On 12/15/07 4:39 PM, "Martin McEvoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK Paul, lets try and put that in the real world, My client has a music > store with around 500 pages of content and around 10 to 20 items of > hAudio on each page, My client want's their pages to validate and be > accessible.. no problem i say, semantic markup... and SEO, semantic > markup... we can sprinkle some hAudio magic in there I say .. great my > client says because they trust me im good at my job, I do the job, my > boss looks at my work and says "what are all these empty anchors > about"... pause right there... any SEO worth his salt will know anchor > text links that go nowhere, will A, reduce the quality of out going > links from your site so reducing PR (Page Rank) and B, more than likley > get you banned from google because it will think you are trying to spam > it.... you know what my boss will say....you are sacked. > > so no thank you Paul although your idea is workable, its still a hack, > and in the real world never likely to be used. Martin, thanks for this reality-check. You've provided some good reasons for why empty hyperlinks are an anti-pattern, and given that that's two this week, and that we have a few existing anti-patterns documented on the wiki, I've drafted this wiki page accordingly. http://microformats.org/wiki/anti-patterns In particular I've documented part of what you noted above in this section: http://microformats.org/wiki/anti-patterns#empty_hyperlinks I encourage you to expand upon it with any additional details / references. Thanks, Tantek _______________________________________________ microformats-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://microformats.org/mailman/listinfo/microformats-discuss
