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Referrers have nothing to do with pagerank. It's used in website analytics of course, and, in general is a very bad idea leaking information between websites. S
by hnriot 13y ago
Referrers have nothing to do with pagerank. It's used in website analytics of course, and, in general is a very bad idea leaking information between websites. Search engines don't see your site's referrer data so the association you tried to create with pagerank is misleading.
- encoderer 13y agoI, for one, didn't think his argument was remotely misleading. I did, however, think that bringing PageRank into the argument was ill advised and probably detrimental to his goal of advocacy through education. It just confused things, introduced another rabbit-hole concept. If the author thought that mentioning PageRank would lend credibility to the 'link counting' / 'random link clicking bots' foregone conclusion he setup., he was right. It did. So link the text to a footnote referencing PageRank and stay on topic.