link="noflow"? class="postlink"?

What do those conditions mean?

[larryhatch]

Hello: On some blog, I found a link to my site as follows [exemplified] :

<a href="http://www.mysite.net" target="_blank" link="noflow" class="postlink">http://www.mysite.net</a>

I think I understand target="blank", just forces my page to open in a new window. Right?

What I don't get are:

1) link="noflow". Is that somebody's rendition of rel="nofollow", or something else?

2) class="postlink". I haven't a clue for that one.

Are either of these valid / recognized commands?
If so, what do they do? If not, will G and Y simply ignore them?

Thanks in advance -Larry

[markbaa]

No idea about that link="noflow". I just checked google, and the w3c website, and couldn't find anything appropriate for the context. I did find several others using it though. Maybe something from a WYSIWYG program? It's only appropriate use I can find is in a table tag.

class="postlink" is easy. That is simply telling the link to use the CSS class postlink. It's a formatting thing, if you learn a bit of basic CSS you'll pick it up right away.

Hope that helps, curious about that noflow...

[larryhatch]

Thanks for checking Mark, I should have done that.
Link="noflow" remains a mystery, maybe some obscure formatting directive. -Larry

[Philosopher]

It's possible the webmaster of the blog your link is on was trying to use the rel="nofollow" attribute and just got it wrong.

[jatar_k]

I am guessing it is a spelling mistake

link="nofollow"

but it should be

rel="nofollow"

that is my only guess

<added>Philosopher was too quick for me ;)

[markbaa]

I had that mistake theory as well, but
link="noflow"
DOES appear in Google, others are using it, which seems to eliminate it as a simple mistake. It's not in the W3C HTML spec which also eliminates it as an obscure formatting directive.

The most likely thing is that it's from some WYSIWYG tool, at a guess, I'd say Adobe GoLive, but that's unsubstantiated.

[larryhatch]

Thanks for the input guys. After I get some other stuff done, I may just
Google around, see who else is using link="noflow", and try to find some common threads. -Larry

[larryhatch]

Regarding link="noflow"

I found one page about obsolete HTML 3.0 'tags' here:
[willcam.com...]
..but the syntax is different:

" NOFLOW Stops text from flowing around the figure. "
i.e. no mention of the link= part.

Maybe somebody is trying to keep the anchor text of a link to my page
from flowing around something else on his page.

If so, that's fine with me. -Larry

Here's another snippet from a separate page:
" NOFLOW allows you to prevent text flow around the table. e.g: <TABLE NOFLOW> "
Still no link=. I'm at a loss.

I wonder if somebody didn't mis-state rel="nofollow", only to be copied by others. -Larry