Some how I missed this little gem, until now. This problem caused Alex/GT to change how URL's are listed here in the forums, awhile back.
Google has taken a step to block comment/forum spam, by adding in a tag to generated html
rel="nofollow"
That you'd place in any <a href=http://yoursite.com rel="nofollow"> tag.
The googlebot will *NOT* rank any such links.
Check it out:
http://www.google.com/...ng-comment-spam.html
From google:
If you're a blogger (or a blog reader), you're painfully familiar with people who try to raise their own websites' search engine rankings by submitting linked blog comments like "Visit my discount pharmaceuticals site." This is called comment spam, we don't like it either, and we've been testing a new tag that blocks it. From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel="nofollow") on hyperlinks, those links won't get any credit when we rank websites in our search results. This isn't a negative vote for the site where the comment was posted; it's just a way to make sure that spammers get no benefit from abusing public areas like blog comments, trackbacks, and referrer lists.
Seems really simple to implement, and if Google is behind it, and their googlebots will ignore them, then it's a major step forward.
It's something that only the search engine itself could implement, and it seems easier, and more reliable than using redirected urls (eg: jump.cgi type linking) to hide links. It prevents any associated problems as well (eg: 302 redirects).
Apparantly it's for real, as blogging software has been incorporating it:
http://codex.wordpress.org/nofollow is one.
If google is ignoring them, then it does spammers no good to post in a rel="nofollow" zone.
While not of major use to most Links SQL systems, it would be a great feature to add into GForum.
If potentially garbage links are flagged with rel="nofollow" then google will have that much less work trying to figure out what to follow or not. Webmasters have control over what content gets positioning on their pages, and can link to "problem" sites without raising their visibility (a catch-22 of the whole system).
This is the part that applies to everyone :) If there are bad sites, you can post links/URL's and *NOT* be helping that site out, while still getting the word out.
Hopefully, the other x-bots will implement it as well.
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Google has taken a step to block comment/forum spam, by adding in a tag to generated html
rel="nofollow"
That you'd place in any <a href=http://yoursite.com rel="nofollow"> tag.
The googlebot will *NOT* rank any such links.
Check it out:
http://www.google.com/...ng-comment-spam.html
From google:
Quote:
If you're a blogger (or a blog reader), you're painfully familiar with people who try to raise their own websites' search engine rankings by submitting linked blog comments like "Visit my discount pharmaceuticals site." This is called comment spam, we don't like it either, and we've been testing a new tag that blocks it. From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel="nofollow") on hyperlinks, those links won't get any credit when we rank websites in our search results. This isn't a negative vote for the site where the comment was posted; it's just a way to make sure that spammers get no benefit from abusing public areas like blog comments, trackbacks, and referrer lists.
Seems really simple to implement, and if Google is behind it, and their googlebots will ignore them, then it's a major step forward.
It's something that only the search engine itself could implement, and it seems easier, and more reliable than using redirected urls (eg: jump.cgi type linking) to hide links. It prevents any associated problems as well (eg: 302 redirects).
Apparantly it's for real, as blogging software has been incorporating it:
http://codex.wordpress.org/nofollow is one.
If google is ignoring them, then it does spammers no good to post in a rel="nofollow" zone.
While not of major use to most Links SQL systems, it would be a great feature to add into GForum.
If potentially garbage links are flagged with rel="nofollow" then google will have that much less work trying to figure out what to follow or not. Webmasters have control over what content gets positioning on their pages, and can link to "problem" sites without raising their visibility (a catch-22 of the whole system).
This is the part that applies to everyone :) If there are bad sites, you can post links/URL's and *NOT* be helping that site out, while still getting the word out.
Hopefully, the other x-bots will implement it as well.
PUGDOG� Enterprises, Inc.
The best way to contact me is to NOT use Email.
Please leave a PM here.
