Re: [whatwg] Proposal: Exclude robots on a per-link basis

2012-01-31 Thread Ian Hickson
On Sat, 26 Nov 2011, Markus Ernst wrote: Viewing the logs of applications I wrote, I noticed that a considerable number of requests are from robots following links of types such as Add to shopping cart or Remember this item - links that typically point to the same page they are clicked

[whatwg] Proposal: Exclude robots on a per-link basis

2011-11-26 Thread Markus Ernst
Hello Viewing the logs of applications I wrote, I noticed that a considerable number of requests are from robots following links of types such as Add to shopping cart or Remember this item - links that typically point to the same page they are clicked on, with some GET variable that triggers

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: Exclude robots on a per-link basis

2011-11-26 Thread Karl Dubost
Le 26 nov. 2011 à 07:20, Markus Ernst a écrit : Viewing the logs of applications I wrote, I noticed that a considerable number of requests are from robots following links of types such as Add to shopping cart or Remember this item - links that typically point to the same page they are

Re: [whatwg] Proposal: Exclude robots on a per-link basis

2011-11-26 Thread Eric Shtivelberg
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Markus Ernst derer...@gmx.ch wrote: Trying to find a solution to tell robots not to follow these links, I came across microformat Robots Exclusion Profile http://microformats.org/wiki/robots-exclusion and the @rel=nofollow attribute. While the latter does not