See also more “anti-link” ideas from Sean McGrath and others. They suggest use of tinyurl to link without contributing to reputation metrics such as PageRank.
However, a followup comment says that Google follows the redirects. If reputation systems harvest information from links, maybe there should be a skepticism attribute in the tag to allow links to express agreement or disagreement.
See also more “anti-link” ideas from Sean McGrath and others. They suggest use of tinyurl to link without contributing to reputation metrics such as PageRank.
However, a followup comment says that Google follows the redirects. If reputation systems harvest information from links, maybe there should be a skepticism attribute in the tag to allow links to express agreement or disagreement.