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Link Types - are they worth it?

Are these extra header tags useful?

         

netchicken1

11:10 pm on Jul 5, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Just having a debate with a designer over the usefulness of the following types of header links
<link rel="start" title="Home Page, shortcut key=1" href="http://www.example.com/index.php?page=home" />
<link rel="next" title="Accommodation" href="#" />

Sure they are legitimate [w3.org...] but from the search engine side, are they actually worth using? Do the bots follow them or give any credence to them?

Or is it, as I think, just more header bloat, and there to impress the customer rather than practical.

bill

2:40 am on Jul 6, 2007 (gmt 0)

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Those tags are more for site accessibility for your users, not the search engines.

tedster

4:31 am on Jul 6, 2007 (gmt 0)

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I use the rel="next" attribute on one site when there are multiple page articles. When I started doing that, I noticed a higher percentage of people clicking through to the later pages.

penders

1:42 pm on Jul 6, 2007 (gmt 0)

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I was under the impression that FF (and other browsers?) would retrieve the rel="next" page in the background and thus speeding up web browsing should the user navigate to that page. Although I haven't actually tested this.

Opera can display all those Next / Prev / Home / Search links etc. as an additional 'Navigation' toolbar. (With shortcuts such as Ctrl+Shift+Right to go to the 'Next' page etc.)