Meaningful Referrer Data and Semantic Web

Rafer sez:

I’ve been assembling a post on Social Referrers and how they may relate to the Semantic Web showing up. In the process, I realized that Facebook is currently missing a huge opportunity. As Google matures, removes information from search referrer URLs, and seeks to consolidate all the profit in its market, Facebook could add interesting structured information to its referring URLs.

In his post, Nick indicates that they are starting to do so for Facebook app developers but why not include those parameters and more in every referring URL they build? It wouldn’t be giving away much and the burned SEO crowd would flock to them by the thousands.

via Scott Rafer’s Blog.

I love this idea, whatever form it takes. One idea: I’m on twitter.com/home (or facebook.com/home) and click on a link that Rafer has posted that shows up in my dashboard. First, direct me to twitter.com/from/rafer , then, route me to the link. Use whatever means necessary to ensure the meaningful HTTP_REFERRER hits the server being redirected to. Suppose it’s Jenny’s blog–now Jenny knows that Rafer’s share action has lead to clicks on Twitter dashboards and landed users at her blog.

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