Hi again uf-discuss! I came across rel="designer" in a WordPress blog theme and it struck me that this could help alleviate the problem of artificially high numbers of incoming links causing some blogs to be banned from ranking services such as Technorati.
This could be improved to encompass more default links, as Tantek suggests below. I'm interested in what this list can add. Andy Skelton ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Tantek Çelik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Aug 3, 2006 5:27 PM Subject: Re: Theme designer woes To: Andy Skelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Andy, I agree that this is definitely a problem, not only for theme designers but also for the "lead developers" like Matt who are in the blogroll by default. Matt is one of my good friends, and this problem has been perplexing me pretty much since I started at Technorati :( Your suggestion of using a rel value to indicate that the link goes to the designer of the template is an interesting one. I'm wondering if we should have some more generic term that indicates that the link was part of the template, and thus could apply it to other links. Would you mind if we moved this discussion to the microformats-discuss mailing list? I would prefer to develop this microformat out in the open. Thanks, Tantek On 8/3/06 11:43 AM, "Andy Skelton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi Tantek, At WordPress.com we're trying to tackle the problem of theme designers being banned from Technorati. We made the first move by adding rel="designer" to the links in the theme footers. Is this something you can use? If you do find this useful, we'll push for broad adoption among designers. Cheers, Andy
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