, all feedback is appreciated.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As I described in Link Relationships Revisited, Part 2, I was in the process of writing a draft proposal for link relationships called Web Communication Link Relationships. After spending most of the last 5 days writing and editing the thing, and thanks to some contributions from Charl van Niekerk, I\u2019m finally finished. These relationships don\u2019t … Continue reading Web Communication Link Relationships<\/span> →<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,2,13,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lachy.id.au\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}