Ok, so I started a blog, and with that comes new and interesting jargon like; trackbacks, pings, slugs, technorati, and something new to me today - the rel.

I first noticed the addition to the ‘A’ element when I was assigning links on the main page sidebar from WordPress. Take Asterik Studio’s Link for example;

“XFN puts a human face on linking”,
“XFN outlines the relationships between individuals by defining a small set of values that describe personal relationships. In HTML and XHTML documents, these are given as values for the rel attribute on a hyperlink. XFN allows authors to indicate which of the weblogs they read belong to friends, whom they’ve physically met, and other personal relationships. Using XFN values, which can be listed in any order, people can humanize their blogrolls and links pages, both of which have become a common feature of weblogs.” read more at XFN: Introduction and Examples.

Personally I think it may be a little TMI in those instances where you could code:


And then today in someone’s comment

Apparently this is part of the effort to control comment spam. According this post Rel Nofollow, Again, “From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel=”nofollow”) on hyperlinks, those links won’t get any credit when we rank websites in our search results.”

REL

• Elemental-Microformat
• rel-tag
• rel-tag

XFN

• XFN: Introduction and Examples/a>

REL-NOFOLLOW

• Rel Nofollow, Again
• rel=”nofollow”
• rel=”WordPress NoFollow”
• WordPress rel=”external nofollow”
• wp-nofollow: Nofollow filter for wordpress
• Movable Type ‘nofollow’ plugin
• Support for nofollow
• The A element