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Posted by Steve Pugh on 04/06/06 11:04
Marc <mbradshaw@beasolutions.com> wrote:
>Steve Pugh wrote:
>> <link href="chapter_7.html" rel="prev" rev="next" />
>> <link href="chapter_9.html" rel="next" rev="prev" />
>>
>> As Chapter 7 is previous to Chapter 8, and hence the reverse is true:
>> Chapter 8 is next to Chapter 7. Likewse, Chapter 9 is next to Chapter
>> 8 and the reverse is that Chapter 8 is previous to Chapter 9.
>>
>> However, other than rev="made" there is no support at all for rev
>> values so you might as well forget them entirely.
>
>What is the point in these next page and last page links - do they aid
>search engines?
They are use to provide standardised navgation bars in many browsers
(natively in, for example, Opera, Mozilla, Lynx and Safari and via
extensions in irefox and IE). And also trigger some browser specific
behaviour (e.g. Opera uses links marked as rel="next" in its Fast
Forward feature and some other browsers feth and pre-cache similarly
marked pages).
I have no idea whether search engines do anything with them. I suspect
not, as spammers would use them to link to pages via a mechanism that
many users (IE and Firefox users without the add on) wouldn't see.
Steve
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