rel="nofollow"
Robert Sayre: I noticed that the links his comment form have an interesting rel attribute.
Implemented. Prediction: that wouldn't solve the problem.
This is most likely what Dave Winer was "so excited about":[link] and I "posted about earlier":[link]
==Reading between...
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Too Late Solutions
Flash at 6: Google calls Dave Winer. Ooo. The suspense.
Per Sam Ruby:
Robert Sayre: I noticed that the links his comment form have an interesting rel attribute.
Implemented. Prediction: that wouldn't solve the problem.
I agree with S...
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I'm quite interested to see that the rel attribute is slowly gaining attention. Atom uses it extensively for its link elements, and Technorati have been using it for some of their HTML-based specifications, notably XOXO, XFN and now Technorati tags. Eventually the RSS community seemed to have cottoned on to this relatively unknown attribute.
It would be very interesting to see if there isn't a common thread of rel usage. I guess XFN may have preceeded Atom in rel usage. Atom's when I first became aware of it used in anger.
Posted by Isofarro atSam,
Given that your site has permalinks that still display the comments such as [link] I'm not sure how you can actually implement this since robots can follow permalinks from other sites. Or is there also a way to put 'nofollow' in a span or div to designate a block of HTML which should be ignored?
Posted by Dare Obasanjo at
Dare, the rel="nofollow" appears in each link element within the comments themselves. View source for this page for example, and look at the source for the link in your own comment.
Posted by Matt Brubeck at
Does nofollow Have a Chance of Reducing Comment Spam?
Comment spam is one of the primary reasons that I don't have commentsenabled here. Fortunately I don't really see any trackback spam (though
this may happen eventually too). Google's nofollow
tag might be able to reduce the value of comment spam enough... [more]
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The Free Market Reacts
Google, MSN and Yahoo support the use of the rel="nofollow" attribute to limit comment spammers.... [more]Trackback from Soapbox at
Fixing Comment Spam
.. and why it won't work!... [more]Trackback from Chris Garrett's Internet Marketing Blog at
Reading between the lines (which in this case isn't particularly hard), this and this (don't forget to view source) suggest that Google are soon to announce that they won't be calculating PageRank for links with a rel="nofollow" attribute. Finally,...
Excerpt from Simon Willison's Weblog at
Nofollow and Comment Spam
Google recently announced an interesting ‘solution’ to the comment spam problem. . To answer the Question of the Day, I don’t think this will make much of a difference to comment spam.... [more]Trackback from Koz Speaks at
I've noticed that the [more] link you provide for trackbacks does not have a no-follow attribute. Is this intentional or an oversight? Trackback spam will only get more common over time. Or does this indicate you've confirmed a link to your site exists on the linked page?
Posted by Jason Clark at
Jason, I plan to continue to fine tune this. In fact, I just made a change to not insert rel="nofollow" on comments left by people who have commented in the last 90 days (which you have not) but have visited a web page within the past 7 days (excluding today) (which you have). So this comment (and any you author in the next 90 days) should not be penalized due to the actions of a few spammers.
As to trackbacks... at the moment, it isn't a major problem, but I am monitoring this. Yes, it was an intentional decision (the code is online here).
I am not shooting for perfection (which is unattainable), but to do something that is mostly right without requiring any explicit registration or administration.
Posted by Sam Ruby atSpammers: say byebye to your pagerank
Anyone who frequents the world of weblogs will be aware of Google's recent modifications to their crawler which make it ignore links containing a rel="nofollow" attribute. Yay! At last, a big FUCK YOU to the comment/referrer spammers from...Excerpt from Random and Irrelevant at
rel="nofollow" spoken here.
Even though the recent controversy on pros and cons (and maybe even uselessness) of the addition of the rel="nofollow" attribute to the <a href= - tags, I have decided to implement it in my referrers section anyway, hoping that this might help...Excerpt from Console.WriteLine("Hello World"); at
Well, nofollow has been a dismal failure and has had some completely unintended (by the people who happily signed on) effects. Spam hasn’t slowed down a bit, but bloggers are losing their PageRank...
Posted by IO ERROR at
The Perils of rel=’nofollow’
Introduction There has been a lot of talk recently about Google’s upcoming support for rel='nofollow'.. In essence, adding a rel='nofollow' to your hyperlinks will notify Google not to follow (and therefore not associate the...Excerpt from Richard@Home at
Why no-nofollow
In a prior post someone commented: Wow - I hadn’t heard of the nonofollow movement. It seems to be predominantly peopled by SEO monkeys. Why are you joining up?Excerpt from randomthoughts at
In my opinion, nofollow is not the right way to limit comment spam. A simple use of captchas is a good enough deterrent.. while it may inconvenience genuine people, but there’s a fair price to pay. Also, it could be programmatically arranged that people on your blogroll would be able to comment without the need for validating captcha text…. :)
Posted by saurab at
In my experience Nofollow links haven’t in any way prevented comment spam. I think if you really want to stop it you have to resort to other methods such as comment moderation or CAPTCHAS, at least then you aren’t punnishing your regular commenters...
Posted by Standard Warfare at
I don't get it. They're trying to game search engines, and once search engines are unexploitable via this route, it's game over. It is after all a small pool of weblogging tools that generates the blogosphere link-torrent; I'd wager all of the tool authors are extremely clued in.
/guess I'm still confused..
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