Link Element with archives for an attribute value

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Link Element with archives for an attribute value

jk3210

1:32 am on Apr 24, 2008 (gmt 0)

What would be the purpose/benefit of putting the following in the <head> section of each blog page...?

kamikaze Optimizer

4:56 am on Apr 24, 2008 (gmt 0)

The purpose would be to distinguish it from other pages on the site. The benefit, from an SEO point of view, would be none.

jk3210

12:57 pm on Apr 24, 2008 (gmt 0)

Let me rephrase the question slightly...

Why would the guy who knows more about Google SEO than anyone else on Earth go to the trouble of placing "link rel=" statements to ALL of his monthly archives in ALL of his head sections?

tedster

4:32 pm on Apr 24, 2008 (gmt 0)

His CMS may do this automatically, he may be doing it for his own internal purposes, or he may be experimenting. According to the W3C the <link> relationships are there to help with search indexing, although this particular "archives" value for the attribute is not mentioned anywhere on w3.org that I can find.

I regularly use the "next" and "prev" values in <link> elements, but have never seen any obvious effect in the SERPs. Those do help out with some browser navigation, so I'll keep doing it whether any search engine ever makes use of them or not.

jk3210

6:03 pm on Apr 24, 2008 (gmt 0)

According to the W3C the <link> relationships are there to help with search indexing...

Yep, that's what I was wondering about. One of my sites uses the same blog software as he does and my site seems to have sporatic indexing problems, so I'm just trying to figure out what he knows that I don't. (which as we know is quite a lot...)

I remember back in 2002 Brett mentioning that he'd tested it and it did help with indexing but not with ranking.