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Bug 18449 - Maybe throw search engines and bloggers a bone by developing something like a "comments" or "feedback" element. Basically an element to house content that states that this section is outside of the author's control and therefore links and content in this
Summary: Maybe throw search engines and bloggers a bone by developing something like a...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2012-07-31 15:13 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-10-08 19:20 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-07-31 15:13:14 UTC 
Specification: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/single-page.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
Maybe throw search engines and bloggers a bone by developing something like a
"comments" or "feedback" element.  Basically an element to house content that
states that this section is outside of the author's control and therefore
links and content in this section should be treated differently than that of
the rest of the site.

I think the HTML specification should be doing something to help fight the
ever rising tides of spam.  The only weapon right now is rel="nofollow" and
that doesn't stop search engines from attributing spammy content to a page and
following said links

Posted from: 71.125.230.5
User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/536.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/20.0.1132.57 Safari/536.11
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-10-08 19:20:02 UTC 
Would search engines use such a feature?