FW: Google takes on comment spam

While I applaud this, having had to deal with a penis enlargement spammer, my question is, well, probably stunningly simple and something I should know.... The "nofollow" will not be put there by the spammers presumably since they want the link to be followed... so would it get there by a script that the blog software applies to all comments? I guess? Dana > Originally posted by Kevin Graeme to the CF-Community list. > > -----Original Message----- > 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. > http://www.google.com/googleblog/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html > > -Kevin > >